OK, I spent yesterday afternoon on the tractor.  The earlier snow left my lot in sad shape and I had another implement on the tractor, so I never jumped on it like I usually do.  I decided to do what I needed with the forklift attachment on the tractor and make the switch to the box blade and 4 hours later I was ready for a nap.  Lot looks good again and the box blade will stay on for a while.

While out on the tractor, I decided to do the roads in the campground.  Since closing 10 years ago, they’ve been sadly neglected.  I would go through there to pick up material on occasion, but I never bothered to do much more.  Since I got my fitbit, I’ve been walking in the back more and yesterday I figured to make it easier to do so.  I figure that the track I graded out back will let me walk more without tiring.  I guesstimate that 3 trips around will be 1 mile.  I know that 1 trip around the perimeter of my property is 1 mile, so my guesstimate is probably pretty much dead on.  Edit:  1 trip around that new loop is 1/3 of a mile.  I checked it this morning.  So 3 times around plus the distance to and from the house equals a mile.

Yesterday, Nina and I went car shopping.  We went to the Mercedes dealership in Santa Fe and looked at the Smart cars.  I’ve always had a perverse? interest in these little cars.  I drove a nice little blue one that looked like I could carry it on my keychain, but once your in the car and driving it, it doesn’t have that small car feel.  Made by Mercedes, they are well built and while it was a small car ride, it felt larger than it truly was.  These cars are freaking small!

          

Pretty cute, ehh?  Anyone interested in why?  Well, I was thinking of buying a new Jeep, but the cost of the new Jeep, with my trade-in, was huge.  Now we’re thinking of just getting me a second car to take the milage pressure off of my Jeep.  My 3 year old Jeep has 135,000 mile on it already and I’d like to keep it still.  I doubt that a Smart car will be my final choice, but it was a fun visit and test drive.

Maybe a Harley?

 

Just a note to friends;  My uncle is dying and was just placed in hospice.  The prognosis is less than a week.  Family says that he’s just starting to lose it mentally and we hope his passing will be easy.  He is the last of my father’s brothers alive.  Sad to see, but death is part of life.