Week 3:
I should be keeping, at the very least, a weekly log of events and updates. I'm going to start doing my best, but for now I'm going to squeeze 3 weeks into one post.
The first week I pretty much played golf and put off applying for jobs. I finally put in a few applications on Friday and made some phone calls.
The second week was a little more interesting. Let's start with the end of the first week:
SATURDAY: I got a phone call at about noon. It was a man named James and he was calling on behalf of Kim's Lawn Service. There was no application to complete for this job...just a phone number...and an answering machine. So James calls and asks me if I want to work. He tells me that "the guy who was supposed to work today didn't show up..." He wanted me to work at that exact moment. I declined, but told him that I'd be ready to work by Monday.
MONDAY: James calls again at noon. The conversation goes as follows...
James: "Yea, is this Dennis..Doug...there...whatever your name is?"
Me: "This is Doug."
James: "Yea, this is James. Do you want to work?"
Me: "Sure."
James: "Where're you at?"
Me: "You mean where am I right now? Do you want me meet you somewhere?"
James: "yea, what's your address? We'll come pick you up."
I give him the address and he says he'll be right over. I should mention first that my sister had told me stories about Kim's. Apparently they pull up to a job with a pick-up and a horse trailer. 5 or 6 people jump out of the trailer with lawn mowers, they mow for 20 minutes, load up in the trailer, and move on to the next job. Efficient. Back to the story.
James tells me to watch for him. He'll be in a white Ford pick-up pulling a brown horse trailer. He wasn't lying. Fortunately I didn't have to ride in the horse trailer...although the smell couldn't have been much worse than the smell of the back seat of the truck.
TUESDAY: Just Read This
WEDNESDAY: Well if it's not one thing, it's another. I started the day staining my grandma's patio. I was a good time. She made me some burgers and fruit. Then I went to work mowing lawns. I proceeded to get a sunburn on the back of my calves, back of my neck, forearms, face, and nose. I was in pain, for the second day in a row. Fun summer thus far. I can't wait to see what happens next.
THURSDAY: I'm really getting bored of typing. I worked...aaaaallll day. Stained g'ma's patio from 10am until 2pm then mowed lawns until 10pm.
FRIDAY: This is where things get interesting. I had been planning for quite some time to go to Minot Friday evening to stay with Amanda, then we were going to Fargo Saturday to get tattoos and to see Band of Horses. So I was only going to work from 9am until 4 or 5pm....but...my boss was in jail...so I didn't have to work. She was arrested on charges of cruelty to animals. She has 50 dogs, 80 horses, and other livestock on her farm. They were underfed and forces to live in confined quarters. So needless to say I didn't have to work on Friday. So I left Williston at 7pm for MInot. Amanda and I got our drink on, met up with Tanuel, David, Sandy, and Ryan, got our drink on some more, and left for Fargo Saturday afternoon.
BANDOFHORSES: The show was really really really really really good. Mt. Egypt opened for Band of Horses and he was amazing. I bought one of his cd's. Band of Horses was also amazing. The only crappy thing is that at this point I had been battling a sore throat and this night was the height of my pain. People kept talking to me, and when you are at a show, there is not talking, just yelling...so by the end of the night I was miserable. I just wanted to sit back, sip on my Sprite, and enjoy the music. If my throat didn't hurt so bad I would have been all about the talking, but it just hurt too bad. So there I was, sitting down, being accused by Amanda as being a "Crab-ass" and listening to some great music.
SUNDAY: Amanda and I drove back to Minot after having lunch with my sister and some friends. My voice was almost completely gone, and chloroseptic spray does not work...at all...and it's gross...
I should be keeping, at the very least, a weekly log of events and updates. I'm going to start doing my best, but for now I'm going to squeeze 3 weeks into one post.
The first week I pretty much played golf and put off applying for jobs. I finally put in a few applications on Friday and made some phone calls.
The second week was a little more interesting. Let's start with the end of the first week:
SATURDAY: I got a phone call at about noon. It was a man named James and he was calling on behalf of Kim's Lawn Service. There was no application to complete for this job...just a phone number...and an answering machine. So James calls and asks me if I want to work. He tells me that "the guy who was supposed to work today didn't show up..." He wanted me to work at that exact moment. I declined, but told him that I'd be ready to work by Monday.
MONDAY: James calls again at noon. The conversation goes as follows...
James: "Yea, is this Dennis..Doug...there...whatever your name is?"
Me: "This is Doug."
James: "Yea, this is James. Do you want to work?"
Me: "Sure."
James: "Where're you at?"
Me: "You mean where am I right now? Do you want me meet you somewhere?"
James: "yea, what's your address? We'll come pick you up."
I give him the address and he says he'll be right over. I should mention first that my sister had told me stories about Kim's. Apparently they pull up to a job with a pick-up and a horse trailer. 5 or 6 people jump out of the trailer with lawn mowers, they mow for 20 minutes, load up in the trailer, and move on to the next job. Efficient. Back to the story.
James tells me to watch for him. He'll be in a white Ford pick-up pulling a brown horse trailer. He wasn't lying. Fortunately I didn't have to ride in the horse trailer...although the smell couldn't have been much worse than the smell of the back seat of the truck.
TUESDAY: Just Read This
WEDNESDAY: Well if it's not one thing, it's another. I started the day staining my grandma's patio. I was a good time. She made me some burgers and fruit. Then I went to work mowing lawns. I proceeded to get a sunburn on the back of my calves, back of my neck, forearms, face, and nose. I was in pain, for the second day in a row. Fun summer thus far. I can't wait to see what happens next.
THURSDAY: I'm really getting bored of typing. I worked...aaaaallll day. Stained g'ma's patio from 10am until 2pm then mowed lawns until 10pm.
FRIDAY: This is where things get interesting. I had been planning for quite some time to go to Minot Friday evening to stay with Amanda, then we were going to Fargo Saturday to get tattoos and to see Band of Horses. So I was only going to work from 9am until 4 or 5pm....but...my boss was in jail...so I didn't have to work. She was arrested on charges of cruelty to animals. She has 50 dogs, 80 horses, and other livestock on her farm. They were underfed and forces to live in confined quarters. So needless to say I didn't have to work on Friday. So I left Williston at 7pm for MInot. Amanda and I got our drink on, met up with Tanuel, David, Sandy, and Ryan, got our drink on some more, and left for Fargo Saturday afternoon.
BANDOFHORSES: The show was really really really really really good. Mt. Egypt opened for Band of Horses and he was amazing. I bought one of his cd's. Band of Horses was also amazing. The only crappy thing is that at this point I had been battling a sore throat and this night was the height of my pain. People kept talking to me, and when you are at a show, there is not talking, just yelling...so by the end of the night I was miserable. I just wanted to sit back, sip on my Sprite, and enjoy the music. If my throat didn't hurt so bad I would have been all about the talking, but it just hurt too bad. So there I was, sitting down, being accused by Amanda as being a "Crab-ass" and listening to some great music.
SUNDAY: Amanda and I drove back to Minot after having lunch with my sister and some friends. My voice was almost completely gone, and chloroseptic spray does not work...at all...and it's gross...
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