Sunday, November 9, 2008

Deer Season

Well, Deer Season came in with a BANG!! Sitting out on my stand, about one minute after my watch said "time", from all around I heard bang! bang! bang-bang-bang-bang! bang!

I haven't seen anything yet. Matt, hunting with his friends a couple of miles away, tagged a nice doe and a button buck first thing this morning. He took the button buck with one perfect shot through the lungs; it dropped and never moved. Should be some good eating there.



Thursdays rain was part of a large system centered down near Sioux City. The center stayed there most of Thursday, wrapping Gulf moisture and warm air up and around onto us. Overnight Thursday it moved East across MN and Friday we continued to get some rain and drizzle as the temps began to fall. Saturday (Deer Season Opener) started out with some mixed snow and drizzle, but the ground was warm enough that the snow disappeared right away.

Today, Sunday, the ground has cooled enough that the snow is staying. We are only getting a few flakes at a time, and the puddles aren't frozen solid yet, but it's about 20 degrees F out right now and that North wind is coold.

Gas is at 2.259 this morning.

I tried to buy a pair of 195/75/R14 Winterforce tires at L&M on sale, but they were sold out Thursday night. Said they would transfer a couple from another store and I could get them Friday afternoon. Stopped by Friday afternoon and then later that evening, still haven't arrived.

Decided to pull the pair of Winterforce tires off Stripez. They don't have many miles on them since Stripez blew the head gasket soon after it got the new tires. They are on Vger now. While I had the front drivers tire off Vger I checked the trans oil, it was down nearly 2 quarts. Trying to remember when I checked it last and topped it off, hopefully I blogged it (no, I didn't.  September?). Still have a funny noise under the hood anytime the engine is running, suspect that I'm about to lose the alternator or waterpump soon; or perhaps the timing belt idler? Hope not. Too cold to mess with it right now, it needs to keep running until we can get Stripez back together.

Need to pickup the head for Stripez from the machine shop, $220.

Need to pickup the starter for the Allis-Chalmers from the rebuild shop, $195.

Need to put a pair of Winterforce tires on the front of the red Horizon, $100

Got a bit of a shock Thursday afternoon. My current Auto Insurance policy was due to be renewed Friday, and I asked my insurance agent to check around for a better price, was paying $900 every 6 month's for 5 vehicles and 4 drivers.

Well, Evan's car is titled in his name, he is not a student, and he lives in Bemidji. Jon has his own family, is not a student, and lives in Bemidji while driving Betty's LeMans. Turns out that, although we have been paying for the insurance coverage, if they had an accident they wouldn't have been covered. So Betty gave the title to the LeMans to Jon and they are not on our new policy, which dropped the price a bit.

Here is what we learned. If the driver is a full time student and/or lives at home, they can be covered under our policy. If the title to the vehicle is in mine or Betty's name, it can be covered under our policy. Otherwise, NOT.

So, when Matt gets his truck running, we leave the title in my name, and he is living at home, then he and the truck will be covered under our policy. When Matt titles the truck in his name he will then need to get his own insurance. When Matt leaves home, he will need to title the truck in his name and get his own insurance.

OK. Didn't know that. And we've been paying for Jon and Evan's insurance that wasn't going to cover them. Thank God they didn't have any accidents.

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