Winter break.

For some reason this semester has seemed like it has taken the longest. I am ready for winter break. I am ready to sit around the house and do nothing. Usually a week before Christmas we go to my grandma and grandpas on my dad’s side of the family. I am anxious to see what I will be getting from my grandparents. I have my aunt’s name for secret Santa and I got her a gift card to the winery in Red Bud, she said she also wanted a Yankee candle but I have no idea on where to find them. I just want to make my aunts Christmas dream come true with that candle and do not want to let her down. Christmas day we go to my grandma and grandpas on my mom’s side of the family. We eat and eat and then play cards late into the night, then gram gram tucks me into bed with a bedtime story and I wait for Santa to come. I hope he brings me a lot of presents this year seeing as how I was a good boy all year.    

Let it snow

One of the funniest things about the weather in the winter is the snow. I love to take four wheelers out in the snow. My friend Paul and I have a good time and always end up getting hurt. Sometimes he will tow me behind his four wheeler in the snow; I can honestly say that I have gone sixty mile per hour on an old wooden sled before. When he starts to go that fast he likes to mess with me and start swerving the four wheeler with me being behind him on the old wooden sled. Last year he swerved so much that I got flung off and was buried in a snow drift. You would think that I would have learned my lesson but I got right back on and this time when I got flung off I hit a telephone pole and I was done after that. This year I plan on wearing a helmet because my brain cannot take any more damage. But most of the time I egg on my brother and friend to take out their four wheel drive trucks. I love watching other people tear up their stuff and it’s fun to ride along. So let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Fail

So this weekend was interesting to say the least. One part in particular and that was helping our buddy take his broken down truck to the mechanics, his clutch went out on his truck so he could drive it only for a short distance. It started off Saturday morning with a phone call. He called us saying he was broken down and that he needed someone to come pick him and his truck up. We have a trailer that we thought would be big enough to fit but were too lazy to measure so just assumed the truck would. We had to pick him up from his house and took him to his truck which broke down on the curviest road and on top of a hill.  We parked my brother’s truck at the bottom with the car ramps lined up on the trailer and told our friend to take it nice and easy when loading the truck onto the trailer. You know go nice and slow. So while I stood on the trailer to guide him he began slowly rolling down the hill. I thought he was going to but his breaks on when he got close to the trailer but he did not and hit the ramps  popped a wheelie and I had to dive off the trailer to be missed from being hit by his truck. He got his truck half way on the trailer when the ramps slipped out from under his tire and I told him to stop but he gave it all that little truck had. I laughed so hard and it was so funny that I did not care that he almost killed me and was probably going to kill himself if he did not let off the gas. He made it the rest of the way onto the trailer, well the front two tires were on the trailer nicely and the back two were hanging over the side. We could not drive down the highway like that so we had to figure out how to get the truck off now. We could not push it and the clutch was completely out so there was no backing the truck off so I got the bright idea that my brother pull his truck foreword while my friend wiggled his steering wheel so the trailer would come out from underneath the truck. My idea worked up until the front tires finally came off the truck and his tow hooks on the front of my friend’s truck caught a piece of metal and ripped it off, but we had gotten the truck off. I would say that is minimal damage because I thought someone was going to get hurt or my friend was going to roll his truck. Instead of using the trailer we hooked my friend’s truck up with tow ropes and made it to town with no problem. We have yet to get the trailer fixed and my dad was pissed when he found out what had happened. I wish I would have had a video camera because if I would have videotaped this whole incident the money from YouTube hits would have been enough to buy a whole new trailer.    

Playoffs?

I hope with every bone in my body that the Rams will make the playoffs. As of right now it is looking very good for them. They sit on top of their division in the nfc west. Right behind us is the Seattle Seahawks who we already beat once this year. Speaking of hawks why am I seeing more and more of these flying critters around lately? I counted and saw seven yesterday, I don’t know maybe it’s just me. Anyway this week the Rams will be playing the Cardinals which should be an easy victory.  It’s weird watching Rams games again and hearing screaming coming from the rest of my house, not screaming of misery but of joy of how the Rams are actually winning games.  I am hopeful we can make the playoffs with at least a 8 and 8 record. The best scenario would be to win the super bowl but even I don’t think that is going to happen, but a man can dream.