No tractor, no water

Our plans for our time away from Amarillo last week did not turn out as we had planned. We did not go to Tennessee or purchase a tractor, but we did take a brush hog to the farm. On Wednesday evening as we were getting out of church, the guy with the log home we had agreed to purchase called to confirm delivery for the 26th. I was pretty sure we had rescheduled it for the 1st of September but he was already loaded up ad ready to bring it to the farm so we agreed for a Friday delivery.


I was planning on staying in Decatur all this week but my boss emailed me to tell me he would be out of the office all week so there was no business need for me to be there. So scratch those plans. Without a tractor to work with there was no real drive for us to be there either. So we concentrated on doing what we could on Thursday since we had a home to receive the following day.

Thought we were supposed to head out on Wednesday evening – for Tennessee – Grandpa found a tractor he was very interested in at a dealer in Amarillo so we stayed over Wednesday night to check it out on Thursday morning. It seemed to be the perfect tractor so we made an offer (which was refused) so as we looked over the tractor – which would not run the evening before – we were really looking in depth. It turned out to have a ruptured front seal which was filling the clutch housing with oil. Whenever Grandpa revved the engine, oil would pulse onto the ground. At the price they were asking there was no way we were going to buy it.

All in all it worked out perfectly. If Grandpa and I had been on the road to Tennessee when we got the call for the log home delivery, we would not have been able to get that done. We thought about going to Tennessee after the delivery of the home but that would have put us into Sunday and I did not see an urgency to miss church and our obligations there.

We did check out the well and found that it is a hand dug well about forty feet deep with only three feet of muddy water in it. The price of drilling a new well is about $4600. We will work on that next – one well to service both houses – especially since Grandma told me that is the next thing I need to get done. We also checked out some of the electric and found that it too can wait for a couple weeks.

Maggie is spending her first time alone. Aaron shipped out on Saturday. Maggie called us to tell us she was watching the boat leave. He will be back late in September so she is on her own until then. Thank God for the church she found to help her pass the time productively. Pray for her; she will need it. Pray for Mama and Cori as they encourage her through this time.

As I understand it, Brittany is not overcome with joy at the way things are working out for her right now. Chase, on the other hand is pretty excited; not to mention busy. He is constantly talking to two young ladies in particular – talking, texting, whatever. They keep him busy most of the time he is at home. The time he is at work, I imagine to be no less since both are coworkers of his.

Mama and I have to watch closely on that front.