Lifes a Train wreck

This weekend was not the best of weather by a long shot! It rained, it was cloudy, and we had thunder and lightning….

The thunder rolled from the time I went to bed last night until I rolled out of it this morning.

The sky cleared off and on yesterday, but guess what? It is clearing off this morning! Just in time to go back to work… I’m so excited.

Here it is, the weekend, and its raining and stormy… thunder and lightning with raindrops, oh my! You would think the weather would have the simple dignity to wait until Monday to wreck havoc on my mood.

No sitting outside this morning on wildlife watch, sipping my coffee, cradling the camera in the off chance something would swim by and pose….

I was hoping to get up to the creek today and take some pictures for a new article, fresh water springs are new to me, and I am sure that I am not the only one.

We had also hoped to clean out the storage shed today, in hopes of shrinking our vast array of junk, as well as the bill to keep it… life’s junk, and all the memories that go with it.

One of the guys caught a grass snake at work on Friday, it might have been a foot long if it stretched hard. The area the shop is in is heavily wooded and full of fauna: we see lizards, snakes, you name it, we probably have it marauding around there. We even have a “shop” pet, a tarantula that pops out on occasion to say hi, and scare the dickens out of the unwary!

The new job is going well, most of the people are great, and the work is steady. Hopefully the economy, or the Presidents new health bill will not destroy it. Thankfully there are a few intelligent people in politics that bothered to read the bill enough to catch the horrendous ignorance within and stall its passing.

The thunder is rolling, time to go…

Tom

This week seemed very long indeed, and by comparison the weekend hardly began before it was nearly over.

I am learning to use an computerized electric metal brake for the first time. It requires a different approach than the old style hand brakes, but if you have alot of pieces to bend up it really is a good thing to have.

I massacred a finger Friday right before quitting time… really made my day let me tell you. Smashed the tip between a metal coil and the spool it goes on while loading it up on the machine for Monday morning. It peeled the tip back and bled all over, yay! Then when it was time to bring in all the trailers for the night it started pouring rain. A great finish to a crappy day.

I finally wrote a new article that was published on AC today. It was on the visitors I had in the backyard this morning, a momma and child Dolphin pair, swimming around in the bayou in our backyard! I even managed pictures….

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1935318/dolphins_in_the_backyard_.html?cat=7

The yard is nearly mowed since last I wrote, the repair shop finally finished the carb rebuild and I got it put together last weekend. Now if only I could get Robert to volunteer to finish the job….

It has been cooler here, cooler as in the mid 90’s… funny how that doesn’t sound cooler, but it is.

Tom

It is only two days, but hey, I’ll take it! We don’t get any frilly holidays off, or benefits beyond that all important paycheck so two whole days off is nothing to shake a stick at.

We will watch the fireworks as usual, and with any luck I’ll be swimming in a fresh water, spring fed creek by tomorrow afternoon! The water tha boils up from underground into the creek is COLD! Just when I had thought all of Florida was 100 degrees, I discover natures refrigerator lurking in the woods….

This week was full of long hours at work, but since overtime is not allowed, it resulted in a short Friday. A four and one half hour workday that didn’t start until 10:00 am… oh well.

I sat outside watching the water this morning, and it was full of surprises here by the house. Jumping rays, large fish, and sailboats! Yup it is the holiday weekend.

I hope to have the push mower working today, the carburetor was at the small engine shop for three weeks. We got it back on Thursday, but today was the first time I have the chance to put the mower back together. The weeds are loving the lack of lawn maintenance, but the vacation from spinning blades is nearly ended. Once the push mower is up and running I will work on getting the lawn tractor running again… never leave gas sitting in your gas powered equipment, it really does not pay!

Tom