The McCabes haven’t had the H.A. Award for a long time, but it seems like we were doomed to be saddled up with the little horsey this month. Being very busy with our construction projects at home isn’t much of an excuse but it’s the only one we’ve got! (Tech tip: Never rip out your sidewalks and driveway in the middle of a wet winter. . . you will be in a mess for months!) Unfortunately, the mess resulted in Norma seeing her reflection in the little horse’s flank and the image was posted on Facebook for the whole world to see! Here are the nominations:
#1) In the middle of all of our construction we realized that we had reservations for the Snow Train to Reno. Since we had booked and paid for it months ago we went anyway. Our next-door neighbors, Roy & Roxy, were also involved in the concrete project and were going with us on the train, so we opted to drive one car. We parked in the GHMC adopted park n’ ride lot in Suisun, unloaded the baggage for the 4 of us and walked to the station. Once we got there, we found a spot under the overpass, right next to the station. Norma asked someone to stand in it and went back to get the car. When she came back she was laughing, and telling me that I would certainly be nominated for the H.A. The car was unlocked with the keys in it! It is a good thing she went back to move it or we would have had a long walk home!
#2) Her turn! When they were tearing out the driveway approach, Norma had to drive her Ford 500 out to the street through the destruction. She got to the corner and realized she forgot something so she called me on the cell phone to bring it out. It was quite a feat to get to the curb since there were no sidewalks either and by the time I got there she was telling me her car was making a funny noise. I looked and saw cement dust in the tracks and told her that it was the cement on her tires. She looked at me like I was crazy and rolled up the window and took off with the guys waving and yelling. She had run over an orange traffic cone and it was stuck under the car. She couldn’t figure out why every-one she passed was pointing at the car and waving until she looked in the rear view mirror and saw the cone catapulting out the back. She had to turn around and stop in the middle of Jefferson Street to retrieve it.
I guess we will be sharing the H.A. Award this month!
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