For not working Sundays I've been busy

I don't have any problem with tinkering around the shop and yard on Sunday,I just don't do field work.
The wife got me the last of the Oliver banners for my birthday. The one with the black keystone logo. I mounted it on 3/8ths plywood and made a frame around it like I did the ones with the Oliver/Hart Parr/Nichols and Shepard/American Seeding logo and the one with the Fleetline logo.
I parked the baler and went to unhook it. I needed it unhooked so I can cut hay with the 105 tomorrow anyway. I couldn't get that miserable slide type PTO connector unhooked for nuthin. There's a special place in h3ll for the person who invented that I hope. I had to take the shaft right out of the tractor and work on it on the tailgate of the pickup. I had another shaft here out of another parts baler,but the shield was shot on that one,so I had to get the shield off both of them and swap those around. With that out of the way,I got up on the ladder and hung that sign up behind the plows on the wall in the toolshed.

The darned cattle had the cables broke on two feed bunks at the same time,so I had to clamp those back together and tighten them up. Then there was a broken panel in a round bale feeder in one lot. There were more broken feeders around with one or two good panels,so I had to make up a good one out of pieces.

I thought I was done for the day when the wife wanted to know if I could drive 16 steel fence posts in the garden for her tomato plant wires. "Drag'em out there,I'll get the post driver".

Maybe I can still pretend it Sunday after supper. lol

I always got a kick out of Sunday you would hurry up and get chores done so you can take the rest of the day off.
I'll never forget the story of a teacher in Chicago asking the kids if a cow gave 40 lbs of milk a day how much would she give in a week the answer they gave was 200 lbs city folk don't realize a farmer works 7 days not 5 days.

someday on Sundays,youll be sitting under the sunshade selling stuff at the flea market while the wife is busy at her lunch truck ...

Every time I try to set down and take it easy on Sunday I get thinking of the things I need to do as I set. Normally I'm back out by 3 or 4 working away till sundown. I just took time for super right now but getting ready to head back out to prepare for tomorrow's work.

Ya,Sundays are good for that. It's a real time saver if everything's greased and tuned for Monday morning. As long as I have all day to tinker with those things so I'm not rushed.

re the tomato plant wires- reading old Farm Show I saw an idea where fella used steel posts to hold up cattle panels spaced a foot apart....with tomatoes planted in between. Easy picking. I made woven wire cages for my better half, but thought the panel idea was good.

She just strings wire between the posts then uses shower curtain rings to hold the plants to the wires.

That's what my dad does with his and it works great. Not alot of bending over!

I got the CRP mowed, with permission from county, and all the thistle patches mowed down today.

After a long day I put in yesterday, I'd planned to goof off today. Then my wife came back from getting the Sunday papers and told me the "Low Tire" light came on on her Chrysler T&C. Right rear was low.

So--down to the shop with it. Tanked the tire, found a small nail. Broke it down and patched it. Tanked it again. Every 3 seconds or so, a small bubble would still come up. I said a few appropriate words, broke it down again and found another small nail I'd missed the first time. Patched that and it was good to go. Poor tire is less than two months old and already has two patches.

Big mystery: Whyizzit I can drive a vehicle for several years without a tire problem but all my wife needs to do is look at a car and the tires start going down?

Then went to Omaha and visited our daughter at her house she just bought. Wound up in several COD (Call On Dad) projects.

So much for spending the day goofing off.

I think I would have traded you today.

I agreed to "point and laugh" at my nephew while he changed
the rear struts on his Pontiac. I told him I was not doing it for him
but he could use my shop, all my air tools and any special
tools required as long as he listened to how they worked.

I also told him since it was his first time doing such a job to plan
on 8 hours if everything went as expected.

This particular nephew is 22 years old and doesn't know "lefty
loosy, righty tighty" or the difference between a nut and a bolt.

It took him more than an hour to jack the car up and put it on
jack stands. 5 1/2 hours later he had one strut changed.
Complete, bolt in units, no spring compression required.
He begged out of doing the other side for today.
"Do that one another day." Ok. His car.
He did in fact get one side done and learned how some tools
work that he had never heard of, like a torque wrench.

It is very frustrating for me not to just say "get out of the
way and let me do it!" But he doesn't learn anything that way.
Other than "drop it off and it magically gets fixed".
I'm getting too old for that.
They need to learn while I can still help.
Or earn enough to take it somewhere else.

Jon changed all four on his last Sunday,along with front wheel bearings and ball joints. The bolts were broken off where the ball joints clamp in,so I drilled those out for him with the drill press while he changed the struts. Then he got too heavy handed with a chisel trying to spread them and he cracked them. He had to take those to the shop and TIG weld them. Made for a longer day for him than it did for me.