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Thursday May 5 , 2022

This week we are going to talk about a variety of things that happened to me during the week and individually, they are not all that significant, but somehow I’m going to try to tie them all together. I was out at the ranch in Elkhart and I was attempting to load a hay rake onto a trailer to bring to a friend of mine that said he needed one. This was one of those rakes that has the big sunflower looking wheels on it and they turn in a circular direction as they are drug across the ground and make a windrow for the baler to process. This particular rake had four sets of two of these wheels or eight wheels total and was not going to fit on the trailer without some dismantling of the wheels. I ended up taking three sets of wheels off of the rake and was getting close to being able to load the darn thing. This rake is highly adjustable and has many moving pieces and is not something that you can just throw a chain around and lift up onto the trailer. I was using a tractor that I had purchased last Fall that has a homemade canopy that is made out of one inch tubing that has rounded corners(thankfully and you will understand why in a moment) and is kinda short in height. The kinda short thing is okay because when it’s raining, the low sides really block the water, but the drawback is that you had better remember to duck when you are getting on the tractor. Sure enough, as I was adjusting the chain positions and getting on and off of the tractor, I forgot to duck one time and whacked the top of my head on the square tubing. I began cursing immediately and as soon as my eyes uncrossed and I felt like I wouldn’t fall down from being dizzy, I ducked and got on the tractor. As I was loading the rake onto the trailer, I felt something trickle down the right side of my face and as I used my hand to wipe my cheek, I realized that it was blood. Soon, the left side of my face had the same scenario. I had to load this rake and had no choice but to finish the job with the occasional wiping of the blood from my face. After the rake was loaded and secured on the trailer, I grabbed a couple of wet ones from my console and looked into the side mirror on the truck and kinda cleaned my face a little. At this point the bleeding had at least stopped and I was able to wipe most of it off of my face. I stopped at a convenience store in town on my way back to Huntsville and finished cleaning up and washed my hair. I started to leave the blood on my face, but I figured that would cause an uproar if I walked into the store with a bloody face. It was pretty interesting washing my hair that evening as I took a shower and I don’t recommend using the pulsating position on the shower head when you have a gash on the top of your head. I have no idea what this thing looks like, but I got plenty of remarks from folks that I showed it to the next day. The next thing that I want to visit with you about this week is that we all live in a really small world. I had attended the sale for the Chambers County Youth Project Show(County Fair) and after the sale, I stopped off at one of my favorite watering holes. Sitting at the bar was one of the Dad’s of one of the kids that had sold an animal in the sale. I pulled up a stool and sat down beside him and we started talking. Of course, the sale was the first topic of conversation, but we then just started talking about cattle in general. He mentioned something about family and a Limousin(breed of cattle) ranch in way out West Texas. Now, he had never mentioned any names, but I looked at him and said “I know exactly where Maryneal, Texas is located and how is Tommy Stewman by the way?” He looked as though he had been shot. He said” You know Tom Stewman?” and I replied “Yes, I do and I have worked his cattle sales before”. This is the part about it being a small world. I have known this guy for about 15 years, our kids played baseball together, and I never knew that Tommy Stewman was his step dad. We visited for about another 30 minutes and I was able to get caught up on all of the happenings of one of my former clients in the cattle business and soon our drinks were exhausted and they kicked us out of the place because it was way past closing time. Now, here is the third thing and the thing that I’m going to use to hopefully tie all of these ramblings together for you. This past weekend was Willie Nelson’s birthday weekend and the radio was playing a bunch of Willie songs. Of course, they played his hits, but they also played some that never made it to the top of the charts. One of those songs that you didn’t hear much of contained a line that said “ Live each day like it’s your last and one of these days you will be right”. That’s pretty good advice because you never know when that tractor mounting will be your last time and then take time to have those conversations because somehow, someway, we are all connected in this great big place called the World. Till next time, I’m........Wade in the Shade.

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