The Daily Chronicle 2020

Or it could be my daddy married his sister but it didn't effect me none syndrome. Hold my beer. Watch this. Most states show Jimmy Cricket pictures in school to young'uns and it really helps in the I am no fool department. But I digress.

Yeah, when we bought this house we actually paid attention to the surrounding areas. Most dangerous thing around us is the airport 3 miles away. If a plane crashes on us our number was up anyway.
There was a plant fire 7 miles away that burned after Harvey, but it didn't bother us.

Everything is bigger in Texas.

I hear you Charlie, you got to checky , checky, looky, looky, all the time. A oil field boss asked me why my load did look nice and tight, flat straps, mine were twisted, my response nice and flat flaps in the wind and loosens up, twist straps, stay tight.!

I remember getting in big trouble years ago for buying a lifting chain that was over 100 dollars. That was when you could buy a load chain for 20 dollars. I told my boss a load chain is not a lifting chain and a lawyer will know the difference. I think he is still grumbling and the last time I went by his yard he had a rack of lifting chains painted red and sign saying these are not binder chains so hands off. We almost killed a guy by rolling a 10000 gallon tank over him because a cable was left hooked up to a loader and a driver did not do a walk around. OSHA went over the whole yard with a fine tooth comb. I had a safety program in place with weekly meetings that everyone hated and only the best hard hats, glasses, etc. He called me in his office and he said You saved my arse fat boy and he handed me a big wad of cash and told me to take a week off with pay.

Safety programs are the bane of any management / work force UNTIL they prevent a lawsuit. I worked in a plastics manufacturing place making among other things, braided airline. (Like what you use on a portable compressor) Our braiding machines were literally turn of the century machines converted to use electric motors. The drive gear for the line feed was exposed. It turned so slowly none of us thought anything of it. That is until the damned thing tried to eat my hand one night while I was clearing a jam on a braider. Thankfully it moved so slowly that I was able to hit the emergency stop before it had any more than a good chunk of the skin on my left hand at the little finger. 

I got a trip to the ER, and the rest of the night off. When I showed up at work the next day all the braiders had new safety covers on the gears, and a sheet metal skirt around the base of the platform where one could get at the fast moving parts. 

I'm pretty sure that little accident cost them an OSHA fine.

I just finished installing an OEM trailer brake controller in my new to me Ram. Son - of - a - BITCH! I had to pull the console and dash apart and still couldn't get to all the screws to mount the bracket! One screw and a couple of layers of Gorilla Tape. Now I have to take it to the dealer to get the computer codes put in to make it work.
Nap time!

Did a little bit of work on the truck today, helped my daughter with her taxes, took Shweetie on an errand, visited an antique book store... Im so ready for spring already. Not much colt work / riding this time of year, and I'm gettin' restless. Started to drag my saddle out and oil it...again. Decided it was a waste of time, it's already well oiled.

I do have a line on a new performance-bred filly south of here I'm going to go look at in March, but even that has to wait.

February is gonna be a long month.

Yep in Exxon Long sleeve Cotton shirts, then they outlawed metal hard hats, didn't like the plastic ones. Steel toed shoes Exxon paid 1/2 on them, new guys abused the perk so only 2 per year, ear plugs required, old Cajun talking to you didn't wear them because he couldn't hear the plant sounds of a bad pump or equipment he's now hard of hearing, wife fusses he can't hear, only perk. Safety glasses, gloves by the pallet full, back then they cost, contractors were strapped, as a working man I ordered couple pallets and they conviently got lost around their shacks, they appreciated it and worked good for me. Little grease goes a long way.

I have used straps to secure hay bales but most everything else, I am a chain and binder man. With wire tie downs!

Was in the service with a Warrant Officer who liberated a camp in Germany, stayed on his mind his whole life.

Back in the sixties I worked with a Jewish fella who was rescued from a work camp.He still had the identification numbers tattooed on his arm.I won't go into details of what he told me..How he was treated though was totally inhuman..

today has been crazy. hubby stayed home sick. i went over to Mom's to get her bank deposit and grocery list but she wasn't there, I couldn't the deposit, but her grocery list and debit card was sitting out, so hubby and I went to walmart. he decided he wanted veggie beef soup, so had to get all the fixings, and then he was hungry so we had to eat at Subway (I'm beginning to feel like I'm in that children's book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie....) We get home, unload the car and give Mom her groceries. I go home and cut up the meat and get it started simmering in the skillet. Halfway through that my son comes over to tell me that Mom needs me to pick up her prescriptions, and I'm like, why wasn't that on the list??? Sigh. So once the meat is done and in the crockpot I go over and get her card again and head up to Walmart. I figured since I was going back I would pay my water bill. well, there was a line. Got my bill paid, picked up an envelope and went to the pharmacy, it was closed for lunch. Waited about 10 minutes and then there was a line at the window. Got her meds, put gas in the car and then came home. Gave her the bag and she says that isn't all of it. I tell her sort it out and I will go back tomorrow. Ugh.