I updated a couple of links to other bloggers who had created a link back or needed moving to other sections.
I also noticed that the blog "Gates of Vienna" was still up. I used to read that blog every day religiously and then I swear it closed down and was gone for good a couple of years back. I saw it linked from another site recently and put a link back up for it. Not sure how I missed it's return. If you are not familiar with that blog I recommend checking it out.
The next several days are going to be really busy ones as I have a couple of out of town trips to take up until Wednesday and then another on Thursday. One of which is to go pick up the "new" tractor. One way or another I will be attempting to post daily as usual but they may be quite brief.
I have also started tinkering with the fiction again. Just catching up right now but the fiction section has been sorely ignored this Winter due to other unforeseen projects. I have received a couple of emails and a comment or two about why I have been so lax there and I hope to remedy that situation.
It seems like we have been getting our annual false Spring a month or so early this year. Usually it happens in February but this year it came in January. The nice weather has really pressed me for time as I try and put it to good use not to mention the extra duties of suddenly finding myself the primary care giver for the entire sheep flock and useless nags.
Anyway just some random info. Saturdays seem to be the best days to do these announcements as views and comments always seem to be down on Saturdays.
More to come later.
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ReplyDeleteTB - I should have moved you over a long time ago but kept forgetting. Sorry. It wasn;t until yesterday that I was reading your post and remembered again.
DeleteJust giving you grief Preppy. Thanks for the support.
DeleteSince we had a early winter are we going to get an early spring?? I for one think we here in MN are still going to get nailed. Stay safe this week.
ReplyDeleteRob - I think you are right. The long term forecast says February is suppose to be cold again and I saw where the weather channel is saying Feb - April is suppose to be colder and wetter than usual too for both our locations.
DeleteOh man, I just realized I'm listed as Politically Opinionated or Just Plain Great! Well, that makes me feel like a heel for not writing. It'll come back, someday.
ReplyDeleteAs for 'new' tractors, well... I assume that someone, somewhere, buys these things new. After all, they have brand new ones at the dealerships. Somehow, though, everyone I know buys them used to some degree or another. It makes me wonder how they ever make it to the used market. Actually, back in the day, my family used to lease tractors on a short term basis. I wonder how many tractors enter 'used' status through lease returns.
Wolfman - Well I have missed your posts you should get back on that :)
DeleteAbout the only people I see driving new big tractors are the professional farmers that live around me. The ones who get DoAg money I guess. I see a number of retired dude ranchers with new small ones, I am sure courtesy of my tax dollars going into their pension funds. Personally I like to keep my tractors as made before 1970. My "new" one is a 1963 Ford 861 Diesel. Runs like a top but needs some cosmetic restoration. I believe it was the first Ford model with an actual live PTO and external hydraulics too plus parts are still available and they are made so well they almost last forever.
Now I will have a diesel and a gas tractor. Guess I need a propane one next :)
Sorry that should be 1962 Ford Diesel 861
DeleteWe seem to have a false summer's the last ffew years with heat waves in march, can bugger some plants up!
ReplyDeleteKev - Usually we get one here towards the end of February and then more cold and wet in March. Hopefully we will get another one soon but this one hasn't quite been bad enough to confuse the fruit trees yet which is the biggest danger.
DeleteA rich boy bought an acre lot down the road and I kid you not, he bought what looks like a new kabota and a post hole digger to put a fence around his acre. Now the tractor is sitting in his garage with the post hole digger. I marvel at it every time I pass on the way to work and it is one of those things I keep trying to figure out but can't work my way through it.
ReplyDeleteSf - HAHA I see that all the time around here. Guys with three acre wooded lots buying tractors that sit in their garage and get used maybe twice a year. I figure they will make good spare parts when the time comes.
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