Another Daughter Married, And I Am Back At Work

I'm parked tonight on the premises at Yarde Metals in Southington, Connecticut.  I have a four a.m. appointment here to get my day started tomorrow.  This is Thursday night, and I started back to work on Tuesday after being home an entire week for my daughter Esther's wedding.  I have three more stops after this one, and then I already have a back haul load waiting on me to pick up at the SAPA plant in Cressona, Pennsylvania.  That one has six stops on it and will final out down in Alexandria, Louisiana.  My first day back on the job this week was spent training a new driver on our little specialized fleet, and then I left out on the road late that night so that I could get here tonight with time to make my deliveries tomorrow, and then move on down to Cressona for my ten hour break before leaving out of there with my next load.

The snow on the ground up here is still fairly heavy.  It is such a contrast to the scenes I was enjoying while at my home in Nacogdoches, Texas...

I tried a Barbecue restaurant today that had been highly recommended to me by another Knight driver. It is located across the street from our terminal in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,  I tried the ribs, which I was told were really good, but I guess my being from Texas has just about spoiled me on enjoying food from the pit.  I will give them another try just to be fair with them, but the ribs I ate today, though tasty, were as tough and dry as a piece of jerky.  Not the way to impress an old hand at coaxing the best texture and flavor out of a piece of meat with smoke and low heat.  I was amused by this wall decoration inside the building though...

We had a really nice time at Esther's wedding.  It gives me great pleasure to see her so happily settled, but it is troubling having her move so far away from us.  She was our first child, but not the first to marry.  She took her time in being discovered by the right sort of fellow, but she seems quite enthralled with her man, and I was happy to give her away to him, as he seems equally enamored with her.  It is a bitter sweet thing to give your daughters away, but it is part of life.  The circle keeps growing, and it will be nice one day to see our children raising their own little brood of babies.  I and my wife look forward to being grandparents.  Here is a shot of Esther and I as I escorted her down the aisle to her new life as a wife...

If you are ever in need of a good wedding photographer, my daughters highly recommend Peter Mahar.  They have followed he and his wife online for years now.  He did a great job for us and was very pleasant to work with.

Man, I am already missing my family.  It is always difficult for me to get back into the rhythm of life on the road after taking an extended stay at home.  When I do get back on the road it always makes me realize how much I miss them all.  I do enjoy what I do, and I don't plan to stop anytime soon, but I really miss this gal when I am on the road...

We are hoping to be together on the road a little bit later on this year.  I'm not sure she will enjoy being on the road so much as I do, but I am sure we will enjoy being together.  She is planning on riding with me some, and I am planning on spoiling her rotten while she is with me.