In many ways the week has flown by, but in many ways the week has dragged.

The parts store has seen a lot of traffic. I am hopeful the sales numbers are up as well. It seems as though none of the customers, or a small percentage, are looking for odd parts or items that take a lot of research.

One afternoon, when things did calm down, I pulled the drive-line out of my pickup. For quite some time I had heard a squeak coming from a u-joint. This past week it has become a loud click or clatter, so I knew I needed to do something about it.

Sure enough, when I had it out, the rear joint was frozen up.

I enlisted the help of Max and Sylvia and we began the r & r process.

About an hour before the end of the business day, Max and crawled back under the truck and re-installed the drive-line.

Now I can drive through the drive through windows without being embarrassed!

A quick update on the grandson's dog story. It hasn't happened yet.

Speaking of dogs, Phoo Doo went under the knife Wednesday at Rescue the Animals. We had been wanting to have her spayed. She had a rough twenty-four hours but is much better today. Wednesday night, every time I woke she was crying. About the middle of the night Krl got up, gave her some medication and rocked her for about an hour.

Ollie's doctor changed some meds for her and she had an adverse reaction. She had a mouth and throat full of fever blisters, even had them on her eyes, and they did an MRI to see if she had them on her brain. She spent the night in critical care and remained in the horsepital yesterday.

And condolences go to Jeanette and her family in the loss of her Dad. I believe Rian told me graveside services are Saturday in Lipan.

I have spent my day off picking up parts and supplies for what I hope is a whirlwind Saturday. The little wildman is coming in, the gin is giving him Saturday and possibly Sunday off. We have some truck maintenance to do on his truck, and then we will jump on the little S-10.

After dealing with the engine rebuilding company since February 5th, which was when I filed a warranty claim on the new engine I had bought, the re-builder finally approved a replacement engine. It is sitting in the floor of the shop. We just have to put all the accessory drives on it and sit it back in. We are hopeful we can get it close. The re-builder says 13.2 hour to remove and replace. We are half way there. There will be possible three of us, so maybe we can do it in five or six hours.

I would like to be able to drive the little truck tomorrow, but I am not planning on it.

Maybe next weekend I can deliver it to Lubbock.

Have a weekend!

FATHER, thank YOU for a good week. Please Bless us with a productive day tomorrow.