Soapweed
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My journal entry for Monday, August 6, 1968
Very tiredly, I crawled out of my "sack" at 6:30. Then we had breakfast.
Dad and Lloyd got ready to go down to the Leach and Fuchser places. They moved cattle at the Fuchser Place—from the southeast to the southwest pasture—and did some other stuff.
I put a new section on a sickle and then went out to the home meadow. I gassed up the 450, put in motor oil, greased it, and unwound some hay from the front mower. Then I mowed a swamp on the east side of the meadow.
At about 11:59, the welding job on the back hydraulic cylinder went bad, and laid me up as far as any speed mowing went. Mom and the girls drove out and got me for dinner.
The main dish on the dinner table was shrimp. Then I read awhile.
Sybil helped me put in a dozen rake teeth. (Dad was upset with me for breaking a lot of them down in the swamps, but some of them were the girls' doing).
I went over east and took off the back 7' mower bar. Then I finished mowing the swamp with just the front 7' bar.
I got in the horses. Sybil helped me, and we moved some cows and calves from the horse pasture and the heavy lot into the "pasture south of the meadow." We did chores a little later than usual.
The Republican convention is on in Miami now, so we watched it on television. Then the girls fixed malts before bedtime.
Very tiredly, I crawled out of my "sack" at 6:30. Then we had breakfast.
Dad and Lloyd got ready to go down to the Leach and Fuchser places. They moved cattle at the Fuchser Place—from the southeast to the southwest pasture—and did some other stuff.
I put a new section on a sickle and then went out to the home meadow. I gassed up the 450, put in motor oil, greased it, and unwound some hay from the front mower. Then I mowed a swamp on the east side of the meadow.
At about 11:59, the welding job on the back hydraulic cylinder went bad, and laid me up as far as any speed mowing went. Mom and the girls drove out and got me for dinner.
The main dish on the dinner table was shrimp. Then I read awhile.
Sybil helped me put in a dozen rake teeth. (Dad was upset with me for breaking a lot of them down in the swamps, but some of them were the girls' doing).
I went over east and took off the back 7' mower bar. Then I finished mowing the swamp with just the front 7' bar.
I got in the horses. Sybil helped me, and we moved some cows and calves from the horse pasture and the heavy lot into the "pasture south of the meadow." We did chores a little later than usual.
The Republican convention is on in Miami now, so we watched it on television. Then the girls fixed malts before bedtime.