Sunday, September 28, 2008

Electrifying Celebration!

Rob's new nickname - Flash
Our Hero - Grandpa Rob with baby Stetson

Mike with his little bookworms

Celebrating Grandma's Birthday - 84 years young!
Well, the scariest news of the week is that Rob was almost electrocuted! Scared him pretty good, too. He was doing a job for Breinholt taking down a power pole. They were told the wires were dead and had been shut off. Well…. obviously not! Rob went to cut the wires with his sawzall and WHAM! It arcked and knocked him to the ground giving him a flash burn across his face and eyes. Nothing serious; more like a light sunburn. His eyes hurt for several hours, like sand in them, but by night they were fine. It also melted the saw blade. So that was a close call! Now he has the nickname of “Flash” with all the crews. So on Friday, when he went into the office to pick up his paycheck, he wore a partially melted old pair of work goggles, then painted an old shovel handle white with a red tip (to look like a blind person’s cane), tied the melted saw blade around his neck, then walked along tapping with his improvised cane. He gave them a pretty good laugh. Silly Rob. But I definitely said a big THANK you in my prayers that night!

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