Sunday morning we woke up at 5:30am. We arrived in Madisonville at 7:30am to get the bull...notice that I didn't say calf. It is a year and half at least, and very healthy except for the broken ankle. We manage to get back home by 11:30am, feed/water and tarp over live bull for shade. It is very alert and hot (tempered and not because of its broken ankle)...it was a bucking bull calf, that is what the guy was raising it for... a very interesting but different story. We leave the truck attached to the livestock trailer and go to Ruth's in Friendswood (she has the car hauler already from Sat). We hook up her van that has a plastic front bumper and it starts to crinkle it...Ed says don't worry about it, we will just pop it back out...ok by us. They couldn't haul it on another trailer(they tried and it wouldn't fit...even scratched the lower doors and couldn't be driven because at 25mph it wobbles bad. Andrew & Ed drive in Ruth's pickup towing the van, with Ruth & I following them in my car. We get going on the freeway, and started calling the guys because there's smoke coming from one of the rear wheels of the van that's being towed. Apparently Ed didn't lower the parking brake all the way...we manage to get it the rest of the way without incident.
It was fairly late in the evening, so we had Ed & Ruth come over to our house for dinner - their new place isn't set up yet for cooking... we had salad, spaghetti with meat sauce, and garlic bread... totally yummy! And after some time spent visiting, we were definitely ready for the day to end...
This morning, Monday, Andrew was up and out the door before 5am to go camp out at the meat processor that we like up in Cleveland. They unloaded the bull and took our processing order... Hooray! I left the house around 8am to get Victoria to Magnolia to help with VBS at church, and arrived home around 9am right behind Andrew.
On his way home, he saw a mother and daughter trying to change their tire...He says, "I did a u-turn and asked if they need help...no we got it...ok...got out anyway. They had all the lug nuts off and couldn't figure out the jack...told her to let me help her...twice. She finally moved and let me change it. She was amazed at how fast and easy I made it look, and I got back on the road for home."
We checked our emails, he had a teleconference meeting, I put together some packages, and we headed over to Ruth's with the now empty livestock trailer (that Andrew pressure-washed clean), and hooked it up to their pick up to take back to Friendswood with them for moving boxes, etc out here. We also loaded up the mattress set that we had dropped off at their house on Saturday. They needed to run to the post office, so we had them follow us to Magnolia, I mailed my packages while there... We headed to commerce street to drop off the mattress to someone who had just moved and didn't have a bed, to the grocery store for cat food, then to church to pick up Victoria from VBS.
Ruth also said she'd have a side-by-side refrigerator for us, since the people buying their house don't want the one that's in it. That has me completely thrilled, because we're working out of a little apartment sized refrigerator for the 7 of us. It's definitely too small for the amount of food we need stored at any given time... and especially too small for when we want to have a watermelon or make a few batches of Jell-O.
I made simple sandwiches for lunch, and we've had a quiet afternoon getting work done on our consecutive computers...
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