Lost and Found
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:39 pm
Saturday started off great.
At 10 am I received a boil water order for the church well. The system has a time based UV system. Between the plumber that installed it and the purchaser, the UV system was incorrect for rural applications. It was 2 pm before the water issue was resolved enough to head home. When leaving church I noticed tire tracks in the grass leading to the tractor shed and random plywood laying outside. A quick peek at the building confirmed the worst suspicions. The tractor was missing. . Police arrived at 4 and took photos and dusted for prints. The thieves had pried the board and batten off of the backside of the shed and found the tractor. At six the police released the shed back to us and recommended that we remove other lawn equipment, ladders, salt spreader, and ladders out of the shed. The key to the tractor was still laying on an upper barn beam so how the thieves move and loaded it is a mystery. The loader had been removed form the tractor by us for the summer and was left behind. A neighbor brought his front end loader over to help take stuff out of the shed. Around 7pm his son-in-law showed up and said he saw a 1025 sitting someplace odd but forgot where. His son piped up it is parked at the back of a restaurant parking lot in a very small town 4 miles away. I head straight to the parking lot, It was ours. Police showed up about 9 pm and dusted it for prints while I went home, unloaded the contents of the building off of my pickup and borrowed a trailer. I arrived home at 11:30 pm exhausted. Supper was a bag of chocolate covered raisins while waiting for the police to arrive at the found tractor.
On June 1 I planted 15 white spruce saplings using a deep square hole method in very sandy soil. The trees holes were filled with water the day of planting and again a week later. It has been wet enough that they haven't needed any assistance since. Weeds and tall grass was starting to take over the pits so weeding was all that was planed. They have surprisingly doubled in size.At 10 am I received a boil water order for the church well. The system has a time based UV system. Between the plumber that installed it and the purchaser, the UV system was incorrect for rural applications. It was 2 pm before the water issue was resolved enough to head home. When leaving church I noticed tire tracks in the grass leading to the tractor shed and random plywood laying outside. A quick peek at the building confirmed the worst suspicions. The tractor was missing. . Police arrived at 4 and took photos and dusted for prints. The thieves had pried the board and batten off of the backside of the shed and found the tractor. At six the police released the shed back to us and recommended that we remove other lawn equipment, ladders, salt spreader, and ladders out of the shed. The key to the tractor was still laying on an upper barn beam so how the thieves move and loaded it is a mystery. The loader had been removed form the tractor by us for the summer and was left behind. A neighbor brought his front end loader over to help take stuff out of the shed. Around 7pm his son-in-law showed up and said he saw a 1025 sitting someplace odd but forgot where. His son piped up it is parked at the back of a restaurant parking lot in a very small town 4 miles away. I head straight to the parking lot, It was ours. Police showed up about 9 pm and dusted it for prints while I went home, unloaded the contents of the building off of my pickup and borrowed a trailer. I arrived home at 11:30 pm exhausted. Supper was a bag of chocolate covered raisins while waiting for the police to arrive at the found tractor.