Sunday was a day that some might say had curious omens for us.
As mentioned in previous blog, Sunday we traveled to Wilderness Retreat and Development Center to attend our son’s baptism during Avondale United Methodist Church’s Worship in the Wilderness weekend.
This is what we saw when we pulled out our driveway:
The neighbors down the street had just moved in during the past week, and this U-Haul van had been parked down the street on the side Saturday night when we came home. We weren’t sure where they were driving it between Saturday night and Sunday morning to get it turned and stuck over the side of the road like this. But we didn’t go down the road to get out of the neighborhood Sunday morning.
When we got on I-35 to head north, just north of Liberty we ran across this:
The picture of the semi doesn’t do it justice (we took it on the way back — at 70 mph). It was crumpled and bent sort of accordion-like. The accident that caused it occurred the afternoon before (see this blog for other ways this accident affected other church-attendees for the weekend), so it didn’t affect our progress, but it was the second vehicle we saw in odd circumstance.
A few miles up the road we saw a horse-trailer on the side of the road, between Kearney and Holt. That seemed to be a simple flat tire being changed. That vehicle we expected to be back on the road soon.
Finally, between Lawson and the camp itself, we were slowed by a police car that first sped past us, then stopped on the side of the road where the shoulder got very low, grassy and wide before hitting the treeline. As were crept past the police car we saw the reason — another car slid off the side of the road and into/against the tree line. It looked to have occurred at least the night before — so why the police officer coming now? We did not know the answer to that.
But 4 separate incidents certainly instilled a sense of caution in our driving.
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