Brrrrrrrr!

Winter time and not a fireplace in sight!

This is proving to be quite the little winter storm. Just enough precipitation to make it miserable. The temperature hovers just above freezing but that nice little Texas breeze gives it a little cutting edge. I am hoping that conditions do not deteriorate much during the night.

This morning I made my rounds about six-fifteen or six-twenty and it wasn't a sight for sore eyes, it was a sore sight for my eyes. Three hundred bales loaded, five hundred more sitting on the ground. I waited until seven to call Jon to tell her to send help. I explained that we needed our three regular trucks just to keep up with current production during the day and it would require two or three more trucks to pull the slack. Before any relief got here in the form of extra trucks, we had six hundred on the ground.

I don't have much hope for any of the other units showing up this late in the day. Actually part of this problem is weather related and the other part is stupidity on Wayne's part. He gave a driver off from Tuesday night until tomorrow and promised someone would be on that truck if he had to drive it himself. Since Tuesday night that truck has hauled only two loads, neither one by Wayne. Normally that truck would have hauled nine loads by now and twelve by morning.

Tomorrow is a maintenance Sunday but I'm not even telling my truck drivers.

Pepa had me send his truck in Friday morning to have some work done. The driver was meeting another driver who is going on Pepa's other trucks I have out here and they were going to head out. As it turns out, Jake loaded Pepa's trailer at Roscoe to go to Lubbock and when the driver went to get his trailer it was on another truck. When they went to unhook the trailer it began sinking. When I talked with them they had barely left Roscoe and I was already thinking they were late getting here. That was mid morning and it is after four in the evening now.

Pepa was trying to locate his truck so he could inform me of what to expect and he told me he finally got hold of Jason who was on his way to Cisco for playoffs and Jason told him Jake was already at the game. I'm not sure where Jon was at.

Priorities.

We are going to run all the seed trucks through the weekend as well. The office will be closed until one so I have notified all the seed trucks to be back here at one. Some of the drivers are thrilled, I'm sure others will be "baby cry".

Deal with it!

I have been hard at it working on settlements. I think I lack two and I will be through. Thing is one driver still has a ticket copy that I need to complete them and that is the driver I have been looking for all day long.

Krl had Rian bring her a ham bone. She had mentioned cooking some lima beans. She threw me a curve (no she didn't throw me a bone) and cooked pintos instead. We have enjoyed the spicy aroma of supper to come all day long! Maybe a little cornbread, some taters, and a little left over ham!

I love cold weather foods. Beans, stews, chili, and soups! Yum!

I suppose best part is, since I have to be inside, I'd rather be inside in this kind of weather!

Hope you are staying close to the fire!

Speaking of fire. The other day Krl and I were in Odessa picking up travel trailer parts when Krl went into a new display travel trailer. It had a fireplace!

Who woulda thunk!

FATHER, keep all of our people safe and warm through this cold spell!