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This August has been a real show. It has been super hot and we have been doing lots of little trips and camping with the kids. In addition, dad and I have been working on the north fence line. We had a logger, skidder, and trackhoe come in and clear a road allowance that will never see any development by the county (we have written permission by the way to do so!😉). The bloody bull has been visiting the neighbors whenever we switch gates. A new line was long overdue. So, fencing right? Hold your horses. Nope. That means we have to fix the tractor because the brakes quit working and those are important when pounding pipe post on a hillside! But before that, we had to fix the air compressor when its motor cussed the bed so we could work on the tractor. Then, we had to repair the field welder for doing pipe corners we borrowed from my bro in law because the carb was completely gunked. Next, we repaired the ground cables because they were thrashed, see?! Fencing! Fun, isn't it?! It is always an ordeal it seems. I'm sure I'm missing things in here.

So, I have been fencing, working on my wife's Rambler (slowly), little trips, fixing the house (h20 tank), and building a new "playhouse out of the crookedest" old bones of a playhouse we got for free. It is crooked by 4.5" over 6’. Terrible to work on. Every piece is custom cut now. Shingles were a pain to get straight(ish), the trim, the cedar shakes, the recycled spruce shiplap from the old granary, all terrible to line up to any decency. But, rant over. 😉 Holidays... man, they get eaten up quickly!

As for the C10, yes, I have been trying to do stuff, but I have hit a major blockage. The intake I modified has a hairline crack in the plastic weld I did. I didn't notice it until I removed the cab after building all that intake stuff. So that SUCKS. I don't want any thing dropping into the engine and grenading it, so it will be coming off. Try again I supposed with another pick n pull intake. Ugh. At least 5 steps back here.

Perhaps I'll get those fuel lines done, but ambition was kicked in the boys when I saw that crack.

On the upswing though, I placed an order for the remaining parts on this truck. ALL OF THEM. Needless to say I have some spring in my step. Most likely because my wallet literally puked its guts out doing so.

I will likely pick that up in a couple weeks. Yay!

It has been a roller coaster this month. Now, school is about to start up again... sigh...😔🤪