Hope all of you are enjoying your holiday weekend. I would be more if CJ was at home but he's working. I told him he could stay home and give the guys a day off. His response was "the grass is still growing, if I don't work today it's going to be mandatory work on saturday and we're probably going to get rained out a couple of days this week because of Gustof." Yeah, Yeah.
Well, it's been a rocky start to the business. I told you we bought a new (used) truck right? Well, when we bought it we took it straight to Clinton's shop. He looked it over changed all the fluids, whatever else and had the hood fixed (hail damage). Last thursday night he went to get the new truck and drop off the red one because it has a hole in the exhaust and something else. Well, as it turns out it is needing more repairs than we expected. We really strained some stuff on it pulling that monster trailer full of equipment for the last 3 weeks and the repairs are going to be pretty hefty. Then friday afternoon CJ calls me and tells me he's on his way to Brandon's shop to get his truck because the new on is blowing up. WHAT?!?! Yeah. The first day. Barely half way through the first day. No there's no warranty. I told you we bought it used. Yes we're screwed. As it turns out, we THINK it fixable and we don't have to replace the engine - yet. Clinton came down friday night and drove it from Brandon's shop to our house. CJ followed him. They put close to 10 gallons of water in it for the drive (about 1 hr). He said it's good news because it's only burning water and not oil. Whatever. All I know is - we bought a company (major debt - did I mention that before this we had been debt free for almost a year?), then we bought a new truck for the company, and now BOTH of our trucks are broke down and we haven't seen any money coming IN yet. Can I cry? I do still see the big picture. I try to remember that starting a business takes money and we're probably going to be in the red for a while. But...
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Hang in there babe! you are in my thoughts and prayers. Call me if you need anything ( i mean it).
Perhaps we can get together soon since both boys will be gone during the day.
Love ya sweetie :)
Doesn't Texas have a lemon law on used car sales??? I know California does (apparently there are a lot of "lemons" out there) There has to be something that could be done...
I'll pass the coin cup around. It will get better, really it WILL.
HUGS babe
im so sorry to hear that. damn losers. love you!
This may not help, but John did not draw a paycheck for almost the first year of LPSE. Now, three years later, LPSE is doing very well and he IS getting paid. We had to live off of savings for the first year but it is soooo worth it. Hang in there you two!
awe I'm so sorry hunny. and I applaud you for not crying as you typed all that...
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