Sounds like the North Pole Out There
Have you ever noticed that a little snow and a bunch of wind can make you put on more layers even if it really isn't cold. Today it was barely freezing but the wind was howling. I kept thinking that I needed to take the horses more hot water to melt the iceblock in their trough, but when I would get there, the water would barely have any ice. I had so many layers on that I was sweating, but with the wind whipping snow from off the roofs of the buildings, I didn't dare peel off a layer. I let the horses out of the paddock and before long they were gathered up on the back porch where the wind was passing them by. They were thinking it was colder too. Tonight I have a bucket of bran to make them a mash, other than that the howling wind would keep me awake worrying about them.
We were going to take the semi to Colorado to get hay tomorrow but this funky weather makes it a doubtful proposition. We are now thinking we will drive the jeep and check out the hay, then take a bit more time to get the trailer DOT ready. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is a fearsome organization. They run a little inspection station just south of Cortez where they have spent a lot of time searching our straw-laden semi with drug-dogs. I guess we just look like old hippies, so you can't really blame them. Don't all old hippies stash a bale of marijuana under several hundred straw bales???? And that was before they were doing Homeland Security searches, if we don't get that trailer up to snuff, we could end up in Gitmo. Hey, we'll fly under their radar in the jeep, maybe smuggle some breakfast burritos across the border. Yeah!
John just called and gave me the daily update. He's gotten a bunch of applications off for the fuel systems and credit cards. You have to have relationships with the fleet management networks. Some of them do proprietary credit card systems, but if you want to accept the big fleet cards, you have to play their game. I don't know what we will be able to afford to do. If you need $5000 in special equipment, those cards just might not work at Navajo City for a while. Most credit cards just feed into the regular processor.... our's currently goes to Global Network and they collect from the different major credit card companies, take their fee, and put the rest in our bank account. We have to have a credit card solution that will work with pay-at-the-pump and go over satellite internet, since there are no phone lines at Navajo City. We think we can have the digital phone system backup but digital phone is problematic. Global isn't going to work as a total solution.
The wind has died down now that is dark. I think I will venture out and check on the equines.
Yrs,
JRW
We were going to take the semi to Colorado to get hay tomorrow but this funky weather makes it a doubtful proposition. We are now thinking we will drive the jeep and check out the hay, then take a bit more time to get the trailer DOT ready. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is a fearsome organization. They run a little inspection station just south of Cortez where they have spent a lot of time searching our straw-laden semi with drug-dogs. I guess we just look like old hippies, so you can't really blame them. Don't all old hippies stash a bale of marijuana under several hundred straw bales???? And that was before they were doing Homeland Security searches, if we don't get that trailer up to snuff, we could end up in Gitmo. Hey, we'll fly under their radar in the jeep, maybe smuggle some breakfast burritos across the border. Yeah!
John just called and gave me the daily update. He's gotten a bunch of applications off for the fuel systems and credit cards. You have to have relationships with the fleet management networks. Some of them do proprietary credit card systems, but if you want to accept the big fleet cards, you have to play their game. I don't know what we will be able to afford to do. If you need $5000 in special equipment, those cards just might not work at Navajo City for a while. Most credit cards just feed into the regular processor.... our's currently goes to Global Network and they collect from the different major credit card companies, take their fee, and put the rest in our bank account. We have to have a credit card solution that will work with pay-at-the-pump and go over satellite internet, since there are no phone lines at Navajo City. We think we can have the digital phone system backup but digital phone is problematic. Global isn't going to work as a total solution.
The wind has died down now that is dark. I think I will venture out and check on the equines.
Yrs,
JRW
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