A Day in the Life

A day in the life of Mr. Tucker.


It started when he needed to get the Christmas star down from the pole.  Don't even ask why the Christmas star is still up in April...almost May for Pete's sake...that's a whole other story.  He couldn't ratchet the pole down because the pole was caught in a tree limb.  Now he has to cut down the tree to get that limb to get the pole to get the star.  He informed me later that he had trouble with that tree last year and besides, we want to get rid of more blackjack trees...pesky ugly trees.  So he gets the chainsaw and starts cutting down the tree.  I'm on the ZTR and as I circle closer to him, I notice him down on the ground working on the chainsaw.........another familiar sight.  It took about a half hour, but he finally got it started to cut the tree to get the limb to get the pole to get the star.  I don't think he has ever owned a chain saw that he hasn't had to work on.  The next step was to get the Kabota and trailer to take off the fallen tree.  He backed the tractor up to the trailer and the thing dies.  It is completely out of gas!  Now for those of you city folks, the Kabota should never run out of gas or you will have more work than you bargain for.  Lots of work because he now has to bleed the fuel line because it has air in it.  Finally after quite a while, he got the Kabota working once again, but this time he was stopped from cleaning up the fallen tree by mother nature.  It was pouring!


So..........the star is still on the pole (but the pole is down to the ground so removal will be easy tomorrow).  So............the tree is down (but needs to be hauled off).  So..............the tractor is working (but not hooked to the trailer yet).  I think tomorrow will be the day!  Kind of said that today, too. 


Have you ever had a day like the hubby did today?


I love you.