Midnight's little spot

[Midnight]

Not much to be said when it comes to me. In real life I live in a semi rig with my husband presently till he and I can get things in our lives a bit more straightened out, but I do love it because I get to see things most people wouldn't. Presently we have 3 cats and my 1 year old husky pup that ride in the truck with us. the little calico kitten that I had shown pictures of before is now all grown up and the little terror of our truck.

I was raised predominately by my grandmothers. I had the run of a 1000 acre farm as a kid. I can't say life for me was always easy I had my rough patches in my life but who doesn't have them. I used to always love running threw the woods that were behind my grandmother's house and seeing all the different wildlife that was there or just sitting under the shade of a big oak tree to watch the cattle graze.

Sometimes I wish I could return to the simpler things in life but life does go on and we must go on with it. I am now the mother of two munchkins that I love to death even though they are not with me. After my divorce I opted to let them stay with my ex-mother in law being as I knew that for a while I wouldn't have the means to take care of them, and well presently I still don't but that is neither here nor there really.

I love my new husband with all my heart unlike my ex *growls* A few of you probably remember my ex but oh well he is long gone outta my life thank the good lord for that one. My new husband and I are making a go at a new life for the both of us. Granted we are in a bit of a rocky spot presently I am of the belief that things will work out for the better in the end. Given time he and I will get things settled and be sitting better.

Will probably be much better once the semi we are in is fully paid off. Yes he and I are presently owner operators for a flat bed company. He loves it and so do I though we have our days when we are cussing it due to weather or just a plainly funky load we have to deal with but all works out for the good in the end.

I was always taught to look for the silver lining in every cloud and that is kinda of what I am doing is looking to that silver lining knowing that eventually I will be able to hold on to that silver lining. I know I do have a habit or rambling on when I get to writing some times but is an old habit of mine.

I still have a memory that will always bring a smile to my face. this happened about a year ago. My husband had just gotten the little calico kitten he aptly named Pita and had her in the truck. We had gone out to California with a load. Our reload was not far away and we were picking up a form of construction lighting to go to an Air-force base. Well the gentleman who was loading us had just gotten home not but about a week prior from having serves 2 tours in Iraq. he was a very nice man he stood talking to us for a while till he saw the little face of Pita pop up in my window. She was being her normal curious little self. He looked at my husband and I and asked if he could hold her. Well my husband and I were a little leary of it as she hadn't really been socialized to other people as of yet so we didn't really know how she was going to act, but in the end I opened my door and got her out of the truck and let him hold her. She was the picture of absolute angle. She didn't scratch or anything she just purred her little heart out and licked his face. The smile that I saw on that soldiers face brought tears to my eyes. I can't say as I have ever seen a man smile as big as he did just over being able to hold our little Pita.

That is one of the things I guess that will always stay with me, the sheer happiness of that smile was brighter that the sin itself. Sometimes a small act of kindness is a reward in itself. Now if you want something to laugh at I have one for you as well. That same load as I said went to an air-force base in Shaw SC matter of fact it was Shaw Air-Force base that we were bound for. Well it was all good till the starter went out on our truck right in the inspection line. Not necessarily a good thing but things like that happen but that isn't the funny part of this particular story.

We get our truck fixed and get up to let them do the inspection now little Pita had an absolute hatred of dogs as this was before I got my pup Brandy. And the base had to use dogs to search our truck. So I got the brilliant idea to grab my heavy winter coat and wrap her up in it. I got the weirdest look from the MP's when I asked them to wait and let me get away from the dogs before they came close to me. One of them asked me why and then had a befuddled look on his face when he saw the bundle I was holding move. I wanted so badly to laugh at his look. I explained to him that the bundle I held had a young kitten in it who did not like dogs at all and she had those needle sharp baby claws and I had not want for her to turn into a mini shredder on me with said claws. He nodded and let me get away from the truck and the entire time my husband had his seal point Siamese on his leash and that cat was yowling away wanting back in the truck. Squeaker (the Siamese) he thinks he is billy bad ass as long as he is inside the truck you take that boy outta the truck and he turns into an absolute chicken.

Now as time goes along I will give you more stories of our adventures on the road with our small zoo of animals.

[Dream Loxley]

Wonderful to see you here and looking forward to reading more of your adventures as time allows!

[Midnight]

I am glad you enjoyed my story about two of our present four legged kids in the truck. If I think about it I will grab some pics of the kids and put them up so you can see all of them. Well things are really starting to look up for my husband and I. We are still with the same company that we stared out with 3 years ago just under different dispatch now after the last dispatchers tried to accuse us of being late around 15 to 20 times. Now here is the laughable part of this when asked to prove it they had proof for 3 loads and that was it and we knew about all three loads. One was excused as our truck had broken down on us. One was kinda sorta excused as my husband had gotten sick. Well for me the road is a long black strip that never seems to have and end to it, but there are many things out here that tend to make me look at my husband and just scratch my head trying to figure out how a driver had managed to do it.

Now here is one for you and we saw this happen I want to say about 5 years back. we were coming out of Albuquerque NM, I think we were headed for TX not sure as it was a long time back. We were both wondering what was causing a good 5 mile traffic back up coming out and boy oh boy did we get a laugh of a surprise when we saw what had happened. And to this day we have yet to figure out how in the world this swift driver managed to do this. He had crossed over from the east bound side into the West bound went threw the median and then threw a high chain link fence to bury his tractor and trailer into a sewer pit. We could see the wrecker driver standing there scratching his head trying to figure out how he was gonna get the guy outta there. The driver was standing up on the hood of his truck because he had buried it that deep in the sludge pit. I can about bet once they did get the truck out it was probably sold for scrap.

That was something that to this day when I think about it I can't help but laugh. I know I sure wouldn't have wanted to explain that one to the company. I mean what in the world would you tell them as to how you managed to bury your truck and trailer in a sewer sludge pit. I bet he stunk for a while and I don't know how long that driver had to stand on the hood of his truck before they got him and his truck outta there. We went on as traffic snailed its way on. I about bet that was one driver who was looking for another job after that one.

Now here is something that happened to us yesterday as we were getting unloaded. We had picked up a load of machinery in Milford, CT going to Roanoke VA well we get there with out any problems what so ever. We are pulling off our tarps and stuff so they can take the nasty stuff off of our trailer and just as I look up to a wooded area that was just off to the side of where we were sitting I watched a doe and two fawns running across the lawn and into the woods. I thought that was a sight to see and one of the guys that was out there with us told me there was a nice 20 point buck that normally wasn't too far away. Now wouldn't that be a trophy to have but me I prefer to hunt for meat. Ok so I got a little off topic there.

Now here is another just weird one for you that my husband told me about. He was coming threw Memphis, Tn and hit the West Memphis port of entry scales well he went threw with no problem but the next truck wasn't so lucky or should I say he wasn't so good at paying attention. They clocked the driver at 60 mph in the scale house and it is posted at around 5 to 10 give or take a bit. The unfortunate driver laid his truck and trailer over on the DOT scales. Well needless to say the shut the scale house down and well I can imagine they had that driver for lunch. There is another one of those things I would not want to be explaining to a boss man as to why I was going that fast in a scale house. Nah not this kid she no dummy mind what DOT tells you unless you want to be paying a ticket from hell.

Hmm well I am going to save a few stories for my next post but I have several stories I could tell and eventually I will be telling them as time goes on and I find myself with time on my hands at night when we stop. Of course right now I am wide awake and I have a snoring choir behind me that consists of my husband and his Seal Point Siamese cat who snores as bad as his daddy. I think in my next posting I will give you a laughable story dealing with Squeaker and a service tech.

[Midnight]

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Here is my Brandy girl she is about a year and a half now.


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This is my husband and our rig and yes that is the Pita girl sitting up in the dash.

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Now here are the three cats. Squeaker (Siamese) Pita (calico) and Thomas. Our three fuzzballs and as this one shows Pita is all grown up now and in the pic they are all lounged out on the bunk in the sleeper of our truck


I do apologize for the size of the pics here they were initially taken using our new phone. Ok played Cheat here you can click on the links to see the pics WARNING they are huge.

[Midnight]

Hmm now what to talk about this time. well this one is being written while my other half is driving down the road. We are bound for KC, Mo this time and then to our yard in Springfield. Can't say that I have seen to much of interest of late other than a few just off the wall town names that we come across now and then. I will have to start snapping some pics so I can show everyone some of the just goofy and off the wall names that we see out here on the road.

Ok I'm gonna go off on a tangent here cause this is something that I have yet to really figure out myself. what is it with these matchbox looking cars. I mean really that isn't a car that is a matchbox on wheels. Hell I pick those things outta the grill of the semi rig ((*not really*)). I mean really is it due to better gas mileage or what cause I wouldn't think they would be very comfortable to ride in. They don't look like they are much bigger than one of my tires. It kinda reminds me of the last time I watched Jeff Dunham he was talking about the cars and said something about a car being too small when you could drive under a semi look up and go "Wow that is dirty" and then drive out the other side.

And I mean no offense to anyone who owns one of the tiny cars I guess me I'm just used to the big rigs and pick ups. I'm more accustomed to something with a little bit of size and heft to it. Ok this I guess is going to turn into a little rant fest for me I guess. Here is something else that bite my rear end something terrible. I hear people driving the cars griping about the tolls they have to pay. Hell I would love to see them pay my tolls sometime. It is nothing for my husband and I to rack up 200 in tolls in the New England states especially. If I remember correctly the GW (George Washington) Bridge itself is 60 both ways coming in and out for a truck. And that money is "Supposed" to go the the repair of the road. Yeah right some of the roads are still rough as a corn cob. Some of them I swear after the trip we need to bang the dents out of the roof from our heads hitting the roof so many times due to pot holes.

I know I'm growling and grouching here but here is my final little gripe. People complain about the price of gas and what it costs them to fill their cars. Ha lets seem them pay what I do to fill my rig. In one fueling we can easily spend 300 to 400 depending upon the price of diesel. Not saying that any one here does it, but this is just me and what I see and hear out on the road. I tend to see the blatant disrespect people have for theses big rigs. I don't want to count how many times we ourselves have been cut off by a car or pick up. It makes me wounder do people realize theses big trucks don't exactly stop on a dime. Nope on a good day with dry roads at 55 mph it still takes the length of 3 football field before a rig will come to a complete stop.

I myself hate it when a vehicle in front of us stops short and my husband has to slam on the brakes. More often that not it causes our load to shift forward. And the headache rack we have on the back of our truck only affords so much protection to us. I fear one day that something like that is going to happen and the load is going to come right threw the back sleeper wall, but that is just a pinch of the risks taken by any driver out here on the road. Now here is something for people to chew on. Some gripe and complain about the price of things in the stores going up, well I have often wondered it the think about where that produce and such came from. My husband and I saw a tee shirt in one of the truck stops that we tend to stop in all the time that reads "If you bought it I brought it" and I have to agree with it as most everything that is in the stores at one point or another was hauled in a truck.

I know this was one of my little rant fests and I do apologize for that just needed to get it off my chest as now and then I will probably do just that and go off on one of my little rant fest because I see things out here on the road that make no sense what so ever to me.