Post-Travel Stupor and Run-Away Trailer

The day after travels feel a bit off balance. Empty the car, check on the animals, reacquaint with what's growing, what's thirsty, what's next. Unpack and put away, settle petty disagreements between tired children with 48 hours of unusual food (chips! candy!) to make them feel a bit off.

Phil slept, on and off, most of the day. Seventeen hours of driving in 36 hours (plus driving hither and yon during our stay), often in stressful conditions: he was worn out.

Midafternoon, he dragged himself out to move a trailer out of the way. He pulled it up the driveway and stopped the truck: only to realize that the trailer had come unhitched.

This is an amazing story, a beautiful story. But it came so near tragedy to be almost unfathomable.

The trailer escaped at the top of our driveway, about the highest point of the property. If it had continued down the driveway, it would have taken out our van and tractor. Had it veered south, it would have wiped out the barn and RV, or perhaps the chickens and the home construction trailer (though that is a bit improbable).

Instead, it left the driveway just feet above the electrical box and electrical panel, not taking out our precious electricity.

It took out a single pear tree, perhaps ran over the fig tree (which bounced back, if affected at all), somehow skirted both small greenhouse and large greenhouse.

Then it must have become airborne, as it came to rest right before the precipitous hollow, stopped by a sturdy tree with all wheels off the ground.

Looking at it, Phil thinks the trailer looks intact.

Looking upslope, there is, literally, this one spot on the driveway where a runaway trailer could take out a single tree and damage no other permanent structures or plants.

How great the Father's love for us.

We'll get the trailer out, someday. For today, we just shook our heads with thankfulness and went back to cleaning and resting.

And even a runaway trailer seems like not a big deal. Stuck trailer? Who cares! As long as I'm not stuck driving around DC for three hours, life is good.