A day in the life of Eric

Eric has been taking a few pics while he has been working in Wyoming so I thought I would share in case you were wondering what he has been up to.....

The area he is working in.

The job yard with all the poles and other material for the line.

Here is Eric up in a bucket terminating the end of a wire. He is about 80 feet up in the air.

And this would be how their day started out on Saturday! The guy driving was only going about 1 mph but when the truck went into a raveen, the trailer tipped and due to the HEAVY load, it went totally over!

You can see that spool left on the trailer and it was full of those. The rest of them rolled off and got totally bent up. Eric said he thinks they each weigh about 12,000 lbs and are worth about $20,000 a piece. Moral of the story is, DON'T WORK ON SATURDAYS!!! ha ha. Isn't that what you got out if it? Okay so that is just my own opinion. Luckily, no one was hurt. Eric was driving the truck right be hind this one.

This pic is blurry but that is a Golden Eagle above him! This isn't Eric, I was informed of that. ha ha. Now that I know, I can clearly see it is not my husband. :)

I guess he was just chillin at the top of one of the poles. One guy almost got to touch him but he flew over to the next pole. Another guy on his crew got a pic really close up so I wanna try to get a copy. We thought it was pretty cool that he was able to see and be so close to such a cool bird.

He is really enjoying the work and would have no complaints at all if it were a little closer to home. We have been told that he will most likely be there until the middle of November and they will be working Monday-Saturdays until then. They have been working 12-14 hour days so he pretty much works, showers, eats and sleeps. 2 weeks ago he worked 78 hours in a week! But the good news is, as long as everything goes as planned, after this job he will be coming back home to work at a job that will last until April!!!! Yahoo!!! So we are really praying that nothing changes and he doesn't get sent somewhere else in the mean time. We have been so blessed and are so thankful for this great job that he has.

I am so proud to be married to him and I know we are so lucky to have him. He would do anything for us and is sacrificing so much right now. It will all pay off in the end. So there you have it. Now you know a little bit more about what he does. And if you didn't know, he is a 3rd step Apprentice Lineman!