July 6 - Oops! Banged Up and Bruised

When I got up I dreaded starting a new work week and the day pretty much went down hill from there.  No problems at home or getting to work on time, but when I got my bank bag out of the safe and counted it, they only gave me $20’s and $10’s to work with.  Since I only get $100 and everything is multiples of 5’s I normally have all 5’s.  I told the ranger in charge that I could not manage without any $5’s.  She told me to go to the bank for change since the bookstore didn’t have any that I could have either.  So I drove to Tybee to the bank and they wouldn’t give me a lousy $100 of 5’s because neither me nor Ft. Pulaski was a customer.   I could not believe it.  So I called Bill on the way back to see if they wanted me to open and use the 2 $5’s in my wallet while someone went to another bank or for me to go.  He said he’d ask and call me.  So I pulled in at the booth and waited and finally one of the rangers showed up with $5’s she got from the bookstore.

Re-creation of break in

So I was rushing to get the booth open since I was about 20 minutes late.   I always leave my keys on the counter there and take my safety cones and stop sign out and put them in place.  Well today the wind blew the door shut and there I was, locked out of the truck, the building, with no phone and no one coming or going.  I used a few choice words while I thought about whether I should wait for someone or to walk the half mile to the visitor center.  Then I remembered I had unlocked the window of the drive thru.  New problem:  I could reach the phone but didn’t know the number to call and could not see the bulletin board.  I was not tall enough or strong enough to hike my fat butt up and through the window.  Time to rethink my plan.  I walked around again and found one of the landscape rocks that was kinda big and set it on end and used it for a toe hold and then I managed to somehow hike up and grab the counter and the chair and pull myself in.  Thank God no one came or went when my butt was hanging out the window.  I knew immediately I was going to have some nasty bruising on my left leg and when I got home I had 3 big ones on my thigh and a swollen bruise on my left forearm.  It was kinda funny once I got back in and the panic was over.  I won’t leave my keys inside again, that’s for sure.

Later I heard a siren sound off from somewhere, and then Bill called to tell me it was the weather siren and was because of severe storms coming or a tornado and that we’d need to put the awning in at lunchtime.  Geez, all we needed would be a bad storm.  I only had the morning in the entrance today so after lunch we were both in the VC.  It was pretty slow and kinda boring.  I did finish the fort’s library book I was reading and got to visit some with Ian, one of our favorite rangers.  Well, at least there was no storm, so the day wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

For dinner I had leftover spaghetti and Bill had a brat, leftover potato salad and we both had salads.  Made lots of room in the fridge.  Bill wanted me to make banana bread with the bananas we just got that weren’t good so I made 2 loaves and also used one of the big zucchini from Jeff to make 3 loaves of zucchini bread while Bill walked Xena and did the dishes.  I will take 3 loaves to work tomorrow.  They will miss us when we’re gone!