I am having a difficult time dealing with the hot, dry, windy conditions. It is odd, dealing with them when I was personally responsible for my own farm was one thing, helping Pepa was another, and now working with Memama is another.

The "workhorse" farm tractor is an John Deere 8310. We kind of do a mix and match hodgepodge. Sometimes Memama's tractor will pull a planter that Jason and Brent own, or a piece of equipment JBK owns. Pepa paid for the installation kit for the guidance system that Brent and Jason own.

For a year, I had been telling the AutoFarm People there were some issues with the GPS guidance system and they would look at me like I had grown a third eye!

Brent took the tractor to plant a circle of irrigated cotton, and he had an issue. The guidance would show it being off six or eight inches, but still tracking. Brent took it to the AutoFarm people and they began testing and replacing parts. They finally determined it was a profile problem and blanked and re-installed the profile.

They called and said the tractor was ready, BUT, it had a small water leak.

The small water leak turned into an all day sucker! It involved, removing all the side shields and hood, revealing a six inch line about three-eights of an inch in diameter.

Lots of work for a small problem.

From the looks of things I think this hose may have been leaking when Brent was planting!

After spending all day working on the tractor, I finally hooked it up to a harrow just before I left the farm.

I had been on the hook for a couple of days with K.O., his business is picking up and he has lost two drivers in the last week. I thought I was going to do a 4 and 11 p.m. cross dock, then it changed to an 8, and then nothing!

I am off tonight. Then he told me tomorrow he might need me again! I can't sit and get yanked around like this!

The little wildman truck driver has been griping at me about a performance issue with his truck. It sounded like an air charge circuit issue, but he had looked and looked and found nothing. I had made an appointment at my favorite shop for in the morning. About then the driver called me and said another driver for my friend K.O. had parked beside him and they talked, then this other driver grabbed a can of ether and began spraying it around hoses and unions on the charge system. When he hit a small hose between the compressor and the intake manifold, the engine raced.

Hopefully we have found our issue of losing boost.

I'm crossing my fingers!

Forecasters say that conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorms. It this occurs activity will be tornadic with large hail.

I am afraid we may have to bite the bullet to get some relief!

I am planning on going to a visitation for one of our group members mother. She had been ill recently.

Hope you had a day!

FATHER, bless our efforts! We continue to pray for YOUR rain blessing! We lift up the Wills family for YOUR gifts of comfort and care! Surround them with your angels!