Tuesday, March 17
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Okay sleep.
Getting up and doing my thing, and feeling less anxious.
I did do more cleaning. Dog diaper laundry, dog blanket laundry. I swept and washed the floor in both the small porch and the mud room, which is quite a job.
Then I tried to do some kind of cleaning of the big desk where our computer, and everything else we own lives. It gets stacked with papers and books and odds and ends, and then it gets dusty, and you have to take everything out of the cubbies and off of the surface to try to clean it.
I got everything off and did the dusting, now I have to go through everything I took off and decide what goes back, and what goes somewhere else or gets tossed.
Our whole house needs cleaning. Sigh.
Then I did the usual chores, and headed to the barn.
River did well today, though started off very sluggish. It was warm today, about 10 C, and I think he was hoping he could nap.
It was nice to work with him in such pleasant weather.
On the drive home, I saw a truck stopped on the highway near our place. It was oddly not even really pulled over, just sort of stopped in the lane, and the truck didn't have it's four ways on.
I pulled over ahead of him and asked if he was okay, and he said he had someone coming to get him but it would take them four hours to get there, and he said something about needing to leave his truck there on the side of the road for a day or two.
He wasn't being very smart about being safe, as he was leaving his door open and just walking around, not seeming to check for traffic (there wasn't a lot, but you still look).
I told him that my husband was likely at home, and if wanted, we could likely at least tow him somewhere safer.
So I did.
Then I moved my car so that I was parked behind him so that I could put my four way flashers on, and protect him from oncoming traffic because he didn't seem to have working flashers, though he did pull out some kind of light for the roof of his truck. It was getting dark enough that if he just stayed where he was, barely pulled over, he would probably get struck by another vehicle.
My husband showed up right away, this guy was less than a mile from our house.
It was decided that we would take him to our yard, and my husband decided to drive him to a town where he could at least sit in a restaurant and wait for his ride instead of sitting on the side of the road for four hours.
So, now we have this guy's truck in our yard, and his nephew is supposed to be coming to get it with a flat deck trailer at some point.
Well, we'll see. If we have to, we can get Tim to take it to his mechanic's shop, and it can sit in his yard if it takes longer than a couple of days.
I thought this guy was odd, to not even be trying to call a tow truck to just go back the way he came, to just get back to town and maybe get a hotel until morning to see what the truck needed, or something. He just got back from vacation in Mexico, and was driving home, but didn't have the money to get a tow truck?
My husband didn't get home until nearly ten, meaning he's not getting much sleep tonight.
I did make him something to eat first.
Okay sleep.
Getting up and doing my thing, and feeling less anxious.
I did do more cleaning. Dog diaper laundry, dog blanket laundry. I swept and washed the floor in both the small porch and the mud room, which is quite a job.
Then I tried to do some kind of cleaning of the big desk where our computer, and everything else we own lives. It gets stacked with papers and books and odds and ends, and then it gets dusty, and you have to take everything out of the cubbies and off of the surface to try to clean it.
I got everything off and did the dusting, now I have to go through everything I took off and decide what goes back, and what goes somewhere else or gets tossed.
Our whole house needs cleaning. Sigh.
Then I did the usual chores, and headed to the barn.
River did well today, though started off very sluggish. It was warm today, about 10 C, and I think he was hoping he could nap.
It was nice to work with him in such pleasant weather.
On the drive home, I saw a truck stopped on the highway near our place. It was oddly not even really pulled over, just sort of stopped in the lane, and the truck didn't have it's four ways on.
I pulled over ahead of him and asked if he was okay, and he said he had someone coming to get him but it would take them four hours to get there, and he said something about needing to leave his truck there on the side of the road for a day or two.
He wasn't being very smart about being safe, as he was leaving his door open and just walking around, not seeming to check for traffic (there wasn't a lot, but you still look).
I told him that my husband was likely at home, and if wanted, we could likely at least tow him somewhere safer.
So I did.
Then I moved my car so that I was parked behind him so that I could put my four way flashers on, and protect him from oncoming traffic because he didn't seem to have working flashers, though he did pull out some kind of light for the roof of his truck. It was getting dark enough that if he just stayed where he was, barely pulled over, he would probably get struck by another vehicle.
My husband showed up right away, this guy was less than a mile from our house.
It was decided that we would take him to our yard, and my husband decided to drive him to a town where he could at least sit in a restaurant and wait for his ride instead of sitting on the side of the road for four hours.
So, now we have this guy's truck in our yard, and his nephew is supposed to be coming to get it with a flat deck trailer at some point.
Well, we'll see. If we have to, we can get Tim to take it to his mechanic's shop, and it can sit in his yard if it takes longer than a couple of days.
I thought this guy was odd, to not even be trying to call a tow truck to just go back the way he came, to just get back to town and maybe get a hotel until morning to see what the truck needed, or something. He just got back from vacation in Mexico, and was driving home, but didn't have the money to get a tow truck?
My husband didn't get home until nearly ten, meaning he's not getting much sleep tonight.
I did make him something to eat first.
