Seeing a pattern

This morning was the day that our car needed to go into the shop and get new brakes. They were sounding very bad and it’s going to be a good thing done. So after William went to school this morning and I got the chores done, I went to town to drop off the car at the repair shop. Daryl met me there and then I brought him back to work and took his truck for the day. I thought since I was already cleaned up and had make up on, I might as well pick up some groceries. I had to get the stuff out of his truck before I left, so I made a detour at home. It’s amazing what can be stored in a truck. He had pop, sweatshirts, hats, glasses, papers, music, tons of different tools, empty McDonald’s bags, and usually there is a bag of candy – but I think he took this out because he knew that I was going to use the truck. After cleaning out the back of the truck, off to Decorah I went. I knew they were having a clearance on their school supplies at Walmart. I’ve bought somethings for our school earlier and was looking for some more before I dropped it all off.

My trip to Walmart didn’t go well. It was no big deal on finding everything that I wanted and came across somethings that our school could use on the clearance shelves. But then the trouble began. When I was unloading my stuff all of a sudden an elderly couple came in behind me and was going to wait. Now I had kind of a lot of stuff and it took me about 1 1/2 hours in the store before I went to be checked out. But I thought, ‘Oh well’ this couple must have had some extra time on their hands. Wrong! When I was checking out all I could hear was these really loud sighs and when I looked at the couple the one lady absolutely looked like she was possessed by the devil himself! When I looked at her she was at the end of the belt where you put your groceries on and her eyes were kind of small and really dark. The meanest look ever.  What it reminded me of, was a movie that William and I watched last night about this boy that was possessed by the devil. Everyone could tell it by looking at his eyes. In the movie last night this possessed boy would always make it rain inside the buildings and I swear I wouldn’t have been surprised if it would  have rained today inside Walmart. OK, so now I’m getting really hot and starting to sweat because they are getting so mad at me. Well by this time I’m checked out and just pulled out my coupons when I heard this terrible BAM! I looked back at them because I thought their stuff fell on the floor. Well that wasn’t it at all. What happened was they got really mad with my coupons and were taking their canned cat food and slamming it on the counter. I tried not to make eye contact and what I did see was their cart was about 1/3 full of canned cat food.  I must have looked like I was starting to panic because the cashier was saying things to me like – ‘oh you really saved a lot of money’ & ‘you really got a lot of good deals’. All I really wanted was to get the heck out of there. But honestly, on a Thursday afternoon there isn’t too many people in the store and with the amount of check out lanes, couldn’t they have found a better spot to be? Well I took my cart and headed to the truck. I was thinking that they were so mad that they would actually follow me. Then I thought to myself, crazy cat lady who probably had about 40 cats in her house or someone who is buying supplies to donate to the public school. My money would be on me!  William and Daryl said that they are seeing a pattern when I’m at Walmart  lately and maybe I shouldn’t go for awhile. That sounds like a good idea to me also.

Whew! After I picked Daryl back up from work and I told him my story he told me what happened to him this morning. He started the burner on the bin last night to dry the corn down a little bit and checked it a couple of times during the night to make sure that everything was OK. When he went out this morning before work, he noticed that the LP gas line from the tank to the burner had a pinhole on it and was shooting gas up in the air. He could smell the gas when he walked out of our house. He was kind of scared to shut the gas off because he didn’t want a fire and where the hole was in the hose it had ice all over it. He did get the gas shut off and picked up a new hose today to fix it.  I think a Guardian Angel was on his side with this one.

So with all the drama of the day, I was glad to get on the ladder and do some painting. I painted white trim tonight and then I started with the white top of the calf barn. It’s going really well and I’m expecting to get the white all done on this building tomorrow. I’m also hoping to paint red on the cattle sheds, but we’ll see how far I can get. We’ve got somethings going on this weekend and I won’t be able to paint at all, so I want to get as much done as possible.