Mud

This afternoon a load of cotton seed arrived and was looking forward to being deposited in our new commodity shed. Due to slow electricians not all of the grading has been done so there was quite a bit of mud at all the wrong places. The dirt in our area is a red clay. This red clay turns into a slippery mess when it is wet. In the past week we have received 8 inches of rain. This ingredient turned the dust into a slippery, slimy mess. First we tried to back the truck up to the shed using the existing lane. This worked well until the trailer wheels were caked full of mud and the tractor began to spin. He pulled forwards and tried again using a bit more horsepower. This resulted in more spinning and not much movement. We proceeded to option 2 which produced the same negative result. This time we were in the yard but the yard was, in fact, a lake yesterday. After this failed we tried option 3. This was a quick spin over to the neighboring farm to see if his building was empty. Another grand idea that was unfruitful. We proceed to option 4. I made a phone call to a friend of mine who pumps sand and rocks out of the Staunton river. Shock of all shocks he was home and was more than willing to bring me a load of river gravel/sea shells. This load of gravel was strategically placed. You can only imagine my glee when he successfully placed this load of feed into my shed. You see, this load cost me about three grand and I really wanted it in the barn out of the weather.