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Satisfaction

Satisfaction...For Jayden it's doing well at a rodeo and placing. For Jake it's the satisfaction of bringing a vehicle back to life. Jake has done it time and time again. It started with Mark's old 4 wheeler, then it was the old IH German tractor, then the Farmall M. He also took Mark's old Chevy and gave her some big renovations and got it running much better. Then it was the old flatbed Ford and now his Cutlass Oldsmobile. These are all projects Jake has started and he gets such satisfaction in seeing them run. The smile on his face and enthusiasm in his voice when he is talking engines, carburetors, transmissions, and all kinds of things I have no idea what he is talking about. I just nod my head and say wow as he goes into all kinds of details explaining how he did this and that. The old Ford truck had been very frustrating. It made numerous trips to Nate's shop and had many fixings only to have it not start. Mark told Jake that is why it had been sitting in the barn for the past 15 years. He told Jake just to park it and forget it. Jake just couldn't do it. It bothered him as he kept working on it. Eventually he decided it needed a new starter. On his own, he ordered one and put in a new starter. He was amazed at the difference it made and that was indeed the fix. He worked on it one evening until 10:30. I admit I was annoyed that he was not home and I had asked him several times to come home. His supper had been waiting for hours and we were going to bed. He needed to get up for work the next morning and needed to shower and get to bed. When he came rolling in the driveway and came to the door he was proud as a peacock. He shut his truck off and said,"Listen." It took one turn and she started. He was hooping and hollering. He had to start it a few more times just to hear it start as Luke and I watched. To him, that was like Jayden winning a rodeo. He won his prize!
  


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