Rainy Day

It was raining before we got up and continued to rain on and off all day.  Joe came to help milk this morning so he and I milked while Bruce fed, and then Bruce was planning on hauling the load of manure from yesterday.  He went out to start the tractor and it wouldn't start.  He decided it must be out of fuel, assuming it happened just as he parked it previously.  He put 10 gallons of diesel in and bled the lines.  It started and ran so he shut it off for a few minutes.  The next time he tried to start it he couldn't get it to work again.  He bled the lines out again and was able to haul manure.  He is beginning to think that perhaps there is a fuel leak that lets air in the lines.  We had late Thanksgiving plans for today so other than a 6 hour work day for Bruce and a 4 hour work day for me we had the day "off".  Hmmmm  In any case it was a good day and the farmers, both Bruce and Ed, are smiling because we have all the stacking done.  Ed stopped in this morning and said his final count was 128 stacks!