SUNDAY SUNFLOWERS

I love days like today. Sleep until we feel like getting up, and have nothing on the agenda, except to drive as far as we darn well feel like stopping. After fueling up in the Company yard in French Camp, CA, we headed north, and wouldn't you know it, we felt like stopping at the Rolling Hills Casino in Corning, CA. We had decided that a nice hot breakfast sounded pretty good, so as we stood in line, anticipating our meal, a man walks up to us and asks, "Are you a truck driver"?

Now Craig had one of those Twix commerical moments. You know the one, where you are presented with a question, and you're not quite sure how to answer it and you wish your mouth was full with a Twix bar, so you would have time to think? So Craig hesitantly says, "Yes, I am", and me being the woman, I'm thinking to myself, "Why, do we look and dress like truck drivers"?. But hoping that it was Craig's TWT hat that was the giveaway to the trucking profession, the man hands over two coupons for a free breakfast. How about that? We hit the jackpot and didn't have to even play a slot machine.

The man then told us, he was a truck driver too, and wasn't going to be using them, and he sure wasn't going to give them to anyone but a truck driver. We were down with that, and after thanking him several times, we proceeded to enjoy a very hot and delicious breakfast.

Of course, then we dropped $20 in the slots and although I could have walked away with an extra $10, that little voice in my head was telling me, "You were lucky before with the free breakfast, keep playing the slot machine, you're bound to walk away rich". The only thing we walked away with was our $20 diet cokes and a full belly, but hey, we can't complain.

It's always interesting to see how things change in a few days on Interstate 5. The last couple of trips, I have seen green fields growing, and then this morning.....boom.....there they were, sunflowers, all stretching their stems skyward in unison, towards the sun, their bright yellow petals sticking out like a sore thumb among the brown landscape. I have always loved sunflowers. Never having been a rose lover, I have always gone for the more standard carnation or daisy, but sunflowers are definitely my favorite, and after the great start we had so far today.....the sunflowers were just the icing on the cake!