My adventure with Colin

We are healthy again!! You have no idea how very, very happy that makes me. Let me tell you I was getting a little worried that we were just infecting and reinfecting each other. Poor Lynda came out this weekend and she ended up getting our illness too. It was quite the scene I tell you. Me laying on the couch, Colin on the floor right next to me and Lynda next to him. It was quite the weekend and it had nothing to do with anything fun either. 3 sick adults and one sick baby does not make for a fun time. Thank goodness for my mother in law she took very good care of us all. So it was kind of a wasted weekend, but hey at least we got to spend time together.

I went for a ride in to the city in the semi with Colin on Wednesday. Let me just say that that I don't think I will ever do that again. It was snowing and blowing and cold. We drop of the load and are on the way back when the brakes go in the semi. Talk about scary. Driving through the city with a big truck hauling 2 trailers and no breaks. I was a little worried. We go to the truck fixer place (that is my technical term by the way), and they say that they have no time to fix it he will just have to drive it like that. UM HELLLOO!!! BIG TRUCK.NO BRAKES. Am I the only one that sees this as a problem? apparently because we head home. Half way home the truck dies on the side of the road. It won't start, we have no cell service its blizzarding and I am convinced that we are going to freeze to death and have to eat each other. Colin of course tries to calm me by saying that he can always walk half a mile down the road to the farm yard we passed and use their phone. Not only that but the wife of the guy he works with is visiting her cousin and has to drive right passed us to go home. So if nothing else she will stop and pick us up. I was just being irrational and panicking that's just the way I am. Needless to say we got picked up and did not freeze to death.

I then got the fun job of helping his dad separate calves and haul them in to the auction mart. This went relatively well except for the getting smacked into the paneling and getting a huge bruise on my hip. I am sore but I will survive. We sold one calf of ours and the price was just super (that was sarcasm for all those who didn't quite catch on) we got a whole $1.10 a pound. Now this makes me angry considering if I want to go to the store and buy a steak it costs me at least $5 a pound. Now someone explain to me how that works out. Highway robbery I tell you. Alas such is the life of a farmer. Always getting screwed 2 ways from Tuesday and then listening to people talk about how much the farmers complain. You would complain too if you were getting ripped off constantly. This is precisely why Colin has another job.

So on today's agenda is housework and planting my strawberries since it finally quit snowing. Have a good day everyone talk to you soon.