Sunday- night - heavy rain in the forecast going on all night long (allegedly) and well into tomorrow.
The only thing I have going tomorrow work-wise is driving this pile of junk tractor up to the yard and bringing back the pink behemoth. Probably going to take longer in the rain, but I'll still be home early, I think anyway. I am kicking myself for not remembering to drop that trailer today before the rain started.
Oh well.
The boy is doing better. Stiff, sore, pain when trying to do certain things, but there is improvement. I took pics of the crap that dog did to him.
They were gone 2 nights ago so I watched them overnight. Well, not watch, lol, just left my bedroom door open. They never bothered me, tho the youngest got up early as well as I to complain about pain. I gave him 10 mls of children's Tylenol and that helped him a bit.
I took the 8 year old to church today while the youngest went to the hospital with daddy to get mommy. The oldest told the entire children's church about the dog attack and the mom having the baby because of it. They came out when they saw me and said that boy is a very good story teller!
Well it's not a story, he was right there when the dog attacked his brother, he saw everything. They didn't mean it that way, tho, they just meant he's good at portraying exactly what happened. Yes, I agreed, the boy was mauled by a large dog and then a baby was born because of it! I'm sure they'll have some kind words for the 6 year old next time he's at church. I'd like to hope so anyway.
Taylor said the whole hospital must have found out about the dog mauling, there were people saying stuff to her about it that she had never seen before. Yes, she came home today as well as the newborn went home with his new parents. She can barely walk. Not only did she have the baby, but she hurt herself when the dog attacked the boy. Pulled a muscle, tendon, who knows but between the two she is walking very slowly.
It's why I intend on leaving early enough tomorrow to be home before the boys get home from school. If it's still raining, I will go up to get them instead of her having to do it.
You know, you can see videos of dogs attacking people and yes, it looks bad. I've seen videos of it. But it's nothing like being in the middle of it attempting to get the thing to get his mouth off of the human it is - attempting to kill? I don't know if the dog would have stopped had we all not been there.
The story sort of evolved, I wasn't sure what Taylor was doing, but I guess she was grabbing it's tail while James and the lady next door were trying to get the dog's mouth off of him which is when I kicked the living s*** out of that dog. If that hadn't worked, I was going to go for the throat of that dog or run and get a gun. When I say the throat, I mean crushing force if possible, you'd be surprised what adrenaline can do. It was pumping through everyone's veins, there was nothing we weren't willing to do in order to save that boy from that dog.
I don't know if the dog has been put down yet, there was some thing the police department wanted done first for unknown reasons before doing that. I'm like, screw that, the dog has cancer anyway, just take it up and have it put down because of the cancer. The lady is under a serious guilt complex right now. She has been over twice bringing new blankets for the boys and candy. We have tried to convince her we don't hold anything against her, there was no way of knowing that dog would turn aggressive like that.
I have no idea yet how the new parents are doing - they are literally new parents, this is their first child. We have been filling their head with all kinds of information for almost 9 months now, especially the part about being prepared to being up all night long for awhile when you take him home. Their lives are going to change dramatically, as it usually does when people have their first child and start to learn just home much time, energy and mental fatigue they can take out of you, not to mention money.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, not at all. But it is a dramatic change. Your life is upended, your priorities change, your whole way of thinking changes at least to some degree about the way you see life and perceive things differently. It will settle you down if you a "wild man" type of person. For most people, I think, their children become the apple of their eye and they find that their kids can have strange powers over them, lol.
It will be interesting to see their transformation. I'm guessing their family members are over there visiting and helping. One of them has 3 months off of work for maternity leave, the other is taking two weeks off right off the bat. That's a good sign, they are willing to do whatever it takes to make this work. Taylor said there was an odd feeling after being asked about handing the child over to them. Maternal instincts. I think they are going to refer to her as an aunt while the child is growing up. I don't believe anyone wants the kid to know she's his mother. I dunno, but that might be a tall order with the kids here keeping that a secret.
Anyway, the weekend is over. The kids are in bed, it's not really late yet, but I am fixing to go to bed soon. I want to get up relatively early to get over to the property to get that trailer dropped and get on the road headed up there. Just want to be home in time for the kids, as I said before, in case it's raining. Taylor is in no condition to be doing much of anything, really.
I have no idea what the week is going to hold in terms of work. I just know that if there is work, it's going to be an Ennis run and it's going to be in someone else's truck to get trained. Apparently you can't take 2 tankers in there at the same time, ie: they don't need that much product all at once. I expect it to take one time in there to figure out what's going on and that will be the end of that training. I'll take notes if necessary, but it can't be all that much different than what I am already doing.
The dude that trained me for Gurdon said the only difficult part is trying to get a 3 inch hose through a tight hole and that it's better to take a 2 inch hose. I don't know, I have a 2 and a 3 inch hose on my truck. Neither of them have the caps or plugs, I need to remember to ask for those when I'm up there tomorrow.
I'm starting to get this whole, wild weekend behind me. I see that boy's wounds tho....that dog wasn't just nibbling on his skin. I am not going to be posting those pics online, just don't think that's appropriate, but if I did, you would get a better understanding of what I am talking about. Several deep puncture wounds and a heckuva lot of lessor bite wounds. I just say lessor in that they weren't as deep, it still looks horrible.
Fortunately, the boy got over the initial fear he was experiencing with my Dane. He's now calling him and petting him. Obi, from what I can see, would never bite a human. He might get into it with other dogs, but I think it's all bark, no bite.
That's enough for now. I have rents to collect tomorrow, I probably should have today but today Taylor came home from the hospital and family takes precedence over park stuff. Not like people won't pay, lol. There is also a long term allegedly showing up tomorrow and that will be a full park. I should have a lot to come open very soon, I know for sure the QT manager is leaving this coming week. He didn't know for sure the exact day, but he was pretty sure he would be done the first week of November. I like to keep one lot open for overnights. I'm just hoping it isn't pouring rain tomorrow morning for dropping that trailer, I do have an umbrella at least.
