After having some pretty heavy thunderstorms move through this past weekend, it's hard to believe that we're expecting snow for this weekend! But that's what is in the forecast. Oh Well.
Farmer Rick and Farmer Came Home (our oldest boy) have been working like crazy cleaning up the scrap steel all around the farm. Wow, is it ever making a difference. Pieces here, pieces there, it's all adding up. The flatbed trailer is getting quite loaded down! But as long as steel prices are up, it's a good thing. We're having a couple of pieces of machinery delivered today on a semi and one of the items we have to settle up for once it's delivered. That money from the scrap steel will come in handy.
We have a friend down south that was a machinery dealer years ago. Down where he lives, the machinery that he has on hand - no one uses anymore. But it's in excellent condition. We have picked up so many things for a super price - we can't pass it up! So, even with the trucking, we come out ahead. Well, maybe. I have to take the checkbook from Farmer Rick once in awhile and remind him that there are bills to pay too! But to buy the same items on auction up here would be sometimes 3, 4 or many more times the price, so we budget these items in whenever we can.
Now, if the fields would just dry out so we could use some of this machinery . . .!
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