Mondays are not always bad

I took off this past Monday to spend the day with my dad. He and I had both wanted to go 4-wheeler riding at the deer lease to inspect trails and roads as to what needed to be cleared out. It was also a good excuse to get out of the house. We left about nine am and got back around one pm. We rode some trails and inspected the deer stands and then went to his camper for lunch. We sat there for an hour or so just talking. After that, we headed back to his house and visited with mom. I had a really good day spending time with my parents.

I have seen when a lot of folks just don’t take advantage of the time they are given to appreciate what is truly important to them. And when the people whom they love are gone, they regret not spending more time with them. I do not want to be one that is why I spend all the time I can with my family. My wife and I are always doing something together, even if it is around the house.

I am always trying to find ways to entertain my son by finding activities we both can relate to. Currently it is stereo equipment for the Ford Mustang. We have it sounding pretty good now. I still want to build a better box for the 12” speakers in the trunk. I regularly go visit my only living grandfather and we always find some project around his house to work on. Monday night I replaced an electrical box that fed his air conditioner. His old one with the screw-in fuses blew out one side and he has been without a/c since around fall last year. It is starting to get warm around these parts so he asked if I could install it for him. He had been putting it off, but a recent heat-wave helped to remind him to pick up the parts. He is back up and running and cooler than ever.

On the way home form dad’s on Monday, I noticed a blue flash about half-mile up the road. You see, they are currently building a new highway through Ragley and they have lots of track-hoes and heavy equipment working up and down the road. Well, one of those track-hoes clipped the power wires feeding the LNG plant in Ragley. It dropped the ground and one of the phase wires to the ground. I stopped to see if the ole boy was alright. It didn’t do much damage to the equipment, but it made a pretty good mark on the asphalt and started a small grass fire in the ditch. And all that was just on Monday. Later.