Adventures!

We had an ADVENTURE!

It began with running out of feed.

We've been feeding this awesome new feed.

This stuff is DNA tested, non-GMO.

Which is nifty.

The girls LOVE it.

Which is awesome.

(I get more eggs when I feed it...)

But we ran out.

So we fed the other organic feed.

Instead of 60 eggs, yesterday I got 40.

Sigh.

BUT.

We got another load in.

It's in a little town called Live Oak in north Florida.

250 miles from us.

So we found somebody coming to Kissimmee

and willing to bring our feed that far.

(Kissimmee is next to Disney World

and only about 60 miles from us...)

But then that fell through.

So Sunday evening, while I was out of town,

it was decided we would go north.

We DID get the feed moved to

Citra (another little town)

but only about 180 miles instead of 250.
So that was good.

There are three of us together getting this stuff.

We are each getting a pallet.

20 bags or 1000# each.

Basically a month's worth.

I got up early Monday morning,

checked out of my hotel,

stopped at McD's and ordered a

(moment of weakness)

McGriddle.

(And my face immediately swelled all up.)

(sigh)

Headed out onto the highway.

Again the traffic was really light.

It was really nice!

I got home about 10:30,

we finished getting ready and headed out

at about 11:30.

Kyle was driving his truck and pulling his trailer.

(Brock was going to follow us in his truck

with the horse trailer to pick up their new

baby bull, but they've had a ton of rain,

and the bull was "stuck" in a corral in deep mud

and they can't get a truck / trailer in there

to load him... so that's on hold.)

We had a nice trip north.

Florida, especially north Florida,

is BEAUTIFUL!

There was a TON of traffic though.

(All the people in south FL must have gone north...)

Once we got to the farm

(with only one mistake - the turn wasn't what

Brock said it would look like)

we met Lee (a WONDERFUL lady)

and they started loading up the trailer.

Thankfully they have forks on their tractor,

cuz these were BIG pallets.

40 bags each.

6000# of feed!!!

(Luckily it was pre-paid, cuz I didn't bring

that much $$$!)

Unfortunately, it started raining while we

were tarping it, we were under a giant

oak tree, but still got pretty wet.

But it was warm rain, so it was ok.



Load of feed all tarped up



We made it through Ocala and were

just coming up on the little town of

The Villages, when Kyle felt the truck bog.

It wasn't the engine.

It was the trailer tire.

Blowing to bits all over the highway.

(There was still a TON of traffic.)

Thankfully we were right at an exit,

and there was a handy parking lot.

And it quit raining.

  

Load of feed with blown tire and sad men looking at it.

It was REALLY blown.

But at least they got it off.

(They only had a little jack... it was a challenge!)

Thankfully they didn't let that stop them.

And they got it changed.

However, the spare was the very nearly

bald one they had just taken off!

Rod jumped on his Google

and we limped a short 6 miles up the road

to a Super WalMart

with the NICEST people in the world.

They sold Kyle 2 tires (already mounted)

lent them a floor jack,

and checked and aired up all 4 tires for us.

All before the next band of rain.

And we were back on the road.

Still lots and lots of traffic,

but no more excitement!

Which was good.

And then we got home.

And Kyle unloaded 40 bags of feed into Brock's barn.

(Rod REALLY wanted to help, but his hand

is still not healed, Kyle accidentally dropped a

bag on Rod's hand, and he was done...)

Then they drove the truck/trailer to our house

and Kyle unloaded 40 MORE bags of feed

(50#'s each)

into our tack room.

That is a LOT of feed!

(That's the spare upright freezer in the background)

We should be good for about 3 months!

Just talked to Kyle.

He is not even sore.

But he DID sleep well!

What a fun day!!!!

(Luckily we spent the majority of it

laughing our heads off...)

Could certainly have been worse.