Copper Creek Chit Chat continued....
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I'm home and making pizza. Forgot to feed us again. oops. I'll follow Drott and open a bottle of wine.
Let's see, she feeds you, puts up with you..... I'd guess she's a keeper.
There IS that....
Ok, weird Rick factoid: I have 7 truck drivers that work for me. Disneyland is all about tight spaces. Some of the places my drivers have to back 53' trailers into give me chills (*koff*Grand Californian dock*koff*. If I'm out in our (small) yard when they come in and back into a dock between two other trailers, I always stand and watch. Ya gotta appreciate skill.
It's called exhaustion, Tiff. I know it well. When it comes time to sleep...SLEEP.
Wine = YAY. The lobster went VERY well with a Cupcake Pinot Grigio for Rick and a Fetzer Gewurtztraminer for the Indian chick. A little too sweet for me to go with lobster.
The long awaited time has come - Xena has a loose fang! YAY!!! This marks the soon-to-be end of puppy teeth! 
Weird FV factoid: I can out drive most of the men. In the middle of the night I pulled into a rest area that was parked up way too tight to get out. But I was not about to go knocking on doors and getting yelled at. So I pulled my mirrors in and threaded the needle through it. When I got to the end and was free (and finally took a breath), some guy that had stuck at the beginning yelled out on the CB to me. "dang driver, what kinda grease did you use to get through there???" Too funny. He wouldn't try it, and said he was spending the night there. I put over a million miles on that truck without a scratch.
PICS!!!!!
PICS!!!!!
The long awaited time has come - Xena has a loose fang! YAY!!! This marks the soon-to-be end of puppy teeth!
I have come to believe that backing a trailer (the big kind, not like my boat which I can back very well into about any space) is an art, not a science. Some can do it amazingly well...some can get it sorta-kinda no matter how much experience you give them.
I've told my supervising driver before that if I had to back a 53' trailer into some of the spaces they have every day, I'd never sleep the night before from just thinking about it.
It is, and you either have it, or you don't. Mr. V can back a 53' anywhere, it's amazing. I can back a semi, but I can't back the lawn tractor and cart. 
I will admit to an evil streak while driving. I loved pulling into a truck stop at night and keying up to announce:
"I got my CDL and truck today!!! Now y'all hold still while I figure out how to park this thing!"
Complete and total panic in the lot. Bwahahaha haha!
"I got my CDL and truck today!!! Now y'all hold still while I figure out how to park this thing!"
Complete and total panic in the lot. Bwahahaha haha!
The terror in the voices on the CB: "Where the hill is she? What's she driving?" And my favorite: "you, in the big black Pete, get outta here, some stupid chick is going to try to park" (that's me, sliding through watching the panic unfold)
...and my team is:
Up 3-0 in the first round of the Kelly Cup series (ECHL championship)
Tied 1-1 at the end of regulation play
Headed to overtime
...and I have tickets to games 6-7 of the series. I can, however, exchange them for future playoff games, so let's win this and move on to round 2!
Up 3-0 in the first round of the Kelly Cup series (ECHL championship)
Tied 1-1 at the end of regulation play
Headed to overtime
...and I have tickets to games 6-7 of the series. I can, however, exchange them for future playoff games, so let's win this and move on to round 2!
...and they swept it! Now I gotta get tickets for the following weekend, 2nd round of the series.
I'm the first one in this morning. Good Sunday morning posse! I'm going to my mom's to help her with more eBay stuff in a few minutes. Have a good day!
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