Monday, February 25, 2008

Counting Down...Three days and a wakeup (final)




This is Redneck Jim, great guy. He's really from Ohio, but I guess they have rednecks there, too. I don't know where he was before Ohio, but I got to bet further south. I'll find out tomorrow.

Today, during our long run ( 240 miles ) we went by Nueske's Meat Shop. All kinds of smoked meats. Picked up some jerkey, hot sticks and some bavarian sticks. Lots of samples again. You can eat a whole meal there. Great stuff, they ship it all over the world. Jim and I shared a snack this evening.

Also on our run we went through the area that had the F5 tornado last year. All of this cleared area was once pine trees. You can see that it's about a quarter mile wide and goes for about 45 miles. Trees just snapped off. This is obviously after clean up but you can see the magnitude of the devistation.


We also drove by Rich's ( our Training Engineer ) homestead, 120 acres, and beautiful.
He's got a view of heaven from up there. I'm sure you can see for 50 miles there.
We're having a great time. Lots to learn and all, that's what we expected - at least I did.
Teresa is doing fine, too. Went to the YMCA twice today, rough life, ain't it ? She put in two employment applications today and went to one other, but she couldn't handle that one ( casino ), too much smoke and noise. Not yet.

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