Some Days
I have had days where I should never have gotten out of bed. As rare as that is, it should be honored.
Today my ole cowboy should have stayed in bed.
I awoke to snow flurries. I had slept so soundly, I didn’t realize Dennis was already gone out of the driveway in his little red pickup by the time I got up at eight. Last night he had talked about going up to the laundromat with the back door rugs that we had accumulated in the basket. Rag rugs are wonderful to take the brunt of the dirt from the shoes as we come into the house. When Dennis is making a run with the rugs, he also empties all of the kitty baskets so they will have fresh digs. I am sure when Dennis is compiling his laundry the cats wonder, “Are we moving, are we coming along?” Yes, Dennis was gone and home by 9:15 this morning with everything having been washed and partially dried. I couldn’t believe what kind of trip Dennis was on for the day.
As I have mentioned, there were snow flurries this morning and they got a bit thick with just enough wind to move them along. We had talked about making a trip to New Ulm. Dennis at first said sometime next week, then he mentioned going this afternoon. Dennis came in at 10:30 this morning and said he was ready to head to New Ulm. I didn’t know what to say, so I said nothing and put my coat on. We got about six miles out of town and the roads were icy and it was hard to see oncoming traffic. We turned around and headed back for home. Good choice.
Before heading into our drive I reminded Dennis that he had prescriptions to pick up at Lewis Drug. It would be a good thing to get them home as long we were out and about. As our home came into view, Dennis decided to back into our driveway. As the Cub tractor is being worked on in the pickup garage, the pickup needs to be setting out. I suppose Dennis thought by backing into the drive it would be easier to see approaching traffic if the pickup was driving out of the drive rather than backing out of the drive.
What ensued was a cluster f–k! Dennis wasn’t watching the passenger side via the mirror and as I said “Dennis you are really close to the ——. We, no, I take that back. Dennis will be busy contacting our plumber, our carpenter and the car parts shop in town. The back of the pickup scrapped the house taking off the outside water faucet with the plastic storage shroud, stripping off the bottom six to eight inches of the house siding for a stretch and taking out the plastic shield for his tail lights on the passenger side on the pickup.
My oh my. It is a day I would not have wished on my worst enemy, let alone my beloved hubby. All this before twelve noon. This is Dennis’ first vehicle accident in fifty years. It’s a good thing it happened at our own home.
We had our noon lunch and the day continues. Dennis commented that Monday sounded like a good day for a trip to New Ulm.