After Friday night's closing - at our kitchen table! - I was anxious to get on the road to West Virginia to pick up our tractor, bucket, box scraper, brush hog, and finish mower. Also the augers and the flat bed to haul it all home. It's a 2 hour drive, one way, but it always takes longer to do what, in your mind, seems like an easy task.
Long story short: We didn't bring the box scraper back because it wouldn't fit in the back of the truck, but we weren't convinced of it so we tried and tried to get it in there. In the end it proved to be futile, so it was left in the barn for a later time. Not that we had time to use it this weekend!
We used the tractor to get the finish mower into the back of the truck. Hoisting it up in the air with a chain from the gate, the tractor did all the heavy lifting. The next major delay came from hitching the flat bed up. It would not lock itself onto the hitch, over and over and over. Tom used a screw driver, a hammer, metal lubricant and a piece of lumber. Eventually he persuaded it to couple to the hitch. We got home around 7:00pm. Tom had thought we would have time to mow grass at the farm. Of course that didn't happen.
When we did finally get home our neighbor Eric met us on the sidewalk. I had given him our new address and he had gone over to see it while in the area. What he told us just floored me! He was not sure that he was at the right address because there was a GMC crew cab there. Since he'd never been there he didn't know if it was the right house, a shared driveway or perhaps we had hired some Mexicans to help us. He said they drove past him in a swirl of dust, neither looking in his direction as they booted out of there. He said the back of the truck was empty.
I was so curious about what these guys had dumped, I honestly couldn't sleep. I woke at 4:30am thinking about it! I dozed until about 6:40am, then I had to get up and get going. Because of the chronically visiting dumpers we had decided we would leave the Acura parked there. The car wouldn't start. Tom jumped it with the Keifer's battery and I was on my way!
They dumped two mattresses and yard debris near where the sofa and love seat reside, next to the Naval Surface Weapons trailer. So the plans for the day got changed from mowing grass and trimming the trees to putting in a gate assembly nearer the road. That was the plan anyway. Two trips to Tractor Supply and one to 84 Lumber. We postponed the trip to Home Depot, that's for tomorrow. The second trip to Tractor Supply was for the inner tube for the tractor's front tire, which became flat when we were trying to get the finish mower out of the truck bed.
The gate, posts and boards are at the site, but not assembled. We need concrete, too, and a mixing tub. That's at Home Deport, tomorrow. We still have to put the electric in our name, sign the homeowners' insurance papers, and wire money to the bank. I hope these plans don't get waylaid, too.
We've gone from the Ritz to the Pits!
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