last evening, curtis had to work super late - his first long day at the new job....he walked in the door at 10:30pm last night, completely beat! his supervisor says curtis is the most enthusiastic guy he's seen in a long time & he sees major potential in him....so he's out training with the "best" tech this week - and they were given 6 jobs to complete yesterday (avg is usually 3 calls)! one of which, required them to dig a 150 foot trench!!! needless to say, the 6th service call was not happy when the guys knocked on his door at 10pm - so the boys headed home.....i told curtis he might want to check with his supervisor on that one - i find it hard to believe that the company would b ok with techs knocking on doors past 9pm at least! i know i wouldn't answer! but the experienced tech insisted they try to complete the call???
so anyway, the point was - since curtis was working late & i was already scheduled to work till 6pm yesterday too....i had to ask my mom to pick up the kids last evening....when i arrived at her house to scoop them up, she'd already fed them pizza, and they were headed outside to try out grandpa's newly installed swings - affectionately named "flyers" by my kiddos :0)
it's hard to tell, but the swings are hung from some sturdy limbs WAAAAAY high up in 2 different oak trees
unfortunately, my dad wasn't there to enjoy seeing the kids' faces when they tried these out
when i asked ma how dad hung these up, she said "don't even ask!"
ma said when my sister-in-law spotted dad scaling the trees - she told my brother that she better not EVER catch him doing something like that! ~lol~
the things that man will do for his grandkids!!! :0)
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That first picture is amazing! And you've totally inspired me to do pizza tonight! *smile*
Happy that Curtis is doing well at his new job...altho late nights stink!
xoxoxox
...danielle
I think my comment ended up in the pit of no where.
Anyway, I got a good chuckle out of this. When we moved into our house nearly 10 years ago, we had a massive (60+ feet) willow tree on the property. I insisted it must go, but at a price of over $3K we relented. So I said, if I am stuck with the tree I at least want a tree swing.
We were all too chicken to climb to the nearly 25 foot brainch, so we tied a dog toy to the rope and attempted to throw it over the branch. It took us HOURS to get it over twice. It was hysterical. People kept stopping their cars to figure out what we were doing!
When the ropes broke a year or so ago, we did the smart thing and rented a cherry picker, Jeff drilled through the limb and lag bolted the new swing. Ok, so it wasn't cheap, but we know that swing is going no where now!
(http://blogs.timesunion.com/austinbenconnor/?p=193)
My kids LOVE it! As do I!!
thx danielle - we LOVE pizza in our house! especially homemade!! mmmmm ;0)
that's awesome jen! what a professional job - if i had known my dad was going to play dare devil to get his up, i might have suggested a cherry picker! i can't wait for him to raise them up a lil - right now, they're a little too low for adults to enjoy them much - even jaden's feet drag if he's not careful....it's definitely a work out getting the kids going high - i can't wait for my turn!!! :0)
Neat pics!! You are such a great photographer! I love action shots.
oh, and what a gorgeous tree! glad u didn't get rid of it - i LOVE willows!!!
thx shanna - i have no clue what i'm doing, i just snap what i think looks good ;0)
I love the first picture, that is so cool.
WOW! what cool pics!
I hate night time visitors too! I'd be learly about that one.
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