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Machinery Infatuation

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I bought my first NEW piece of farm machinery. I am not sure if this is a failure or a success, but it is different. I picked up a NEW Rotary Cutter (bush hog, brush hog, mower, etc) from a dealer. It cost me almost as much as the tractor did with its bits of hardware and options. It seems to work well on the CNH Boomer 33. I planned on getting up to NY in the next couple of days, but Gracie has been sick.. she has been up and down. The steroid treatment and a change in diet seem to be helping at this point. Besides hauling the tractor and mower up to NY I have numerous events planned over the next month. I will be in Charlotte for a conference as well as Tucson Arizona and of course other events and activities. I started installing radio equipment in the Humvee. It now has a telescoping 30 foot antenna, a 24 volt to 12 volt converter, a removable SDR radio and some other stuff to be sure. I'd like to get it to the Stone Mountain Hamfest -- thats what i am shooting for. I thr...
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Busy. I shouldn't be blogging. This week will be a blur as last week was. This weekend, I flew up to NY to pick up my truck and stuff for my new house. There were terrible weather delays in Detroit and I missed my connection. That is not really that big of a deal, but since the weather was bad all day in Detroit, lots of other folks were stranded overnight as well. I found a hotel (miraculously) about 30 minutes away (turned out to be 1.5 hours because of night construction). Anyway, I drove back down to Atlanta with my truck. It feels weird driving my truck in Duluth. It was a tight schedule for a weekend, the weather delay didn't help. I am moving. I have to fix the plumbing in my new house though before I can really move in. The new roof is going on today. The new HVAC system is already in. I caught a view of a nice Sundog amongst the urban sprawl of Atlanta. I was thinking of the 100s of thousands of people who could have seen it, how many did? When you travel a lot by ai...