May 8, 2003
Life's Boring

Hi I hope you have a great Mothers Day. We will be going to Del Puerto again for a roundup. I heard Dave's Birthday was a lot of fun. We had a very exciting weekend here too. Saturday was suppose to be a pull in Riverdale but it was canceled because of rain. So I went to my God Daughters first Communion. We had a good time wished I was up with you guys. On Sunday I got to tow the gooseneck with the tractors to Los Banos. The goose neck is a lot different to tow than our fifth wheel. But I got there and back without an incident. The 15th I have to take the tractors to Chowchilla for a pull. That should be fun.

Well let me fill you in on the life and times of our Family. It started on Friday April 25th. I was sound asleep. ( I wear ear plugs and a black mask) The Phone rings twice and so I pick it up. GUESS WHO? The Nxxxx Police Dept. I'm thinking great which kid do they have? They caught me completely off guard when they say that someone from our house made a 911 call and that there were 50+ kids in the front yard fighting. Of course me still trying to figure out what was going on said "HUH" again she said in a louder voice ( I think she thought I was drunk) LADY THIS IS THE Nxxxxx POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE GOT A 911 CALL FROM THIS NUMBER ABOUT KIDS FIGHTING IN THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE. I said my house wow let me check. Lady you don't want to go out there if they are still fighting you might get hurt. I told that there was NO way they would hurt me, She should worry about me hurting someone. So I walked out in the front yard and believe it or not there were a whole lot of kids out there but they were all getting in their cars and leaving. So I went back to the phone and told her that the kids are leaving. She said that the cruisers would be there soon to make sure they all left. After I hung up with the delightful dispatcher at 911, I walked in Sam's room and woke him up. I asked him if he had called 911. He said YES. Then why didn't you answer the phone. (He fell back to sleep) I asked him why he called. He said that down the street they were having a big party and they were on his trailer in the front yard and had thrown off the tires and chains that he had up there. He went outside to tell the dummies to get off the trailer and a whole group of them said they were going to kick his ass. Since he was slightly out numbered and completely sober he went into the house and instead of getting the gun he called 911. Then he called Scarlett and told her to get away from the party because the cops were coming. Then he fell back asleep and that's when I got the phone call.

Then on Saturday night April 26th Mike and Sam are trying to fix the trailer ( The tires keep blowing out ) they are doing this at about 10:00 at night. Sam comes running in the house screaming mom mom mom oh oh oh shit this hurts and then he moans. I am in bed and I get up just in time to see him grab his ring finger on his left hand give it a jerk then scream and then pass out. I go running to him as he is coming to and he has blood all over his finger the nail is purple and its 4x the normal size. It took him a good 10 min. before he could talk to me to tell me what happened. Which I had a good idea; he smashed it. He crunched the finger really bad. But he wouldn't go to emergency because he had to finish fixing the trailer. Sunday they got up at 4:00 am to go to a tractor pull in Half Moon Bay. Sam said his finger throbbed all day and he was in a lot of pain. That night coming home the pickup acted up and they had to do some work on it. Mike called when the got in town and told me to meet Sam at Di's house and take him to emergency because of his finger. Soooo being the good mother that I am (don't spit out your wine) I met them there and Sam got in the car. He said take me home I have a softball game in 40 minutes. I said wait I'm taking you to the doctor. He said NO WAY he wants to play ball. I said fine if your finger falls off or you get blood poisoning or gangrene don't come crying to me. So he has been soaking it everynight to clean it out. He drilled a hole in the nail to take care of the pressure, and he squeezes it 2x's a day to get the blood and pus out. (gross) He said if it's broken and they cast it or put a splint on it he won't be able to work with it on and would just cut it off. And if the bone was shattered and they had to operate he would be out of work and they are right in the middle of a busy time so he will take his chances. And if he loses the finger he still has 9 more. kids.

Scarlett has not been home much. We see her every couple of days if we are lucky. She can't even keep her work schedule straight. She was 2 hours early one day and 2 hours late the next. We are still trying to figure out what the insurance company is doing. instead of it going up because of the accident it went down $10.00. Maybe they will catch up to her.

Jim is driving me crazy. Why is it that the youngest one is a pain, they are never happy and always want something. He is doing better at school. He is driving Mich's tractor in the tractor pulls and is in first place. He is on cloud nine. He also tried to get a bird with his BB gun and shot out a car window.

Mom is doing fine this weekend she has to go to Oakland for a board meeting.

Mike is off this week and is trying to put up fan's in the patio. He has had to call Ron 2x's and has blown every breaker in the house and he can't see to put the wires together or the screws in or even to read the instructions. So I guess I am putting up the ceiling fans in the patio; he is just there cussing at everything because he shocks the shit out of himself and blows breakers. I just have to hold out until Tues when he goes back to work.

The dogs have not mauled any other dogs in the neighborhood because we tie Bert to a PVC Pipe thats 4 feet long and 4 inches dia. as long as he has some resistance he will not leave the yard. Mike is not taking any chances on having to pay for someone else's dog. (Thank God the owner of the chihuahua didn't see what our dogs did to it) 2 pieces.

Well there's my life for the last two weeks pretty boring. When there is some real excitement I'll let you know

Love to all Denise