Good Morning, Brothers & Sisters Thread

101 is just way too hot. I prefer the 70's we've got right now.

 

I had a little accident today so maybe will be forced to take a few days off.

 

Good Morning... ... ... It was fairly warm yesterday... I think it got to or was fairly close to the century mark...

 

Ok. Yesterday was a beautiful day weatherwise. Great! I can get more badly needed work done outside. I was busy all morning, took an hour off at mid-day then started again. A little more busy time then got the tractor out and headed to the woods. For those who know some about our place, I went across the road where there is still a pastel of wood that needs to be brought home. Some was split and some unsplit.

I parked the tractor right against some big logs so I could just roll them into the bucket as they are oak and very heavy. I found one of them had not been cut all the way through and had to be moved. What I should have done was to reposition the tractor so I could just get the logs that were cut. However, the pickeroon was on the tractor and most times I'd rather use that than a cant hook so I decided I'd just move that big thing then continue loading the rest.

There was room between those logs and the next bunch so I just hooked onto that big sucker and pulled with all my might. Then as I stepped back a little, my foot hit the logs behind me, I lost my balance, which caused the pickeroon to lose it's bite. Picture pulling hard then as it let loose I went flying, sort of like a wounded partridge. Bam, I hit logs and it hurt but I also heard what sounded like a bone cracking. I ended up on the ground flat on my back but hurt so much it was a couple minutes before I could move at all and then just barely. This is not good.

I was quite a distance from the road an would not have been visible from the road. My phone! Whoops, it is on the tractor. I don't know how long I laid there but I was finally able to use my left hand to move one log a bit, then a painful roll but could not get up. Long story short, I did finally get up, but then as I was struggling I almost crapped myself. Oh gee, another problem and that added to the difficulty of getting on the tractor.

But I did make it to the house and did what had to be done first. Then I called my neighbor and she came on the run. Not much she could do though.

So my right shoulder is extremely sore as is the arm. A bruise on my head. My whole body hurts and it was a huge struggle just getting dressed this morning. But I am out of bed and alive. There will not be much work done today.

 

Big storm moving across MI. Mostly heavy rain. We've had lightning but not a lot. Looks like a squall line missed us and is dipping SE.

 

Thanks Mike. It was tough as was putting a shirt on this morning.