The end of 2020

 So, here it is at the end of the year and what a year it has been. The year from hell, laced in hate and sickness. The year of under handness. The year of death of family and friends. This year will never be forgotten. This year is still filled with  love, friends and family. No one knows what they in coming year will bring but one thing is for sure if we look upon it as being better then this year, if we look upon it as us not letting things get us down or falling victim to those in power telling us we are doomed, if we look upon it with good cheer, good heart, good ambition then the in coming year will be better. 

T'was the end of the year

          and all across the land

people were getting ready

          for that little man in red.

The year had been hard

         in so many different ways

but all those things put aside

        in dreams of what may be in the sleigh.

There was so much trouble

        and sheading of many many tears

but then the heart warming sight 

      of those beautiful flying reindeer.

So let us not dwell on the past year

    but instead make the new year right

count our blessing and give thanks to God

     so Merry Christmas and Happy New Year may your future be bright.

     

" My Perspective "

 

My journey with the products of HempWorx all started when Ruth Ann, my wife, was going though 3 surgeries of cancer. All three of them caused her a great deal of discomfort and anxiety. During  that year I don't think she took more then a few pain killer medications. Today she is cancer free, we thank God for His hand in this. I am no way saying that the HempWorx products healed or took the cancer away, all I am saying is I saw the results of God, the medical teams and the product effects on her.

I started taking the CBD oil and found that it has helped clam me and relax me. It has helped in allowing me to have a different perspective on things. Has it resolved everything in my way of thinking or cured any problems I may have..NO,but it has given me a better out look on life in a way that I enjoy.

I hurt my hands really bad and am recovering, but it takes awhile. I smashed my hands in the tailgate of a tandem dump truck and caused a couple of fractured fingers, and cut knuckles. The cut knuckles at times light up like someone is dragging a very sharp knife across them which almost takes my breath away. HempWorx has a cream, Relief Cream, that I use to put on the knuckles when this happens. The relief I get is instant, it subsides the discomfort as I am applying it. It is just amazing.

Ruth Ann and I are both affiliates  with HempWorx because we both believe in the products that they have and would love to be able to share them with everyone. Please, if interested or if you know someone who might be just get a hold of one of us. Thank you, have a great day.

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                                                                    MEMORIAL

 

As I sit here thinking about what to do this long three day week-end, there are parades, BBQ, parties and so on and so on. I realize that there are so many that just are not really knowing what this Memorial Day thing really is. If it is a celebration then it is a somber celebration. The day is to remember those that gave their all for your freedom, your country and your life. They went knowing they may not come back, they went knowing that the road ahead was dangerous, they went knowing they where leaving the safety of their homes and they left knowing they may never see their loved ones again. They left for you and me and it is our turn, our duty and our love for them to bow our heads and thank them for what the did and what they gave up for our country. So, go a head and have your fun with your family and friends and enjoy the freedom that they gave to us.....BUT, take a moment and give thanks to them, to their families and friends that we have this day to remember them.

                                                                  NIGHT SHIFT

I have worked the night shift at different stages of my life from working on three aircraft flight decks in the U.S.Navy, working on flight lines at two civilian air ports factory work on aircraft parts and brakes, a few security jobs from roving on foot, roving in car and K-9 both unarmed and armed. Over-the-road trucking across the USA and some Canada. I took all those jobs in stride and did not think much about the hours...all of them in good and bad weather....but now I work the night shift with the D.O.H. and it is a different animal all together. During the spring, summer and fall it is day shift with weekends off...come winter it is 3 shifts and I am on the graveyard. If there is a chance, no matter how slight of one it may be, we are on 12 shifts...then we get the trucks loaded up with salt and go stage on the highway and wait till that white stuff starts falling and then it is game time. If there is no snow sticking then we are salting the highway, I can make about 2 1/2 turns (about 50 miles) if I am not going crazy laying it down before I have to reload...but if the snow starts to accumulate the plow hits the road and the fun starts. We plow at about 35 to 38 mph and even at that speed sometimes you make a rooster tail, so you have to be careful not to throw it down on the road below or an a car or truck going by....heheheh....to which I am always very careful. Our trucks have a sign on the back telling you to stay back 100 feet and no matter what lane I am in and the other lane is clear, I will have anywhere from 3 to 15 cars and trucks behind me instead of going around....I will slow to a crawl to get them to pass but they just drop their speed to mine....I think that if I drove out into the medium they would follow...it has crossed my mind. So, if you are out on the highways during these wonderful times of us salting and plowing please do us a favor...pay attention to what we are doing, because we are doing it for you, and use common sense. If we are working in one lane and the other lane is cleared, because we made it that way, then safely go around us and do not "DO NOT" ride along side of us...just get around us and go on down the road. Thank you.

Here we go again....................another day in a motel room. Oh, don't get me wrong, the chance to kick back and relax is great....but great ended a few days ago. Let me back up. Last week we had to have our truck serviced at one of our yards...this requires changing the oil, greasing, bring fluid levels up to where they should be and checking for any problems....this should be about a 3 - 4 hour job. The mechanic, and I use that with great prejudice, took 8 hours and still not get it finished. All four drive tires needed replaced and I had told them that the engine was running rough and to check it and he was not able to do that. What he did manage to do was change the oil, grease and chance to oil and fuel filters. The next day, a female mechanic got our tires replace, The shop did not tell her to check the engine problem. We left to get a load and after picking it up the truck was running worse, so back to the yard and give that load away so we can go back into the shop. Finally we get someone who knows what he is doing. He asked who had worked on out truck and I told him some new kid. He shook his head and said that the kid would never had been by himself as he did not know what he was doing. Now we have an air compressor gone bad and the kid should have know that. SSSssssooooooooooo that means another night in a motel. They get it fixed and off we go again to pick-up yet another load. We are loaded and on our way, at least you would think, but nnnooooooooo. The engine is running rough and we are loosing power and we are now on a two lane highway on a steep grade almost to the top before we can find a spot to squeeze into to get off the road. Lights on the dash are blinking and the engine just wants to unbolt its self from the frame and jump off the mountain. We call breakdown and they get hold of someone to come help us, An hour later he shows up and hooks his computer to the trucks brain and tells us that we have an injector that has gone bad. We tell breakdown and they get hold of yet another shop as the problem falls under warranty work. Call dispatch, they are sending another truck to come get our load. Three hours later the other truck shows up and takes out load and we bobtail the the truck shop. Had to laugh when we got there as their name is Horwith freight liner, makes sense as this truck has been steadily f..king us.
So here it is Friday night and they close at 11pm and tell me that they cannot get to us till Monday.......back to but yet another motel. Call them on Monday and yelp, you guessed it, not going to ready today, perhaps tomorrow.....great. Now, if you have not been keeping track of the days that have gone bye let me bring you up to speed......................NO FRIGGIN PAY.....NO MOOLA......NO GREENBACKS......NOTTA $$$$$$$ !!!!!!

Oh the joys of the trucking life we live....yelp, we get to put of with rudeness, lack of common sense and just plain stupidity from coast to coast. So that is why I wear the button.

Here we go again......another day in a motel room. Oh, don'e get me wrong, the chance to kick back and relax is great....but, great ended a few days ago. Let me back up. Last wee we had to have out truck serviced at one of our yards....this requires changing the oil, greasing all the fittings and fifth wheel, bring the fluid levels up to where they should be and checking for an problems and issue's that I have told them about. The only thing I asked them to look at was that the engine seemed to be running a little rough. The service as itself should only take about 3 - 4 hours. Eight hours later the only thing that this new mechanic was able to accomplish wash the basic service....oil, grease, filters and fluid levels.....the day crew would have to finish what was left, roughness of engine and new tires. Now during this 8 plus hours Ruth Ann, Babygirl and I had to sit outside on a concrete bench as Babygirl is not allowed in the building. So when the mechanic informed us of his imcompentance it was mid-night and he pulled the truck out of the shop wo we would have a place to sleep. The next morning we were told as to the fact that the new guy did not put the right information in the system that we would have to wait till that afternoon before they could get to us. Now it is our turn and a different machanic is assinged to our truck and we talk and he gets under the truck and in a discussed verble expression says SHIT. He come out from under and states that the new guy should never have been working on the truck by himself.....well, duh. Now we have an air compressor problem and this will take awhile. The only thing that got done that day was that a female machanic put new tires on the truck, and she took them off and got them on, did not screw anything up, knew what she was doing and did it in a timely manner, perhaps she should have been over-seeing the new guys work, just saying. I told the newly assined machanic we were getting a motel. Which we had to pay for.

Here we go again....................another day in a motel room. Oh, don't get me wrong, the chance to kick back and relax is great....but great ended a few days ago. Let me back up. Last week we had to have our truck serviced at one of our yards...this requires changing the oil, greasing, bring fluid levels up to where they should be and checking for any problems....this should be about a 3 - 4 hour job. The mechanic, and I use that with great prejudice, took 8 hours and still not get it finished. All four drive tires needed replaced and I had told them that the engine was running rough and to check it and he was not able to do that. What he did manage to do was change the oil, grease and chance to oil and fuel filters. The next day, a female mechanic got our tires replace, The shop did not tell her to check the engine problem. We left to get a load and after picking it up the truck was running worse, so back to the yard and give that load away so we can go back into the shop. Finally we get someone who knows what he is doing. He asked who had worked on out truck and I told him some new kid. He shook his head and said that the kid would never had been by himself as he did not know what he was doing. Now we have an air compressor gone bad and the kid should have know that. SSSssssooooooooooo that means another night in a motel. They get it fixed and off we go again to pick-up yet another load. We are loaded and on our way, at least you would think, but nnnooooooooo. The engine is running rough and we are loosing power and we are now on a two lane highway on a steep grade almost to the top before we can find a spot to squeeze into to get off the road. Lights on the dash are blinking and the engine just wants to unbolt its self from the frame and jump off the mountain. We call breakdown and they get hold of someone to come help us, An hour later he shows up and hooks his computer to the trucks brain and tells us that we have an injector that has gone bad. We tell breakdown and they get hold of yet another shop as the problem falls under warranty work. Call dispatch, they are sending another truck to come get our load. Three hours later the other truck shows up and takes out load and we bobtail the the truck shop. Had to laugh when we got there as their name is Horwith freight liner, makes sense as this truck has been steadily f..king us.
So here it is Friday night and they close at 11pm and tell me that they cannot get to us till Monday.......back to but yet another motel. Call them on Monday and yelp, you guessed it, not going to ready today, perhaps tomorrow.....great. Now, if you have not been keeping track of the days that have gone bye let me bring you up to speed......................NO FRIGGIN PAY.....NO MOOLA......NO GREENBACKS......NOTTA $$$$$$$ !!!!!!

Oh the joys of the trucking life we live....yelp, we get to put of with rudeness, lack of common sense and just plain stupidity from coast to coast. So that is why I wear the button.

"There comes a time."

Life is filled with so many adventures rather they be exciting or heartbreaking and everything in between. You walk down many paths in your life's journey that take you to the places you thought was the right way and many times it was the wrong road. But, no matter which way you ventured it has made you who you are.

All that being said, my life has been very interesting with all it's downfalls and uplifting stages. I have come to the point in my life that I can reflect on all the years that I have lived through.

Now, with out getting to religious, I know that there is a God because of the wonders that He has done in my life, one being that I am still alive after all the crazy things that I have done.

My wife is going through some very serious things right due to cancer....we have a large family, friends and groups that have prayed and sent comforting wishes to and for us.

We are not out of the woods yet but we see first hand that prayers do work.

You can take this as you wish I just wanted to get a little off my chest.

If you know of someone that is sick, then say a little prayer for them.