Very productive week. Another six day work week by the way, and it may go to seven. (Just depends on my day at the house).

I am very tired and exhausted. About one hundred fifty acres more and everything will be fresh sprayed. That leaves about four hundred fifty acres that remain to be plowed once the chemical has gone to the plant roots. That will take about three or four days once I pull the trigger to begin.

The more I run the sprayer the more I find I like it. It is rough and difficult to hit the guidance lines (I will be so glad when we get our system back, not that it will be much better), but it is very effective, especially by dollar comparison.

Did I mention a kick ass stereo system?

I finally got some help at the farm. Not high quality, but a warm body. It makes a lot of difference when you can spray and someone else hauls the water and prepares the chemical loads. The stops are much quicker for mixing and loading. I may lose him this next week (let's face it, he is temporary) as he has two court dates in the next three weeks. One for probation revocation.

Another contributing factor to the good week was a much more favorable wind direction. Kept me from having spray drift on the neighbors homes, trees and winter wheat.

Actually, Thursday was the last day I sprayed any 2,4, D. We are back to a mix of glystar with adjuvant. No granular amonium sulfate either. Actually we were using the glystar with two and half gallons of energyze II to a mix but ran out of the energyze and began using a gallon of surflex. Either one will make the roundup mix a little hotter and more effective.

The worst thing the sprayer does is beat me around and make me sore and achey.

I am actually kicking around the idea of going over today just to finish this cycle and put me out of my misery.

I could have, and should have finished yesterday. The winds were pretty good, but my helper wanted to quit between two and three. We quit at two. If I had stayed with it I could have been done by six. Hindsight. It had just been a long week. If I had enough water and a vehicle at the last farm I might have stayed to finish, instead I would still have had to quit to take my helper back to his vehicle.

Had chili dogs with Memama at three Saturday afternoon for lunch. Did our puzzle. She was getting ready to go to the grocery store. She was already dreading Pat going back to Huntsville Monday.

When I left Memama's house I was on a mission. Barber shop by four. My barber shop recently added a fifth barber. She doesn't come in until one and stays until six Tuesday thru Friday and until four to four-thirty on Saturdays. The last two Wednesdays I have arrived shorty before six to find her already gone. Yesterday was the same result. I know this is a second job for her (she goes to work at a bakery at 4:30), but if she doesn't keep strict hours she will never build a clientele. I even tried to call her an hour earlier because she told me if I am ever running late if I would call she would wait.

Wasted trip.

So then I ran by Complete Nutrition for their customer appreciation sale. Everything in the store buy one get one free. Now I have a four month supply. Their products had worked very well in the beginning but then hit a plateau at about 36 pounds. I talked with one of their wheels from Lincoln, Nebraska and decided not to do one of their kits (I had done the Charger Sleep kit before). There were some things I liked but we ended up doing the CTS 360 in combination with the Charger parts that I liked. This kit begins with a ten day body cleanse and includes a take off of Ephedra along with the metabolism enhancers.

We will see. I had been out for a couple of months.

I had planned on going to Southern Nights to see Jon Wolfe last night but instead watched a little basketball and me and the redhead slipped into bed early. Slept until after eight.

Excellent.

Got the plan going on for the coming week. Finish spraying Monday (if not today), power wash the sprayer, make some adjustments to the new DCIII plow for use later in the week.

Of course Kyle McWilliams, the service manager at Quality Equipment in Rotan, is going to have to get off his duff and figure out the heating problem with the 8310. Depending on his addressing this issue is whether or not I ever do any more business with Quality. Pepa had one very ugly experience and apparently I am fixing too.

I still contend the heating problem is the new fan clutch. I have never caught it locked up like it is supposed to when the air coming through the radiator is hot.

I am not pointing fingers, but odd things have happened in the past, new part failures, casting issues where there are casting defects in the pieces. Pepa even told the story of a truck that would run like junk after a repair. After an extended period of arguing, the shop began tearing down the engine and found a red shop rag left in the air intake. Duh, no wonder the engine wouldn't run correctly!

Monday, tire shopping for Memama's big Kenworth truck. (By telephone).

Lawyer's office at ten Tuesday morning.

Memama's ear appointment Thursday.

A probably trip to Lubbock and Wolforth.

Always something to do!

Oh, and congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Brown. They were married last evening in Lubbock. Rian performed their ceremony and also served as best man.

Have a week.

FATHER, thank YOU for a productive week. For favorable winds for spraying. Thank YOU for YOUR hand in it. Thank YOU for new opportunities and I ask that YOU help me to take advantages of them. Help me to make good choices.