On the way home yesterday I stopped at the auto parts store
and got a few items for the little Ranger and the Flex. I was hoping changing
out the fuel filter on the Ranger would help with the problem I had coming home
last week. It took some time to get the new filter on the truck but all in all
it was not too bad a job. Laying in the cold, moist gravel was a bit
uncomfortable.
After I got everything buttoned up I took the truck got a
test drive. I was pretty encouraged when I drove the three miles to Montague so
I turned around and headed from there to Bowie. I was only a few miles from the
farm when the same problem began to happen. At least I know it is not the fuel
filter. It will be the end of the month before I will have the money to take it
to a shop to see what is really wrong.
I worked a while in the garden spreading out the manure we
had put there several weeks ago but held off getting the tiller out since it
was a little too wet to do any of that kind of work. We are planning on
cleaning the calf lot again this Saturday so I wanted to get ahead of the
effort by spreading out what we had already put there. By the time I got the
piles spread out it was pretty close to dark so I closed up the chickens and
went inside to clean up.
Mama left the farm about the time I got started replacing
the fuel filter and was gone until I was ready to go to bed. She and Victoria
met up at Walmart so they could team up on grocery shopping. We are still at the
stage that requires us to share certain cooking items. It is not worth
outfitting both kitchens to be completely self-sufficient but we like to limit
the number of trips from one residence to the other when preparing a meal.
Since we have been on the farm we have always had more than
one place to store items; a refrigerator and freezer in the farm house, a
freezer in the shop, canned goods in plastic totes in the farm house, etc. Now,
with two homes and two kitchens it has become more complicated to just do
normal meal preparations; not to mention where we will entertain guests when
was have them. It has become a standard question for Sunday afternoons; do we
have dinner at Victoria’s home or ours? When Grandma and Grandpa come back that
will no longer be an issue. We will eat at her table.
Victoria got me started on one or the rewrites of the Star
Wars sagas: Allegiance, by Timothy Zahn. It is a well written story but it is
difficult to backtrack to a prequel having watched the movie series. Besides
that, I am not a cultish type of fan of Star Wars so when he brings characters
into the story and begins commenting on their dress, their voice or their culture
I am at a complete loss. Not that it interrupts the story much, but I will not
take the time to look up the descriptions in order to get a visual – because there
is a complete catalogue of such information available on the internet.
I am enjoying the story but that kind of research is outside
the scope of reading for fun.
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