June 7th, 2011. Had nothing to do today...started off slow. I woke up at my usual time, made coffee, and waited, as Lee appeared to be thinking of something for me to do. He said "Let's go for a ride in the 6x" I said all right (That's his big Vietnam truck)...we went across and through downtown Delta. Saw about 20 people in the whole town. On the other side was a place where we could buy gravel by the yard. We rolled in and he got out and talked to some inbred looking lady. He said "I don't like the way this outfit is ran, the old guy ran it better". So we left with no gravel. Lee is definitely not the type to settle for less. He acts as if his little town isn't rural enough. He notices all the "City folk" all the time, and makes sure to point them out. I kinda feel obligated to defend them because its not like he's in their neck of the woods ever. I don't think this guy's seen a skyscraper since the 60's. People up here are just kind of slow in general...everyone I've met says "I hear your from California"...I tell them "I'm from Oregon, just came from Cali"...they all like to remind me where I'm from lol. These people are very good at living without things, but living with things can be just as hard...they are very judgmental. We might call em hicks or whatever, but we don't think of them as being less...I get the feeling these hicks think of city people as less. Its all right though, we get 20mb/s down and 5 up while they rock the 24kb/s dial up internet lol. We just have more to juggle in the city, the rural communities have more self awareness. These people really are animal like in many ways. One thing I've noticed is they all look around like they have horse eyes (On he side of their heads). Lol, hard to explain what I mean, but instead of twisting their necks to look around they look down...everyone up here does that. And instead of saying "I" they say "A guy". Like instead of saying, "I need to dig up that dirt", they all say, "A guy needs dig up that dirt". Most of em have a dry sense of humor too. Anyway...after we didn't get the gravel we drove down to some town 150 miles south of here to pick up two mules for Lee's lady friend. We were there for about 5 minutes then turned right back around. We were on the road for about 7 hours…got some good pictures driving through the Alaskan Range, which I posted yesterday. We stopped for a burger somewhere in the middle…took a pic (Posted yesteday) of that place…that place defined the rural burger joint. We got back, BBQ'd up some chicken, then called it a night.
June 8th, 2011. Today I planted the flowers we got from the lady we saw yesterday. Forgot to mention that she gave us a bunch of flowers for picking up her mules yesterday. It took a lot longer than I thought it would, I had to space them out all perfectly so that it looked even. I just tended to the garden and flowerbeds today. After lunch I took a nap, you don't really realize how tired you are until you need to take a nap. I feel like I'm trying to catch up on sleep all the time. I can sit down and nap for 30 minutes now lol, like an old man, I've never been able to do that. Anyway tomorrows what…Thursday?…I'll be back in Cali in no time. If I was gonna be here a while longer the week would end a little quicker. But knowing there's no work to be done, and that I'm about to go, causes time to slow down. I planned on quitting smoking up here, but stopped drinking energy drinks instead. I'm strictly coffee now lol. I drank a Rockstar yesterday and CRASHED hard…WOW…it had been over a week since I've had one…the longest I've gone since high school probably. I'm done with those, they seem dirty now because of that crash. I think I'm not gonna eat any fast food either anymore. So we got fast food and energy drinks gone…I still need to kick the drinking and smoking. Its on my list…I'll get there…but I'd rather not do it while I'm waiting to head back to a jobless, homeless California. Its only been a week and a half since I've left, but it seems like months. Can't wait to get back, but I'm going to miss this place.
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