2012 seems to be getting off to a good start with both Iron Pony and Wildhorse Bowling.  Things started off slowly, as might be expected following the Christmas holidays, but they picked up nicely by the end of the week.  On Saturday, I was finally able to deliver three of the four Sears jobs that I have, and I also got a new customer with a ( Read more... )

     I had to drive to Swift Current today since (as I expected) the Co-op Agro centre did not have a thermocouple for my furnace.  They did have a small one, but far too small for my furnace (which, BTW, uses a 24" universal-fit thermocouple.)  It's a costant annoyance that the Agro claims to have everything you need, but in reality they rarely ( Read more... )

     Wow!  The last few days have been busy, and mostly in a good way.  I haven't been able to update my journal because for some reason the connection from the farm to LJ has been really flakey, though it seems to work OK from town, and I don't have issues with other sites.  I've been too busy in town to do any updates from there, so I've just had ( Read more... )

     To say that I'm ticked right now would be an understatement.  I placed a parts order last Sunday Evening through my suplier's online ordering system.  This is how I've always ordered parts, and they're normally here within two business days.  It's now 11:03pm on Friday, five business days after the order was placed.  I received a confirmation ( Read more... )

     That's more or less the screamed monolouge from the boiler-room earlier today...

I had a more in-depth look at the boiler and its problem this afternoon, and after going through the various manuals that I either already had, or managed to download from the 'net, I was coming to the upsetting conclusion that the most likely cause of the ( Read more... )

 
     I made my first service-call of 2010 for Iron Pony this afternoon; I repaired a snow-blower for one of the senior ladies from the bowling alley.  As I had suspected, the problem with the machine was that no fuel was reaching the engine.  What I hadn't expected was that this was a 2-cycle engine, whereas I had been expecting a larger machine ( Read more... )

There was a time when I actually enjoyed shopping.  I enjoyed browsing, looking at new things, pondering what I could make with different materials and tools.  Lately though, shopping has become a chore, and an unpleasant one at that.  The big box stores may have thousands (if not millions) of different items, but they always seem to be out of the ( Read more... )

In a recent posting, qualin  had a small rant about the lack of Customer Service at one of our local Wal*Mart stores.  (The orignal posting can be found here.)  I was at the same store yesterday, and I'm sorry to say that it's still in pretty much the same state that Qualin had found it in.  Mind, I did get an excellent price on some clothes that I ( Read more... )

Having torn out all of the carpets from the farm house, we're going to replace them with hardwood flooring.  After searching several places, we finally found a product that we liked at The Home Depot.  Even better, they were having a promotion  - "receive up to a $400 gift card with your purchase..."  Fine and dandy, so with some amount of ( Read more... )