You CON-do-it!

Thursday Night.

David:  Taylor.  I need you to take the truck and gooseneck to school tomorrow please.

Me:  The TRUCK?  And BIG TEX?

David:  Yeah.  I will come and grab it from you and switch you cars.  I need to go and pick up the skidsteer.

Me (trying to be brave):  But, David!  Where will I park it?

David:  In the street.

Reader.  I work at an elementary school that is surrounded by a residential neighborhood.

Me:  David, this is all very stressful for me.  I cannot back it up if I get into trouble.  It is the 100th day of school, so I will be dressed as an old lady with a bunch of baby powder in my hair, and I promised my kids a soup party, so I have to bring in a crockpot and soup supplies!

David:  You’re the best.

You guys.  This is what the truck and Big Tex look like.

Me:  DAVID!  THERE ARE PALLETS ON THERE!

David: Yup.

Me: THEY BETTER NOT FLY OFF!

And if this doesn’t prompt David to finally buy me that #1 Wife t-shirt, well I don’t know what will.

So.  I dressed up as an old lady.  I asked Hadley to powder my hair.

Me:  Hadley, I need you to dump a bunch of baby powder in my hair.

Hadley:  Why?

Me:  So I can look like I am 100 years old.

Hadley:  Why?

Me:  Because it is the 100th day of school.

So.  She dumped a bunch of baby powder in my hair.  And I got a crate with all my supplies for soup, loaded it into the truck, and toodled on down the road to school.

I successfully parked the truck and Big Tex, but I had to park it a bit away from the school.  And I truly wonder what any residents who may have looked out their windows thought when they saw me, a woman with gray hair looking like she should NOT be driving such a rig, parking this beast in front of their houses, hopping out of the truck, grabbing a crate of soup supplies, and just walking down the road away from the rig.

Like a normal person.

The 100th day went well.

Student:  Mrs. M!  When I first saw you I thought you were a GUEST TEACHER!  You look different!
Me:  Oh, yeah?

Student:  But I figured out if was you because you are still so funny!

*cute*

We finished The Tale of Despereaux and had a soup party.  We all loved the story and a group of kids play “Tale of Despereaux” at recess now.  So that is cute.

When I was done for the day, I hauled my soup supplies back out and instead had to hop in the work van, which is much smaller and more manageable than the truck and Big Tex.

My Principal:  Taylor!  Is that your husband’s work van?

Me:  Yes, we had to switch for today.

Principal:  Goodness!  That thing is huge!

Me:  Yup.

Oh, if she only knew what I had to drive to town.

***

This weekend, David and the boys were all about digging a trench for a new water line.  The new line would serve two purposes:

Add more water supply to cows and connect Auntie’s apartment to water.

HD on the mini excavator we gratefully borrowed from a friend:

LD worked on removing fencing while David used the newly repaired skidsteer to push snow out of the way.

They worked hard all day and made tons of progress.

LD in the trench-

LD pushing the dirt back to fill in the trench.

Saturday was a beautiful day.  As you can see from the pictures.

My job was to clean our disgusting house, with help of Hadley, check on cows, and work on senior stuff for Hadley.

So.  Cows.

Matilda and her baby boy.

And that cute little baby posing for a single shot.

We have this heifer.  Let’s call her 152.  We think she is in labor, but she is totally tricking us.  I have gone out to check on her no less than 87 times this weekend and I have about 42 inappropriate videos of her private areas on my phone.

Anyways.  On to Sunday.  Also known as today.

Today was cold and snow covered and chilly.  We did online church and then got right back to work.  Hadley’s chore from David was to drive all the way to town to get some conduit.

She wasn’t super excited, as you can imagine most teens would not be, but I encouraged her by saying:

“Come on!  You CON-DO-IT!”

And I laughed and laughed.

Sadly, only my firsties and myself find me to be funny.

Anyways.  The boys got back to work on trench-y things and here is a picture of where the water will connect to the apartment.  In case you cared.

And I am sure you do.

The day turned sour when HD accidentally broke our main water line with the excavator.  So David had to go traverse to many stores across the areas to try to find things to fix it and I was taking videos of a heifer’s backside.  I am worried that something is wrong.  It seems like she has been laboring too long.  She will act like she is pushing and struggling and then she will go and eat for 2 hours and seem fine.  It is all very confusing.

David sent some of my high quality videos to FF and he said he thinks she is ok but we should call him tomorrow evening if she has not calved.

David fixed the line and the dudes all got back to work.

I am tired.  It has been A DAY.  I am worried about heifer 152.  But I am thankful to have water again.

Here is Matilda’s heifer calf who was born a year ago.

Happy Sunday.