My Day

Acutally, this is about some amusing things that happened during my day, yesterday.

First funny story: I was at work out on the KS prairie checking out an abandoned farmstead. I leaned over to pick up my tape measure and a single, but firm, grass stem shot straight up my left nostril. It stung pretty bad, but I did not really think much of it. Then I felt a liquid lightly streaming out of my nose and used my shirt to wipe it up (my shirt was already very dirty). It was blood. Now I had blood spots on my face and blood stains on my shirt. It really looked like I had been through something terrible and it was only a silly piece of grass.

Funny story two: We finished work about noon and decided to check out the fabeled "Calico Inn" restaurant in Riley, a small town about a mile from where we were working. Well, the base gate on the road was locked and unmanned so we had to drive five to ten miles out of our way and back to get to the town. When we arrived in Riley we discovered the Calico Inn was shut down and the pizza place did not open until supper time. Fortunately, Riley has a specialty meat store. My coworker Jeret loves specialty meat stores so we stopped there. This place was amazing. It reminded me of a small mountain/camping general store with a real hodge podge of goods. You know, bug spray next to coffee filters, next to leather gloves next to peanut butter, next to cajun meat rub, etc. Most of our four person crew bought an array of meats including goat and buffalo sticks. I bought a buffalo pot roast and pork jerky. Pork jerky is not so good. Buffalo pot roast might get roasted this weekend - I'll let you know.

Getting lobotomized by a piece of grass and venturing to a specialty meat store ... all in a days work.