The best laid plans ....... have fallen by the wayside again. While I felt that I finally had enough seed trucks with Friday's arrival of reinforcements, I lost that warm fuzzy feeling Sunday evening late.

Adan, one of my South Texas truckers was returning to the gin from Lubbock. He was only six miles away from the plant at the intersection of 2401 and State Highway 137 executing a left hand turn when a mini-van tried began to pass him. A collision occurred, the steering arm on the truck was snapped, making the truck have a mind of its own, and the driver was just along for the ride from that point. The van hooked bumpers and turned over. Somehow, someway, both vehicles avoided all the poles and post that are present in that intersection. The driver of the van, a young woman, appeared to be O.K., but was transported to Midland via St. Lawrence EMS for evaluation. Adan was shaken but O.K..

Turns out that when the ambulance arrived at the ER the trauma staff told the ambulance personnel that the woman had been in their ER earlier in the day complaining of a migraine and was given a huge injection of medication to alleviate the pain. She had been instructed to go home and lie down, no driving and no operating equipment until the Monday.

The woman's husband was the third vehicle in this small caravan. Adan in the lead, the woman in the rocking chair and the husband bringing up the back door. The husband told Adan he saw him begin to slow down and the left turn signal began to blink and then he saw his wife pull out to pass. By the time the patrolman finished his investigation and told the man he was issuing his wife a citation for passing at an intersection, the man had a total change of heart claiming she was not at fault.

As it is it will take three weeks for Adan to work through the claim process and then another three to five weeks to get his truck fixed. He left last night going to San Antonio in hopes of finding another truck.

We will hope.

We are steadily working to 100,000 bales. This morning the GM and I were in the scale area and he told me he plans to shut the plant down for and hour or two next Tuesday and have a meal/party to celebrate this milestone. I think we could all use a pick me up. It has been since Thanksgiving that we had a joint group activity and that did a lot for morale.

We spent the last portion of Monday doing R & R of Shane's tarp. A couple of months ago the tarp company had measured the trailer and supposedly made an exact replica. Wrong. Almost four hours and several hundred dollars later, the new tarp was in place. It was close but not even in the same league as the old tarp. We had to do some southern engineering and I will admit I was pretty happy when he arrived back at the compound this morning with the tarp still in place.

Krl and I are getting cabin fever. Aren't these days gorgeous? We have a chance of rain tomorrow, which would be a blessing. While underground moisture is still good, the surface moisture is exiting "pronto". If we can get just a little along it be a big help. Hopefully some moisture would settle the dust and the static electricity. Static is so bad that every time you exit your vehicle you shoot a blue spark and it is also having an adverse effect on cell phones.

Be the real deal!

FATHER, reign in me. Allow me to surrender it all to YOU. I ask healing and renewal for Krl. I ask safety and YOUR care for Adam and his men. I pray for those near and dear who are in need of YOUR care and gifts of healing. I pray for those sad and hurting with grief, I ask YOUR comfort for them. I pray for those of us who stumble and fall while trying to follow YOU. I pray for our spiritual family and our leaders. I pray for the efforts being made to expand YOUR kingdom. I pray for Richard, Anastacia, James and Terah. That they will have proper perspective on what is important in this life. I pray for our prayer partners Jenavene and Susan. Knowing that nothing is impossible with YOU.