My new tank!

Hey guys,
  So during the Black Friday sale for World of Tanks, I decided to pick myself up a KV-5! (click here for full technical details of the ingame machine)  Mom decided it would be a good topic for a blog post so here goes. :)

  The main reason why I wanted this particular tank was because I had been told that it made LOTS of credits, more then other tier 8 premium tanks, and that sounded very tempting, another reason, it has the most hit points of all the tier 8 heavies as far as I know.

  The gun is pretty bad, but it will do pretty decent damage when you penetrate.  The armor is good, but its loaded with weak spots.  However, there's more then just 1 way to deal damage in this game... :P

  This tank is literally MADE for ramming.  It weighs *gasp* 100 metric tons *gasp* and when going downhill can get up to 40 kilometers per hour. even on normal ground it will move fairly well though, because it has a 1200 HP engine... O.O

  I don't really like the fact that the tank is as big as a barn, but hey, when you have 280 more HP then the next best tier 8 heavy, you kinda expect it to be big...  So far I like the tank, I don't always do the best in it, but it's fun nonetheless.

  Here's a goodbye picture of my new beast. :)

 

  I'll talk to you all later, Jacob B. :)

School is back in session... -_-

Hey guys,
  So Mom has officially started school now, so you all can expect a wall of text from me most every week day for a while now...  I'll at least try to keep it interesting to read if at all possible... :P

  So yesterday Dad; Andrew and I worked on cleaning out a little hopper bin and grinding some grain into ground feed for the milk cow and other animals, and putting it in said bin that we cleaned out...
That kept us busy most of the day, Mom went to town and Cora stayed home and worked around the house.

We are finished with our corn harvest thankfully, we got a lot of it in bins, took several truck loads to town and have a pile on the ground as well.  We're busy getting stuff ready for winter, we got the cows moved home as well, but they still have to be sorted and worked...

  Andrew has been working on repairing more vehicles in his spare time, along with harvesting a neighbor's crop as well, but stuff has started to slow down a little bit, so I'm sure we'll be working on winter vehicle projects again this year... :)

  I still play World of Tanks a lot in my spare time, if anybody else plays WoT, give me a comment, maybe we could platoon sometime! :)  Anyways, I'll talk to you all later, have a good day.
 Jacob B.

Birthday!

Hey guys,
  Yesterday I turned 18 years old! I had a pretty good day driving around the state with Mom, doing a little bit of shopping in Bismarck, and at home with the family. :)  Thanks for the great time everyone. :)

  Right away in the morning Mom and I took off to go to the tiny little town of Zap to look at a dirt bike I was planning on buying.  Well when we got there it wasn't what I was told it was, so we just turned right around and headed back towards home.

  When we got to Bismarck, Mom took me out for lunch, then we picked up the injection pump for the combine which we were having worked on, and then we went to the powersports dealer and I gave myself a birthday present of a new snowmobile helmet and goggles for the season... :)

  Then we went shopping and bought a nice leather coat for me, and then went home. :)  When we got home, Cora had made home made pizza so we had a great supper! :)  I'll let you know what gifts I got later, but I'll just say one of my gifts was a toothpick... ;) 

  Until next time, Jacob B. :)

Ramble Ramble...

Hey guys,
  Not much going on today, so Mom has me doing school work while she's up in Bismarck doing sessions, so here goes another post... :P  I'll try not to bore you all to death... :P

  Anyway, Cora and Andrew left on Friday to go visit some friends and help them out with their corn maze!  They should be coming home sometime today, so lets hope the roads are good for them. :)

  It's raining outside again, we've gotten pretty wet here over the past week, which is being a real problem with people wanting to harvest, but I guess I'd rather have rain for next year then no moisture...

  So yeah, we've pretty much been waiting for it to dry down and it decided it didn't want to dry down... -_-  Anyway, I'll probably be writing more here in the near future, so I'll talk to you all later, Jacob B. :)

It's wet!

Hey guys,
  So it's been a while sense I've written you all again, I've been keeping busy in the shop and a little bit of school work with a good bit of goofing off mixed in as well... :P  I do think mom wants me to get to school soon though so we might as well get this last year over with...

  Two Friday's ago, Mom, Andrew and I went down to Rapid City to attend a class and a expo.  We all had a good time and even went to see Mount Rushmore one night, and stopped into Wall Drug on the way home! :)

  Other then that, it's been pretty much just waiting for the corn to dry down enough to harvest, we we're thinking we could get going this week sometime but then it rained over the weekend so the harvest has been pushed back some...

  On another note, I may be looking into buying a classic car.  I'm not sure what I want to do about that yet, but I'll let you all know when I know... :P  Anyway, I'll talk to you all later, Jacob B! :)

Long Time No Write. Again.

Hey guys,
  So I haven't written anything in quite a while as I've been very busy, along with everyone else in our family, and I don't really like to write, but Mom's starting to think about school, so yeah, here starts the last year of that fun... lol

  Anyway, over the past summer, us guys spent a lot of time going through the 9600 combine we bought last winter at an auction sale, we bought a backhoe attachment at an auction sale and are currently working on some of the hydraulics on that and are going to fit it on a 9030 when it's done.

  I finished fixing up my snowmobile earlier this spring, (put the pistons in the wrong way the first time, *ultimate facepalm*) and now it runs great!  Due to no rain since July (we just finally got some this week) our corn crop has really suffered this year, but it's still hanging in there...

  The alfalfa crop never came back for it's 2nd cutting, because of no rain again, so another tough hay year. :/  And that's pretty been my year in a nutshell, could say a lot more but don't feel like it, so I'll say goodbye for now, Jacob B. :)

Spring update:)

Hey guys,
 It's been a while sense I've written anything on here, and mom told me to do another post, so here goes...  Seeding went well this year, put everything that wasn't hay into corn, and we got most of it in before the rains came so that was nice.

  We've been trying to get our spraying done, but it keeps raining and blowing so that's been kind of tough.  I got my sled back from the dealer the other day, and I have the engine all apart fixing that up again as well... :)

  We hosted a Appleseed shoot last Friday and Saturday, had a pretty good turnout, even with the rainstorm at the end of the first day...  I've been playing World of Tanks a good bit in my spare time as well... :)

  And that's about all of the major news that I can think of right now, we've all been keeping busy and getting stuff done... :P  Anyway, talk to you all later, Jacob B.