On the work front, things have been almost too quiet. Eerily quiet. I’m waiting for the ‘other shoe to drop’, so to speak. I’m sure that will happen as the weather starts to warm up.
What is the old saying about ’so-and-so could stop traffic’? Honey, I can shut down a whole interstate, and sometimes, stop vehicles with just a ‘what-the-heck-do-you-think-you’re-doing’ look.
We had a particularly bad motor vehicle accident on the interstate that runs through my district on Saturday afternoon. I responded to assist State Police with traffic control. It’s so much easier to work an accident when you don’t have to worry about getting mowed down by some dement in a hurry. From the witness accounts, a red GMC truck was traveling westbound with Mom driving, and three children inside. The witnesses said that the GMC moved to the #2 lane to pass, and the left tires may have run down off of the shoulder. The driver appeared to over-correct to the right, and at 70+ mph, caused the truck to flip and roll at least twice. The witnesses said that Mom was thrown out of the truck, but couldn’t say if the kids were or not. It looked like the family was either going home from a vacation or moving, as the truck was full of clothing and other personal property, which was scattered all over the interstate for several hundred yards. Fire/Rescue and 2 ambulances also responded. Mom was not doing well at all, agonal respirations and a firm, distended abdomen. She was quickly packaged and gone. The kids appeared to be doing much better, one even up and walking around, but were all transported to be assessed. State Police took the accident, I just held down the fort and kept traffic moving, got witnesses I.D.’d, and moved emergency vehicles in and out. For the most part, the interstate traffic was patient with the wait, and allowed everyone on scene to get their jobs done as quickly as possible. I did have a couple of people, though, who thought that it would be a really good idea to jump out of traffic, and try to drive up the median to by-pass all of the emergency vehicles. Because, you know, they were just very important and in such a big darned hurry. They were not happy when they got stopped, the error of their ways was explained to them in short, one-syllable words that they could understand, and ushered right back into that long line of waiting traffic. Makes you wonder what goes through some folk’s minds, doesn’t it? I call this phenomenon ‘job security’.
In knitting, I’ve picked the Queen Anne’s Lace shawl back up over the past two days that I’ve been off. I’m finished with chart 3, and am moving on to chart 4. Depending on my estimated finished size at the end of chart 4, I’ll decide then if I’m going to go ahead and knit the ‘extension’ rounds. I probably will. The Queen Anne’s Lace is from MMario. There is an MMario Yahoo group that anyone can join to take full advantage of many beautiful patterns. I love this pattern, and will be knitting it again, for me, in a beautiful dark green Shimmer silk/merino laceweight from Knitpicks. I got it a couple of months ago, on sale. It seems that this particular run was dyed in the wrong color on the wrong yarn. Lucky me.
Thank you to everyone for the kind words, thoughts, and prayers for our family. Please keep them coming. On Easter Sunday morning, my youngest son’s great-grandfather died. Great-Grandpa was such a wonderful caring man. He was kind and loving enough to continue to consider me family, even long after the divorce. Great-Grandpa was completely devoted to his family, and he will be so badly missed by so many people. He will especially be missed by his ‘Peanut’, his favorite buddy.
