Today should have been easy enough but the drop that I would have done first didn't want me until after ten this morning. The reason being that the customer doesn't like getting out of bed, not that I ever see the customer so I don't really see what difference it makes to him. Unless the sound of the truck entering the yard wakes him up. Anyway because of this I had to go out of my way and make another drop first then come back. So my first drop was a farm drop near Cawood, I didn't see the customer but it didn't matter and I made the delivery of two sheep troughs and one sheep ring feeder and I was away quickly. My second drop was another farm drop at Thorganby, again it was a small drop four cattle licks and four bags of minerals, again I didn't see the customer. Third drop was called a farm drop but it isn't a farm any longer, its more an equestrian fantasy land, this drop was a little harder, two twelve foot wooden gates and a wooden gate post, once again I didn't see the customer and had to take the gates off myself which I did after a bit of a struggle. Then at last back to the drop which should have been my first drop, the man who can't get up. By this time it was after ten but the customer still wasn't in evidence, probably eating his breakfast. But this time there was help unloading, twenty five bales of wood shavings, no problem. Three drops to go all farm drops and I was supposed to be at the last drop by one in the afternoon. Next two drops at Foggathorpe, the first was six cattle licks and twelve gate hinges, the customer was there, this customer usually is and he always helps. Backed into his yard and made the drop quickly enough and onto the next drop. This drop is to people both I and my wife know well and have known most of our lives. This was only two sheep hurdles and was the completion of a previous order. It didn't take long and I spent a little time talking to the customer, while we were talking I heard and then saw a buzzard. This might not seem unusual but I have known this area all my life and there weren't any buzzards in the area ten years ago. Then on to my last drop at Eastrington, I had to have a half hour break before reaching my last drop. The track in the photo above is the track to the farm, I took the photo on my way out. I was supposed to be there after one and it was quarter past when I got there, I was met by the customer in a forklift as I pulled into the yard. Better and better. Five tonnes of sugarbeet pulp shreds came off and I was on my way out of the yard just before half past, that's how it should be. I then had just over an hours easy run back to base. Next load was only twenty bags of stud nuts and a bag of carrots to a stables. I left the truck in the yard and loaded the pickup its much easier to get into the yard. As usual when I got to the place I was treated with the normal arrogant condescension I have come to expect from this particular place. Funny thing, the bags didn't stack very well and I'm nearly sure the stack will fall over fairly soon, strange how that often happens at places like this. ;-)
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