Monday, July 30, 2007

What a week/weekend!

This last week we were busy with getting things ready for the weekend. Dan had a cattle show in Huron. We left Thursday and came back late last night. Tyler sure enjoys seeing the animals. He is an animal lover. Dan's sister showed a steer, but got fourth, which isn't bad, but not that good. Tyler and I spent time with my mom. I sure enjoy spending time with her. Tyler has a good time with grandma (Barb). Dan thought for room wise we would borrow his dad's pickup. It was more room and since we had four people we had to do something. Dan's pickup only fits 3. On our way home 5 minutes from Huron we lost power in the pickup. To top it off we had a trailer full of cattle and pigs. Out of all times we break down then. Thankfully his friend Greg was still in Huron, so we got a hold of them and they came and got the trailer and we had to take their pop-up camper back. Whenever we get home. Dan crawled to the side of the road. At this time its really hot and Tyler is hot and getting crabby. He doesn't take heat very well. Dan opened up the hood and was looking around and didn't see anything wrong. He called his dad and asked him. All gauges were normal, and we had gas :). Dan did pull out the fuel filter and it was black as can be. That isn't normal. So I called my mom and her boyfriend Ryan and the helped us out a lot. They called around town and stopped at places to see if they can get a fuel filter. No LUCK!!! Dan isn't have a good day. He started the day off by the trailer having a bad tire, he changed that. When loading a cow ripped his shirt and now this problem. Finally my mom and Ryan came to us and took Tyler and I and we were on our way to check the last place to see if they have a filter. Well, we got there and the guy that runs the shop was not there, so the lady that was at the counter said we could go to their house and see. Ryan went to their house and he was taking a nap :( He was so kind that he came over to his shop and he had one. He told Ryan that it may not be just the filter. Dan did say it wasn't running right on our way to Huron when pulling the trailer. We headed back to Dan and his sister. They pushed the truck off to a side road that was by us. They pushed a long time. The pickup worked fine after we put a new filter in. There were some things that didn't seem right, but we made it to Brandon where we were meeting his family to switch vehicles. Well, that was our adventure this weekend. This week we are busy washing clothes for our mini vacation. We are leaving Thursday to go see my dad in Rapid City. We are coming back Sunday. We haven't seen him since May. It will be nice to see him. Well, that is all for now. Have a great week.

2 comments:

Tracy said...

Holy Cats...that is some bad luck!!

Have fun seeing your dad!!!

Groenewold Family said...

Thanks Tracy!! Ya, Dan was having some bad luck. But you also had some back luck too.