Living the Simple Life

Bad Days and Blessings

Did you ever have one of those days when you wondered why you go out of bed? My husband and I got up this morning and decided to mow the lawn, as we were having company over for a wiener roast and a hay rack ride. No problem I usually do the trimming and what ever needs to be pushed mowed and he runs the rider. We go the yard cleaned up and everything was going along just fine. Then I got this idea in my head that since my brother had returned to his own home maybe we should run into town and get his yard mowed. So we loaded up the push mower and headed into town; we were about 5 minutes from finishing his lawn when I was pushing our mower through his front yard and hit something and the mower just quit all of the sudden. I just had this sinking feeling in my stomach but I turned the mower over and the blade was intact so I though okay well I will just start the mower back up. Well that never happened, I had hit a culvert in what used to be a ditch along side of the street, bent the crank shaft and basically killed the push mower. I must say my husband was calmer than I was since the mower was only a year old. My husband finished up the lawn and we packed up our now dead mower and headed back home. I was crying and apologizing and my husband was telling me “things happen; it’s a mower we will get another one don’t worry about it.”

So I calmed down and he put the poor mower away in the shed and I went into the house to clean up and prepare for the gathering at out home this evening.   The food was prepared and our friends and family were arriving when we heard the most horrible noise form down the road. My husband and some of the guys ran down to the end of our drive way to see what on earth was going on and, one of our son in laws friends had taken turn off of the gravel road on to our road which is dirt and evidentially taken it to fast and had rolled his Ford Explorer. The couple was not injured to badly, he has a broken arm and she got some pretty nasty cuts but they were so lucky that it was not worse than it was.

So I sit here now thinking about the days events and thankful that, the couple coming to our home was not injured more seriously than they were, things can be replaced but friends and family can’t and what a lucky woman I am to have a husband that while I am sure he was upset over the mower, understood that it was just an object. I guess over all some might think this was a bad day, but at the end of it I have several blessings to be thankful for.

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. -- Spencer W. Kimball, 1976

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04:44, Sunday, September 28, 2008 .. Posted by mesarah011

Ugh, that does NOT sound like a good day! :-( I'm glad everyone was okay, and that your husband was able to calm you down about the mower - he's right, "it's just a mower", you'll get another one. ;-) But still, none of the above sounds terribly fun!