5:30.. get up and make coffee, eat, shower, and get dressed.
6:30 Call from Cole (my baby brother) that went something like this:
Cole: When you had your old phone, did you download a bunch of stuff from easyedge?
me: What is easy edge?
Cole: a place to download games, the cell phone bill (we all have our phones on the same plan) had $200 worth of downloads.
Me: Weird, I lost that phone.. maybe it was actually stolen. What kind of games?
Cole: Need for Speed, swimsuit challenge, pacman, and a bunch of other stuff
Me: Yeah, because I am the kind of person that would download swimsuit challenge. (scoff) I will call US Cellular as in a few hours. Where is the bill?
Cole: Jody has it.
Me: ok, bye.
6:30 ish to 10:30ish... watch sunrise while responding to a gazillion emails (OK, there weren't that many, but it sure felt like it). Check facebook, write blog entry, read other blogs I follow, read news sites.
10:30ish... talk to Jody, tell her to bring bill... plan to go pick up seeds.
10:45ish... call from Jody.. tells me farm truck caught on fire, and she needs me to come get her in the tractor or on 4-wheeler.
I attempt to pull start 4-wheeler. Unsuccessful. Wonder why we have a 4-wheeler that needs to be pull started.
Get new hooker boots covered in mud. Make a mental note to buy more appropriate footwear.
Get in tractor, realize how utterly ridiculous it is for me to try and learn to drive a 70k dollar tractor on the fly. Make a mental note to ask if there is full coverage insurance on the thing.
10:55 ish... Call from Jody.. Amy is coming to get her. I have a sigh of relief...
11:00ish... leave for Quincy
12:00... stop and get latte while in Quincy.
12:15 ish .. Get to seed store. Impress older lady behind the counter at my ability to check the weather on my phone. Buy seeds. So happy to support a local place.
1:00ish... find a random number on bill that was called from my phone during the time I thought it was lost, and before I replaced it. Call said number. Thus, begins tracking down of cell phone thief.
1:15ish... Buy pink mud boots from Farm and Home.
1:30ish... food.
2:15ish... go to US Cellular store, sort out bill drama and get serial number for old phone.
3:15 ish... return to farmtown, and confront phone thief. Explain that he can own up to stealing it, and pay back the $200.00 at a dollar a month and bygones will be bygones. He cooks up some story about a random kid on the streets of town selling stolen cell phones, and that he bought it from this kid for $10.00. (Laughable in town of 600) especially since phone thief was in the same building as I was when I thought I lost the phone. Word to the wise... don't steal something in a small town. Everybody knows everybody and the truth always comes out. Sheriff gets involved and Jody and I head back to the farm.
5:00... return missed calls, respond to more emails, and wave at hired hand.
6:00... visit with grandma and grandpa about upcoming trip to St. Louis, new mud boots, high tunnels, and cell phone thief (word spreads fast in small town and they already knew about it). Grandpa gives me an article to research about high tunnels.
Currently: updating blog before food, wearing pink mud boots that have no mud on them, sitting under electric blanket, and watching the horses out the window.
Later: Call Cole to get farm report from Bridgecreek location.
much later: return more emails, read chapters of my book, and sleep....
I love farmtown.
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