Best thing this week: A friend's guardian angel is stronger than my stupidity..... I got a big plastic snake thing called an Aquadam, (cheap water storage item). It's a giant double water weenie wrapped in aplastic sock. The location I chose for it turned out to be inappropraite. While trying to empty it's partia fill in order to move it, we pulled the empty strip (40 feet) back down downhill over the full part (about 300 gallons-2,400 pounds of water) so that the open end would be below the contained water.

Weeeelllll, my friend was on the downhill side of the water balloon as i was swinging the end down the hill. Just at the moment of gravitational shift, my friend decided to plop butt down on the bubble to see if the water would shift and so be forced in the out direction. Bad idea as that was the seond I yelled' 'MOVE!! Look out!!!!"

Much to my ABSOLUTE HORROR,, the damn thing started rolling, and absorbed my friend. !!!!!!!!!!!! As it took off down hill, I expected a body to be lying there, but NO, it had wrapped up and taken my friend with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Stared in disbelief as this giant blob of water balloon, with a 50 foot tail now wrapped around itsself, heading at breakneck speed down the hill with MY FRIEND IN IT. Mother of Godd.

I ran up over the little berm seperating us in time to see it hit a tree 70 feet down the hill. As I was ready to die, I noticed somethng white in a big patch of poison oak. My friend, laid out flat, face up, headed downhill, lying perfectly still, right there in the center big patch of flattened poison oak, about 15 feet from me. It had spit my friend out. Unharmed.

The ride had lasted one second. Think of it: " One one thousand."
Everything coulda been just ___________ there are no words to describe the feeling that I had just facilitated the death of a friend....... when I got to the body and was yelling. "Are yoy alright???" and eyes opened and laughter burst forth from the corpse, well, I was born again and started breathing.

The next day I hobbled back to look good at the path of destruction. Ladies and Gentlemen, we had a miracle on bunnyhill. There are so many ways it coulda had a bad ending, I won't begin to list them....... The one thing we agreed on though, if it had gone bad, it woulda made a heck of a CSI episode.

When it ain't yer time, it an't yer time, but when it is, baby yer gone.

So, my best thing this week is: I didn't kill my friend.