Or maybe I should say yesterday and today. After all, I am going to start with yesterday first.
I would say that it was for the most part... abnormal. FOr one I was doing painting at work, which just isn't normal for me. Most of the time work has to do with gutters. Anyway, I was painting the rail on somebodies porch.
We had to rush home before it was finished, because my boss' son had a socker game, and I was supposed to go help a friend build some fence.
So we came home, and Lavon took off for the game, and I stayed back a little, then Claudia and I took of to go do the fence. We picked Shane up, then went to the Big R where we were supposed to pick up the supplies and meet with the friends.
I have built fences, and I have built them in funny places, out of funny things, and in very funny ways. I told Shane that I could build a fence out of nothing, which is a little ebit of an exageration. Anyway, it was and adventure, putting 100 ft of fence up with a tottal of nine posts and two barn walls. With all the funny ways I have done fencing, I still ran into problems with this one. Not that any of them were to big, or shocking, just new different things.
We arrived on location to build a little after 7 pm, and started laying out our plans. Soon, of course, it got dark, so we pointed the truck headlights at our work zone, and kept going.
Oh yeah, did I remember to tell you that I was using my boss' F150 pickup.
We also hoocked my mp3 player up to the truck sterio and listened to music while we worked. And when we got done, the truck wouldn't start. So, we had to jump it.
We didn't finish till after 10 pm, and then we only finished because we had to, I still have the gate left to put on. We went in and had dinner (real late) and then were finally on our way. I had had calles frim Kim (Shanes dad) and Lavon (Claudias dad and my boss), you know, just checking on us, and seeing when on earth were we gonna be home.
We didn't leave till after 11.
I dropped shane off at his house, and we turned to go home, about halway down the road, we realized than shane had left something in the car! so we turned arround and took it back to him.
Well, I was supposed to have stopped by safeway on an errend on my way home, and I thought safeway clossed at midnight, so, I decided to rush it. I had a half hour to get there, and about a half hour of driving ahead of me. Oh yeah. Betweeen home, and Shanes house, there are these long, streight streches of road with awfully low speed limits. Now I would almost think that the limit should be 75 on these things, but it isn't, it is 45 on a lot of them. I was going 60. Ahead I saw one of the two redlights between me and my destination. The road is so streight that It was red, then green, then red again, then green again by the time I approached it. But, as fate would have, it turned yellow! At 60 MPH it is hard to stop in time, so I decided to beat the yellow, but, it turned RED! No way to stop. There was one car at the intersection to our left. I knew it would still be red for him, and that even if i stopped I would be in the intersection or through it, therefore causing more possibility of an accident (I am making it sound really dangerious here, but it wasn't all that daring).
Wouldn't you know it, that ONE car was a cop? wouldn't you know it! Of all the chances. You never see a cop there. Almost never on the road even. He walked up to the window and said something like, Now if you had been doing 45, instead of 60, you would have been able to stop for that red light. Sigh, I knew it, and I knew it was my fault to. I had been trying to slow my driving down some, andd for the most part, I had been. But there it was, or there I was. I probably made the fellows day, he needed his quota. LOL. He was really good, didn't fuss much at all, and took care of everything quickly, and I was on my way.
Did you all know safeway closses at 11 pm? I was rushing for nothing.
We got home, we went to bed. I woke up this morning to find... SNOW! It was suppopsed to rain, but snow! It's May 1st!
I love snow. I look out my window as I type this and can see large big flakes floating to the ground outside. Oh sigh, I love it. So much more peacefulll than my speeding ticket.
Well, I haave some more to write, but this post would then get really long. But I'll let you know a peek, it has to do with music, and my Bible reading this morning.
Talk to you all later,
Matt Meek
