Good day to get some stuff organized

My brother had gotten the piece done for Daryl’s combine, so Daryl spent a good part of the day not only working on the combine, but also working on some of his other tractors. He started to fix up the 1750 Oliver.  Daryl’s dad bought this tractor back in 1969 and Daryl said that even though he was only 12 when they got it, he knew it was a big deal back then. Back in 1969 not a lot of the tractors that the farmers got were new. Now 44 years later, I think Daryl likes it even more. So he started to paint the green on it, and asked if I had any ideas on how to fix the side panels. Now these are the ones that I wanted to hang in the house, but that idea got shot down… so I said that I’d paint them. He wanted to first see if he could somehow spray paint them, but the best bet is to hand paint it. The Oliver sign had black, white, and orange lettering on it and how hard could that be to match it? Well, to find out it was hard. The closest thing to the color that we could find to the orange color in our house for a sample was a colored pencil, so I threw it in my purse and headed to town. It seemed forever to find the right kind of outside paint and the right color of orange. I looked pretty frustrated I’m sure walking around the store with the pencil in my hand and shaking my head. I couldn’t figure out why there seemed to be an orange paint shortage, until I realized that everyone was probably getting ready for fall. But I did finally find some and into the basket it went! Then off for the real reason why I went to town. I wanted to get some Round Up for my weeds around the flower beds and also some mulch. I knew that there was some on sale at this one discount store, but by now I was almost an hour longer in town that I wanted to be and went to the closest store that I could find and told these 3 kids to load up the back of the truck. With the weather being absolutely perfect outside – they didn’t argue. Finally I was heading home. When I got home, I didn’t start to paint the signs tonight because I knew that it was probably going to take some time. And I didn’t put the mulch down either. To be honest, I didn’t get much done.  But what I did do was to try to tame down the Little Kitty. The other day she was stuck up in the barn and was going to jump! So up into the hay mound I go. Now today I couldn’t find her for nothing! What she does is to crawl into blankets or the laundry and sleep for hours. Finally I found her. Yup, sleeping in the clean laundry.