Back to Work

Thanksgiving behind us. Hopefully the "busiest shopping day of the year"..also, done. Has anyone updated to the new blogger thing they keep pushing on login?

Had a good visit with the 2 Texas boys, and the Little Blondie, Didn't get to visit much with the Energizer Bunny or the Jindian, or even Sam...but a little bit with all. The 4 weeks out seemed forever, the 5 days off just flew though. I'm still finding life has too many things I want to enjoy and just not enough time to do much but a sample of this and that.

While I'm still working thru the book I HIGHLY recommend to all... 9 Things You Simply Must Do . But I've also started in on a new purchase, "The New Create an Oasis with Greywater"...choosing, building, and using greywater systems includes branched drains. I need this, not just for developing a site for rentals but also to improve how our house functions. Especially looking forward to adding a dishwasher but not running the drain to the septic.

Anyhow, just an update. About to hit the road again in a few hours and enjoying whats left of the year between now and Christmas. Hopefully will send more from the road.

Time to go home!

Waiting, waiting, waiting....stumbled across a blogsite where a guy was taking lots of "ordinary" pictures in England that he calls funkypancake . Alot of the pictures are framed crooked or diagonal or ? but after looking thru the page of pics I felt like I had been on a mini excursion to England.

Meanwhile, we were supposed to be able to finish up and be home by now, but we got delayed in Dallas and will likely sit here till well past midnight before we can finish up and head home . Really looking forward to Thanksgiving, visiting, and being home.

Moments in Life

Passing thru Wyoming, alas still on I80 but not Pennsylvania this time.

As you can see from this picture, there is alot of time to think...and listen to the xm radio. This morning as miles rolled by and channel 171 "open road" was on, I was listening to Marcia Campbell, and she asked "what do you call a male turkey, a female turkey, a baby turkey"...and her phone started ringing with guesses.

This one guy that called in was so loaded with obvious "into it" excitement as he described how he sprang into action using speed dial to call his brother the game warden. As he proudly explained about his having speed dial set up on his cell phone, and how his brother had speed dial too, and Marcia was amused asking him "did you wake him up to ask him?" " Oh No, he was eating breakfast..." and the call went on.

What was CRYSTAL clear to me was the amount of concentration and excitement in the guys voice, like a kid eagerly set out to do a job he's proud to do...I can see him adjusting the volume on his radio as the program begins, listening intently and enjoying the program and hearing the question ..he lights up, Yeah! and he's involved. For the moments that follow, and minutes that follow, this guys got some zest and purpose and interest and excitement...and he's driving his truck and talking to his brother with enthusiasm and calling the radio station and waiting , hoping to get thru. He's got the answer.

Ahhh...I love watching other people enjoy moments in life, simply, sometimes in quite puzzling ways... To think that somewhere this very morning, somebody was angry or irritated or lost or confused or even sleeping...totally unaware that there was sheer excitement to be had.

Life is cool. Keep it simple, keep it within the moment.

A LOUD BRAIN BUT QUIET BLOG

As K pointed out in his comments...this blog has been too quiet. (And the cookie sneaking would have been quiet if it weren't for the dang coffee pot burning my bare chest when I reached by it in the dark). My brain has been busy, its been noisy in there even, but just not much finished prose conducive thought...just processing day to day stuff. If anything profound did come thru, it left before I could write it down so...it did me no bloggable good.

Haven't even been taking pictures these past couple weeks because the trip has been between New Jersey and Ohio pretty much back and forth back and forth, ...but alas finally in Cedar Rapids for a few hours till the next load begins...hmmm...the place it destinates (if that isn't a word it should be)...let me guess, WOW...NEW JERSEY!! Cool, that will provide a chance to see...hmmm PENNSYLAVANIA...where we've spent the majority of the past couple weeks..). Ahhh...well, its a living and each day is interesting for some reason or another.

So you can hear moments from my brain, recorded like a snapshot...This, in "that" sense, is a picture for ya...

{*BRAIN PHOTOS BEGIN HERE*}
Wow, that dang caution sign blinking so bright it blinded me in spots, too bright to read, probably said CAUTION BRIGHT BLINKING LIGHTS...trip meter says 453 miles done, hmm thats 368 remaining, fuel level? 7/8, probably got about 150 gallons left/900 miles, so no need to stop. There aren't any good fuel stops at the end of the trip though? ahh, will still have plenty even there. ok. Road conditions pretty good so far, probably average 60-65 so maybe 6 hours to destinate...what time is it now? 6am central, so should be there around noon ...well, 1pm eastern. Good..thats earlier than appointment, and still within a legal log, (checking speed, tach, gear position, air pressure, oil pressure, water temp....study on the mirrors a bit to figure out whats "incoming" from a ways back)

Don't see any signs of troublesome wind in the trees, grass, sky. Maybe a little from the north, not enough to need reaction. XM radio showing "landline now" coming on, put out by OOIDA...a chance to catch up on what new rules and regulations are being considered or contested...and any new state laws that I may have to comply with.

Dang, that Notre Dame game sure stirred up alot of traffic!! Thats over 100 cars per minute passing me the other way...and its been that way for about half an hour. Check odometer...31,004 seems like alot for 6 weeks driving...just got it serviced its first time. The mechanic didn't seem too thrilled with his career choice, or his existence, alot of people like that. I hope them 5 kids of ours all find "true success" as grandpa Jack defined being in a job and getting paid for something that he'd be doing for free if he retired.

Ahhh man, thats funny/tacky...some guy just called into the radio and dedicated the song "hang down your head tom dooly"...to Sadam Hussein. Wonder if they'll actually ever hang him? Woah..stay still ya big buck..sure been alot of deer on the shoulders lately, and alot of roadkill deer. Thats the first buck i've seen though...in a very long time.
I like those deerstands built on 4 posts...need to build one of those at the ranch for the grandkids to use as a treehouse...

HAHAHA that guy is ornery. Sun isn't up very high now, and as he passes I can see that his wife(?) is sleeping in the passenger seat, but he...is motioning for me to pull the air horn!! Not gonna do it buster brown, you wanta wake her up, YOU do it, and don't have me to blame...LOL.

Some of the trees are naked already. Some still boasting with fall color but losing pizazz. God didn't create this world using the fad of our century "mass production"....each piece is unique...Quite artistic our Creator is! LOL...guy on the radio just said "my wife drives 75% of the time actually, ...i just sit there with my hands on the wheel"...

By the time Thanksgiving gets here , we'll have been out 4 weeks, sure looking forward to that time, may even take a vacation week.

There K ! (now you know what "leave sleeping dogs lay" means )( ps. you oughta come thanksgiving so we can have a christmas holiday early, much more fun than end of the year).