Another accident

We've been too busy for me to post the last two days. We've had meetings in Springfield both yesterday and today.

Wednesday we had another bad car accident. It seems this poor lady fell asleep going east on Hwy 60 topped the hill between Hwy 60 and Old 60 and landed upside down on Old 60! When we arrived on scene Jacob went to grab the jaws and I went on ahead to the car. I saw her arm and I though "Oh no this is BAD" Amazingly she not only survived the crash I think she'll be just fine. It was a PERFECT example to wear your seat belt. If this lady hadn't been in her seat belt I have no doubt that she would have probably died. I crawled in the front of the car with her while another fireman and Jacob helped from the backseat. They slid the backboard in and I was amazed that I was able to get her legs out without any force. Once I got her legs and Jacob and Brad helped me get her body we were able to slide the backboard out with her and they carried her out. It was so hot and I didn't wear my fire jacket just my pants. Which is a major "no no". I should have wore it because I ended up getting five little pieces of glass in my arm from trying to get her legs out. They were tiny and didn't do much harm but I should have wore my coat!

It's amazing to see such a success story. I have said over and over sometimes you look at a car accident and you think "how did they ever survive" and they walk away fine. Other times it looks like a small fender bender and the people perish. I'm so glad she wasn't hurt any worse.

It's ALWAYS good to have a happy ending.

Bumper trucks

Jacob and I went on a rescue call together yesterday. I love it when we get to go on calls together. That doesn't happen very often.

The call was to a motor vehicle accident on whetstone hill. Apparently this truck came up the hill way to fast and ran into the back of a dump truck. Then it took awhile for them to get stopped so the dump truck drug this truck the rest of the way up the hill. He was hurt pretty bad. Poor guy had already had 4 back surgeries. He wasn't complaining about his back too much though. I think he was just in too much pain in general. It took Jacob and 3 EMT's to get him out of the truck. While me and another EMT to move the cot. He'll be ok I think but I'm sure he'll hurt for awhile. His truck wasn't as lucky and he's lucky the back of the dump truck hadn't came open due to the accident. If that had happened 17 tons of gravel would have came down on him. He'd never survived and it would have taken us awhile to dig him out.

Be careful out there. Watch where you are going. Pay attention.

Get Lost..

I've been tempted to not write about this but I thought I'd set the record straight so no stories were told on me. So here's the story about how I got lost in Norwood...

Jacob and I went down to a party at his Uncle Lonnie's house last night. I had to leave to go pick Mandie up a little after 10pm. Jacob stayed and drove his parents home. This is the part of the story I get to tell on my dear father-in-law... he fell out of a lawn chair last night... not once.. twice :)..

Anyway Jacob said to me just pull out of the driveway and keep turning right and it will take you straight back into town... So I turn right out of the driveway. I didn't know I was suppose to go straight when I was leaving the driveway so I guess I was lost from the moment I left the driveway. No one paid any attention to me leaving so they didn't know I was lost until they came into town a little bit later.

I'm driving down this old dirt road and I finally come to another place where I'm able to turn right. So I turn. I drive and I drive and I drive.. Anytime I need to turn I just turn... RIGHT! So finally this road is so narrow there is grass growing in the middle of the road. By this time I'm over 30 minuets late to pick up Mandie. I'm not too worried because I know the girl that she was closing with and I know she'll take her home. I turn around. Drive for what seems like forever. I come to a fork in the road where I can turn 3 different directions. At this point I had no idea which one I had even been on in the first place. The road signs are no longer names they are numbers like 117 and 124. There are no houses around to ask for directions. Connor is with me and he keeps saying "why don't we call daddy". I have no cell phone service that's why I don't call! I tried to stay calm so he didn't know we were lost and told him oh mommy just took a wrong turn. We have to turn around.

At one point in the evening I came to pavement and boy was I excited... for about 2 minuets when the pavement ended but I kept driving.. why??? Because Jake had said to turn right! I drove and turned right a few more times I totally had no idea where I was at or where I was going. By this time I'm very worried. Luckily we had a full tank of gas and my goal for now is just go get somewhere where when Jacob came looking for me he'd be able to find me because the road I was on then I was sure no one would ever find me on.

So finally I come to pavement.. again! So I turn... RIGHT!! I meet this truck... Wait a minute... that might have been Jacob.. no I don't think so... Keep driving.. The pavement ends!! I'm like.. oh no there is NO way I'm doing that again. I'm turning around. To my relief it was Jacob! He had saw me and turned around. I was so happy to see him. His dad got in with me and led me back to town. We got home sometime between midnight and 1am.

I guess during all of this Mandie had called my mom because she was worried because I never showed up to pick her up. Mandie and Andy had joined in on the search and Tom and Shyla were on there way up to help and my parents were getting ready to leave to help look.

Thanks for looking for me everyone! I was sure happy to get home!!

Love You All

New pool

It's hard to get a good picture of our new pool so this will have to do for now. I'll try to get more soon. The water was so cold. We swam a little this afternoon and then around 10pm we were all hanging around on the deck so I decided to jump in. Jake jumped in also but he didn't last long. BURRR was it cold.

Craft Fair

We went to the annual Intercounty Electric meeting today. We had a craft booth. It was sure hot. Poor Connor had a bad day. Once Grandma lost him, then he fell off the playground equipment and cut his knee, then he was helping me take the canopy down and he pinched his belly. He was able to play in the pool once we got home and he sure enjoyed that. He's wore out. He fell asleep around 7:00pm and still hasn't woke up.

Happy Birthday Francis

Happy Birthday to my brother-in-law Francis. I talked to him on the phone today but was so busy that I forgot to tell him happy bday! I'm so sorry Francis. I hope you had a great day!!

Big Ideas

Sometimes Jacob gets an idea in his head that most people would think over before doing. Not Jacob. If he decided for example... in the middle of the afternoon that we needed a pool. He might just drag my butt outside to shovel dirt for hours before heading to town to buy the largest pool that Wal-Mart carries. then we would spend the entire evening putting a monster of a pool together and not even get to swim because it turned dark and the water is COOOOLD...

Yes, this is what he decided to do today. All I asked is that maybe we could drive down to the creek and or something. So now we have a pool that we're pumping 6,424 gallons of water into! It's 18 feet across and 4 feet deep. It's a nice size pool. I think it's going to take 3 days to fill up.

I look like a lobster. I'm burnt so bad and I hurt. Connor got burnt too being outside. Tomorrow I'm going to hurt so bad. We have a craft fair... oh that reminds me... If you're a member of Intercounty Electric be sure to attend the annual meeting in Licking tomorrow. They are going to give away some great prizes and best of all.... I'll be there. lol. :)

I'm tired.

Garden

My garden is doing pretty good. Everything seems to be small which I think is pretty cute. :) My corn isn't small though. It's growing great! I have toe-maters also. Toe-Maters because they aren't even as big as my little toe. They are the cutest baby tomatoes I've ever saw. Carrots and my peas are looking good. My peas are starting to bloom. I can't wait. The pumpkins we planted are vining everywhere. I'm pretty happy since it's my first garden.

Our All-Star

T-Ball Tonight

Connor has 2 t-ball games tonight. The first one starts at 7:00pm.

Hope to see you there.

Happy Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there.

And a special Happy Fathers Day to all the special men in my life. My Wonderful husband, my daddy, my pappy-in-law, my Gramps. my brother and my Uncle Ronnie. I love you all!!

Kaleb and Jessica O'Guinn

Here's the wedding cake I made for today. I never thought I'd say this but after yesterday I was tired of cake! I worked 14 hours on cake yesterday. It turned out pretty cute. I'm glad it's done.

Happy Birthday Ryan

Happy Birthday Ryan. Technically it was yesterday but I've not gone to bed yet. :)

Here's the cake I made him.

Hope you had a great day Ryan. We love ya bunches!!

Just Stuff.

There is no Ballgame tonight.

No cakes to post this time. :( I have a wedding cake for this weekend to do. I'm starting to get more and more cake orders. I just wish I made more money at it.

We went to the Se-Ma-No meeting on Saturday. Connor won $10 in a kids drawing.

I sure wish we had more craft fairs right now. I'm starting to miss my paycheck. :( I don't however miss all the crap I had to put up with.

Last night I got to have a night all by myself... that was nice. I did go on a first responder call. That was motivating. I hadn't been on a call for awhile and it reminded me how much I really love it.

Happy Birthday Lynnda

Why else would I be blogging at 3:00am! I tease people and say all the time that I don't think my oven will work until after midnight. lol.

It took several hours but I think it turned out ok. It sure is heavy! It's 4 cakes! It has more cake mixes than a small 3 tier wedding cake.

My cousin, also a fellow deputy, John "tested" the cake scraps and said it was good so I'll take his word for it. :)

G'night... or Good Morning... Whatever it is I'm headed to bed.

Organic food and Conservation

Last night while shopping at Wal-Mart I ran across organic milk! Since when was milk not organic. This stuff was so organic that it didn't need to be refrigerated. I don't know about you but I don't want any milk that doesn't need to be kept cold. Exactly what are they "milking" it from?? It amazes me when I see food like milk and carrots being called "organic produce" Ya Think?? Really well I think I'll start eating it now that it's "organic". It amazes me that people spend so much money on so called "organic food" What exactly make food organic?

Websters says this in referring to Organic: of, relating to, yielding, or involving the use of food produced with the use of feed or fertilizer of plant or animal origin without employment of chemically formulated fertilizers, growth stimulants, antibiotics, or pesticides

Ok so no problem I've got got some corn growing that the dog decided to pee on earlier. I think I'll call it "organic". People if you are that worried about how your food is grown... grow your own. I think there should be organic chocolate and beer. I mean you don't see anyone using pesticides on them so I think they could be organic. Then we'd see all these high class size zero girls turn into fat drunks and still not be anymore intelligent. I've decided I don't want to buy any food that has to advertise themselves as organic. No thinks I think I can figure out where it came from all by myself.

On a more positive note. I just got around to reading my latest edition of Missouri Conservationist. I was happy to see a beautiful picture and spotlight on Missouri humming birds this month. You know their wings can flap as many as 50 times per second and they can fly 60 miles per hour! I knew they were cool! Anyway Missouri is having their annual Free Fishing Days on June 9th and 10th. No state fishing permits are needed on Missouri waterways on these two days. Have fun!

Hummingbirds

I love hummingbirds. So far I've seen about 5 at one time but as fast as the feeder is going down I'm sure I have many more.

My father-in-law found a quail nest in the field today so we're going to try to hatch them. When I was little there were quail everywhere. Then we went through many many years that there weren't any. Now I'm starting to see a few. I'd like to do my part if I can to help the population. Man they are sure yummy and I'd like to see one day where we can hunt them again.

UPDATE: Unfortunately I told Jacob they would probably be alright to be kept outside overnight and something came along and ate them!! URG!! If I find out what varmint done it. I'll have their hide!

T-Ball Game Tonight

Connor has a t-ball game tonight at 7:45 if anyone wants to come.

Happy Birthday Mom

Happy Birthday to my mom! She turns 29 again. :)
You're the best Mom. I love Ya!!