My Monday lived up to it's billing.

It wasn't a very productive day. It seemed that everything we needed was not available, that anything we picked up was wrong, and try as we might, I don't know that we completed one single thing.

I ended up leaving for Abilene just before four, stopped to return some "wrong parts" and then raced to a supply house in Abilene. I arrived just before five and set my defective parts on the counter. They had all but one item, but I needed seven of that one item. (It was a left hand thread lug bolt for a big trucks trailer.). Luckily their competitor across the street had them!

I had today mapped out until I got a phone call from Pepa last evening. We had picked up a tractor he has had in the shop for the last year. Seriously, it has been in three Quality Implement shops and BE in Lamesa. I swear every time the tractor comes back it is worse off than when it went. It began as transmission and hydraulic problems, he spent 23k on it there. Then he spent another 6k to fix what really needed to be fixed, got the tractor home and ran it for a day and had a problem with the motor. He told them to put a new engine it. 18K. When my driver went to load it, the muffler was loose, and it was leaking antifreeze and hydraulic oil. When they backed it off the trailer in Roscoe, it had no hydraulics. So they sent a mechanic down here yesterday to fix it and last night he gave up. His boss said the tractor has to come back to their shop. Apparently they are getting metal in valves, so either they had bad parts, or they didn't clean everything good when they were re-assembling it, or they used the old oil.

And that is where my today already got messed up! It is going to be hard to recover from that.

I should probably just go back to bed.

Hope your day has more promise!

FATHER, rescue this day!