Submarine

The management would like to remind everyone that one should not drive on the roadway when water covers is covering said roadway.  OK! so there is this spot in the road that the plant driveway is on that tends to hold water even thou there are drains at the low spot in this area.  Usually this water is no big deal, well today it was about knee deep in the center of the road.  So what do you do when you discover you are in to deep? Well me I jam on the gas trying to reach the other side, didn't work either.

So right away  I called the plant and asked if our mechanic Joe was able to bring out the service truck or loader and push me out.  The car was keeping the water out of the passenger compartment surprisingly well so I relaxed and did what any normal person would have done, eat my breakfast.  I endured the laughs of other truck drivers as they slowly passed sloshing me around slightly like a ping pong on the top of a beer.  Joe showed up and quite expertly pushed me into the lot where I allowed gravity to try to undo what a charging V8 engine, OK I had done, this also didn't work.  I clocked in and delivered  a load.  Dispatch was kind enough, after hearing how stupid I had been  to allow me the rest of the day off to try to get the car running.  

It just so happened that dad called me just as I was clocking out to see it I was at work and if not to see if I was interested in going to NAPA and also to get some lunch.  I said that was interested in lunch but there was something I had to do first.  After giving him the low down he turned around to give me a hand.  By the time he arrived I had all eight spark plugs out and was ready to get the water out of the cylinders.  Dad stood back almost far enough while I cranked the engine.  It is kinda a surreal thing to see eight tiny geysers erupting from the engine compartment.  To make a long story shot it worked! and I was able to drive home.

After getting some lunch and necessary supplies I drained what looked like coffee with to much creamer in it out of the oil pan.  I replaced the air filter as well and went to pick Jonah up from kindergarten.  I would like to note here that the car seemed to be running well considering it was full of water a few short hours earlier.  Since then I have changed the oil once again and also put an additive called Sea Foam into the oil as well.  I and dirty tired and am ready for a short vacation to Turkey Run State Park this weekend.  I hope things aren't quite as exciting then.

Lost and Found

The Management would like to ask for your help finding a lost child.  Easter Sunday, my family was invited to my brothers house to celebrate with the traditional pitch in dinner.  We had a nice time looking at our nephew's prom pictures, telling stories, yelling at the kids to keep the noise level to a moderate roar.  Instead of doing a traditional Easter egg hunt in the rain we decided to postpone it until Mother's day weekend.  Mom had put together Easter baskets for the all the kids and handed them out.  They were such a great hit that I don't think that any of the kids noticed that we didn't do the egg hunt.  I had developed a sinus headache and signaled Nikki that we needed to wrap things up.  Nikki was good enough to me to actually get every one and everything rounded up. We thought we were ready to go and someone asked "Where's Morley?" We hadn't seen her for a while but had not been concerned. We did a quick once over of the whole house and didn't find her My older brother Dean went outside to start around the house and I started checking closets.  My younger brother John gave the all clear when he saw a pair of  glittery ruby slippers sticking out from under the master bed skirt. And I ask you, how can you be angry with a face like that?  

Photos courtesy of my brother, John.

Easter Special.

The Management would like to thank the Easter Bunny for there help Sunday.  Saturday started so nice and wonderful.  I had a chance to sleep in, I didn't have to go to work even though it was my Saturday to work.  I was able to wrap up some work around the house a prepare for the hour or so trip up North to Nikki's Family Easter celebration.  We arrived to the sound of 20gage shotguns obliterating skeet, Talked with aunts uncles and cousins, and wrapped up the evening playing beer Frisbee.  The trip home seemed to go fast but every one was wiped out from the day and it was much later that I had anticipated returning.

Nikki said  that she would rather wake up early and prepare for our home egg hunt than stay up late and be groggy.  We blissfully drifted off to sleep while I thanked God for such a wonderful wife that doesn't forget the important things like Easter eggs that had apparently escaped my thoughts until she had said something about preparing them in the morning.  I wake up in the morning to Nikki leaning over me saying "Do you know where the plastic eggs are I have been looking in the basement for twenty minuets and I cant find them!"  I joined the search for a while before we gave up and weighed our options.

Option one, One of us run to the store and purchase new eggs to fill.
Option two, We hide raw, un-collared  eggs and pray that no one drops any. 

I went to corral the kids into our bedroom as they emerged from theirs, and Nikki did the dead.  Yes we hid raw un-collard eggs!.  So as these things go they tend to end up surprising you and this morning was no different.  I sat with the egg carton as the crew rounded up the eggs and unbidden brought them to me.  They didn't seem to question why we had white eggs or why they didn't put them in there baskets it was just another thing that we do differently.

If you are out there EB, Where did you put the empty eggs after last years egg hunt?