"To Bring To Fruit The Most Exalted Plans"

"One mind is ample for a thousand hands". Quoting the one hundred year old Faust, ever the eternal optimist. Mephisto, however, sees things quite differently:

"With all events in souring ferment, from first immersion to interment, till life becomes a shadow throng, parading between ding and dong."

Unsure which way I'm swinging today after yesterday's Eureka trip was aborted a quarter of the way in due engine problems.

Pictured above the 1979 Ford F-350 and the 1975 horse trailer. They've seen better days. The dent in the roof of the horse trailer is from some long ago collision with a low hanging roof at a Holiday Inn somewhere off the interstate in Illinois. To compound the situation we suddenly have a "grass problem" at the farm as a metal part supporting the tongue of the brush hog has broken off the 1966 Allis Chalmers D-17. Also pictured is our oblivious and messy eater Amart just before his evening breeze.

So, today it's off to Midway Ford in hopes they can get to the truck back sooner than the 30 days it took them last time. I pretty much know the verdict will be a cracked block, but, I'll wait to hear the mechanic's report before actually contemplating suicide.

As for the tractor, that's another really tough one. Where do you find somebody to repair broken unweldable medal on a 1966 tractor?

The "exalted plans" are on hold, temporarily. Better news soon equipment wise, as it could hardly get any worse.

Today's training:
5/21/07 Mon Day 2 Burch: 1.5 miles riderless slow in 2f heats. ten min walk under tack.
5/22/07 Tues. Day 3 Burch: 4 x 1f heats riderless at 90% speed with the fastest older horse leading the way. 90% is about as fast as it gets running in a circle with 25 yard straightaways. Art could have done more, but, think we'll stick to this a couple more times for tissue strengthening purposes. Without rider last night as Nob disappeared after the Eureka thing. Weather coming in. We'll see about tonight.