I had a wild couple of days

I got a phone call, “We are all okay…accident…” Nothing. Poor reception. My lady and kids were 5 1/2 hours away.

I jumped in the track and started driving. Figured things out along the way and got this picture.

Not a single scratch bump or bruise on her or the two kids in there with her. Mountain road, single turned completely covered in hail, she spun out and went up and over, the friend and kids in front of her spun out went down across on coming traffic, recovered and nothing happened to them either.

After getting all the hospital and tow stuff handled went to go hiking to try and calm down the next day, two different places, two different roads flooded out. Finally found a place, found a banana slug. Trip was full of things that just didn’t work out and went wrong…bad juju on that one.


Finally make it back home. My bark was all messed up, could not figure out what was going on.


Found a dang Chicken in my yard. Followed it next door, it was nesting in some plants and even laid two eggs.

What a wild couple of days. Feels like a fever dream.

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I’m glad everyone is safe and in one piece. Wow, what a crazy few days you’ve had Ryan.

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Crazy. Glad to hear your family and friends are physically unharmed. Hope they’re doing ok, a scary experience like that can mess with their heads for a while.

Congrats on the free eggs.

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I’m glad everyone’s okay.
Weather-wise, yesterday was a really strange day here too. We had a bit of everything, started with ice pellets, that changed to snow, a thunderstorm with the snow, snow changed to freezing rain, that changed to straight rain, then another thunderstorm followed by rain with dense fog. Today, is sunny and unseasonably mild and all of yesterday’s snow and ice had melted by 10am.

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Glad everyone is okay.

That car looks like a toy in that perspective with how big the road / trees are.

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Yeah, there is a tree you can drive through and a few that have “houses” built in them. Nuts.

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Words you never want to hear.
I’m really glad all of your loved ones were OK. Bad luck with a really serendipitous outcome.

[this is meant to be lighthearted in the spirit of being happy you’re all OK…]

Have any recycled sheet?

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I live in a small town surrounded by farmers. You would not believe the response about the dang chicken. I had someone here in less than 10 minutes to take it home.

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Wow. So glad they are ok. My brother rolled a car on a berm like that when he was a teenager. It can happen pretty easily on ramps like that.

The chicken was karma giving you a gift. You should have built it a nest under your LR4 table.

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Glad you’re all OK.

Must be a continental ice storm. I’ve been without power since Saturday. Lost half my pine forest so far.

Oscar is not impressed.

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I swear I miss it already.

Oh that sucks.

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For a free chicken? I don’t doubt it.

Chickens are great fun. I used to keep 3 at a time for eggs but haven’t replaced the last lot, it would be too much work to keep them separated from my current dog who wouldn’t be able to stop itself munching them.

Best eggs though, big rich yolks.

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Eat the rich (yolks).

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No. Chickens never stay where they’re supposed to. Within days, said LR4 would be covered in poo. Only good side effect are the eggs and removal of bugs.

We have 16. We were letting them free range the entire back yard until they started camping out on the back porch all day. Now they’re fenced in to a corner of the lot. We’re bringing in enough eggs each day to have the chickens pay for their own feed and a little extra cash.

Regarding the accident… Any phone call that starts with, “We’re all ok.” makes your heart immediately start racing.

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True… but better than the house call from the police with “we have some bad news for you…” – Ive received both calls, and I can sure tell you which one I was less happy about.

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Oh my goodness! I’m thanking God everyone was OK! Amazing pics.

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Super happy everyone is safe.

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So glad everyone is OK. We rolled our van when I was a kid. Only my parents and youngest sister were in seat belts. Fortunately, we all ended up ok . . . On the roof of the van. Always wore seatbelts after that.

It makes you pause to appreciate loved ones.
Again, I’m glad everyone was OK.

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Yeah definitely think about a lot of things after seeing that.

I can’t even begin to imagine how I’d feel getting that picture. So glad everyone’s ok.

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