In conversations, Carol denies any recollection of the events of Saturday night.

Weird.

Scary.

Convenient.

Most of my day Thursday was spent on a tractor streaking fields with a sandfighter. Luckily I had run out the remainder of the farm that is my biggest sand problem earlier in the week.

I had planned on doing preventative sand fighting on Wednesday but ended up spending the whole day in Abilene.

Memama had a coumadin appointment and I needed to get the purple truck out of the shop. They had assured me it would be ready shortly after lunch.

At five o'clock they finally gave me the truck, but only after I had given them $10,455.29.

I took the truck to meet the driver who was still in the truck he jackknifed last week, we made the swap and I took the wrecked truck to the farm.

Memama followed me so she could take me to her pickup at her house. We arrived at her house about six o'clock.

Wednesdays are my Memama medicine days so I got out the meds and began filling the day dispensers. About ten to seven I told her 'bye and headed east.

Late Thursday afternoon I got a call from the insurance adjuster assigned to the wrecked truck. He told me he was gathering numbers but that the truck would be a total loss.

I was afraid of this.

The body shop says the floor pan of the cab is damaged and it is a single piece costing $10,000. Labor to replace it is $20,000. The truck is insured for $18,000.

After deductible, it will cost the insurance company $17,000 total the truck out.

Now comes the interesting part. The sister truck to this truck was jacknifed in 2008, on the driver's side. It too was totalled out. (Damage was much more extensive and the door was not operable.) The recent wreck was on the passenger side and the door is still operable. I am curious if I can find a body shop that might cut the floor pan of both trucks and piece it together in the second truck, take the cab corner from the first wreck and put it on the second one.

I have all the pieces except the fuel tank faring and a muffler.

This is one of those things I would sure like to discuss with Pepa and Fred.

I suppose it depends on what price the insurance puts on the salvage. The first truck I bought back for $1000.

We will wait and see.

I am sure hoping for some relief from the wind, but forecasts doesn't look promising.

I had decided there wasn't enough of me to go around so I talked wit two shops yesterday about the water pump on the 8310. The first shop told me two weeks before they could get to it. The second shop told me they could pick up the tractor today and take it to their shop, but they wouldn't fix it in the field.

I may see if Jason can haul it to our shop.

But. I need to finish the sprayer project I have in there first.

I am almost halfway done on replacing the nozzle bodies on the boom. 80 foot span. Spacing of 20 inches. Two clamps and one bolt for every nozzle. The hardest part is removing the old nozzle housings from the rubber hoses. Going back together should be much quicker.

Maybe today.

Pat was driving in from Huntsville last night. I know Memama is excited. I suppose she will be leaving Sunday to go back.

A glitch in the oil deal. For whatever reasons, the oil company has yet to wire the retainer which the contracts called for, or the agreed amount they promised "If we could wait a day or two!"

Hag and I are in agreement that today is the day. Either the money is in the banks this morning (they said they wired the funds after two yesterday so they wouldn't show up until today) or we will nullify the contracts and sign on with a new player in the mix.

I think we have exhausted our good faith!

Have a day!

FATHER, help us to make good choices.