I finally found one for a decent price!
Hopefully, it’s a good one. 😅 The wood is definitely very old and weathered, but I think it should be okay. I hope, at least. I think it’ll need a tad bit of repair on one of the bench legs, but I think it’ll be okay.
Oh, it’s a picnic table! 🙃
I’ve been looking for one for quite a while. There was an absolutely fantastic one for sale in Joplin maybe a month ago, but I didn’t jump on it as quickly as I should have in the way I should have, and so I lost it.
This one wasn’t as nice as that one, but it was also really close and really inexpensive. 😁
Gratefully, Jim went with me to help me load it up, which I guess wasn’t necessary in the end, because the person who sold it to us helped load it up, so I didn’t even carry anything. I just stayed in the dump trailer and grabbed the parts as They brought them over.
After bringing that home and dropping Jim back off, I unloaded it next to the road in the field by the chickens.
After that, I decided to head back to Oklahoma to continue working on disassembling the greenhouses. Once again, I had high hopes of how much I was going to get accomplished, and once again, I fell woefully short.
But, as always, progress is progress.
Part of the reason why things took a little longer was that the dusting of snow that we got in Arkansas was dwarfed by what they got in Oklahoma. There wasn’t a whole lot left on the ground when I got there, but it certainly was a lot more than what we had gotten, and there were snow drifts against both sides of the greenhouse, probably a couple feet tall.
When I pulled into work on the greenhouse, I realized very quickly that Everything was just soggy as all get out. I pulled in through the gate, and then through the second entrance up into the field, driving forward slowly, and then feeling my tires spin.
😬
So I left the truck right there. 😅
I figured there was a pretty darn good chance that I was going to be stuck and unable to get out without assistance, so I figured I might as well just work on the greenhouse and not worry about it until it was time to go.
It was a pretty awkward place to be potentially stuck, as there was clearly no way that I could do a u-turn, which meant that I was going to have to back out the way that I came in. It’s awkward enough to make the double turns through the small openings when you’re going forward. Good luck to little me trying to go at it in reverse with a huge dump trailer.
If you are not already aware, I am not the greatest at backing up large trailers.
🙃
Anyway, I disassembled the wooden end on the far end of the greenhouse, loaded it up, and after some very careful, very deliberate, very slow backing, I managed to get out of the danger area and oriented successfully enough to get out without getting stuck and without destroying their gates with my terrible backup skills.
Wahoo! 🥳
I spent the drive home dictating journal entries in an effort to catch up, and I’m making progress, steady, but surely.
On the way back, I stopped off at the Walmart neighborhood market in Pea Ridge and spent a good little while going through all their gajillion bouquets of flowers looking for one that I thought would be nice to give to my mama for Valentine’s Day.
Happy Valentine’s Day Eve, mama!
(I figured I had better get the flowers tonight and not risk forgetting or getting them way late at night on the actual day, because I was going to be working all day.)
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 