Sound like things are improving for you at basic. I am sure you are wanting to get this behind you and to go on to the next big thing. I posted your mailing address on the family group on facebook. So hopefully folks will take a few minutes to send you a letter or two. What a way to start your birthday – on guard duty of course! If you haven’t already, I hope to have your first legal drink with you when we visit in March.
2013 is shaping up not to be a good year health wise on your mothers side of the family. Your uncle Tom was taken to the hospital again. Couldn’t talk, couldn’t walk. A CAT scan showed no sign of a recent stroke. He is recovering – he is back out of the hospital. I guess they want to do an MRI and see if that shows anything. We plan to go visit him tomorrow. Angelique has been posting on facebook about her pregnancy. So far, so good, all seems to be well.
Got the pickup truck stuck in the back field last weekend. You know how the top layer of the ground freezes overnight, but there is mud underneath? Well I walked out the field and saw where a deer broke the wire and bunch of insulators. So loaded up the truck and went back out fix it all up. So I got it all spliced back together and fixed. But of course the truck got stuck when it thawed out. So I left it parked there all week knowing that there would be freezing temps all this weekend. Went out and drove it right up out of the ruts. Well it wasn’t quite that easy as the front doors were frozen shut - but the back doors would open so I had to crawl to the front. Max looked at me like wtf?? What a hassle. But your mother got some pics of the truck with all the mud, snow, and ice on it.
Oh and the Bush’s place – you wouldn’t recognize the field behind the house now. ALL the woods are gone. Well except for a 20’ strip along the creek. Quite a transformation from what it was before. I guess they want the land to pay for itself, so they are going to put every inch they can into crops. So no more deer back in that creek bottom area. They have been burning stumps and such most every day. With corn at over $7 per bushel, I can’t blame them.
I went to the South girls basketball state tournament game. Since I was a junior high coach, I got invited as a courtesy. It was a low scoring game and the team had problems with a simple half court trap. They lost by three points. They did not have that good of a season, I think they only won like 6-7 games. Oh and the South boys team is hurting. They have one tall player who is like 6’ 5”, he got hurt in practice. He was one of their big scorers and did a good job on defense. They start the state tournament next weekend, so they will be hurting.
It was a pleasure to talk to you on the phone today. I think it did your mother good. Glad to hear that you are improving and doing well. Oh when you go out on beast week do you get to do marshmallows and make smores??? Something tells me – not so much…
Yore pappy and mammy
