We had originally thought we'd make a weekend of it and spend the night in Billings, but we had too much going on to do that so yesterday was the only day we could do it for awhile. We were up at 4:30 am, left the house a little before 5:00 and left Richland before 5:30 after hooking up the trailer (to bring the pickup box home) and fueling up. I had a moment of panic when M plugged in the lights for the trailer and they didn't work. Been there before--spending hours trying to get trailer lights working. He jiggled connections and got them to work--sort of.
We ran through a bit of freezing rain but not much, and it was bright and sunny by the time we came back. In fact, it was about 50 degrees in Grass Range at 9:00 am when we got there. A beautiful day for a drive.
We needed to pick up an auger in Malta but the co-op we were buying it from was only open until noon. M didn't think there was any way we would get back there in time, but when we left Grass Range about 30 minutes after we arrived there he thought we could make it. I was hoping we wouldn't because I didn't want to have to pull an auger home. We pulled in at 11:50, picked up the auger (after the guy tried to charge me almost $1000 more than he had quoted M on the phone--thank goodness I had a clue that it was too much), had lunch and were back on the road at 1:30. M pulled the auger and I pulled the trailer with the pickup box on it.
We were back to Opheim by 3:30 and stopped to have a beer and were back in Richland before dark.
I got to haul bales in style this morning with the new pickup. It's a different bed than we had so it'll take some getting used to. I just don't want to be the first one to dent or break something!
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| I don't think it will look this nice for long! |
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