Tuesday I finally had my knee surgery - that was successful. One large tear was fixed - the wraps are off today and I can get out to the barn to at least say hello to my girls although I still won't pass a soundness check.
While sitting on the sofa on Tuesday night under many ice packs with my hubby, waiting for Andy to bring Ben home from work around 10PM, our cable went out while watching "Jeremiah Johnson" (Tim's favorite movie).
"I think someone hit a pole," I said after Tim had fussed with the cable box and its connectors. "There is not a storm outside to cause it to cut out."
Andy and Ben arrived shortly thereafter but we did not hear what had actually happened until the next day.
Tim's coworker's daughter was in a car following another car (a Trailblazer)- all the girls were going to celebrate their graduation (from Fairport High, in Fairport, NY) last week at one of the girls' parents' lake cottage.
The Trailblazer passed a van legally and then they don't know what happened...the authorities thought the driver tried to overcorrect the turn back into her lane and then the Trailblazer hit an oncoming tractor trailer truck head on and burst into flames. The driver in the truck tried to help and Ben told me he was at a bonfire last night and a friend of his (Jesse) was following the tractor trailer truck and he jumped out to try to help.
Five girls were trapped in the Trailblazer and Jesse was trying to tell them it would be OK... but it was too hot for him to get any closer and according to Jesse they were still alive inside the car....the flames went 50 feet into the air and melted all the wires on the telephone poles...when Ben told me this aspect of the story this morning, it made it more awful.
My heart breaks for these parents (and anyone who has lost a loved one) and for those who witnessed this horrible tragedy - Tim's coworker went to the scene as soon as he heard from his daughter (she was not hurt) and some of the mothers of the girls who died had also gone to the scene and the co-worker had to drive them back home. Ben knew one of the girls from cheerleading.
This is the second accident in town. Last week, kids were driving on our road and a dog or other animal jumped out into the road and the driver hit the brakes, ejecting a passenger out of the car (no seat belt....). Andy and Ben saw the scene right after it happened and thought a classmate had hit a kid as he was right behind the car that ejected its passenger. That kid told Andy what had happened. Andy thought it was initially a kid who lived in a nearby house but ironically, it was a Fairport High student as well.
Tim was on the porch and heard a squeal of brakes and a thud. I had just come in and he said there's been an accident - let's get into the truck and see what happened. Andy had gone to pick up Ben at work and we were both relieved when they met us at the foot of the driveway and told us what happened - Tim hears anything and he immediately thinks it is our boys....luckily for the hurt boy here, he was treated and released.
Hug those close to you often and as long as you can, for life is so fragile and fleeting. What is here today can be gone in an instant....
:
:
:
:
:
:
Denise
Silversong Farm
While sitting on the sofa on Tuesday night under many ice packs with my hubby, waiting for Andy to bring Ben home from work around 10PM, our cable went out while watching "Jeremiah Johnson" (Tim's favorite movie).
"I think someone hit a pole," I said after Tim had fussed with the cable box and its connectors. "There is not a storm outside to cause it to cut out."
Andy and Ben arrived shortly thereafter but we did not hear what had actually happened until the next day.
Tim's coworker's daughter was in a car following another car (a Trailblazer)- all the girls were going to celebrate their graduation (from Fairport High, in Fairport, NY) last week at one of the girls' parents' lake cottage.
The Trailblazer passed a van legally and then they don't know what happened...the authorities thought the driver tried to overcorrect the turn back into her lane and then the Trailblazer hit an oncoming tractor trailer truck head on and burst into flames. The driver in the truck tried to help and Ben told me he was at a bonfire last night and a friend of his (Jesse) was following the tractor trailer truck and he jumped out to try to help.
Five girls were trapped in the Trailblazer and Jesse was trying to tell them it would be OK... but it was too hot for him to get any closer and according to Jesse they were still alive inside the car....the flames went 50 feet into the air and melted all the wires on the telephone poles...when Ben told me this aspect of the story this morning, it made it more awful.
My heart breaks for these parents (and anyone who has lost a loved one) and for those who witnessed this horrible tragedy - Tim's coworker went to the scene as soon as he heard from his daughter (she was not hurt) and some of the mothers of the girls who died had also gone to the scene and the co-worker had to drive them back home. Ben knew one of the girls from cheerleading.
This is the second accident in town. Last week, kids were driving on our road and a dog or other animal jumped out into the road and the driver hit the brakes, ejecting a passenger out of the car (no seat belt....). Andy and Ben saw the scene right after it happened and thought a classmate had hit a kid as he was right behind the car that ejected its passenger. That kid told Andy what had happened. Andy thought it was initially a kid who lived in a nearby house but ironically, it was a Fairport High student as well.
Tim was on the porch and heard a squeal of brakes and a thud. I had just come in and he said there's been an accident - let's get into the truck and see what happened. Andy had gone to pick up Ben at work and we were both relieved when they met us at the foot of the driveway and told us what happened - Tim hears anything and he immediately thinks it is our boys....luckily for the hurt boy here, he was treated and released.
Hug those close to you often and as long as you can, for life is so fragile and fleeting. What is here today can be gone in an instant....
Denise
Silversong Farm
