This picture was taken yesterday evening as I was suppose to be assissting my husband in removing the loader off the Allis-Chalmers WD45… You will notice that there is no snow on the ground. It was drizzling but no white stuff.
This morning was a different matter.
We actually woke up to lightening and thunder. About the time my husband was getting ready to leave the house for work white stuff started falling out of the sky. There was lightening, thunder and snow for a good hour. This is not a sight I want to see on the 19th of April…
Here’s hoping for some warmer temps and sunshine!!
I’ve been married for close to 11 years. I could write a book about all I’ve learned in those 11 years. I don’t know if it would be considered a tragedy or a comedy but a book none-the-less. During these last 11 years I’ve learned that there has to be a certain amount of give and take. Imagine if you will a carrot on a string attached to a stick attached to a rabbit. That rabbit will follow that carrot around for awhile. If after awhile that rabbit hasn’t ‘caught’ that carrot… well you can imagine… So I decided that he needed to be able to ‘catch’ this carrot.
This carrot is a 1949 Allis-Chalmers WD 45. My husband has plans to fix this tractor up and sell it. My first thought was ‘why the hell would anyone want to buy this tractor or any old tractor for that matter?’ Well, that is the thing, there are all these old guys that love these old tractors. They get them all painted and purring and take them around to tractor drives and enter them in tractor shows. (think car show but everyone is in coveralls speaking a language you don’t understand) You know they do all these really exciting things with these older tractors
I was just excited my husband found a running tractor for his first tractor project. It sounds ‘real good’. It just sits there and purrs… Let me tell you that is like music to my ears. I’m hoping it stays mostly just cosmetic work. Updates on this project will appear here from time to time.
I was really surprised by the condition of this tractor. Especially when he got it home and I noticed the rear tires are new. They didn’t even look like they had ever been driven on. Bonus in this venture seeing as how tractor tires are expensive…
I’m a sucker for a nice looking tractor but I highly doubt this loader would be considered original equipement. I can’t wait to see what it looks like without it!
And this is where the bulk of the work will come in… apparantly it has been overloaded at one time or another. I have a soft spot for these old Allis-Chalmers. I don’t see too many of these orange machines around.
**Anyone interested in purchasing this tractor can email me at laura@picturemyeveryday.com.
Recently I had the privelage to spend two weeks at my parents house while my husband was out of the country. I love my family but two weeks is a long time. I have been known to stretch my visits by a couple of days… Ok, every visist by a couple of days… I say I will be home on Tuesday but, you know, my mom has off Wednesdays and then Thursdays we go and spend the morning with my husband’s grandpa and so we get home on Thursday afternoons… Ok more like Thursday evenings… But that is really neither here nor there… Like I was saying, two weeks is too long. By the end of that second week my younger sister and I were arguing like we were in highschool again. Yes, totally mature! Especially with our children watching us!!
This time I got roped into helping my brother move, helping my sister finish moving, and I actually had to help cut wood and learn how to use the wood furnace add-on. I was kinda disappointed with the last one because mom and dad have had this add-on for 6 years or so and I had been fortunate enough that I hadn’t had to learn how to do start or fill it. I survived though. Barely! My favorite part of my stay this time was getting to photograph my brother and his little family. These are his little kids, Qwintyn and Paityn. Such cute and sweet little kids!
I just love love LOVE P’s eyes. I did no editing on them. NONE! I do a double take everytime I see her because her eyes are so gorgeous. She is the perfect blend of my brother and his wife. Q looks just like his dad did in elementary school. Almost identical!
We literally ran out of day light so we will be doing this again soon. After everything turns green again and the sun starts staying out later.
My son has discovered PBSkids.org… That means I get the computer for about 3 minutes before the three year old says, "Oh, Momma, my turn?"… I’m so ready for my little family to be healthy again. Please excuse the lack of posting we will be back to regularly scheduled programming in a week or so. I do have so many photos I would love to show off!