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Fun Day.

TimH

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Sunrise this morning, I look out my North living room window and it is snowing and blowing. No big deal.It's November in the great white north.
From this window I can also see a pen where I keep some bulls in the winter. Two Maines are in the pen,where they are supposed to be, but an older Char is out in the blizzard 1/4 mile away. I'm still in my jammies. I can't see from here how he got out so I have some breakfast and some coffee.....then some more coffee. He won't go far I tell myself.
#1 son and I go out to get him in, #2 and #3 are gone to school by this time, and visibility is down to 100 yards in the blizzard. I figure open the gate ,pail of grain, call him and he'll walk right back in. Wrong.
He has "disappeared". I finally pick up his tracks in the snow and get on him. He has meandered around a 160 acre pasture and ended up a short distance South of the house, in the bale yard. He got through a couple of gates I had left open when hauling manure. By this time my face is frozen but the rest of me is sweating like a pig in my Carharts. OK.
Now the grain and the "C'mon" will work. I just have to move some horses out of the way...........That was easy......and so was getting him in the pen.
Left him there until 4:00 or so then decided to put him back with the other bulls. He wasn't in there for 2 minutes until we saw exactly how he had got out the first time. The 2 Maines ganged up on the poor old Char and put him out over a gate.
Then it hit me...... we are dealling with 3 sexually frustrated Frenchmen here.........best just head to the house and have a beer....so that's what we did.
The End. :)
 
Tim- Thats what I would have done-- the minute I found he was somewhere he wasn't going to get hungry I'd of left him there til this storm quits....Still getting snow- ground blizzard conditions with 30+ mph winds- temp is 9 Below and the chill factor must be somewhere around 40 below....


And that wind has such a mournful cold sound....
 
Oldtimer said:
Tim- Thats what I would have done-- the minute I found he was somewhere he wasn't going to get hungry I'd of left him there til this storm quits....Still getting snow- ground blizzard conditions with 30+ mph winds- temp is 9 Below and the chill factor must be somewhere around 40 below....


And that wind has such a mournful cold sound....

OT, Yup I should have just left him where I found him this morning.
The REALLY fun part of my day is what happened in between the "bull" fiascos.....
#1 son needs to renew his driver's licence and I need to renew the insurance/registration on my trucks and trailers.Keep in mind we have Commie insurance and reg. here so I am pissed before we even leave the yard......
It is blizzarding but it's only 11 miles to the town we have to go to. No big deal. I tell #1 son "I'll jump in with you and we'll save some gas".
His pickup('98 Chevy has a coolant leak and the fuel gage doesn't work).
We get a couple miles from the house and the windows are fogging up because the coolant level is so low that there is no circulation through the heater core. He insists on using only the GM(pink $hit) coolant, so we have to wait untill we get to town to top it up. No big deal. He nearly hits a bridge abutment but I grab his snow brush/ice scraper deal and start scraping his side of the windshield so he can see where we are going.
Life is good. I'm getting a free ride to town and I don't have to deal with my bulls right now, I tell myself.
We get about 7 miles from home and his pickup quits. Out of gas. I have a 500 gallon tank in the yard that is nearly full. I say why didn't you tell me you were this low on fuel before we left. He shrugs his shoulders.
We were pretty cold by the time my wife showed up with a jerry can full of gas for us.Thank God for cell phones.
I get to the communist insurance place and find that my rates have all gone up by about 2500% (not quite) but you get the idea!!! :( :( :wink:
 
Oldtimer said:
Tim- Thats what I would have done-- the minute I found he was somewhere he wasn't going to get hungry I'd of left him there til this storm quits....Still getting snow- ground blizzard conditions with 30+ mph winds- temp is 9 Below and the chill factor must be somewhere around 40 below....


And that wind has such a mournful cold sound....

Yes I hear its cold up there,minus 15 in Montana and 75 degrees in Texas,90 degree differnce,supposed to hit here Thursday and bring us a light freeze.............good luck
 
Hey Tim, What are you guys paying for insurance? I just paid 1800.00 for 1 milliion liability and glass insurance. That is on a 1988 pickup with my 20 year goldstar discount! Just about peed my pants! Getting a bit rediculas if you ask me. I havent had an accident in 20 years and it's still that high uggg.
 
Good grief Judith that's expensive. We pay roughly $1500 a year for 4 vehicles (3 of which are just liability and 1 is fully covered) and our horse trailer that's fully covered.



What's "glass insurance"?
 
I just looked at my insurance recently.. I think I should probably bump up the liability.. i need to call my company and make a claim so it is going to go up... .. Haven't had an accident since 2000 and that was my first and only ticket ever too and I still betcha if the kids driiving the other truck weren't drunk they would have seen me and not been going 75 mph without their headlights on.... SOh well, at least no one was hurt.
 
It is seperate insurance just for the glass on the car. Here in BC it is not part of your regular insurance. it's an add on . for rock chips and drug addicts smashing your windows. Don't laugh it happens where I live. Replacing windsheilds is about every six months, it gets darn tootin pricey if you don't have insurance :)
 
Hi Judith, the one thing you have to watch though, is all those glass claims are probably driving up your insurance cost.

I personally don't bother with glass insurance. by the time you pay the deductible and the rate increase in insurance.

I am just better off driving looking the through the lower corner of my winshield (j/k)
 
Smarty Pants :) We can't drive with a hole the size of a basketball here in Canada :) Not sure about the States, the dopers just use a rock to smash out the windsheilds. We actually don't get rock chips :) The only time I get those is when I go to the property in PG. Every single time a rig will pass me and I get a chip. Same thing when I drive to Edmonton. Fortunately the glass claims don't affect my rates. They boost your insurance by how many years you have with no accidents. I get the highest discount possible. Insurance is just very expensive here in Vancouver. The same policy cost me $285 for the year when I was tranfered for 6 months to Alberta in 1990!
 
Judith said:
It is seperate insurance just for the glass on the car. Here in BC it is not part of your regular insurance. it's an add on . for rock chips and drug addicts smashing your windows. Don't laugh it happens where I live. Replacing windsheilds is about every six months, it gets darn tootin pricey if you don't have insurance :)

Judith,

When I went in to get a windshield replaced, I was given two quotes, one for insurance, one for cash. The insurance quote was 4X the quote for cash. No wonder our insurance rates go up and up and up and up and up........... I don't like insurance companies but some of these businesses are sticking it to the insurance companies :? AND guess what? The insured gets to pay for it all :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
They can do that :shock: Seems just ... well...wrong.... No wonder your :mad: Wow. Talk about getting the boots put to you!
 
My insurance company tells you talk to them about things like... They have deals with places and if they don't like the quote they send you somewhere else. I remember when I wrecked my truck in Bozeman a monthb efore I was suppossed to leave town that the company they wanted me to use was booked until 3 months into the future basically so they set me up with another. They didn't like the quote, called in an apprassier and knocked off 900 bucks or something like that.. Nice insurnace company to have really, take them over what my wife used to have any time.
 

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