A grease gun, a gorgeous view, my demise & marijuana?!

On my way home from the walk, B-rad called & needed me to stop & buy him another grease gun. Then, of course, I had to deliver it.

Brian & Lora have a field that is up in the middle of woods. And the road (if you can call it that - it's more like a path...) to get there goes through the woods. It also goes straight up at the end.
B-rad waiting patiently for me.

Then he informed me I needed to take him back to the barn THEN back out to the field. I did it - but I didn't like it because he was really cutting into my nap time. I'm a giver...

When we got to the barn, I noticed his parents yard was, uhm, well - dead. I said, "What in the heck happened to your parents yard?!" Brad laughed & said, "I don't really know. All we can figure is that the heavy rain washed some of the chemicals down to it." Farming lesson #254-they use chemicals to kill off all the weeds in the field. And they're not the neatest about it in the world & stuff drips or gets spilled & ends up on the gravel lot. So some of the residual chemicals left in the gravel must've gotten swept down onto their yard. Whoopsie...

After strategically navigating the rocky, bumpy path up to Brian & Lora's field - the pay off is the view. C'mon city slickers - who can look out & see this?! Anyone?! Sure we don't have grocery stores near us or modern conveniences like high speed internet, but we do have THIS...

As I was walking back to the tractor, I noticed this little plant sticking up all by itself. And I was like, "WHAAAAA? Is that marijuana?!" Call me a prude or whatever, but I never ever ever have done drugs (unless you count codeine & morphine & fun stuff like that I've taken from the doctor...) And I yelled to Brad, "BRAD-does marijuana have 3 leaves?!" He said, "I don't know! But I know what plant you're talking about & it's not that. There's a bunch of other ones." Dang, I thought maybe someone had their stash in the field & I was gonna kill it!

Farming lesson #764-sometimes people like to plant their 'stuff' on other people's property. Especially corn fields because the corn gets tall enough to cover it up from the planes that fly over looking for it. No lie - it's not un-common around here to see planes flying over real low... Last year Brian found some in one of our fields...so he sprayed it & killed it! Farmers- 1, scummy drug growers- 0. (Now I don't know what would happen if authorites actually found drugs in our fields. Just because it's there doesn't mean WE put it there... maybe I should check into that?!)

Moving right along... B-rad got the new fancy schmancy grease gun I got him all ready to use.

One of the wheel thingies was broken on the planter so he fixed that too.

Then he had to grease all the row units. There were 2 grease zerks for each of the 16 rows.

Ginmommy -this pic is for you. Remember how I told you about B-rad working in a machine shop? They made those black brackets for the fertilizer tanks at the barn. See - he's crafty...

After the 16 rows, he had to grease other pieces as well. See the grease coming outta that? I got bored with all the greasing & told him I had to go...

Ok-so one of my many jobs that are intregal to this farming thang is ordering fuel. We have a fuel tank at the barn that holds about a 1000 gallons of fuel. Farm fuel is different than fuel for your cars. Farming lesson #12-farm fuel (aka 'off road' fuel) is non-taxable (love that) & it also has a special red dye in it. If you try to put it in your vehicle (diesel vehicles, of course...) it will dye the tank red & if you ever get caught, you get fined & have to pay a lotta moolah. Also-if we put the 'off-road' fuel in our semis we can get in trouble. Off road fuel is just for what it says -Off-road vehicles.

So B-rad called me Thursday night & said, "I need you to order 1000 gallons of fuel for the barn." So I said, "Ok, honey bunny, I'm happy to serve! I'll do it first thing Friday morning!"

I was at the mall Friday night to meet a girl about jewelry. And while I was waiting, I was browsing through the stores & my cell phone rang with B-rad's ringtone (Adam Lambert's Whaddya want from me?! Don't judge...) And I thought, "oh, it's my wonderful hubby! What could he possibly want? Surely it's to tell me he misses me & loves me!" Then I hear, "DID YOU ORDER FUEL TODAY?!" Uhm, ok-I'm dead. I totally forgot! I said, "Oh S***! I totally forgot! I'm sorry!" Silence.... "I'm so busy I can't remember anything unless I write it down! Sorry!" Silence.... "Can we go somewhere else & get it in the tanks in the trucks?!" (A couple of the pick-up trunks have fuel tanks in the beds...) He replied, "Yes, but they're only 100 gallon - that won't last anytime." "Ok, I'm sorry! I forgot!" He ended with, "Ok-I'll talk to you later..."

Then today I get a pic on my cell phone. So I said, "Oh, are they outta fuel too? I guess someone forget to call & order fuel?!" He was not amused...

He ran outta fuel & had to drive to the gas station. This is bad because the valuable time he had to spend driving to get & pumping the fuel because I forgot could've been utilized by planting corn non-stop. See how I royally screwed up?! Also note in the pic that when he took it, the counter was at $95. Diesel is close to $3/gallon just like gas. I have to order a 1000 gallons Monday...you do the math... (I have put a reminder alarm to order fuel on my phone for promptly at 8am Monday morning!)

So I've already warned my fb friends, if I turn up dead soon, please investigate B-rad - he's ready to kill me...