Dear Friends,

I recently received a message from one of our valued members, wondering how things are going for me. I thank you for contacting me.

Our summers are very short up here in North Dakota. I just don't have time to spend on the computer during the summer months.....all both of them.

With heavy flooding in ND this Spring, my son and daughter were called up for National Guard duty to assist with dike construction. We recently had a tornado hit the town of Dickinson, so my son was again called up for that. On top of all this, my wife is deploying to Kosovo for a year. She leaves next week. I won't see her again until September of 2010. Much of my summer has revolved around all of the activities related to my wife's deployment. I'm way behind on my summer chores.

My outdoor activities will come to a halt sometime in mid-october. In the meantime, I just purchased a wood-burning pellet stove for the house. I still have to install the chimney and fresh air intake for that.

I have a few welding projects to finish up this summer. I've already built a weight bracket for the front of the Kubota. My next project is to make that weight bracket adaptable to the rear grader blade. It slides into a receiver hitch tube, making it easy to transfer from one implement to another. I have a receiver tube mounted on the front of the tractor. It works great. I will soon be able to remove the weight bracket from the tractor and install it on my various implements.

The new roof is about to go on the old barn. It's going to be a project.

I'll be back here again when the snow starts falling. I miss my friends here. I look forward to sharing a few stories with you folks when I return later this Fall.

Joel

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