Life in the Rear View Mirror

Sometimes instead of seeing life through the windshield I see life through the mirror. When I posted this picture, I got a lot of great comments.

Some of the blessings from being out on the road are the sights. All the beautiful scenery is amazing, and some of it is just indescribable. When I saw this incredible sunrise in my mirror, I thought, I’m always going the wrong directions when something like this appears, so I took the photo and it turned out wonderful with the sunrise in the mirror matching the scene that was in front of me.

I wish I had the time to stop and explore, unfortunately we are always under time restraints. There’s a site that Google added, called G+, which makes it nice to upload many of the photos that I take on the road. If you are interested I will add you to my G+ circle.

The way I usually take the photos is to hold my cell phone out to the side and snap. I get what I get, and I have got some pretty amazing photos. Sometimes they end up like this:

My sister-in-law Carol Dicken sent me this:


And the other thing that makes trucking great is meeting people like you. Leave me a comment. 

Relationship Secrets

Where’re the trip envelopes? Where’re my socks?” Del squalls.

“Why do I have to keep track of everything?” I yell in defense.

“Because I do everything else.”

“Oh yeah, what all do you do? I drive as many hours as you, I’m tired.”

And then the fight is on. 

Finally, I got a good night’s sleep, very refreshing, which gave me enough energy to clean my truck home. I started in the left corner and worked as I do when I’m home—left to right—top to bottom. The microwave almost wore me out. I’d a couple of explosions, (fish, eggs, etc.) which I hadn’t had time to clean up properly. The rest of the upper lever wasn’t too hard. I rearranged some clothes and electrical wires and felt satisfied. After scrubbing the floors, fridge and cabinets, I had enough energy left to make egg salad. You guessed it, the eggs splattered all over the microwave and I had to clean it again.

The wonderful part was that Del loved the egg salad and he said the sleeper looked really nice. It’s so great to be appreciated. I appreciate him as well, he does all the fueling, most of the paperwork and all the backing.

A relationship on the truck is difficult. Two totally different people are thrown together in a 10 x 10 area, day and night, night and day, from daylight to dark and from dark to daylight. Del and I have a little secret I’ll share with you. When he drives I stay in the in the sleeper area and when I drive he stays in the sleeper area. When we’re both in the sleeper together we are happy to see each other.

How do you keep your relationship fresh? 

National Poetry Month

Mr. and Mrs. 

Says the mister to the misses,

I sure love you,

Give me a few more kisses.

Says the misses to the mister,

I sure love you,

Glad I'm not your sister.