A Trip to the Real Country

Today, we made a trip down to Baldwin City to Heritage Tractor. 

That's the salesman on the seat.

And here's yours truly going for a practice spin.  Flattering photo, huh?  However, I can tell you this tractor ran like a .... dream!  We are thinking of getting it in the spring, along with a couple of implements, including the bucket on the front.  We need something a little bigger to cut the pasture, and something to till up a new garden area, you can't say we were discouraged by this summer's weather.

By the way, it dropped 20 degrees in the last hour, and we have had some sprinkles, other parts of the Kansas City area are actually seeing showers!

I love my husband.  He makes friends with all the animals everywhere we stop...like the feed store here.  He wasn't always like this... he has mellowed considerably in the last ten years, and I am so glad for it.... I definitely married a keeper!

Hope everyone around us gets some rain!

Oops

If you click on this photo to enlargen it you will see that your stupid half-blind blogger

drove into a roll of fencing wire that has been laying there for a year and a half like she didn't know it was there.

Remember, her husband was a soldier for 24 years.

Need I tell you that the air got pretty blue?

Whew!

Bolt cutters in hand, my hero got my beloved mower loose. 

 I took a picture of some wildflowers in the fence row as I went by:

And this little girl was glad to see her mommy come in the door when I got finished!

A little while later, she wanted to go out, Keith was still outside.  As I let her out, she began barking wildly.  Soon, Keith came in to bring her to me... he got worried when she ran at the fence... coyotes were in our neighbor Troy's back yard, and yipping wildly (he has a park-like backyard of ten acres with a pond) --- Gertie heard them and ran at the fence and Keith was afraid she would slip through.  She truly IS the bravest little dog!