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Lol, like the puppy named "NO". (our puppy is okay. She gets EEEEEHHP'ed once in a while for ND chasing if they hog my attention, but then she gets really submissive and wounded, which is a relief)
Forgot to post this pic from yesterday.
The face of feline disinterested "lets find a way to retreat". The loud, mean shrew looking thing won. It kept jumping up and biting them in the nose, teeth dug in, hanging on and all, chirping all the while.
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Baby Shaun has brought me these dead as soft little cute "gifts" from his cat friends (while I was sitting on my bed reading and not expecting a dead thing in my face), so I know they can kill them, but this one was particularly feisty.
 

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WE GOT MEASURABLE RAIN for the first time in over a month. I covered the hay where the barn roof leaks last night and it looks like we fared okay. (I've also got the weird migraine to go with the barometer shift, but I expected that...)

This morning I've put the herd officially into "hurry up and wait" mode. I've brought my milkers down from twice a day milking, to once a day milking, and now I'm skipping a day trying to get them to slow down enough so I can just stop without them getting rock hard and over full and struggle to walk. It's down to the wire on quitting time and I'm going to need it give them their 8 week out CDT shot soon! No more milk for us as of this morning. The dry off was/is the hurry and then we have to wait...with no milk!
 

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The truck is back. They replaced the superficial stuff on the front end and repaired the AC unit the deer hit. Inspection required us to do brake work and replace all the lights with new ones. Shiney new ones.

Unfortunately the shop guy says the suspension is what it's supposed to be, so it's not quite meant to be up to feed and hay hauling and trailer pulling even if the manual says it can. Can is not can WELL. So my favorite truck might just be too small. But it works again and has new lights and non bus sounding brakes.

Oh well. I guess I can enjoy driving it between now and when we find a truck we like in the next class up.
(I'd love another GMC, but reliable and just big enough is the goal...the slow, non rushed goal)
 

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Well dang on the truck not being up to hauling anything. EEESH. We have a Ford Ranger (the bigger one, not the small one of years ago). Works great with out stock trailer. Because of CA pricing we bought it in IA and picked up a trailer in OK on the drive back a few years ago.
 

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I am guilty of making a truck work.... my older "little" 2 wd ranger... poor thing... I will put 150 gal of water in the tank to haul home... that's over 1200 lbs... but it was really making the springs squat.... so now I put the tank in a trailer.... and pull it... but 15+ bags of feed is normal... or 20+ sq bales of hay....
Of course we have several big trucks for serious hauling...
 
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