Farty Fart

Things have been going pretty smoothly around here. Josh has seemed to have found his groove and things don't seem as stressful and he seems to be enjoying the job again. He has been doing a lot of thinking lately and that always seems to get him into trouble, he is always thinking that the grass is greener somewhere else and I have been trying to instill positive thoughts into him about where he is now and trust me that has been an uphill battle. It is kind of nice to be with him and experience everything that he does and he can no longer say "you're not the one doing it" because now I am. He has even talking about how he is now embrassing my idea of living on a farm and wants to live more simply, more self sufficiently and is looking forward to doing woodworking and possibly metal work and see these hobbies meshing well with the farm type life. He has always loved doing woodworking but hasn't had the room or the time to do it and I love that he is getting excited about it again. I know not to get too excited about it as his mind will change but for now we seem to be on the same page again.

We have seen some weird named areas on our travels and it makes you kind of wonder if they just ran out of ideas on what to name either a road or town. Examples that come to mind are: Burnt Cabin, Burnt Shirt, French Lick, Black Lick, Licking County, Claylick, Dry Fork, Forty Fort (first time I saw this sign I thought it said Farty Fart) Flushing, Bald Knob and Pennsylvania and and parts of Ohio are really into naming everything with Beaver. There are some towns you wonder how you pronounce it, Lycippus, Daguscahonda, I am know there are better ones but can't think the name of them off the top of my head.

We have seen our share of accidents while on the road and makes me thankful everyday that we are safe and pray for safe travels the next day. We ran into an accident that they had shut down the interstate completely, the accident itself wasn't overly bad but a truck pulling a camper had run into a truck hauling fireworks, because of the explosives they shut one side down completely and part of the other side too. We also saw a truck that had caught fire while sitting in a rest area and the fire department hadn't gotten there yet. It didn't look like the fuel tanks had caught fire yet and there were people sitting fairly close on the ground watching the fire! Ummm.. MOVE! Those could explode! I hope everyone was ok in these accidents and just proves you just have no idea what is going to happen from day to day.

Josh wanted to mention (or boast) that we have been averaging about 511 miles a day, yesterday alone we drove 630 miles. He was also kind enough yesterday to take time and stop at a Walmart so I could pick up my prescription for my thyroid pill, I haven't had them for 3 days and was needing to get them soon. Yesterday was interesting too when it came to getting our next load assignment. They sent us a load, and took it back, sent us another one, and took it back, and then a third time, finally the fourth time I guess they decided that was the load for us. Geez. At least this was all in the time that we were still on our way to our load drop off and we didn't waste any time starting our travels to the other load sites. I am impressed though on how they keep up rolling, most of the time they are right on top of things when it comes to giving us our next assignment.

This is a metal light pole in walmart, we tried to figure out if this tree was really growing inside the pole or if it wasn't real.