Another Week Gone By

Here I am again, reflecting on another week gone by. We were very busy again this past week, every day was a work day for me for Delaine and school for Anna. Anna has begun working at the doctor's office with Delaine. They hired her to come in after school some days to do filing, stuff recall letters and other general office work. This is a great opportunity for her to learn what it's like to work in an office and to interact with people in that environment. She is doing a very good job. Once again there was something to occupy or time every evening this week. There was pep band a couple of evenings, Anna started tutoring a little girl from Winston that is struggling with math. Anna also had and Honor Society meeting and a 4H teen leader meeting this week. We worked around the place all day Saturday while Anna was working at the Boys & Girls club. I spent most of the day working on the Jimmy because the brake lights quit working. I have it narrowed down to a problem with the switch that I'll have to get parts for. Oh yeah Saturday we broke down and replaced the tires on the Ford and on the Jimmy too. Both sets were worn to the cord, in fact the Ford had rubber pealing off the front tires. And to think we were pulling the horse trailer around with those tires! I need to pay closer attention to the wear. It's seen the time goes by so quick that before I know it the tires are worn out. Finally on Sunday evening we got to take the horses out for a workout . . . first time this week. Hopefully we will do better next week.

I sure like the progress Dustie is making. She picks up on things very quickly and is turning out to be an very nice horse to ride. I still love her lope, she's so smooth and has a great head carriage. I'm about ready to go take some riding lessons from a gal that rides and teaches western pleasure. She has won a lot of shows and her life is training horses so she ought to do a good job. I haven't given up on the thought of showing in a western pleasure class this summer. For sure we will do a few parades and the drill as well. Lots of fun . . .

Things a really slowing down at the plant . . . the market is off so much that we are struggling to keep the plant running. We are down this week and no doubt another 8 days in March all related to the slow housing market. We are laying off 4 millwrights and looking at the electricians too. We are taking advantage of the down time to complete some work that is in the backlog. As long as we can keep the folks there we will do what we can to make the place better and more reliable. Our thick billet processing line it complete and setting waiting for commissioning and debugging. It's tough out there . . .