The Yard

Well, we had planned to go out and burn the tree stump and such this weekend. It has been a while and we have had really hot, dry weather for a few weeks and figured it should burn well.
Then it rained a few nights ago, and Saturday night it rained again. One of those big thunderstorms that comes and dumps lots of rain. So when we went out to burn, everything was wet. We were able to get things going on the stump easily enough, but the brush pile just wouldn't burn. Guess I'll have to let it set for a few more days to dry out again and then burn it in some unceremonial way.

Cars.
Realized that Drew and I each have 3 vehicles and none of them are working well. He has the Mazda RX-7 in the shed and I have the Pontiac LeMans. At least it runs, just has a water leak in the pump or some where.
He has the Chevy Lumina that has a blown gasket. He has started taking it apart to fix. It is either the lower intake manifold gasket, or the head gaskets. Then I have my trusty old Ford pickup. It still runs great, if 8mpg is great. Has a leak in the brake lines some where and the exhaust pipe is broken off at the muffler. Not street legal but good enough for around the farm. Planning on making it a farm truck and probably wont register it any more for the road.
Then there are the vehicles we are driving. He has his new Ford F-150. The right rear leaf spring is broke, worked out last week and rubbed his tire till it popped. It also has a transmission fluid leak that he is trying to locate.
My trusty Caravan is starting to give me problems. Am probably going to need a new transmission. It is giving me a code for the thing saying it has worn pieces floating in it that have stopped up some valves a few times. I'm hoping to get to this weekend and then pop the cover off the transmission, drain and clean it out some and refill it. Will do two things: 1, clean out any loose pieces that have worn off. And 2, give me a better idea of what is in there. If it looks pretty clean and not much on the magnets, I'm hoping it will last a while longer. If not, then I should probably start working on fixing the LeMans.
The turkeys are getting bigger. I'll try to get some pictures on here soon. For all that I hatched this year, I don't have very many left. I think I have 5 Grey ones, 5 red ones and 5 black ones. Plus I have about 11 more babies in the cage. I'm trying to take better care of them and keep the coons out of them. But bringing them back in the house each night and taking them back out each morning is a real hassle. One of the things I have to fix for next year. Get a better system and some place secure out side to keep them; A second coop probably.