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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Late actor Bob Denver (known for playing Gilligan on the tv show Gilligan's Island ), who would've celebrated his 82nd birthday today, once said, "You know, I have no worst experiences." What do you think? When have you had to turn a potential "worst experience" into something positive?![Merit Badge in Blogging
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Congratulations on taking 2nd Place in the July 2016 [Link To Item #30dbc] !](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/type-Blogging-2180.gif) I was on my way to school. I had an exam to take. A very large tonnage truck came down the road with a long heavy trailer on the back. It was the road we live on. It is 2 lane dirt. When the driver saw me he moved into my lane and gunned his engine. I was driving a Suzuki Sidekick. I threw the car into 4 wheel drive and aimed for the ditch. The truck swerved back onto his own side of the road at the last moment. I was off the road stopped with The left wheels in the ditch and the right wheels on the property on the other side of the ditch. The truck stopped about a quarter of a mile down the road and sat there with its engine running. I called home and talked to my family while I was backing out onto the road. Then, I checked out the car and continued my journey to school. I made it to class just before the class started took the exam and passed it. This happened in maybe 2004. I know who the driver is now. It could have been worse. When I backed out of the ditch onto the road the truck took off. This is so rural if I had called the State Police they would not have arrived for an hour or more. More important to me was to make it to the class and later to find out the why. I do know more about the why's for this kind of stunt. This is just one incident. I know if I ever write my life story it will be a best seller. We all have freedom to choose how to use whatever friends may tell us about someone they don't like. Oh Well. Drive on.  |
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