My cousin, Dan Brim, owns Brim Tractor Company which has several stores throughout Oregon and Washington.  I had told him that in October we’ll be working the beet harvest in Montana and Mark would like to have the job of driving a skid steer or bob cat.  I asked if he had anything like that that Mark could practice on and he said he did.  Today Mark spent about an hour practicing on a 2014 skid steer.  Here are some pictures:

By the time most of you read this (4/24/14 at 10:00am), I’ll be having (or will have had) surgery on my right hand, so prayers would be appreciated.  Mark will be doing guest blogging for a while again.  He’ll keep you posted!