Catching up with the Hobo

Heylo (combination of hey and hello I made it up a long time ago)

So it’s been a pretty long time since I’ve written in this thing so I thought I would write in it seeing as how I woke up an hour early because I forgot to set my clock back an hour.
So life has been pretty crazy and long these past couple of weeks. At work we’ve been going out to the oil field a lot to put up covers over there compressors (I still don’t know why were doing this but it’s for work so I have to do it). So the days have been very long because the places we go out to are anywhere between an hour to two and a half hours away from the shop. So there are days where Tom (my supervisor) will make us get there at six in the morning which means I have to get up and five fifteen to get to work fifteen minutes early, because that’s when Tom expects us to be there. Then most the days we don’t get back to the shop till about four or five , even one day six thirty, so very long, tiring, hot and COLD days.
This last Friday we were loading a trailer for a job on Monday and Lenny (a guy on the other crew) was bringing in some trusses with the big forklift and I was on the trailer and he was coming in pretty fast and I was standing in between the forklift and some trusses already on the trailer and Lenny wasn’t really watching where he was going and he ran right into my knee and holy shoot dang it hurt so bad. But I was at work and had to be tough so all the other guys didn’t think I was some kind of sissy  so I just played it off.
Not this last weekend but the weekend before last me and two of my buddies went up to Rosa Road (a huge oilfield road where there are A LOT of dead trees) and cut us some dead trees down so we could split them and try and sell them. We were supposed to leave at eight Saturday morning. So my buddy Derek was supposed to be at my house at seven thirty so we could load the trailer and head out there. But not much to my buddy Dallin (who just stayed at my house that night) and I surprise Derek didn’t show up at seven thirty, we didn’t really expect him to but we did expect him to show up before ten thirty, which is the time we went over to his house to go give him a beating and see why he didn’t show up at my house. We get over there ring the doorbell and no answer for a couple minutes then we hear a side door open and there is Derek looking like crap because he had just woken up. Needless to say we were not happy at all! We wait for him to get ready. When he is finally ready were trying to start his chainsaw which was supposed to be ready several days before today and we can’t even get it started. Again we were not very happy with Derek. So Derek calls his moms old boyfriend (this guy has been more of a dad to Derek then his real dad) and luckily he was going out to cut wood right then and says we can go with him, lucky for Derek. We go get our trailer and head out to where were meeting Larry (Derek’s moms old boyfriend) and we get about halfway there when Derek asks if I got the woodcutting permit. Dangit we forgot it! So we turn around and half to drive another half hour back to the house. Derek calls Larry and tells him to go out there and we’ll find him or call him when we get closer (Larry was going to have us follow him out to where we were going out on Rosa Road because this is a long stretch of dirt roads clear out in the middle of nowhere and very easy to get lost in). We get back to my house and I get directions to the entrance of Rosa Road because I had only been there once and I was only awake on the way home from it, so I didn’t really remember how to get there and Derek and Dallin hadn’t ever been out there. Were heading out there and after following these stinky directions from the internet we kind of get lost. Luckily, after going back and forth on this road we see a cop but we were going pretty fast but he only flashes his lights and keeps driving, phewwww that was a close one. Getting to the end of this road we turn around AGAIN and were driving when we see this same cop, but this time he was off to the side trying to catch people speeding, I was going the speed limit this time though and we pass him, but as we were going we were like let’s ask that cop where our turn off is, so we turn around one more time. We pull off next to this cop and he gets out and comes up to us and says “come back for your speeding ticket?” haha we that was the funniest thing!!! The cop tells us exactly where to go and we get there call Larry and get out there and finally chop us some wood. While we were out there Justen (Larry’s buddy) was calling in coyotes and was going to shoot one. We didn’t think he was actually going to get one. But about fifteen minutes after sitting on this rock being very still Dallin sees one about fifty feet away, it was the weirdest thing because I have never even seen a coyote especially that close, and Dallin whispers to Justen who out of instinct pulls the gun up whip around and shoot. It happened so fast it was crazy but the coyote jumped up in the air and looked like he was trying to bite himself. Justen had nailed him right in the stomach. Derek got off four shots that missed, but finding out later that Derek did get one in him, right in the bottom, haha were still laughing about that. So Larry and Justen take the coyote and we left because we had to get back before it got dark because we didn’t have lights on our trailer.
Well there is a lot more to tell but this is plenty long so I will say farewell until next time, sure love ya’ll.

Hobo Jojo