August 23, 2008 

  y truck has always been a very good truck. It has never failed to do whatever I have asked it to do. To reward it, Thursday it got a new windshield which it richly deserved after all the winters (and rocks) it has had in 'Moosetown'. But I think it decided it wanted some more things besides a new windshield.

Thursday - New windshield
Friday - Flat tire on the highway. I changed the tire to the spare in my new pair of jeans.
Saturday (today)- I unbuckled my seatbelt to fuel up and my seatbelt refused to re-buckle. I then proceeded to go to the dealer, they look at it, say it is really broken and they spent an hour calling 11 places in North America (including wrecking yards) and NO ONE has the driver's side female end of the seatbelt assembly. Huh?

So I drive to a friend's mechanic shoppe and ask him for a screwdriver which looks like a Star of David. I tear apart the seatbelt as I feel I have nothing to loose at this point and if I can get it so it buckles, I can just crawl in and out of it in a pinch. After opening the seatbelt, I fix the problem and it is it's happy little self again. Buckle, unBuckle, Buckle, unBuckle.

I continue the rest of my workday with no incident. Until I get home... I drop the tailgate to let "Cyrus" in to ride while I was touring the back 40 and the tailgate locking mechanism broke and now the tailgate will not close. I will have to fix it tomorrow.

I get home and there seemed to be a onion thief in my garden. The only problem was he thought they were 'green onions' and was just eating all of the tops and disposing of the bulb part of the onions. He was quickly educated about the onions. I told him he could eat everything but the roots. Then he decided he wanted the roots as well. He then proceeded to 'graze' the rest of the garden and moved onto multi-coloured carrots (red, white, yellow and orange he found), then the Five Color Beet Swiss Chard, then had a turnip or two to top it off.

My watermelon is getting close to eating I think.