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Oh my goodness, he really will be the bionic man! to him. I hope it all goes Ok for him. I take it he has employees on the farm to look after it while he's recovering?
Yes he will. It's just he and his brother who run it now since they got the robot for milking, but his brother is helpless. He only does his set jobs each day and panics when he has to pick up the slack or do anything extra. he has taken his normal every day jobs that he has been doing for years and now that they have the robot and don't have to physically milk...his chores take twice as long. He drives me nuts. Everyone babies him and directs him even though he is in his 50's.
The electricity went out about a week ago and Skip and I had just left to go to dinner. Claire texted us so we turned around. Dave had already come to the house looking for Skip...instead of just getting the generator started.



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for Skip. Hope this works out for him. Recovery should be interesting while he directs traffic with the workers at the farm. How will change your travel plans?
We have no plans right now set in stone except a trip to Washington DC with Claires class in April. I am hoping to cruise this summer. It all depends on pricing and I have some friends that might be able to go too.

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I have started a trip report about my work trip to Ft. Lauderdale last Nov.

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Yes he will. It's just he and his brother who run it now since they got the robot for milking, but his brother is helpless. He only does his set jobs each day and panics when he has to pick up the slack or do anything extra. he has taken his normal every day jobs that he has been doing for years and now that they have the robot and don't have to physically milk...his chores take twice as long. He drives me nuts. Everyone babies him and directs him even though he is in his 50's.
The electricity went out about a week ago and Skip and I had just left to go to dinner. Claire texted us so we turned around. Dave had already come to the house looking for Skip...instead of just getting the generator started.
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Yes. It's so ridiculous! Can you imagine living your life and not doing anything for yourself?
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Oh Jen! I'm hoping for a speedy recovery for Skip! I also hope life settles down a bit for you. Your trip reports are always so amazing and I love to read them so get out there and do some traveling!
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It is good to read your TR and see that you are having a good away from the pressure at home. I know you are concerned. However, you deserve the time away. I hope that Skip's brother will pick some of the slack. Sorry he is creating problems.
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It is good to read your TR and see that you are having a good away from the pressure at home. I know you are concerned. However, you deserve the time away. I hope that Skip's brother will pick some of the slack. Sorry he is creating problems.

Well Skip did not have his shoulder replacement as he got a sinus infection and they decided to postpone it till he is better and now he is waiting on it for a while.

BUT......He still ended up in the hospital. Without going into a long dragged out detail....he had a mini stroke on Friday and he is doing fine and pretty much back to normal. They do not know why it happened and we believe he has had a few mild ones over the past few months. He got to come home today and he is very happy to be out of the hospital.

And I think I have sold my trailer, so no more worrying about renters in the future! Yay!!!
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Oh my goodness. Lots of for Skip.
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Thanks!! Life is always full of surprises with him around!
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I'm so sorry to hear about Skip's mini strokes. Hopefully they'll be able to figure out what caused it so it won't happen again. My dad has been having them recently too. Congrats on the possible sale of the trailer. That's one less thing for you to have to think about.
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: pixie: For Skip's continued recovery. Congrats on selling the trailer. That will be nice to get rid of some stress from you.
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Yes, we need some stress free days...of course the busy farming/planting season is approaching too.

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I'm so sorry to hear about Skip's mini strokes. Hopefully they'll be able to figure out what caused it so it won't happen again. My dad has been having them recently too. Congrats on the possible sale of the trailer. That's one less thing for you to have to think about.
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He's doing good, but sadly we don't know the exact causes so we are just trying to do what we can to prevent them from happening again or more often. He is working on quitting smoking and has been smoke free for a week, which is amazing!
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I started a new report on my summer cruise!


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