If ever John has had a case of the 'Mondays' it was yesterday. It's quite comical after the fact, but I'm sure he was cursing a lot as it was occurring. Hopefully I can remember all of the details....
First of all, let me point out that the yellow ranch truck has been out of commission since last week when it died on the way back from Mason one day and it hasn't gotten fixed yet. He usually would use this truck, which has four-wheel drive, but has been forced to use his white truck, which doesn't.
The afternoon started out with John going up to Linda's ranch to check on her cows. She has a high fenced area that is supposed to keep deer out, but some have gotten in and she asked John to get rid of them. So, when John saw a couple of them and they both just stood there, he decided they would make for some good sausage meat and shot them. He backed his truck up to them to load them up and managed to get it stuck in the grass/mud (it hasn't rained much for awhile so I'm sure that he wasn't expecting the ground to be THAT wet). Try as he might, he wasn't able to get it unstuck. He ended up having to walk the couple of miles back to the house to get the jeep. He wasn't able to pull it out with the jeep either and broke his come-along in the process. He drove back home and got the tractor, which of course, died in the middle of Salt Branch Loop and refused to even start up enough again to move it off the road. So he walked back to the house again. Fortunately it was close to the time that the bus comes and our neighbor comes to get Jayde off the bus at our house. He was able to help John get both vehicles back to the house. Unfortunately, by this time, both deer had been laying out in the sun too long, and are pretty useless now. Talk about an unproductive afternoon!!! Hopefully things go better for the rest of week.
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