Rough Day

My day went pretty well today considering the motherboard was out on my compter at work but by noon
my problem was fixed.

My husband's day was just getting interesting.  In typical summer fashion, Jason gets up at the crack of dawn twice a week to go check the cattle in the various pastures. This morning was one of those mornings when his alarms goes of way to early.  During his rounds he finds that one of the pastures has a gate down and all of their cows are now in with the neighbors... the problem is that the cows are sold and they are about to be shipped out. So sometime soon they have to round up all the cows in both pastures and sort them. Sounds easy right? Unfortionately I can't show you this particular pasture... it is super hilly with rocky knobs and random rock cliffs.  Not exactly the terrain that you would think of when you think central Kansas. If you've seen the Flint Hills you might be able to picutre it... take about 5 sqaure miles of the Flint Hills and crunch it together until if fights into a 2 mile area. That is how hilly and rocky this pasture is. It might also be considered by some non-farming types to be a "hunter's paradise." Let me translate.... really overgrown with trees and plum brush.  Though the views from this pasutre are amazing....  Sometime between now and the end of August the have to round up apporixmately 200 cattle from approximately 320 acres. Did I mention it's been 100 degrees for the last two and a half weeks and it's not even August yet.

So fast forward to about supper time... Jason finishing up discing a field and gets a phone call from his brothers telling him that they are done bailing hay. Great one more thing to have checked of the list when dad gets home from Vegas... except this is what they meant by done...

The tractor had caught fire and burnt.

The fire burnt hot enought to melt glass. This was on top of the tool box right next to the fuel filters

The tred of the tires

Luckily both of boys were okay and they managed to save the bailer and the bailing computer that was in the cab. We don't know exactly what caused the fire but it could have been some hay that had gotten blown up under the cab or it could have been something electrical. Whatever the cause we are thankful that everyone is okay.