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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Your husband is lucky that Ellsworth AFB is sill operational: Moochelle & girls landed there Wednesday, to visit Mount Rushmore (and have an ice cream & fudge shop stop) via 10 vehicle motorcade, while on the way to a fundraiser Las Vegas tour & on to a CA fundraiser Coast Guard ship christening at Alameda, CA. Thankfully, they didn't have to shut down Rapid City's airport.

Glad to hear your wheat recovered...with a vengeance.

We got the tractor, and a set of tire chains for it, last fall in barter for a large load of scrap metal. I needed it, since the old JD tacked dozer died beyond any economically sensible recovery, to clear snow in the winter. I sold the dozer to a JD hobbiest who does his own work, and used part of that money to buy a new distributor, carb kit, boom-pole, middlebuster, and drag blade for it.

The dozer buyer did get it running...and promptly threw a rod though the side of the block. We had bought it on eBay some years ago, and had driven to Mountain Home, ID to trailer it home. I used it to repair/rebuild our ranch roads; drag logs; and clear snow, so we got our use out of it.

46 posted on 04/01/2012 11:34:53 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Did she pick out the spot for his highness effigy at Rushmore?


47 posted on 04/01/2012 11:54:54 AM PDT by tubebender (I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Well, he actually drove through Rapid City. (I see where I didn’t explain that!) My BIL lives in Bozeman and they shared the driving down, and BIL went on over to Dallas to visit his kids and grandkiddos. I did enjoy the Moochelle rundown though! Sounds like you did a good trade. :)


51 posted on 04/01/2012 12:12:52 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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