November 4, 2009

• Give that man something constructive to do!!!!

  My husband took the backhoe down to the creek to drain out some water, or some such thing so that some trees that are down would dry up so we can cut them up for stove wood.  While there he got the backhoe stuck, thoroughly, in the creek.  So he walked up and got the Kubota so that he could pull the backhoe out.  No go.  The Kubota got even stucker!!!!  (yes that is a word, at least in my world it is)

  Then he borrowed the neighbor’s tractor to pull the backhoe out and the Kubota.  It took a lot of pulling, shouting, and changing of position to do it but he finally managed, with Ian, Matthew, and Jim Havener’s help, to get the backhoe out of the mud.  Once they got going there was no stopping and he drove it right out of the valley out onto the road.  Matthew followed with the neighbor’s tractor and Ian drove his truck.

  Now they are down there trying to get the Kubota out before it sinks out of sight.  Not an exaggeration I assure you.  As it sat there it was slowly sinking into the mud.

  My question is, after 6+ inches of rain why didn’t anyone think that it would be a bit muddy down in the bottom land in the valley?  Even I wouldn’t have ventured down there and I am the member of the family who likes to go mudding. 

  Unfortunately I was unable to get any pictures of the whole ordeal.  It’s too cold out there for me so the dogs and I walked home to have another beer and get warm.  I’m glad that at least three of us have a bit of intelligence.

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