Adrian,MI

J woke me up this morning in Brazil,IN and I drove the last 200 miles to the receiver. We knew we were going to be late since we were 7 hours late leaving the shipper. We drove 65 the whole way, only stopped for fuel and made it there only 3 hours past our appointment. We did tell Prime and they said they notified them that we would be late. Another team left the same place about an after us and delivered to the same place and got there about 45 minutes before us. AND they said they stopped in Texas and took a 5 hour nap and stopped at the yard in Springfield and were there about an hour. I can only say that they must have been driving 75-80 the whole way. They are owner operators and not lease operators so they must have been hauling ass. Anyway, made it there and thought we were going to be able to drop but they made us stay. Running late for that and then getting held up for 3 hours there made us 4.5 hours late for our next pick up which they already had us planned on. It is a hazmat load going to CA and they didn't have any teams at all with a hazmat endorsement that could pick it up. So now we just got loaded in Adrian,MI and are headed out to Santa Maria,CA for a delivery on Monday between 0800-1000 hrs. Today has been a really long day and I am worn out. Because of where we dropped in Ohio and where we picked up here in Michigan, I had to take freaking back roads all the way up here. Those tiny roads and towns wear you out! Especially since all the towns insist on the state highway having at minimum four 9o degree turns on two lane roads through downtown with cars parked on the side of the road!!!! But we are off to scale to make sure we are legal, grab something quick to eat, then J is heading out and I am headed to bed!!

Oh, another funny, but probably TMI story about Smokey today. He has eaten some nylon rope that J had braided for him to play with and then he found a strip of his old harness that he had previously chewed up. Well, today he had issues going poopy. Seems there was a pretty big chunk of 1 inch wide nylon harness that didn't want to come out, along with about 6 inches of rope. Now, not the whole rope, but one of the tiny strands that make up the nylon rope. So he was pushing and pushing and had a turd hanging off that wouldn't come out. So he tries to sit and scoot his butt, and I stop him from that or else he is going to have shit all over him. Being the good Mommy that I am, I had to bend over, pick up a leaf and litterally pull the shit out of him. I know, TMI, but it was damn funny. And he gave me a look that said "Thank goodness you got that out of there!"