{"id":611,"date":"2013-05-30T01:37:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=483"},"modified":"2013-05-30T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T01:37:08","slug":"hump-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/hump-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hump Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I&#8217;m glad that this fine Wednesday is nearing an end. &nbsp;It actually started last night when we lost power around 9 pm. &nbsp;The juice came back on about 2:44 am. &nbsp;This and the weather radio that went to blaring at 2:44 am woke me up. &nbsp;So much for actually sleeping a whole night. &nbsp;I went to the barn and moved the pickup inside. &nbsp;Piles of wind and very little rain. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I was buried under at work. &nbsp;Got there early, left late, no lunch, not even a glass of tea. &nbsp;I am beginning to collect mechanics like I do hay. &nbsp;You can&#8217;t get enough of either. &nbsp;I have the most techs that have ever worked at Woodward at one time&#8230;and I still need more. &nbsp;I recently did my best job of selling. &nbsp;As a result, I am adding an experienced shop foreman that I have tried to hire for several years. &nbsp;And I am also adding a salesman that is a former top-shelf John Deere mechanic. &nbsp;I stole both of them from the oilfield. &nbsp;I&#8217;m pumped about these acquistions. &nbsp;Any time you can add experience, knowledge and work ethic, then you do it. &nbsp;I&#8217;m ready for Monday when they both start.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;As busy as I can get at work, I would expect some more sales with no pictures. &nbsp;Or there will be a bunch of Sunday afternoon private treaty sales. &nbsp;I just don&#8217;t have time. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Headed home from work and drove into a wicked wind, rain, lightning and hail storm. &nbsp;I was caught in the nether regions not close to any structures. &nbsp;I decided to drive through it. &nbsp;Two miles later, I was out of it. &nbsp;I got to the house and the same storm had passed through. &nbsp;Broken tree limbs and only 1\/10&#8243; of rain. &nbsp;But it came sideways. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Dragon Lady had already done chores for me and grilled a killer good ribeye. &nbsp;I ate and then went to the barn to weld some panels. &nbsp;Since, it was already a crappy day, I decided to write bill checks. &nbsp;That is always fun. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Well, I think I will check out the chive for some Hump Day pictures and eat a bowl of Schwan&#8217;s ice cream. &nbsp;I love ice cream. &nbsp;It&#8217;s just to bad that I am lactose intolerant. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I&#8217;m glad that this fine Wednesday is nearing an end. &nbsp;It actually started last night when we lost power around 9 pm. &nbsp;The juice came back on about 2:44 am. &nbsp;This and the weather radio that went to blaring at 2:44 am woke me up. &nbsp;So much for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}