GVWR GAWR GCWR GVW

I have to admit, the days have been gorgeous.  I've even had to put on shorts in the afternoon, it's so warm.  Perfect spring weather in my book.  That of course means there's no excuse for not walking.  I trotted off in the morning for my two mile walk of pain.  

I could hear the peacocks calling before I even rounded the corner.  What a gorgeous buff beauty this guy is!!  It's interesting that the males have the run of the place.  This big boy and two more smaller ones are always outside the pens.  Obviously he's the king of the roost!  

The ladies on the other hand are confined to big cages.  On this day they were up and calling to their girlfriends one enclosure over, which is probably why the male is keeping a close eye on them.  Did you know they make great watch dogs??  

We had some on the old ranch back in the 50's that let my dad know when anything came around looking for the taste of turkey.  They would sit high in the trees and scream like crazy if anything entered the yard.  Pretty cheap watch dogs!!

 

Amazingly, when my walk was done, I felt worse than ever.  Oh yes, I remember this feeling from the old days of running.  A couple aspirin fixed me up right nicely.  

For the next three hours I tried to figure out how to do those calculations on how much you can tow.  I'm an accountant ... I can do this!!  Good grief ... so many letters.  GVW GVWR GAWR GCWR ... it goes on and on.  I might be better off just to buy a one ton truck and be done with it. 

At long last I spotted a tow calculator on the internet.  You just plug in the numbers it has taken you two hours to locate and it will either tell you RED RED RED ... YOU ARE OVERLOADED, or it will give you a green check and you are good to go, except don't forget their huge disclaimer on the first page.

So in the end, including the extra 25 gallons of fuel I carry in the truck, I can still load up about 400 more pounds in the trailer.  Does anyone actually know the weight of the stuff they add?  Like clothes, food, quilt fabric, dishes, quilt fabric, tool box, more quilt fabric.  I wouldn't even have a clue!!

I'm guessing many people are overloaded, especially those towing trailers with F150's.  I'll try to keep it down, or at least drive the speed limit.  In the meantime, I'm double checking my numbers.  In other number related stuff, I was asked how much my tires were rated to carry.  

What?  Isn't a tire a tire??  I crawled around the garage on the floor with my flashlight trying to read those teeny tiny numbers.  AHA!!  Found it!!  They are rated to carry 3400 pounds.  My hitch weight is about 1200.  I'm guessing (that's what I do best) that I'm okay.

Late in the afternoon, my brain now fried from too much calculating, I took a walk around the corral.  You know what THIS picture means!  Truly, I can't see where anything has come in under the fence, but sure enough, there are two piles of you know what and two HUGE holes dug in the dirt.  These are the biggest holes yet, one of which was at the edge of the flower bed right up next to the lawn.  NOOOOOOOO!!!

I still can't see how anything could get in the yard, but I set the trap anyway.  This morning I'll go see if the camera caught anything.  If it wasn't for the puppies it would be fun stalking them, but I don't need another critter encounter like the last one.

Now to clean house before company arrives!!!!