Four doors, 4 wheel drive, 8 foot deck ( that was the hardest to find) and no stupid computer mod cons. My crew calls it The Boat.
Shiny too. There was a lot of driving, the journey to the city, finding the truck, bringing it back home to be inspected then after the evening milking driving it all the way back to the dealers to sign all the papers and then driving it home.
And when I got home at 8.30 pm, there was my dinner waiting for me. Everyone was already in bed. But there was my dinner with my name on it and a smiley face, sitting alone on the bench in the clean and darkened kitchen with a napkin and a fork next to it and I was very touched at this little kindness.
I went out and locked up the chickens, shut the piglets doors (these nights are getting quite chilly) tucked Sheila in, then poured myself an apple cider and sat down to have with my solitary dinner.
I am now a co- owner, with The Matriarch, of a big shiny second hand truck (actually fourth hand) that is so big I need a running board to clamber up into it and none of the men at the dealers quite believed that I was the farmer and it was to be my truck until they saw that there was no man in attendance when we returned to buy it. So I ate my dinner and drank my cider and then my legs told me they were very tired and I went to bed.
I did not take Camera House truck shopping. But it was not a photographic journey.
I hope you have a good day
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
40 responses to “A Big Shiny Truck”
Hopefully this new truck makes your life easier……
The Boat sounds like a proper grown up truck, no unnecessary frills or half measures. I hope we’ll get a photographic introduction tomorrow – it would be too much to hope you’d be leaning out of the window with a grin on your face, and Boo and Ton on the tray…
Woo hoo, may you have many many safe and productive miles together. The boat 🙂 Laura
well done MissC..what a wonderful lady you are
I’m looking forward to seeing some pictures 🙂
Sounds like an adventure that could become a once upon a time, a woman farmer… story ♡
I can’t wait to see your new truck ,I am happy for you, I hope it makes some of the chores easier and you have some fun trips in it too.☺
Yahoo!!! You got it!!! So wonderful!!! It will be fabulous to have on the farmy, that’s for sure!!! 🙂
Already i can fit the whole crew in, load the back with ladders and boxes and go pick pears – wonderful.. c
Well done, is right! Awesome. Look forward to the photos!
Take those corners on the wide side! We call our’s The Pontoon or The Land Yacht. Hope you ran a CarFax search.
The Boat – or Ark? With all the rain this summer….
You must feel pleased and a great sense of accomplishment. You deserve a giant happy face with your meal every day.
I am lucky to have such talented chefs in my kitchen – i am going to miss them awfully!
So it was a lucky truck/boat. 🙂 Better that you came home tired with the truck than coming home tired without one. You have a good crew and I’m happy you had a successful journey. You have a lot of training to do in letting the rest of the men in the world know that a woman can do anything a man can do and sometime, better.
Some men think one has to be BIG to be STRONG – poor fellows… c
:))
I still expect to see the boat, and soon!
Congratulations my friend. I hope Boat works for you – you deserve a little help on the farm 🙂 XOXO – Bacon