Truck!

It's back! After a week without the Chevy 4WD pickup, it's home again with slightly different look.

The drillers were trying to deal with the snow and ice on the ridge, and were spreading sand on the blind hill close to our driveway. As my husband came down that hill he could not see them or stop on the ice. His Chevy took out two Fords, but it took a hard lick that knocked out the grill, lights, bumper, hood and miscellaneous parts.

Thank goodness for the neighbor men who work at body shops! They gathered up parts and got the truck back on the road in time for the snows and ice this week. One of the many joys of country living--neighbors who know how to do things, and are willing to do them to help you. Yes, we paid them, but nothing like what it would have cost at a body shop. In Spring when the weather warms up a paint job will have the old truck looking like new.

The drillers? I have no idea what they did with their beat-up trucks. By rights, the accident should be charged to them since they had no flagger on the hill or signs to warn anyone the road was blocked. But that's for insurance companies to fight about. I baked cookies and took to them a few days later--no one should have to work outside when the temperature is below zero, and these guys are, after all, just working men trying to make a living. Just wish they were making it somewhere else.