crazy corn and what the hail?

june 18 - 2007

i hope you are having a fantastic weekend as as i am. yesterday after checking out the show and shine at lions park for redcliff days, the rest of the day was spent at 40 mile park- nothing like dinner on the barbeque with steak, porkchops, tinfoiled potatoes and corn on the cob (which was big and yellow and succulant but the rows weren’t all lined up for the typewriter type eaters at the table - ha ha tracey) and the night was topped off with a campfire and a minimum amount of rain.

back tracking a bit - just getting to 40 mile that afternoon was a challenge. we were headed west on township road 84 (the road, not the band) and were just at the solberg’s farm when hail hit and hit big - the size of large marbles - so i suggested pulling in and getting behind a large tree…. is that really safe when lightning was on the horizon? anyhoo, ray decided it wasn’t enough protection and headed back east to try to get out of it - but we seemed to be going INTO it - which way was it coming from? so we hung a left and headed north and then it got even worse. no matter which direction we went - nothing could get us out of it so he gave up and headed back to where we started - and by the time we where back there - it was over and done! no damage done to the truck thankfully but i kinda felt like it was getting in line at the check out at the store and you think you pick the shortest line, but end up getting behind someone with something that won’t ring through or has no price tag and they have to call a manager and it ends up taking the longest. ain’t that the way!

hopefully there will be no hail to be found on the golf course this afternoon. i am a fairweather golfer but will brave the elements just to see ray having fun with his kids because i don’t think anything would put a damper on an afternoon a father with his children no matter what they are doing - rain or shine! happy fathers day dads!