Tuesday, September 12, 2006
No Wonder!
So, just a short post. I've discovered why the batteries in the camera are always dead when I take it somewhere...
Trucks and Trombones
What do trucks and trombones have in common? Well, you will see. While I'm pedalling my butt of all over here and there, my husband chris is holding the fort (and paying the bills) at home and work.
So, just last week he delivered his longest load ever, some 104 ft long joists for an extension of a automaking plant in Windsor. He didn't have an escort just fellow driver Scott up ahead with the same joists leading the way. Apparently it took Scott 5 tries to get into the jobsite and it took chris 10 tries. It's crazy anyway. The thing is, these things are so long you could never get them on a regular tractor trailer. So, they have special trailer called a 'trombone', which can be extended to accomodate these longer loads. No music involved here. Although, when you think of a trucker you think country music, losing your wife, house, truck and dog right? well, at least i do. Anyway, I cracked up when chris told me last week that sometimes it's so loud in the truck that he listens's to country music because it's the only kind he can hear above the noise of the truck. ha ha. that's what happens when you're desperate ( I apologize to those who genuinely like country music, including my mom).
So, just last week he delivered his longest load ever, some 104 ft long joists for an extension of a automaking plant in Windsor. He didn't have an escort just fellow driver Scott up ahead with the same joists leading the way. Apparently it took Scott 5 tries to get into the jobsite and it took chris 10 tries. It's crazy anyway. The thing is, these things are so long you could never get them on a regular tractor trailer. So, they have special trailer called a 'trombone', which can be extended to accomodate these longer loads. No music involved here. Although, when you think of a trucker you think country music, losing your wife, house, truck and dog right? well, at least i do. Anyway, I cracked up when chris told me last week that sometimes it's so loud in the truck that he listens's to country music because it's the only kind he can hear above the noise of the truck. ha ha. that's what happens when you're desperate ( I apologize to those who genuinely like country music, including my mom).
below is the proud trucker. with him in the picture you can get an idea of the scale of these things, they're huge.
above is a closer up picture. That centre beam in the trailer's underbelly is the trombone part but at the front end of the trailer (this is the back end above, front end pictured below).
Green Mountain Fun
So, labour day weekend we set off to vermont for the Green Mountain Stage Race. It was good apart from the abyssmal start.
I wanted to leave on thursday when chris got home form work so we could drive a bit, get a hotel and fish the drive in the morning. But, Chris didn't get out of work until 9pm or so and then the van didn't start when he came out. He boosted it and got home but we decided to take the car so that created some space issues. So he got home at 10pm, we/he packed until about midnight then to bed and up at 4am. yep, 4 hours of sleep. Great! then sit in the car for almost 10hrs, bloody traffic through the dinkiest towns in NY state. anyway, we get there about 50min before my start. I got ready quick and felt okay warming up. I remember thinking "well, I don't feel that bad.." whatever. sometimes you don't feel good at a start and you ride into it. well, that day I felt good at the start and rode out of it!! oh well. things improved throughout the weekend and it was a ton of fun. I really like vermont, it's so pretty.
while we were there, trinity got busy with some of her toys and stuff. She likes to draw and she was playing with the Playmobil bike race set when she got an idea! It was pretty cool and I apologize for the low picture quality, i had to use the cell phone camera.
I wanted to leave on thursday when chris got home form work so we could drive a bit, get a hotel and fish the drive in the morning. But, Chris didn't get out of work until 9pm or so and then the van didn't start when he came out. He boosted it and got home but we decided to take the car so that created some space issues. So he got home at 10pm, we/he packed until about midnight then to bed and up at 4am. yep, 4 hours of sleep. Great! then sit in the car for almost 10hrs, bloody traffic through the dinkiest towns in NY state. anyway, we get there about 50min before my start. I got ready quick and felt okay warming up. I remember thinking "well, I don't feel that bad.." whatever. sometimes you don't feel good at a start and you ride into it. well, that day I felt good at the start and rode out of it!! oh well. things improved throughout the weekend and it was a ton of fun. I really like vermont, it's so pretty.
while we were there, trinity got busy with some of her toys and stuff. She likes to draw and she was playing with the Playmobil bike race set when she got an idea! It was pretty cool and I apologize for the low picture quality, i had to use the cell phone camera.
So the first one is the caravan (look at how many riders are dropped and getting back on) (sorry it's sideways - just turn your head), the second is the peloton and the third is the breakaway.
pretty cool.
snoop dog girl
Man, go away for a week and all mayhem breaks loose...
Trinity had some corn braids put in her hair at the Winona Peach Festival while I was away. They were pretty cool actually. She wanted them out after a week, man was her hair poofy!
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