Seems to be another one of those days when I woke up with someone else’s blues, despite the fact that I not only don’t have to go to work today, but I don’t even have to go to work tomorrow. When I got up at 4:00 or so, the moon was (mostly) full, it was still close to 80° out, and I decided I might as well drink my coffee in the pool. The pump is off at night, so the only sound was the wind rustling through the trees, and the bats were swooping around silently gobbling up bugs. An extraordinarily nice way to start the day.

If you’ve ever been invaded by a 4 and 2-year-old, you perhaps can appreciate how nice the silence was. Or is. I’m still the only creature stirring here (though the cows over yonder sound a bit restless now that it’s daylight). The bats have gone to sleep for the day, and even the dogs have stayed in bed this morning. I may just have to go jump back into the water.

But, sadly, the day dawns, and clouds and sprinkles have moved in.

Yesterday, I responded to a tractor emergency, as my friend John found what has to be the only mud left in the County (seeing as it hasn’t rained in quite a while), and got his tractor stuck – really, really, really stuck. Fortunately, he has another tractor, but broke a couple of chains and a strap trying to pull it out (needing a great deal of length, so as not to get the second tractor stuck). So I went over with a long strap that I had, and between pulling and getting the farm jack underneath it and throwing 2x4s and anything else we could find under the wheels, he was eventually able to drive it out of there.

It was fun for me, because it wasn’t my tractor.

Sadly, on the way home, one of my idiot lights lit up. I thought it looked like the little oil can light, and, as everyone knows, once that one comes on, you pretty much need to stop right there. So I kept on driving. No pressure gauge on that car, so I had no idea if I was out of oil or what. Turns out, no. The oil was fine, and, upon further review, it was the ‘Malfunction Indicator Light’ (which I’m guessing is something like the Korean translation of “Check Engine.” So, I put my code reader on it this morning, and it appears to be something to do with the O₂ sensor (a “slow response”). Which, in the scheme of things, is a lot better than driving with no oil.

So, anyway, I took the gas cap off and put it back on, then reset the code. The light is off for now, but we’ll see what happens when I drive it.

Now I guess it’s time for a swim. Or a nap. Just not both at the same time.