Ebbing the Livestock Flow & Heading for Tulsa

We bid adieu to 3 ewes, 3 kids, and 3 rams tonight. These were the ones that we picked up for free a few weeks back (for the most part - actually the 3 kids were born here at the farm and one of the rams is the shetland ram that was one of the first animals we got on the farm.) We traded them off in a cash + hay deal to some guys who came out and picked them up tonight. This helps us to stay more closely in line with our plans to raise quality animals of a specific type rather than a mishmash of mutts. We still have the shetland sheep and the angora goats.
The hay we got is the easy to handle "square bale" (they are actually rectangular) and we picked up about 20 or so. That should make it a bit nicer for Jessica to move hay around when she needs to if I am not around.
The guys came over relatively late (and stayed even later shooting the bull and trying to convince us to sell them a llama at a rock bottom price - which we didn't go for.) Sterling thought it was a real treat to be able to stay up later than the other kids and ended up staying up till about 10:30 (he normally goes to bed at 7:30) so he is going to need a serious nap tomorrow. He enjoyed riding on the running boards of the stock trailer of the guys who came to pick up the sheep, on top of the hay in the back of the truck, and generally just hanging out and feeling special because the other kids were in bed.
On an unrelated note, we received good and bad news today. We were awarded a contract to provide a full-time maintenance guy in Tulsa for a large property management company in Dallas. We normally wouldn't do that in such a remote location, but we are hoping to wow them with our mad skills and convince them to let us handle all their maintenance in the D/FW area (which would be awesome!) Anyway, that's the good news - the bad news is that this maintenance guy in Tulsa is going to be reporting directly to me so I will now be doing business trips to Tulsa (does this remind any of my siblings of their childhoods when their father was on business in Tulsa?) Tulsa is just close enough (~200 miles) that it will make more sense for me to just drive there than to spend an hour and a half driving to the airport (68 miles,) then wait an hour for the flight and check in, then fly for half an hour, then get a rental car, etc. So, it looks like I'll be getting the opportunity to take in the scenery of N. TX and S. OK in the very near future (like next week.) I wonder if I might be able to convince my father to take a road trip with me?