I was going to set the scene with pictures, but in the move I have lost my USB cord to my camera!! How will I upload photos?? CRAP!! In the meantime imagine my yard, my tiny little yellow house sits 20 feet from a screaming highway, speed limit 65, which really means 75, 10 feet from my front door is a cement ditch that has irrigation water running in and out of coverts all along the edge of the lawn, go around back (or not, just wait and listen long enough, you're sure to hear one coming) and you'll see a Train Track that is about a Warren's stone throw away that brings at least 5 Trains a day past our house, and it's gets better, just across the yard is a canal that is who knows how deep and 10 feet wide. Now that you know about all my death traps here's my day...
We started Potty Training this morning and spent a good majority of the day in the Bathroom, the Tiny Bathroom. So needless to say, early afternoon rolled around and I was ready for Kylan and Kylee to take over for a minute so they headed outside to play with Kirby. I opened the window so I could hear them, the last glance I had taken outside, Kylan and Kylee where up in their new favorite tree and was trying to PULL Kirby up the tree with a chain... the last thought I had was we are going to end up in the E.R. with Kirby tonight!
Minutes later I heard my kids come screaming around the corner toward the window yelling hysterically, I looked up, all I could see was Kylan bawling and Kylee bawling, and the only thing I could make out that they were saying was "HE'S DEAD, HE'S DEAD!" My heart sank, I don't remember the 3 seconds it took me to get out the door, down the steps and around the side of the house. I came around the corner to where the kids had been and seen the older two.... and behind them was KIRBY! Whew!! So who's Dead?? I'm still trying to stop the urge to throw up and I'm trying to get my heart to start beating again when I realized what they were saying. "Trigger's Dead, He's DEAD!" Our dog? That we just got a year ago? The one I was just starting to like? I looked in the directions they were pointing, because at this point I couldn't understand a thing they were trying to tell me, I have never seen them so hysterical! So I looked up and there was our Dog Trigger laying flat in the middle of Death Trap number 1, the Highway :( So as I'm walking toward him, I'm trying to get the kids in the house, Kylan goes right in, he takes this kind of thing the hardest, Kylee and Kirby made it as far as the front porch and sat down and continued to bawl. I get up to him and he's bleeding from his mouth, not moving, eyes twitching, and STILL BREATHING!! So at this point I'm thinking how long will he have to suffer til Warren can get here to put him out of his misery and where the Hell is my Cell Phone!! I run back in the house hoping another truck doesn't come over the hill, it takes me a minute to get Warren to answer his phone and I keep wondering where that neighbor of mine that drives by 100 times a day is when I need him! I'm one the phone with Warren telling him I'm scared to pull him off the road afraid of hurting him, I also was afraid of the pops and tares I was going to feel when I started to move him, anyway a car is coming, I want it to slow down so she doesn't run him over, so I stay in the road and just move onto the other side of Trigger... Kylee, from the front porch starts screaming for me to get off the road cuz I'm going to get ran over! She was terrified I was going to get hit also! So then I'm trying not to bawl as Warren's telling me how to move him and he'll hurry. I get him off the Highway just before another Semi screams past, and just as I get him off the road, he LIFTS his Head UP!! At first I was horrified, because I knew he was not going to make it, so I was ready to hear sick sounds come out of his mouth and I was trying to convince myself I could go get Warren's gun and take care of him myself instead of watching him suffer... but nothing, he didn't look ok, but he laid there looking at me with this gross, awful looking bloody tongue hanging out of his mouth. So I waited a minute, just talking to him, I took a few steps toward the house and called to him and he got up and WALKED back to the yard! So I went back into the house to try and calm 3 very emotional kids that just witnessed their dog get run over by a Semi!! After a half hour or so, I'd convinced my kids and myself that he was going to be alright, since it was a Semi that hit him, I think, from what we can tell, he got Knocked out for sure, he bit his tongue pretty bad and has one heck of a Goose Egg!! Kylan gets pretty attached to his animals, as I was reassuring him everything would be ok he tells me between sobs, "As long as Grandpa Reber takes care of Duker, Sandi and Trigger, I guess I'll be okay!" Duke was our Dog we had for years, he died last year of Cancer, and Sandi is his Horse that has gone completely Blind and as soon as her Colt is big enough to wean, we have to put her down. Kylee told me that while I was on the phone with Dad she said a little prayer for Trigger, so I guess we'll see how he's doing in the morning! I think Trigger and my kids will think very differently about the highway from now on!
How cute is Fallon?
So we moved the swing set, threw a tarp down and made our own Red Neck Swimming Pool! Just wait, it gets better!
From Back to Front and Left to Right:
Bahahahaha Is that the funniest thing ever? I can't even tell you all the components it took to get the kids from the top of the slide to the pool, other than the table top that I had to keep my foot on so it wouldn't move! The kids had a Ball, they won't forget the Red Neck Water Slide anytime soon!
