I can't tell there is any improvement in my summer cold or flu?

The one thing I can tell is that when I go out into the sunlight, it sucks the life out of me.

I have been working on a project at the farm shop. Memama's truck driver requested a leave of absence for a week or so as he wanted to enter a marriage counseling program, so I had him take the truck to the farm shop.

For quite some time the bunk blower has been erratic. It may work one day and not the next.

I had worked on it one day earlier this year and had it going and when I buttoned everything up it would not start again. Terribly frustrating. That day I couldn't even short across terminals and get it going.

As luck would have it, I have piece mealed information together. The factory switches have been replaced with toggle switches. In a lucky stroke, when I last visited my friend who is incarcerated, he told me he made that change several years ago when he was on his way to California and the switch burned up. This past week I was talking to the little wild man truck driver and he told me he and the midget truck driver had taken it all apart trying to make it work, but to no avail.

I had a solution in my mind, and the new information made me believe more strongly that too many hands had meddled in this pie. I felt that where they were getting their power source was totally wrong. The fan was drawing its power from the rheostat temperature control, which seemed totally wrong. Maybe the expansion valve control should draw from there, but not the fan. Add to this the fact that the rheostat appears to have intermittent power. It may be the problem in itself. I believe it is not functional.

So, I took the power supply that the expansion valve A/C switch had and reconnected it to the fan switch. Walla. It worked. At least for a while. Then during one lull, I turned the switch back on and the motor would not come back on. I had replaced the resistor (which gives you multiple speeds), and I had a new motor so I put the new blower motor in and it has worked well. To control the temperature, I scabbed a power lead off the fan switch.

I suppose the true test will be when I return and turn the key on and it either works or it doesn't.

If it doesn't I may cry! I hate stuff that doesn't make sense.

But I am confident it will work!

That leaves me with the engine fan clutch kit to put in and then a steer tire and the truck should be good to go for a while.

Even with the porta cool running a few feet away from the big truck, it has been hot to work in the shop.

I think this may be why I am sick or why I can't get over it!

As many readers know, the lodge that was the site of the McLeod reunion for 45 years was razed earlier this year. A search has been on for a new location. A couple of weeks ago Rian sent me a possibility. Bass Hollow on Possum Kingdom, near the town of Graham. It has a mix of motel rooms, cabins, mobile homes and travel trailers. The motel and cabins will sleep 76 people. Accommodations are for from four to eighteen from the motel room to the largest cabin. Covered boat docks.

A business from Roscoe has had the entire facility rented this week for customer appreciation and when Jason talked with one of the company representatives he told Jason it was a nice facility.

They have a web site; www.basshollow.com

Coach was supposed to go look at it before he got busy with football. If he didn't, Jani is going to try, or Pat and I might make a run over there (we might take Memama as well), or I might even call Colby and ask him to make the trek. Bass Hollow is about thirty-five minutes from Breckenridge, ninety-two miles from Colby, one hundred fifty miles from Roscoe, or ninety miles from Abilene. If any of you family members are in that area you might stop in. Of course the biggest problem could be finding a weekend with enough of the facilities available.

Another possibility was the Baptist encampment at Lake Brownwood. A small group went to look at it on the weekend we had the one day reunion at the Ratliff lake place. I have only heard a report from one and it was not in favor of, and this is from a family member who would not be staying there. (They would be staying at their family's lake house).

It may be that the reunion has run its course. Too many people trying to coordinate one common weekend. As the age of the pertinents now averages about 74 years, it is probably just a matter of time before it fizzles. As I stated earlier, I believe only nine remaining people from the original reunion attended this years, and I think that was perfect attendance.

When I went by Memama's yesterday, she had taken her coffee maker apart. I asked her what was going on and she kind of smiled and said, "I wasn't paying attention and I put the coffee where the water goes, so I had to clean it out". So we cleaned it and reassembled it. Believe it or not, it worked.

I get the feeling this isn't the first time this has happened.

Have a day!

FATHER, heal me quickly!