I have to admit I love to listen to the Big Men In  Trucks and watch them work. They seem to hold the secrets of the universe in my mind, they can shift the landscape, they can start any old truck, they can wield a tractor like a conductor wields a baton, and they saved our barn today.

Ray (left) Vince (right) and son Chad peeking through met repeatedly to engage in Big Men In Truck talk, none of which I understand. They forever try valiantly to explain things to me, and politely ask my opinion.

But we all know they know what they are doing and I don’t. In five hours, they completely re-worked the Pole Barn, saving one bowing wall and changing the composition of the gravel. For good measure, they put most of our manure mound into Scott Carrino’s old army truck.

I love these guys, they know just how the world works, and I could not live here with out them.