“We got any coffee?” I asked.“You drink coffee?” She asked, surprised by this revelation.“Yeah.” I said as she turned and walked to the ki...chen.I got out of bed and grabbed my bag, fishing for a pair of pants, and a t-shirt, the last of my clean clothing. I found it and pulled it on as she returned with a cup of coffee for me. After getting dressed, she handed me the cup.“Sorry, I don’t know how you take it.” She said as I looked down at it.“Single spoon of sugar, two spoons of powdered. ’ As I slid into the passenger seat, Tim handed me the mike and set the selector knob to the secure channel. ‘Becky, is the Sheriff in the building?’ ‘Right here,’ came back the Sheriff’s voice. To Tim I said, ‘Close the windows.’ Then, to the Sheriff, ‘We met no opposition coming in on foot but I had to kill three guys who were about to shoot up our truck and our guys in it. I used their radio to order an immediate surrender but got no takers. Two other guys ran off, and they’ll probably try. “Let’s go,” Coach said to me before calling the next play. “We need you. Get it done.”We had to run a play-action pass, obviously because we had been running the ball so effectively. It only made sense to run. But I was not confident in my ability to get the ball further than 10 yards down the field. When I took the snap and faked the handoff, the safety bit just enough to give our receiver a step downfield. I let the ball go even though it felt like I was getting stabbed in my side, and I. With the frozen ground the UG (underground) jobs pretty much shut down. I cleared out on a job replacing hi-voltage insulators on single poles. The line was dead and grounded, so we used a “squirt” steel boom with a single 2-Man steel caged bucket on the end of it. As the winter got worse a lot of the IBEW L.U. 55 hands either took off south and west for warmer jobs or had saved enough of their summer wages to stay at home for a while.On very bad weather days most of the hands that showed up.