Ranch work and criminal cohorts

"Ask me for the shirt off my back, I'll give it to you. Tell me? not a chance." - "Rowdy" Roddie Piper

Happy Thursday morning y’all (that’s southern speak).

I trust everyone has had a good week.

The Wife has identified another species of edible plant on the property.

Summer Grape (Vitis aestivalis). This is a species of wild grape that is common around here. I understand that they don’t taste too good, but I am curious how they ferment up. I may have to test this one. For science. I mean….what could go wrong?

FarmQuad is broke.

We went to replace the rear shocks on the ‘ol girl because they are factory original. From 1997. Blown out, get it. So The Boy pulls the shocks off last Saturday - ‘cause he’s Johnny on the spot like that, and he finds broken hardware in the left rear hub. Specifically the bolts that hold the hub onto the A arms. You know…. not that important. I guess that what that scraping sound was. Well shit. The Boy says “we can just drill it and extract it. Try it he says…it’ll be fun he says…

After pulling the parts out (and filling the inner bearings with dirt) and against my better judgement I went ahead and gave it a shot. Now I’ve never had much luck doing this, and I kept up my streak of failure here. So it looks like a new hub and bearings are on the menu for FarmQuad.

Oh well. This shouldn’t cost That much to fix…besides its way cheaper than trying to buy a new machine. Prolly end up costing me a couple hundred bucks.

What else is goin on here.

As I’m sure you all know that Thanksgiving is next Thursday. In this area (and I’m sure in your area), these people have skipped thanksgiving and have gone straight to Christmas. Gotta move that merchandise y’all…

Check this shit out:

Yes, they sell Dolly Parton merchandise here. And Larry the Cable Guy has his own line of boxed food here. Seriously.

And not to be outdone, our boy from the L.B.C. has an entire wall dedicated to his merch at the wal-fart. Gotta make that money on the suburban white girls trying to be all edgy, yo…

It would appear this year that our boy Snoop decided to bring his little gangster friend along….

Interesting thought: Are Martha Stewart and Snoop allowed in the same room? Wouldn’t that be two known felons associating? Inquiring minds want to know.

But anyway….I will be doing a special edition of the blog post on Thanksgiving, so be sure y’all stop now, ya hear (more southern speak).

Until then, do what ya feel and keep your feel on the wheel….

Here’s your memes….