We are down to four hands and Krl and myself. Two on the ground buys operating forklifts, two truck drivers, and two of us waiting in support.

I had one driver have a brain fart last night. It was shortly after midnight when I happened to check my phone and had two missed calls. One driver forgot to disconnect one of his air lines when he was changing trailers and drove away, pulling the line in to.

I slipped on my jeans, got my pickup keys and began making my way to the bale dock. I quickly surveyed the scene and opened the back door of my truck and removed a blue air service line from a package, made my way to the rear of the truck and picked up some tools and began removing the damaged line. About this time the driver came from inside the plant with a couple of wrenches and began telling me, "Boss, it was all my fault!".

This is the driver who is always trying to tell me what I am doing wrong.

I asked him, "Is this the first time you have ever done this?".

"No", he replied.

"What part of this exercise do you NOT understand?", I asked.

The driver went on to tell me he became distracted while disconnecting his trailer and forgot to unhook his red service line. That is reassuring. What if he got distracted and forgot to stop at an intersection!

I guess in this driver's book two out of three is acceptable! (Red, blue, and light pigtail.).

The funniest thing was when he saw I had brought a blue service line he told me, "I don't need a blue one, I need a red one." I told him he was getting a blue one because it was all I had, take it or leave it.

The service air line and emergency air lines are color coded to aid in knowing where to connect them. In no way will air brake operation be impeded, it will mean the driver is going to have to use his noggin' when hooking up.

I will report it was cold at one o'clock this morning when I made my way back to the trailer.

At the morning coffee table the GM reported his thermometer read 19 degrees!

Yikes!

Nine hours and a handful of minutes before the big plant coasts down!

The countdown for the jolly little fat man has begun!

Have a day!

FATHER, thank YOU for getting us to this point. I pray you will see us through!