Yikes

I had a startling experience yesterday. I had called in sick at about 2:30 A.M. yesterday. I felt awful. I got up again somewhere around 8:30 or so. Around 9:00 I heard a loud bang, but didn't think anything about it. The dog started barking, but she barks at everything. Then I heard a knock on the door. I opened it and a neighbor told me that a car had gone into my garage. I looked out side and my backyard fence was flattened and there was a red mini van sticking out of the side of my garage. My car was thrown halfway across the garage with a big dent on the side of the car, all my storage shelves were thrown all over and the cinder block wall had a big part of the wall missing! Needless to say I did not have a good day. The funny thing is, The name of the driver and her husband was Sorensen! No one was hurt,but I have a Big headache! I hope my car isn't totaled! They are responsible for all the damages. The Husband said they had $50,000 of personal property coverage. There insurance will have to pay for the entire amount. It is, however going to be a huge inconvenience!

Easter

Hi! It is Easter season again. I have been thinking about our Savior and what His atonement means to me. It is hard to comprehend, and I often find that I simply do not understand it at all. It takes a lot of faith just to get up in the morning (oops I mean in the middle of the night) and make myself go to work. I wonder if it worth the bother. My life consists of work, drag myself home, feed the dog and myself, get to bed in the daylight so I can do it all over again the next day. I hope there is some reward in the end. I wish that I could not be so hard on myself and not take things so seriously. I expect to do everything right so that no one can ever criticize me. I take every failure to rise to expectations of others as a complete disaster. I don't even know what I am expected to do, but I feel like my attempts to do every thing right is just not good enough. This is a struggle every day of my life. The fact the I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true is sometimes the only thing I can hang on to. So hallelujah He is Risen!

Bah Humbug

Well it is springtime in the Rockies again. Eain, snow and maybe even SUNSHINE. Mud and more mud.

Same old, same old

Well another month almost over. It is a usual blah Feb. But it sure beats Jan. Lots of lettuce etc. to cut. Still getting up at 3:30. I am still hating it. Cheer up in just3 weeks (March 13) we can go back to daylight savings time. This means that I can go back to getting up at 2:30 and waiting for three hours after I get to work before the sun is even up. Oh joy.

Hi everyone.I have successfully gotten through Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, My Birthday, A nasty 2 weeks virus, Two weeks of impossible driving conditions,and todays holiday.

voting

I voted yesterday. Did you? Well America got it half right.

spuds and celery

HELLO! Well fall is here again. It is my favorite time of the year. Unfortunately winter is my least favorite time of the year. Last week was homecoming, and apparently everyone wanted potatoes. 1200# worth. All but 100# were wedged red potatoes. On each of three days I had to wedge (cut with a machine) 10 buckets worth. This is a pain in the you know where. The hardest part finding the buckets and the lids to fit the buckets. We recycle plastic buckets & lids from bulk things like 30# butter buckets or cherry pie filling etc. The buckets come from different companies, thus each bucket has a different lid. They are not necessarily interchangeable. This turns out to be a really fun game of match up. It is a back killer also. lifting 50# boxes so not fun! This week it was celery sticks to cut, cases and cases of them. It has to be the most tedious job in the whole place. I have no idea how much a case weighs, but it has to be at least the same as potatoes, and the boxes are a lot bigger, thus more awkward to move. Besides that the area where we cut them is in the coldest part of the room. It is right in front of the refrigerator compressor (that is I am facing a table and the compressor is blowing on my neck the whole time)! i have also had many cases of green onions to trim. and then slice in the machine. It is a good thing that onions do not bother me! I do not cry. Get me out of there.