REX TO THE RESCUE!!!

Yesterday right after Becky got home from work she came in the house and said the mail truck was stuck at the end of the block! I was dressed in sweat pants and my low merrill shoes but I put on my hat, coat and gloves to check it out!! Sure enough even with cable chains this "low rider" truck was stuck!!

I debated on whether to use the new truck or Rex but it was a quick decision to use Rex instead of risking wrecking the truck again!! So off I went to get Rex out of the garage..

I used the plow to make 2 passes in front of the truck but deciding that wasn't going to help I dropped the plow in the road and reeled out the winch cable to "tug" it out!!

No problem other than it was fridgid cold with the wind blowing, but hey as they say, "the mail must get delivered"!!

Becky and myself then attatched the plow and made a quick plow job in front of the mail boxes left on his route!!

Winter time Update!!

Well the first "big" snow storm is upon us and I was all ready to tackle the plowing with REX but the little bitty "flu" bug put a halt to that for a couple of days..

When I got home Monday night I was feeling kinda poorly and then came tuesday and WHAM it hit!!

Today is thursday and I was able to eat a lite breakfast and drink some water/diet sprite zero so there is some improvement..

I was able to use REX to plow and it sure is a treat to be out of the snow inside the cab pushing 6 feet wide of one foot deep wet snow with no problems at all!!

I will need to get some "edge" markers for the grass and the wood timber sides of the drive as it is still hard to see where the edges are when the snow is deep but other that that no problems..

Now I am waiting to see if they are gonna get the roads open to Cheyenne so I can tough out this trip!!

Wish me luck. Hopefully a few photo's in the coming blogs

Winter 2009 is here!! I got my truck back from the "truck repair" doctors just in time to see it snow 5-6 inches of wet heavy snow with lots of moisture in it!! The picnic table in the backyard along with the fence railings/shed shows the amount of snow we received, and the other 2 is of me moving/plowing snow with Rex on it's maiden voyage!! It takes a little bit of remembering whether to use in/out buttons on the winch control to raise/lower the plow but it is still a lot easier than the hand raised lever on the old 350!! It moves a lot of snow in a wide path compared to the old plow!! It looks like it might be a long wet/snowy winter so at least I am ready!!

Because I was to embarrased to show the "damaged" photo's here are the repaired photo's!! They did a fine job as far as I can tell and the "panels" on the doors were all replaced because of the poor factory paint/finish job!! Kudo's to GM Auto Center here in Laramie for doing the repairs as they did a timely and good job!! Maybe the faith in GM will return!!

These photo's of the shed are out of order but here they are anyway! The first should have been me looking at the outside and then the mess that is inside!! I couldn't get anything either out or in unless something was moved around so it was my chore today to "rearrange" things!! The below blog shows the finished look!! While it still might look "messy" at least I can get in and get out without a lot of hassle!!

This is what the side of the house and the shed looks like after I "rearranged" things a little bit!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Today would have been my Mom's 80th birthday.. She was born on this day in 1929.
There are few days that go by that I don't think about her or do something that she taught me to do and or that she taught me not to do!!

I miss you Mom, Happy birthday!!

Love your son Lance David