Saturday, November 1, 2008

So this has been an interesting past 24 hours. Last night after the halloween party my friend asked me to help him change a flat tire on his car. Easy, right? Just get the spare, jack up the car, unscrew the lug nuts, switch tires and put the lug nuts back on and your done. NOT! After we spent 5 minutes figuring out how to get the spare tire off we got all the lug nuts off the wheel and then the wheel wouldn't come off. We tried everything. Pulling, kicking hitting, spinning. It would budge. So finally at about 2:30 in the morning we gave up.

So I set my alarm for 8:30 so I could wake up and go to the farm and plant food plots for deer season. Well at 11:45 I woke up and realized my alarm had not gone off. So I left at noon and drove an hour and half to the farm and started working. And as always something on the farm wouldn't work right. The disc was digging in deep enough so I was basically just scrapping up grass. Finally I went over the plots enough times to at least get seed in. 

Then I went to clean out our shooting house where an owl had made a nest earlier in the year. As I opened the trap door I heard a hissing noise. The only thing that I could think of was somehow a snake had gotten up in the house. So I scaled the outside of the frame and looked in through the window. In the corner were three baby owls. "GREAT!" I thought. Now on top of everything else animals are living in my deer stand. After beating on the walls and floor for a few minutes trying to scare them out, I realized it was useless because the owls probably couldn't fly yet.

In the end everything turned out ok. I got the plots seeded. My friend told me he got his tire fixed. So, everything said and done it was a good weekend. I still don't know what I am gonna do about those owls. But oh well. They better enjoy my hospitality while they can but they better be out by opening day of deer season. haha

1 comment:

The German Guy said...

Interesting day ;-)
A couple of weeks ago, on a Sunday, I went with my roommate to th Brass Pro Shop. Arriving there, we realized we had a flat tire. Well, we had to replace it. We were able to do so, but it really made us sweat!
So what I learned from this incident: Sundays are not meant to go shopping :-)