Home for Christmas?

Maybe.  It's awfully close to Christmas, but there's just enough rain and cold in the air to break another rig on Chistmas Eve.  We'll hope for the best and expect the worst.  I've actually been out working all week, close to home but not home once between Monday and Friday!  It's been busy and tiresome.  

Monday, drive North to broken rig. Saw three herds of elk... one of them with 27 elk in all! Camera battery dead (go figure). Monday night, 1 hour of sleep. As always, grueling, greasy, heavy physical labor. Tuesday, 2 hours sleep. Wednesday, 4 hours of sleep at a hotel--and a hot shower and clean clothes!!! Drive to a rig 4 hours away. Almost at rig. Divert to rig 2.5 hours away in Ohio. Thursday, skip sleep. Spent most of day and night dangling in a harness, just over the windwalls where the non-stop rain and the biting cold air pierces two layers to make you feel as if you were wearing no clothes at all. Friday, 3:30 AM, crash in truck, wearing wet, greasy clothes. Ugh.

This year, I don't need a white Christmas. I just need a nap and a pinch of family time! And as far as presents go, I'll take a new back. They don't make backs like they used to!!!