So this weekend, I did a whole lot of un-fun stuff at my house. Primarily cleaning the garage and remnants of my last project up, throwing things away, sorting stuff to fill up my new shelving unit, mowing the lawn... nothing blog worthy.

I did, however, visit a good friend of mine who has a farm. And I took some pictures, which are blog worthy!

 I didn't use this one this trip. One of the last times I visited, we had to rebuild a river crossing ford and several culverts and I got some serious wheel time with this bad boy.

However. I did get to play with the newest farm resident, this sweet 45 horsepower New Holland:

Yep, that's a Toyota Tacoma pickup, just for size reference. Boy do I want one of these. We call it "Farm Therapy" ... I get to play with all kinds of awesome toys, which I think is the best thing in the world, and work gets done. Everybody wins!

And then, there was also this:

My friend is a Jeep guy. Unfortunately for him, the gentleman driving the refrigerated box truck apparently wasn't. No injuries, thankfully, but the poor Jeep (which he'd just bought a few weeks before, too!) was a little bit worse for wear.

So after he bought a replacement with the insurance payment, we had this idea... it started as a kidding-around kind of discussion, but whenever there's a car and a welder and a sawz-all readily at hand, some kind of mischief is bound to happen.

And thus, the Jeep Cherokee Sporttrac was born. Pretty sweet farm rig! The dog loved it, for sure. We paid careful attention to the details, of course. Shortened the roof rack, welded caps onto the rear uprights, added a new roof support, we even trimmed the headliner to shape.

All in a day's work.

I should have some fun tractor projects of my own this coming weekend, so stay tuned.