Been Awhile

Well, the title says it all. A great deal has occurred in the time since I last wrote in this blog. The most significant - Chris' mom passed away. She had been ill for awhile and we drove home to visit on the weekend of November 10. After much fighting, her body could hold on no longer. Mary passed away in the morning on Monday, November 12. She was 59 years-old.

Things have been going as well as they can in this type of situation. Some days are better than others, but knowing that she is out of pain and once again whole comforts me. Not too much else to say about that. I miss her dearly.

To add insult to injury ... Chris and I were on our way to look at snow blowers last week when some "genius" decide to ram into us. OK, it was snowing and the roads were a bit slick, but small cars don't beat the hell out of F250s and push them off the road ... unless the driver was going too fast. The guy said to us, "I slid a little bit. I was braking the whole time." Yeah, right! He was behind us and we were slowly turning left into the parking lot of the snow blower place. Suddenly, there were about 3 loud bang/thuds. Chris' head hit the window - knocking his glasses off and down on to the floor in front of me on the passenger's side. Hid hand must have hit something too as his knuckle was bleeding nicely. Just a flesh wound, but still. I was OK, then. The next day my neck and back were sore - whiplash I think. Chris didn't get much of that - since the window stopped his head before it could whip around too much. So, now we have no truck to drive, but Ford is still allowing us to make payments. They're such nice folks, eh?

The repair place said it will take quite awhile to get "parts" as most of the parts are being made into new trucks at this point - our truck is a 2008. Funny, it's not even had its first oil change yet. The truck can be driven (we drove it home to sit in our garage until the repairs can begin - so it's not sitting out in the snow getting the interior damaged more), but not very far. It wobbles around quite a bit. All the driver-side panels need to be replaced, both wheel rims are bent up, the doors need to be replaced (they are bent open at this point and can't open or close), and the side-step is bent down. Those things are normally mounted to the frame, so I don't know whether or not we should expect the frame to be bent as well. Won't know for sure until they start pulling it all apart. The real bitch of it is, ... we still didn't have a snow blower! AND, now, no way to get it home ourselves! What a great day, eh?

NOTE: We ended up getting a snow blower on Saturday. A friend of ours offered to bring it over to our house in his truck. Thank you SO much, Mike!