Things from my child hood

I have noticed that certain smells; sounds; sights and taste, take me back to the memories of my child hood, remembering things that I have long ago forgotten, and in those brief moments, I loose myself.

It is the smell of a wet wooden window sill after a summer rain. This takes me to days when I sat in my room with the window open and I would watch the rain fall on the pine trees around my house and the aroma of the wet wood beneath my elbows would fill the air. I would sit and stare out of the window and day dream.

It is the sound of crickets chirping on hot summer evenings. This brings to mind of nights to hot to sleep in the house and my Dad, pulled our mattresses out on the front porch where we would lay and listen to the night with the Crickets lulling us to sleep.

It is the sight of a dirt road leading the way to town shaded by the trees growing on the hill above. In the autumn, the leaves would fall like snow with the ever present breeze, coloring the road with a multitude of colors like a quilt.

It is the taste of a Sassafras twig pulled directly off the tree to chew on while walking through the woods on a cool spring day listening to the birds sing.

These are my memories from long ago that I share with you. These Memories will soon be tucked away as present day life invades and they will be lost again for a long time until something triggers them to surface once again.

A little better day.....

To fix the car $400.00
To fix the well $6300.00
My foot mending. $10.00 co-pay

having a glass of wine and surfing the net ... priceless

Well things got worse,......

The well. Well......... have to have a new one dug.. the guys working on it lost the pump in the well. The pipe broke it was attached to and the well colapsed ..... 3000 to 6000 dollars to fix. Another week without water...
Had to walk to work with my bad foot...... over an hour late..Car died this morning.... .. Its either fuel pump or fuel filter..... hoping for the filter... bet its the pump... any where from 10 to 150.00 to fix.... 1 day to 1 week without a car....

Did not have a good day today.. .... Cried most of it.... Still crying....

Need a bath too....

Never say....

Things could not get any worse, because once you do, then it does. Are well stopped working. We have been without water for about a week now. We had a guy out to look at it and he pretty much said that it is the pump in the well. What makes it even worse we have to “find” the blasted well out in the yard. It’s not properly marked so we have been a 3 days looking for it.

I think we finally found it, in the most awkward area that you can ever imagine. This pump has been located right underneath the privacy fence. Yep. And this fence is a fence that Rick and I installed about 3 years ago, and one of the fence posts is within inches of the well. Can ya beat that!

So now we have to dig up the area around where the well is at. Hopefully not move a fence post and then call the guy to come and fix it.

Once this thing is fixed then we have to move part of the fence. And I am not going to say, “Things could not get any worse”. Cause as soon as I do, they will.