Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The good and the bad. (no ugly here!)
While listening to the radio early in the morning and hearing the local school closings, I remembered one of the great joys in life. SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SNOW!!
There was nothing quite like Mom coming in the bedroom and telling me school was closed for snow and just curling tighter into the quilts that lay on top of me and falling back to sleep in pure happiness! Then after an extra-wonderful sleep, calling all my friends and organizing a sledding party! Where I lived there were a couple of hills that intersected in something of a lazy "Y" formation. One friend lived in the crotch of the "Y" and would get out the water-hose and wet the roads down so they would freeze. Another friend's father would get out his 4-wheel drive and pack the rest of the road down so it would be perfect for sledding. We would build a big bonfire beside the road and there would be probably 15-20 kids on sleds racing and crashing all day! When you got cold, you stood beside the fire until the steam off your pants starting stinging your legs then you went at it again. Of course, that was back when we actually had snow around here. The last good snow we had was way back in 1993. I miss it greatly!
The polar opposite of that happened on the same morning I heard the school closings. While waiting for a load in my tractor, I tried to get some sleep while I had the chance. As I slept, I had dreams. Horrible dreams! The worst kind of dreams! I dreamed I was exactly where I was! AT WORK! I was at work dreaming of being at work!! Can there be anything more terrible!? It was a complete waste of a perfectly good nap! There's 2-1/2 hours I'll never get back! Turbo Ghost
There was nothing quite like Mom coming in the bedroom and telling me school was closed for snow and just curling tighter into the quilts that lay on top of me and falling back to sleep in pure happiness! Then after an extra-wonderful sleep, calling all my friends and organizing a sledding party! Where I lived there were a couple of hills that intersected in something of a lazy "Y" formation. One friend lived in the crotch of the "Y" and would get out the water-hose and wet the roads down so they would freeze. Another friend's father would get out his 4-wheel drive and pack the rest of the road down so it would be perfect for sledding. We would build a big bonfire beside the road and there would be probably 15-20 kids on sleds racing and crashing all day! When you got cold, you stood beside the fire until the steam off your pants starting stinging your legs then you went at it again. Of course, that was back when we actually had snow around here. The last good snow we had was way back in 1993. I miss it greatly!
The polar opposite of that happened on the same morning I heard the school closings. While waiting for a load in my tractor, I tried to get some sleep while I had the chance. As I slept, I had dreams. Horrible dreams! The worst kind of dreams! I dreamed I was exactly where I was! AT WORK! I was at work dreaming of being at work!! Can there be anything more terrible!? It was a complete waste of a perfectly good nap! There's 2-1/2 hours I'll never get back! Turbo Ghost
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I often dream of being at work while I'm at work. Sadly, I also dream of being at work when I'm home. But then I wake up and realize that I am, in fact, at work, dreaming of being at home dreaming of being at work.
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