I am so thankful for the beginning of a new week.

The past one was one for the record books and one that I don't care to remember.

I have done more road time in the last three days than I have all season. It seems I always need something just a little different than what I have on hand.

Parts run to Midland Thursday.

Parts run to Midland Friday.

Trip to Stanton Saturday to pickup truck tire take offs from a week ago.

Trip to between Tarzan and Andrews Saturday to work on a trailer. Turns out the trailer needed more than I could give it so we removed the tires and wheels, hub and brake drum, put them on the utility trailer I had brought, and began limping toward the yard. I was wishing something would go wrong on a week day so we could expedite things and drop it at a shop! The trucker and I left out from the roadside, me in the lead. He pulled back over and I waited down the road before finally turning back.

This is the trucker who had been in the shop for two days earlier this week. Turns out he had the same problem again. He decided to go to either Big Spring or Lubbock to try to have his truck repaired again. I decided to let him take my trailer for repairs. Luckily we came across a backhoe service and they loaded our tire and wheel assembly back on top of the flat bed. We decided to part company then. The trucker headed to Big Spring and me to the compound. Turns out it was a great decision because before the night was out, both the trucker and his truck and the fleet trailer were all repaired and returned to the yard.

That was the highlight of the night. Everything else was on the other end of the spectrum. One driver who asked me to work with him so he could meet a repairman Saturday, didn't do what he said he would do. He called this morning telling me had over slept.

Cotton, cotton, everywhere!

Oh well, hopefully the Calvary has arrived! I have or will have seven trucks running on it today!

I would love to have a day's run so I can try to get a sense of the flow without icy roads or fog, or truck and or trailer problem.

Yesterday I had brought in re-enforcements, but with everything that transpired, all they did was maintain.

Today will be a better day!

On a high note, settlements are ready! Billing is done.

I slept until six-thirty this morning! Yippee!

So today I will be looking for something to do. Actually I will not have to look far. I have had the W-2's loaded and ready to print, I just haven't let myself do it. Today may be the day.

Also, I have done all the small pieces of my quarterly and year end reporting. Now I need to bring them all together in a finished product!

Rian had called me yesterday telling me he had been in class and at the shooting range getting his concealed hand gun license. He really didn't have a reason, he said an opportunity presented itself and the price was right. Turns out he really liked it and now is looking at buying a handgun.

If my Principal in school had had a handgun, he would have gotten lots less lip and lots more respect!

This morning he called and told me they had finally flown Reid's helicopter. He said that was the neatest thing! He said they flew it in the house and he would chase Holt with it. I asked what Reid thought about it and Rian said Reid just kept re-enforcing to Holt, "That's mine!".

They may take it outside this afternoon.

It would appear today is going to be a lovely day. In the seventies out here, low tonight in the upper forties!

Wow, can you believe we had sleet, freezing rain and snow just Thursday?

I am still reading my book. It really hasn't told me anything new. It is just telling it in a different way. Basically it says that what ever your thoughts are, that is who you are or become. Sounds a lot like biblical teachings doesn't it.

I am trying to be much more positive, just go with the flow. It's kind of like when I reach in the bag of Jolly Rancher hard candy. My favorite flavor is apple, but grape, cherry, or watermelon are good. My least favorite is blue raspberry. My lesson for the day is if I throw the blue raspberry's back in the bag, the odds of getting them increases. If I persist, at some point that will be all that is available.

So, now, regardless of what I take out, I am happy with it!

If my day and this week is only as bad as a blue raspberry candy, I can handle that!

Have a day!

FATHER, thank YOU for all the blessings you rain down on me!