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Well, my time at home was much too short, the first day, we got home around 3 p.m. after unpacking, I then proceed to mow our yard which wasn't as tall as I thought it would be for 2 weeks growth. The next day had my doctor appointment in a city about 70 miles away and took most of that day , got home around 3, so most of that day 'home' was short, the next day I had to go to town and get this weeks supplies and groceries and spent about 4 hours in town,got to go to a new store in town that is up my ally, a flee market/ antique kind of store, I found me some neat treasures, an anaconda purse, for only 10 $, some real stone jewelry with very cheap prices, and so I was in 7th heaven with all my finds, did spend way to much, thank goodness I don't do this kind of shopping too often, so there went my next 'day' home, so yesterday spent my only full day at home, it rained all day got about 2 inches of rain, spent this home day piddle farting around, and doing laundry and packing to go back on the road.
We are now headed out to West Kansas to pick up a load of raw milk to take either to Winnsboro Tex. or Sulphur Springs Tex. don't know exactly the destination till this evening.
I got a call this morning from my brother who is truck driver too, and he told me of an humorous/sad situation according to how you want to view it, He was spending his sleep time at a pickle park just north of Wichita Ks. As he was trying to sleep he was wakened by a naked drugged 'lot lizard' /prostitute, she had needle marks all over her arms and legs. anyhoo, she hollers out at him asking if he wanted to have sex, He told her to leave, she then goes and knocks on other trucker doors, and then came back to his, he then calls 911 and the cops show up about 5 min. later and proceeds to try to get her, she is higher than a kite on drugs, she is screaming and kicking and hitting these 2 officers , they try to handcuff her she then kicks one of then extremely hard in his 'manhood' area, apparently so hard that it incapacitates him, he is puking and so the other officer tries to go it alone, she pees all over the guy, then hwy patrol shows up, and man and woman officers and the 3 of them wrestles her to the ground and finally get her in back seat of the patrol car, the ambulance shows up to take the injured officer to hospital. Of all places for something like this to happen , Kansas, of all places, 'they' are definitely everywhere!
Life on the road can be interesting at times, but more times than not it is same o same o just like any other job. I do hope this week is interesting in a good, way!
I hope all have a wonderful week, take care,
blessings,
We decided to go shopping before the zoo, my sister and I! What a great day we had planned. And it was going so well! Out of the six major Thrift World Stores in the Metro area of Omaha, we hit two. The two nicest ones with the Brand Name clothes! One on the Northwest side of Omaha and one on the Southeast side of Omaha near the Zoo.
What a great way to end our mini camping trip that just turned in to being a mini stay at my sister's house due to the varying weather that kept popping up! Instead of staying at the really nice free camp grounds we stayed at my sister's house for a few days, I wasn't going to chance being caught near a big man made lake that had extermly high levels near the banks of the camp ground!
Anyway, after a GREAT haul of a summer woredrobe for both kids from two different thrift shops and then treating the kids to lunch, we headed to Henery Dooley (sp?) Zoo for a nice afternoon. It started out great! We hit the Jungle, the Sea Lions, the Garden of Senses, the Cat House, part of the Avaiary, the Gorrila House, the Cat Complex, the feeding time for the smaller tropical birds, the Desert Dome, and the Giaraff House. With smaller enclousers along the way of course! Of course pictures are on here! Enjoy!
While we were just ouside of the New Butterfly House and the Aquareme deciding which one we were going to go in first before we started heading to the town were my van was sitting so the kids and I could head home and my sister and her kids could head home, we heard the tornado sirins go off! Now I know why so many ppl get killed in public places during storms! The tornado sirns go off and the majority of the Zoo visitors head for the Goddess Dayum parking lots! I kid you not! Well being country girls, my sister and I herd the kids to the aquarememe (sp?) house under the canapoy and bust out our cell phones. Each of us respectively calling our hubby's, asking them why the hell neither one of them called to tell us there was a storm system heading straight at Omaha! We informed both of them that we were heading for the storm shelters in the Fish house and we would call once the storm passed. Then we hearded the kids towards one of the Zoo Workers holding a door open to the basement of the complex leading to the exective offices and we were one of the first groups down.
There were a few other ppl down there already but what we found the most funny out of this was that everyone single person down there including us, were NOT from Omaha persay but from the surrounding communities and areas! We are NOT fools! While the main secruity guy was telling us and the few zoo workers what the plan was, he was getting reports from the weather radio and the few of us that stopped and made calls. Then he asked us to sit tight, while he and his other crew went outside to go round up the rest of the Zoo visitors and get them inside various zoo complexes till the storm passed.
We had a couple of upset kids of course, my daughter being one of them, and a lot of upset ppl, including ball players that stuck around after the College World Series before they went home. Those of us from the midwest were laughing and joking and calming the kids down. We kept telling everyone that we are in one of the safest buildings and don't worry about the animals they know what to do and the zoo workers were making sure they were safe also. Once all the zoo workers got in the main secruity guy came back in to our basement and said it was pitch black out and winds up to 90-100 miles per hour and they would not know if a tornado hit till after it was clear out. The lights did go out and thankfull the generator kicked on right away.
After we got the okay to clear out and leave the zoo, we got some pictures of the damage done in side the zoo. Down trees and one of the heavy glass safety entrance doors to the Wild Kingdom Palliviallion was completely blown off and laid gently down in front of the Pavillion! I missed that picture! There was hail everywhere! We had to make our way out of the Eastern Side of Omaha back towards the I-10 exit so we could head to Freemont NE which is an hour Northeast of Omaha, where my van was sitting! Damage everywhere! While driving the news said, the Art Festival got hit hard downtown Omaha, there was a boat taken off of a dock in the Missiouri and was dropped on the roof of a house, trees blocking roads, and down electrical poles all over Omaha downtown/metro area! We stopped on the outskirts of town to feed the kids and the Taco Johns we hit had running TVS. The area heading to Fremont NE was hit hard also and a semi rig was entangled in electrical wires! Cars of the road, rigs off the road, and major damage. This system worked its way into IA and massive damage and two killed on the IA side.
We got detoured outside of a town between Omaha and Fremont due to massive damage and accidents. Where I got a phone call from Randy when he got home. My dog Spud died during the day yesterday! Randy was upset and of course the kids and I were very upset also, but we also knew the dog was going to end up dying on us. Spud was the dog with the unknown seizures. At first Randy thought he somehow choked while he was outside on the chain but when he went up to examine Spud, there was plenty of slack in the chain and the collar would have slipped right off of his neck (we made sure that it could slip off if he was caught up when running or on the chain if something would have happened). The way Spud was laying and his facial features, you could tell he had a massive siezure. So trying to find our way on back country roads and county paved hiways we didn't know to get back into Fremont, we had upset kids and nobody was out directing the traffic. My sister and I again being country girls said fuck it and got on a country road and started heading towards the sun because Northwest was where we wanted to head. We picked up a truck in front of us from our home area just a different county and he had the same idea. We got rerouted via the roads with no help from anyone due to big trees, silos, fencing, and other debries in the mushy gravel roads! A normal 1 hour drive from Omaha to Fremont took 2 hours!
Once we got to a lil town Southeast of Fremont which would have been the quickest route we got denied by a State Trooper directing traffic. Nobody was allowed into town where a small lake was surrounded wiht houses and such due to the damage! They weren't letting anyone through not even family members of the town or land owners with no houses. Ambulances and Fire trucks were all over the town and two of the rural fire trucks were making their way towards the other road leading to Fremont. We just turned around and followed the fire trucks into Fremont. Finally! Fremont NE had no major damage. Some trees down and some windows broken but no major damage. Then we pull up into the truck stop where we left my van. I got a lovely suprise! My rear windsheild was blown out or a rock got kicked up in the storm! I have no rear windshield now! Nothing was stolen. But everything was glass covered clear up to the front seat and everything was water logged! Thank GODS I had what ever paperwork I did have in there in sacks and covered up! My Leadership Manual alone would have cost me 100 some dollars to replace if it got water logged or damaged somehow!
So I called Randy yet again and told him we FINALLY made it into Fremont but I would be still a lot later because we had to clean up the glass and find places for the kdis to sit with out getting cut up! Thankfull we were able to pull a couple of the pillows from underneith my tent that dind't have glass on it and give those to the kids to sit on. My sister handed over one of her towels so I could sit on it while driving. And then we rearrange the back so none of my Thrift shop finds, my tents, sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, or other camping gear would go flying out for my hour drive home! I ended up pulling over twice on the way home to rearrange my back but FINALLY my normal two hour drive ended up being a 4 hour and 45 minute drive and we made it home at 8:45pm. where we promptly unloaded the van and shop vaccued it out so I could get some plastic on the windshield due to more storms coming this weekend.
After we got that done, we gave Spud my Fat Man Dog a burial worthy of a King. See we couldn't bury him. The ground is too wet and his smell would draw the local wild dog pack and the local coyote pack. Not to mention all the other wild critters int he area. So we took my lovely burn pile Randy made up for me this weekend and gave Spud a Funeral Pry. We didn't want any other anmals digging him up and eating on him. Randy loaded him on the bonfire and I threw some sage, cedar chips, and sweet grass all over Spud and we said a lil blessing for him and said our goodbyes.
Now today, I get to call his old family and inform them that he is gone. I am doing laundry from the back of my van and going to take the kids down to my girl's house because they are still stressed from last night. A lil fun down at Aunties house and coming home about the time Daddy gets home from work will do them good.
Now I am off to throw another sleeping bag into the wash! Pictures to come after this post!
After that week two weeks ago, I was ready to freaking snap on anyone and everyone! I even called Randy this past week and said your turn to plan date night and it is going to be after Father's Day!
We called our instructor at TKD and I gave him the low down on why I have been so stressed and he said no problem, we set up a couple private instruction times for this next week on top of our normal class times just so we can get caught up. I am okay with that.
DeLaney had a play date last week. Her lil friend's mom and I don't totally agree on a lot of things but we agree not to hold that against the girls. Randy and I have to sit down every time that DeLaney is with that lil girl and explain some things to her that they do and why we don't. But I had to have some words with her friend's mom about men and kids and how she will NOT be poisning MY Daughter's head against her dad or any other man because she is having issues with her current hubby and is going through a divorce. The girls have one major thing in common concerning their dads. They both work on the road. And that is where the similarity ends. Randy is very logical and is a non practicing Lutheran that is slowly starting to go through my various religious and spiritual books and is questioning both my moms and myself on things. Laney's lil friend's dad is a fluff ball wiccan wonder. Randy makes a point in calling his kids and myself EVERY NIGHT he is on the road, even if it is for only one night he is gone. Laney's lil friend's dad doesn't even bother calling his daughter when he is gone and he is gone for 6 months to a year at a time for a job! Might only come home for the weekend once a month! When he is home he buys Laney's lil friend off and makes it a competition between him and his soon to be ex wife. Randy doesn't buy his kids' affection. He spends time with them even when he is tired!
Anyway the reason why I am so ReEnergized, we got invited down to the RiverFront Day's Dance Friday night by some of our friends! My parents took the kids for the night and over night so Randy and I could go out. Well Randy and my friend's ol man had to work the next day so they maintained. My friend and I said screw it! Her in laws had her kids over night, my parents had our kids over night, other friends that showed up managed to talk their parents into keeping their kids over night and we had a blast! We left our friend's house about 9:30 pm and went to go get gas. Where we laughed our assess off! Some chicy babe at the gas station was already ripped by quarter till 10! She ended up leaning out of a duel diesel big ass truck to blow chunks in front of the county cop no less! My girl then got hit on by that same county cop while paying for the gas!:P We went over to the Bottle Shop and got beer and ice for the cooler and toook a cruse down by the dance to see if anyone was there, NOPE! So then we headed down to the marina so we could see who was there.
We decieded to walk in and have a beer down at the Marina Bar. Nothing but out of staters, ppl from Omaha and the Bluffs, and ol ppl coming in from the river. The guys each had one beer. My girl and I don't like beer and knew that is what we were pretty much stuck drinking Friday night so we guzzled two down at the marina to get that nasty ass taste out of our mouth. Then we drove back up to the main street and hit the bar! The bar was jumping! We didn't get very far from the door it was so packed. But that is okay we had a grand blast (us girls) talking to everyone coming and going from the bar. Saw one of our friends' from higschool brothers there! That was a trip! He is older then my cousin who is older then my sister! And here he is trying to hang with the young bucks! Then we turned around to help out a friend of my friend who was being hit on by some drunk young buck straight out of highschool and saw "The Smurf and Torpedo Tits" from highschool! Two girls that are 4 years older then us and thought their shit didn't stink. Smurf is married to a guy from my brother's class who stands 6'3 and that bitch only stands 5'2! Talk about your odd couples! They weren't to happy seeing us there laughing at them! Especially knowing the fact we know they are two elementry school teachers and ten to one some of their school kids' parents were at the bar drinking up also! They stopped to talk to us because they knew we know more ppl than they did down there and Smurf's hubby was drunk off his ass really trying to talk to me about my brother! Our hubby's were just sitting at the bar trying not to go to sleep on us and chatting with various guys they knew or worked with off and on. I got Randy to do a Jager Bomb with me. We decieded it was time to hit the dance and the beer garden when one of our other friends FINALLY showed up!
So we get to the dance, and of course it is one of the local bands that ruines every fucking song they attempt to sing or play, so we went on out to the beer garden where we promptly ran back into our friend's brother. Laughed our asses off at our friends' ex sister in law who was getting rubbed up on by ol men and nasty looking men showing off her fake titties that she got in an attempt to keep his brother from divorcing her! Nobody would do a shot with me so I talked my friend's brother into doing one. Then I had some dude buy me another shot thinking I would go down with back to back shots with all that beer in me already, suprise. That fucker took two steps from the beer garden and went down hard! I laughed and went back to our group. My girls were laughign and said when are ppl going to realize that when you drink you drink! Randy was suprised at hell because he was trying to keep track of how much I was haivng because he has NEVER seen me drunk until Friday night!
All we did was talk, a couple of dances with our men, go to the bathroom,a nd drink! It was a blast! We walked out of the dance about 1 and straight into a line of county cops and town cops waiting for the drunks to stagger out. We lost my girl back in the dance cause she got to talking! Her ol man went back into get her and Randy and I sat outside and talked to the cops! I promptly took my shoes, my earings, and my necklace off. Oh by the way you should have seen me! I was looking HOT! I had short black figure hugging capries on, a pair of heeled black slip on sandles, a brand new yellow, orange, and balck halter type top that showed off the tat tats (which I promptly made sure to say loud enough to my girls ex sister in law were REAL and NOT fake when my girl said loud enough boy you sure have big tat tats to be holding that top up!-were bad and catty I know!) and I bought matching yellow big hooped earings and a black and yellow necklace to go with the outfit! We finally got going back to our friends' house when he found his wife and he chitted up the cops a lil bit. Thank GODS that the men were stone sober and just maintained their drinking while us girls got ripped!
We took back country roads home and that is where I fully admit to saying I lost my cookies! Mixing all thsoe shots with beer and then hitting back country roads so the guys could have a couple of beers on the way home. Up and down, curves up and down on bluff roads with two very drunk ppl in the car is not a mix to make! My girl was laughing her ass off at me and laughed even harder when I mangaded to say "Hell at least I am not blowing chunks! It is straight up booze and beer!" They guys were laughing just as hard because Randy still can't believe I was that drunk and I was still very coherant to remember everything! Well I got the last laugh Saturday at 8 am when my girl woke me up! She admitted to loosing her cookies after she went to bed at 2! I was flopped down on my bed at 1:30!
We felt bad and fully admit we own our men big time! They worked 12 hours Friday, came home and took us out to the dance and turned around and got up at 5am after going to bed at 2 am! My girl had to pick up her youngest at her inlaws by 9:30 and I had to go pick up my kids sometime in the morning from my parents. Well we did that and low and behold my parents took off with my kids! So we went to my house with her lil girl and while I was picking up they sat back and relaxed! I called my folks to find out when they were going to be home and after they got home, we grabbed my kids and headed back down to River Front Days!
We watched the parade and laughed our assess off at her brother in law's ex wife (the one with the fake tat tats!) because she thinks she is soooooooo cute and she cant' even wear decent clothes and her ass crack was showing all day. Me and my girl are big girls but we have some class and know how to show our curves off properally! And again we did. We kept getting hit on all day long! plus ppl were trying to steal my cowboy hat! Yes I was wearing a cowboy hat! A black straw one with a skull and cross bones on it! Our four kids know how to work parades, they all had huge bags of candy which we promptly put away after the parade in the van. Then we bought all 4 of them wrist bands to hit the street carnavale and let the 3 oldest go off by themselves while my girl took her lil girl around and I hit the store for bottles of water and motrin to work off our booze headaches!
It was great. Once I talked to a few ppl making my way back to my girla nd her lil girl, we found out the bar we were at last night was giving free BBQ Beef Sandwiches away from one of my girl's aunties. So we went in and loaded up for us and the kdis. Then her hubby showed up and let me know my ol man was home napping!:D We loaded her man up on a plate and made our way back through the carnaval! My kids and I finally made it home about 3:30, where Randy was sleeping on the couch! I set the kids up outside in their lil pool and the phone. Told them if they needed anything to come up to my room and wake me up and I promptly laid down on the bed for a tw hour nap!
Amazing what a weekend out will do for a person! Today after my Moms gets back with the rug rats from Mass, the kids and I are treating Pappo and Daddy out to a nice Brunch for Daddy's day.
Hope all the Dad's have a great Daddy's Day! Same with the single Mom's out there! Have a great Daddy's Day if you are also Daddy!:D
Over the 1500 miles, my 323i was averaging 32.6 miles per gallon. Not bad, Not bad at all.
by the 2 weeks end I think we'll have driven over 4000 miles. Hopefully I won't exceed the 15,000 mile oil change by too much.
Yes I change the oil every 15000 miles. My car's over 142000 miles. No issue, no oil burning at all.
The paper filter doesn't look so hot after 15000, so I changed out the oil filter around 7000-8000 miles. not the oil though.
I recently changed the valve cover and I gotta say, it was super clean inside, no sludge what so ever, Synthetic OIL is AWSOME.
I need to replace the clip on my under engine cover, it keeps coming loose.
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