Bad luck was only luck today

Was going to be hot and dry today so i was going to mow the pasture for weeds. Hooked up the ol NH44 mower to the DC and away i went.......well sort of.......not even through first round and pitman stick broke........guess what? I then had to get bolts cause I broke one putting back together........ran to town.........back in field and blew hydrolic line first round in............back to town...........then the dang grass stick broke. Again on first round in.....thinking at this point of calling it quits.........back to house to do some welding.......ended up burning myself bad enough to get a hugh blister and burn on arm.........back to field.......lost the ledger plate on end on first round back in field.....no spares for that one..........back to town..........back in field and finally able to make several rounds then broke the bolt on the bar lift...........OMG what else could go wrong.......Nothing now as I took to shed and called it a day. time to go watch the high school boys play ball......we're the favorites......nope we lost 50-40............going to take a sleeping pill tonight an hit the sack cause I don't want anything to happen tonight..........UGHHHHH!!!!!!!!

.......what else could go wrong..............UGHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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I said this out loud [i:a01f4ddb31]once..... [/i:a01f4ddb31]never again. I went to work right after dragging a dead sow out of the farrowing house., divided up the pigs on other sows and everything else seemed OK. I mentioned the[i:a01f4ddb31] what else can go wrong today[/i:a01f4ddb31] thing at work..... got home to another dead sow that night.

The next morning when the vet was there doing post mortems on the sows, my dad stopped in and said my brothers dog was dead, they were on vacation and me and dad were taking care of the pooch.

The 3 deaths were unrelated, one sow blew out a heart valve, the other one had torn her uterus while farrowing but never bled externally..... the dog, we'll never know. We always said he died of a broken heart because the whole family left him for the first time.

Anyhoo, look for the bright side of the day. You went to a game and got home safely. All the trips you had to make to town got you back home in one piece.........

.... it can always get worse.....

Hope you have a better tomorrow.

Tim

I'ved had weeks like that.

Not to make light of your problems, but that was like the old cartoon strip "Pogo".

Leo the lion had a day when everything imanginable went wrong. Lana Lion turned him down for a date the 497th time, all sorts of other things went wrong. It wound up with him caught in a snare, hanging in a tree by one hind leg.

He said, "At least nothing else can go wrong". In the next frame it was raining.

I've had days like that. I've commented more than once, "When a day goes to he11, it don't beat around the bush".

BTDT -- LOL
C.L.

Shoulda kept going by the time you was done could have had a new mower. HAHA

Well, the good news today is that I replaced the bolt (was welded in and I could kill last guy that owned this machine) and went to field. Other than a broken(lost) section everything went well and i finished up mowing (literaly as I raised the bar on last round) it started to pour rain. I was soaked by time I got to shed but was worth it. But alas the rain was just a fluke and quite right as I got to shed...........And it looks like it might not rain again tonight......