Doug Van Pelt

doug van pelt is a big fat idiot

I was probably a pretty funny sight yesterday afternoon. I laughed a little about myself at the time. I took some photos with my camera phone and sent them to my wife. I was trying to pull a trailer out of its parking space at the ranch and the ground was still so wet and muddy that just getting the vehicle backed up to hook up the hitch turned out to be a 45-minute effort of futility, with the tires caking several inches of mud on itself and digging a trench about six inches deep. After a few missed tries, it was apparent that the tires wouldn't carefully or slowly get anywhere near the hitch. Using boards helped a little, but not enough.

So my family's plan for a long-needed vacation get-away to San Antonio were scrapped.

Oh well, perhaps this weekend we can have as many special moments as we were originally wanting to have out of town.