“I would rather spend more time not tearing up equipment, than time repairing equipment. There is normal wear and tear, and preventive maintenance is not a necessary evil. It is a blessing in disguise, because it reduces overhead and downtime for repairs.”
Mitzi did all the baling while I was on the phone four or five times.
One call was from Baler Inc’s Chief Engineer Evan Cole, because they wanted to look at the Pickup we built to replace their weak pickup on a Baler they manufactured.
“I have everything you need on a thumb-drive Mr Cole. You can print the patterns full size on one of your Blue-print size printers. All the parts are drawn in an exploded view with dimensions, plus there is a parts list of everything, right down to part numbers.”
“All we need are waivers signed to protect us from rogue management suing us over design and copyright infringement. You already know our Attorney, and he’s waiting for your call.”
“Goodness, that’s really nice of you Paul. I’ll have Legal call George Maitham, and sign off the waivers. Thanks again.”
I called Mom and arranged for Mitzi to go to the Doctor appointment with Janice.
While passing through town to the next field. We found an empty used car lot to park the tractor-baler rig and talked with the Dealer and was told they were restocking tonight. I handed him a twenty telling him to have lunch on me.
We started across the street to the Courthouse, but I saw a Lot-boy at the Dodge Place, parking a short bed crew-cab that looked like a Dodge Cummins, so we doubled back to take a look at it.
I saw Frank had just finished talking with someone. “Yo! Frank tell me about this rig.”
“It was a three year lease. The guy brought it in this morning and drove a new one out.”
“What do you want for it?”
He rattled off a number.
“That’s what I paid for my five year old, almost three years ago”
“I know, are you gonna take it?”
“Ninety five percent chance, can we test drive it?”
“Sure.”
Mitzi drove out to the bypass and to the far end of the city and back through town.
“This rig has been treated well, and maintained in a timely manner. I know it’s a good deal, what do you think?”
“It’s great! I love the visibility, runs quiet in overdrive, and it sounds awesome, like it has balls! You’re right. Driving the tractors spoiled me. I thank you for this truck. I know I don’t want one of those wee wee cars.”
I paid for the pickup, and gathered up the paperwork and Frank gave me a manila envelope, shook hands, and Mitzi and I walked to the Courthouse to get our marriage license.
After lunch, we went to the farthest field and worked three fields back to the Barn.
We got home about 9:30, showered, and went to bed tired.
Sex that night could be best described as; “dead in bed.
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State of Affair 4
Day three 7/11/??
I awoke and rolled off the bed, headed for the bathroom. “I need to go too.”
I turned back and gave Mitzi a hand to help her up and out of bed.
She didn’t release my hand as we walked to the bathroom. “You first, I can wait.”
“Thank you.” Mitzi did her thing, then I did my thing, and we brushed our teeth, returned to bed.
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