Disaster Strikes!!

 Sometimes I wonder ... why me?  Or better yet, WHY ME at least once a week!!  When I say weird things happen to me often, it's a true statement.

I woke up on this dreary, cold, gray, rain-in-the-forecast day with great expectations.  The weed guys were going to come and spray my back 40 since the backpack sprayer I have is now too heavy for my back to bear.  

When my outside alarm went off at 7:00 I was mightily surprised.  I ran and hid in the bedroom until I could get myself in a presentable state.  Wow ... they sure start early.  

That's when I had a premonition.  It just didn't feel right.  They are going to spray, then it's going to rain.  Little did I know what would happen next.  Notice the three lids on the yellow tank.

Twenty minutes later I looked out the window to see this.  OH CRAP!!!  Or something like that came out of my mouth.  I ran outside to yell at the kid ... maybe 23 years old.  Your hose is leaking!!!!  I should have just gone back in the house and prayed.

Those three tanks in one on his truck?  The fitting came off the middle tank and as he sprayed my corrals, it dumped 30-40 gallons of weed spray on my grass.  At first I thought ... oh it's not that bad ... until I walked over to the fence.  There was a river of white running all the way down the fence line clear out towards the road ... and the tank was empty.  

The poor kid was literally panicking.  He was trying to call his boss but couldn't even hit the numbers on his phone.  It's okay I said ... it's only grass and can be replaced.  I'm thinking "not so much when it comes to my neighbor's trees down the line" .... but it's okay.  No big deal.  Really ... it's okay.

His boss said to get a hose and wash off the concrete, then flood the grass and the little drainage ditch, which we did.  The good news is I will not have any weeds or grass down the fence line for the next twenty years.  The boss said he would come out and inspect the damage in about two weeks.  Yeah, I'm thinking I'm going to get all new grass down the entire length of my property.  I'll take a before picture today and we'll see just how bad it gets.  

Oh yeah ... fun and excitement!!!  WAY too early in the morning for me!!

I was back in the house by 8:00, checking the foxy cam.  No video, just a picture.  I thought maybe the sick one would stop by, but he never showed.  This guy looked healthy as could be.

When the pharmacy opened, I drove on over to Walmart to get those pills.  I sat in the parking lot for a few minutes thinking about it.  I had not coughed all morning long.  Are you kidding me?  The threat of taking medication that will dry me out like the Arizona Desert must have had an impact.  No kidding, NO COUGH.  

I picked them up anyway, passing on the Zertec which they were out of anyway.  Antihistamines are not good for me.  This morning I have a bit of a dry cough, but not enough to bother taking pills over.  I guess I will save them for the next big assault.  The Nurse did suggest I come in for an allergy panel and shots, but unless I'm dying, that's not going to happen.

I did finally feel good enough to get back behind my sewing machine for a time, putting together the next two colors in this quilt.  It will all be brown and white, just different color tones.  After it's all done, I'll decide which colors will go where.

Dinner was a simple fridge-cleaning out before all the veggies went south.  To be honest, the Brussel sprouts you see there were past their prime, but I threw them in anyway.  I should have eaten it plain, but I threw in the last of the pasta from the cupboard.  Quite tasty and VERY healthy ... followed up with some ice cream to cancel out the healthy part.

It rained most of the afternoon and half the might.  Time to see if I was able to fix that gutter problem.