On the road again...

Let me back track a little to catch ya'll up. Wed. of last week was the day we went to Enid and back. Thursday we packed up from Kiowa, KS and traveled to Dighton, KS. We know a guy by the name of Chad that lives there, he farms and is a custom cutter also and we hit it off with him at a convention last spring. He is a great guy, and has been a blessing to us. He had been trying to help us line up some more work in his area, and told us we could park our camper in his yard and use the bathroom and shower in his shop. And we did for thursday and friday night. We appreciated his family's hospitality very much. His 2 dogs even warmed up to us (they especially liked me when I gave them the fat and scraps from a pork roast for supper 1 night!) there were 2 kittens on his farm that got to hanging around the camper the 2nd night even, I didn't mind, 1 looked just like Speckles back home. :) Chad was working on a field only 10 miles south of his farm, so he was able to come home every night. And he needed another semi to haul grain, so Ben was able to use 1 of our semis and work with him. The area by Dighton was overflowing with custom cutters, so we were not having much luck lining up work there after 2 days of talking to farmers and none of them calling back so we decided to head out Saturday morning and move about an hour north to WaKeeney.

The Tauras.....Andy brought Jon's Tauras down here a couple weeks ago so we'd have another vehicle for running errands and getting parts. It was so nice to have it here, then after the 2nd day of it I was driving back from getting parts, was on a highway and had the cruise set, I was going up a hill when it was like the car slipped into neutral or something. It revved up really high. I took it out of cruise, but nothing happened when I hit the gas pedal, I was able to coast up the hill and pull over, just in time before a semi would have made me into roadkill. It wouldn't go forward or backward, so I called Ben and he towed the car to Kiowa. We found out there was a good tranny fluid leak. put some leak stop in, then more fluid, it would last a day or two, we would repeat, until we got to Chad's and the seal was completely wore. So we pulled it into Chad's shop, tore it apart, have the parts ordered, and Ron will hopefully be fixing it on Thursday or Friday. Yeay!