Stuck in the mud!

It is almost deer hunting season, and my husband, his brother-in-law, and a good friend of their's have all been going down to the deer lease to setup and get the land ready for hunting. A few weeks ago they went to setup deer stands that they had built, but they were not able to completely finished - for some reason they are NEVER finished, there is ALWAYS something else to do! Nonetheless, they went up to the land again last weekend. With the high and steady rainfall, they were forced to work in the barn and carry everything out to set it up. On Saturday, TJ called me and informed me that they were coming home - this was about 12 hours earlier than we were expecting. However, our truck was stuck in the mud. He drove on the land to the furthest point to setup one of the deer stands. This just so happened to be next to a pond on the land, and on the day of record breaking rainfall for the month of September in the state of Texas! Great plan!! lol

The next day, they all went out to get the truck and bring it home. Six hours later, the truck was out of the mud, but was stuck in 4 wheel drive low - as I have learned, you can not drive faster than 10 MPH. They waited 2 hours to let it cool down, hoping that it would still not release from 4 wheel drive. They left the truck over night, again, and got home at 3 am that morning - this was Monday. Knowing how upset that I was about the truck having been driven on the land, in the first place, and then, getting stuck in the mud, TJ arranged for me to drive the car all day. Since he drives so much, he takes the car to work, and I take the truck on a normal basis - NOT THIS WEEK! Monday night, they were all supposed to go out there again; however, at this point, TJ and has brother-in-law, have been riding on 4 hours of sleep a night for the last 4 days, and my father-in-law, likewise, for the last two nights. We all decided that them getting rest would be more beneficial than going back out to get the truck. This meant that I and my sister-in-law would finally get some sleep, now, too. Neither one of us can sleep without the guys there!

Wednesday night came around, and the all went back out to get the truck and BRING IT HOME! We were praying really hard about it, because we were afraid of it remaining in 4 wheel drive low, and that we were going to have to put it in the shop. At about 10 pm that night, TJ called me and said, that they were on there way back and he figured out what went wrong. It was operator error, he did not realize that he had to manually disengage the 4 wheel drive. A lot of trucks will have the 4 wheel drive that you have to engage, but once the truck feels like the 4 wheel drive is no longer needed, it takes it back of; similar to the drifting feature on vehicles. So, I asked him, "What did we learn here?" And he said, "I learned that I don't have the 4 wheel drive that I thought I did!"

I was so tired, that I just let that one go.