Uh Oh, Tractor Stuck in the Muck

Sometimes you have to blog about the bad with the good...here was Vince's uh-oh moment this weekend. He came in the house and said, "I got stuck. Really stuck."  He was trying to mow the length of the property and tested the wet area a little too far.  It is the middle of July, isn't it?  So, of course the next day when he went to try to rescue himself, Pieter, Julia and I pushed our way through the freshly mown grass down to the far corner of the property for a little entertainment and not-so moral support. 

 Pieter supervised "Daddy stuck muck, Daddy tractor stuck muck" and offered his toy bulldozer as help while I took pictures for Vince for when he wanted to laugh about it later. To his credit, he did have a pretty good outlook on the ridiculousness of the whole thing.

He was buried to his axel and no amount of chains and wood ramps were going to do the trick, so he called on the neighbor Andy's big, heavy John Deere and after a glance at Vince wearing his mud suit, fueled up and had his wife follow in the smaller tractor. Above if you look carefully you can see the parade of three tractors on their way to rescue one very stuck tractor.  In the end, it was pulled out no worse for the wear and Andy might not even have to wash any mud off of his big show tractor.