Well I'm feeling the need to just vent a little bit about how things have been going so far this year for me.
Life has not been kind to me this year. I finally got my motor bike running again early this spring, for a week or two at least. On the way to my house my motor decides to throw a piston ring and ruined the cylinder. My buddy had another motor he wasn't using and he let me have it, since it really didn't run that well he was not going to use it. After a couple of months using that tired motor we decided we could use the bottom end of my motor with the ruined cylinder wall and the good cylinder from his crappy motor and make one good motor, maybe. Well not only did it not work, several piston rings were broken just trying to get it put back together. Yes the rings were right side up and centered on the pins. At this point I no running motor bike.
That wasn't that big of a deal since I have a TREK 6700 that I would ride great distances just for the fun of it. The chain on it decided to break. No big deal I think. I took out a link and put the chain back on. Figured I could at least have something to ride right? Nope, chain broke again and I have no clue why it's breaking. Get a new chain you say? Yeah that's one of the other things about this year that's messed up.
Have not had good solid work at all this year. No painting, no tile work, no drywall work, no carpentry, no computer work. While I did get to cut a few yards this summer that did not last long as we have had a VERY dry summer here and grass just refuses to grow without water so I've not cut any yards since late spring early summer.
Now for the kicker. Just last Friday I was on FaceBook and talked with my father for a few minutes. He and my mother are in Marion OH and I'm in Memphis. He tells me that my Grandmother was not doing very well and the hospice people were saying she probably would not last much longer. The very next morning, last Saturday, I'm at church and noticed I had missed a call from my mom. My stomach instantly flip flopped a few times as I called her back. My grandmother had just died about a half hour earlier.
My mom was the youngest of 4 children and I was her only child. My grandmother, from the time I was born, lavished me with love and affection, I was after all her 'baby' grandchild and she never let me forget it. I will always love her and pray that I will see her again one day.
I don't really know why I felt the need to write all this out but it did help. I had been in a state of almost shock until now. I had not cried since I found out last Saturday and it has taken me twenty minutes to write the last two paragraphs because I couldn't see through the tears. Guess that's why I needed to put all this down in words.
Life goes on, with or without us, so I reckon I'll just keep goin' on till whenever.
Life has not been kind to me this year. I finally got my motor bike running again early this spring, for a week or two at least. On the way to my house my motor decides to throw a piston ring and ruined the cylinder. My buddy had another motor he wasn't using and he let me have it, since it really didn't run that well he was not going to use it. After a couple of months using that tired motor we decided we could use the bottom end of my motor with the ruined cylinder wall and the good cylinder from his crappy motor and make one good motor, maybe. Well not only did it not work, several piston rings were broken just trying to get it put back together. Yes the rings were right side up and centered on the pins. At this point I no running motor bike.
That wasn't that big of a deal since I have a TREK 6700 that I would ride great distances just for the fun of it. The chain on it decided to break. No big deal I think. I took out a link and put the chain back on. Figured I could at least have something to ride right? Nope, chain broke again and I have no clue why it's breaking. Get a new chain you say? Yeah that's one of the other things about this year that's messed up.
Have not had good solid work at all this year. No painting, no tile work, no drywall work, no carpentry, no computer work. While I did get to cut a few yards this summer that did not last long as we have had a VERY dry summer here and grass just refuses to grow without water so I've not cut any yards since late spring early summer.
Now for the kicker. Just last Friday I was on FaceBook and talked with my father for a few minutes. He and my mother are in Marion OH and I'm in Memphis. He tells me that my Grandmother was not doing very well and the hospice people were saying she probably would not last much longer. The very next morning, last Saturday, I'm at church and noticed I had missed a call from my mom. My stomach instantly flip flopped a few times as I called her back. My grandmother had just died about a half hour earlier.
My mom was the youngest of 4 children and I was her only child. My grandmother, from the time I was born, lavished me with love and affection, I was after all her 'baby' grandchild and she never let me forget it. I will always love her and pray that I will see her again one day.
I don't really know why I felt the need to write all this out but it did help. I had been in a state of almost shock until now. I had not cried since I found out last Saturday and it has taken me twenty minutes to write the last two paragraphs because I couldn't see through the tears. Guess that's why I needed to put all this down in words.
Life goes on, with or without us, so I reckon I'll just keep goin' on till whenever.
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We're all pullin' for ya, buddy.