Thread: Life is full of Drama!

I'm feeling for you, sounds like our last weekend. I had a 4 day weekend off, with a few odd jobs to be done and maybe go and visit my mum on Sunday. Thursday went well, I finished fitting the replacement intercooler to the 130 and did a few bits on SWMBO's project jeep. Friday I had lined up a bloke to deliver me 6 metres of drainage aggregate to try and improve the road into the farm, called through Boorowa and fixed him up and he said he'd be out in an hour or so. When he arrived at the farm I said "if you follow the track and don't veer off it you should be able to turn around and reverse back to where the aggregate needs to be dumped" Sure enough he decides to swing wide off the track to turn and gets very bogged across the track 20 metres from where the gravel needed to be. I went and got a chain and hooked the tractor up and pulled him so he could dump about 5 metres of the aggregate in the middle of the road, then pulled him out and he proceeded to empty the rest in the middle of the paddock. So I packed him off and spread the aggregate as best I could in the direction it needed to go with the 3pl blade on the tractor.
That afternoon I got home and SWMBO tells me that the shearers have decided that the remaining sheep should be dry enough to shear on Sunday and the shearers would be on deck at 07:00, Saturday was spent penning up and drenching and we got home around 17:00 to be told by youngest daughter that our Kelpie was having pups. By 21:00 she had delivered 1 live pup and two dead ones, the ultrasound had determined earlier in the week that she was expecting 4 - 6 pups, we waited a while and rang the vets but there wasn't much to be done at 01:30 in the morning and we had shearing the next day. Up at 05:00 and out to the farm, youngest daughter stayed and dropped the kelpie and surviving pup down to the vet, resulting in an emergency spaying (and a couple of grand in expenses) and came out to help shearing for a couple of hours before disappearing back to town to pick the patients up and look after them leaving us and eldest daughter to man the shed with a couple of keen shearers who can do 160 a day, busting their guts to get them all done in 3 runs.

At the end of the day all our sheep are shorn, Mum kelpie and the surviving pup are doing well, we went out for a few hours on Monday night and finished pressing so the wool is good to go but I was bloody glad to go to work on Monday so I could have a rest.

Regards,
Tote

Yep Life is nuts but often we do it to ourself's of course Sir

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Yep. Nuts! Busy sorting my workshop out for the arrival of the parts for the D4 and also sorting my reloading bench a bit more.

Tonight I went to strip a wire with a small knife (done this thousands of times) and this time decided to push the tip fair and square into my finger down to the bone.

Lucky I have Loctite 401 in the shed and glued my finger back together

Still need to finish organising the workshop

is 401 medical grade?

Along similar lines - yesterday I was using a gas lighter to melt the ends of some light synthetic rope I was cutting to length. To avoid a lump on the end I used the time honoured method of rolling the end rapidly between the palms of your hands - doing it rapidly means any one bit of your skin is only in contact with the melted polyester for too short a time for it to burn.

That is, until a bit comes off and sticks to your hand! I now have a blister right in the fold at the base of the index finger on my left hand.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Along similar lines - yesterday I was using a gas lighter to melt the ends of some light synthetic rope I was cutting to length. To avoid a lump on the end I used the time honoured method of rolling the end rapidly between the palms of your hands - doing it rapidly means any one bit of your skin is only in contact with the melted polyester for too short a time for it to burn.

That is, until a bit comes off and sticks to your hand! I now have a blister right in the fold at the base of the index finger on my left hand.

I always wet my hands first, no guarantee that this helps though.

They have been at it again!
Saturday morning the Police lob up at our place in Curry wanting to speak to #3 Foster son.
Apparently his mate stole his dads work ute, come & picked up #3 son, they go for a drive & roll it. As you do!
Thankfully no-one really hurt, #3 has bruised ribs, but a whole lot of AGRO for all concerned.
Hopefully he will be charged & hopefully his ribs really hurt.
SWMBO is about ready to lock him in his bedroom.
BTW When #4 autistic son heard the conversation he decided to beat #3 son up, thankfully the Police were still there & settled him down, he thought SWMBO's car had been rolled.
I have also discovered it is very difficult to express ones absolute anger & displeasure over the phone.
#3 was due to go for his learners in a couple of weeks, I have now said he has to wait 12 months!
The joys of having teenaged kids is giving me SO MUCH ANGST right now.
Only plus is he wasn't driving.
Jonesfam

Geez these tales make my life seem blissful.