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Thursday, March 14, 2019

A bad day


Bad day

It was a really bad day off  and I came close very close to being killed twice driving. You gotta admit that’s a bad day.  Then the crummy weather forecast we've been having here here in Minnesota for months was really bad. Again. Of course, being gone all day to visit my wife in memory care forced our first ever house dog Lily into making a mistake  or two bedroom rugs.  Other than that I was notified that the pileated woodpecker who had visited my suet feeder for the first time in several  decades visited and began taking chunks of bark off the largest oak tree.  My friend Mr. science proceeded to inform me that my  the oak tree  was, no doubt, dying because somehow the woodpecker knows that and is  chipping away  because it prefers to eat the frozen worms under the bark causing the incipient fatality instead of the usually preferred suet.  Actually that's not all that made that day ""special". Instead I'll just  mention and explain why I had a bad day driving. Perhaps I was a bit distracted though I don't text. There were  10 foot drifts and snow piles along our gravel   road which heads down a hill to a busy highway. That highway has a curve in which speeding trucks appear suddenly.  Between that and the snow  I missed a speeding semi hauling a load of gasoline by about a second. I would’ve been toast. Later, that same day after visiting my tax specialist, I headed home about 30 miles. And shortly after leaving Harmony about five semi’s approached me from the other direction. Several unsecured items flew out of one of them and I only had time to duck as they flew right at me.  With the bang I ducked, held onto the steering wheel and was literally covered with shattered glass. Of course, the semi's kept on going and while I slid into the ditch. Fortunately I was mostly uninjured, though some small embedded glass was stuck into my palms where  I had gripped the steering wheel. I think that qualifies alone on having a bad day driving.  Yup. On the  much brighter side later I talked to my bride for 20 minutes from her new  abode in memory care. She was happy, joking, glad to be in her “apartment” in  Now in retrospect it really wasn’t that  bad a day. When I finally got home I had decided a black cloud had been following me. Later speaking to my daughter-in-law Deanne over the phone she  told me it was a good day because the good Lord and the guardian angels were watching over me. On second thought it was a really good day.....:)

14 comments:

  1. always look on the brighter side!

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  2. Well, you have a positive attitude. It must have been awful, from the looks of your windshield. I had to stop in the road today because someone coming the other way was passing and there he was in my lane coming at me! No one was letting him back in his lane, and I held my breath just as he swung in front of another vehicle and out of my way. Basically he cut them off, but at least he didn't hit me!

    I was lucky that no one was right behind me.

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  3. Oh wow! What an experience. Still, thankfully you are alive to tell the tale. I am almost glad I gave up driving.

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  4. Not a great day. I think the good lord could have stepped in earlier.

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  5. Goodness, that had to have been scary. I guess that you are OK is a huge positive but still that was a lot for one day.

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  6. Oh MY! What a day you had! So scary! I like your DIL's perspective--thank goodness for angels. But...still...I imagine you are still shaking from the experience.

    I am glad that you had a nice visit with your wife. I think that is just what you needed with all that bad news around you. Be strong. Today has to be a better day!

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  7. Deanne nailed it. There was a busy guardian angel!
    Years ago, in the eighties, when I began driving thousands of miles a year as my job, a friend gave me a guardian angel to put in my car. My little angel has moved from car to car. There have been some "bad days", including a chunk of concrete breaking the driver's side glass. That broken windshield glass is some strange stuff, isn't it!

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  8. Whew it was too close for comfort, but lovely to get a nice conversation in, so you were blessed.

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  9. Oh, so sorry. I like your d-i-l's outlook but in truth, it was a really bad day. And now you have to go through the whole mess of repairs and insurance through no fault of your own. I'm sending positive vibes to you and I'll try hard to think more like your d-i-l.

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  10. That must have scared you to death. Thank goodness you are OK and your attitude is amazing. Sending a hug.

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  11. Oh my, that had to be so frightening. I have had too many (3, which is enough) accidents in the snow to keep me in the house when a flake falls. Sometimes we have to have bad days to remind ourselves how good ordinary days are.

    Be careful out there.

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  12. Glad you are okay. Poor Lily I am sure she didn't mean to do anything in the house. Scary on the roads during this horrid weather, you are keeping your guardian Angels busy:)

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  13. That was a terrible day, in my opinion. But the fact that you are here to tell the tale is a good thing. Poor Lily; I'll bet she was chagrined that she couldn't hold it. And I'm really glad that your guardian angels were on high alert for you.

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  14. As you have previously said, you are a water glass "half full" guy. I will say, we are all thankful you survived. And believe it or not, so is Barb.

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