life is a ride sometimes

       well i was moving the truck around after it had a winters nap. i let it warm up and then released the emergency brake. the truck was running fine and i jockeyed it around to allow the tractor to load it better and was pulling out to the edge of the hill above the blueberries and below the pond and i hit the brakes hard as i came out to the edge and suddenly no brakes and i immediately went into crisis control as i was rolling uncontrolled down a short hill and heading for mom 's blueberries , i steered the truck to avoid the blueberries and layed over in the seat to avoid hitting my head on the ceiling. i had no idea where babe was in all this . hopefully standing at top of hill barking like an idiot like she always does. 

      but none the less i was in for a ride and i hit the ditch at the bottom of the hill and bounced right over it and before i knew it i was in the middle of the yard below the pond, and i could now see babe wondering why i just did that. well i wasn't hurt and i had no brakes and was sitting in middle of yard , kind of disgusted and relieved that i had come through that with nothing hurt and babe ok, so i just put it in gear and headed around house and checked things out on the level ground. it was a brake line and appears to be nothing major so far. but still have to fix the brakes on the truck, and this seems to be a recurring theme this spring as i just finished working on my pickup brakes . 

     i thought it would be a simple front disc replacement , had trouble getting the lugnuts off the truck as they are meant to have cover caps and these were gone , and i thought i had replaced all those but apparently didn't get the front tire, so now was its time but only after taking all my strength to remove one lugnut frozen on. in fact replacing the front discs took less time than removing the one lugnut , but the fun wasnt over as now i had to bleed the system.

     i thought the spongy brakes could be attributed to the front disc going bad , surprise when i went to bleed the system it wouldn't bleed right and i couldn't get any petal. so now i had to replace the master cylinder. so 2 quarts of brake fluid and a master cylinder and 6 hours of my life gone to this  supposed 10 minute job. hmmmm- did i mention i spent almost 120 dollars to get this far. well i am looking forward (not) , to replacing the lines on the dump truck next. these are my favorite things to do. as it seems i love testing my patience quite often lately. but with these hills it sure helps having brakes. it beats testing the old heart.