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Failed driviers test

This is the second time my daughter has taken her drivers test, and alas, failed. I feel so sorry for her. Her problem is the parking. When I am with her, she drives perfectly and only has a little bit of a problem parallel parking. When she is with her father, or with a stranger who is trying to teach her, she gets really nervous and then chokes up. AND, to make matters worse she has a really defensive nature and then gets upset when it seems someone is being demanding of her. Something that she has got to stop.

I admit that when she drives with her father, it is a horrendous experience. He is not a patient person and he tends to yell when there is no reason for doing so. In other words he is pure hell to have in a car while driving, or at a table when trying to learn homework. Actually anything that deals with teaching is not his strong point.

I’m going to take my daughter out the the farm and put her on one of the tractors and also have her drive one of the farm trucks. They are all sticks. It is how I learned how to drive when I was 9 yrs. old. If you can drive farm equipment, you can drive anything, is my motto. She and I will have her passing her driving test in no time.

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Survival tips and information

Lately a few of my blogging buddies and I have started talking about what would happen if something like a natural disaster struck us, or even something worse. How we would live. We are all into gardening and all of us are actually really self sufficient and handy when it comes to making something we need. A rig type deal, perhaps…but it’s the kinds of things “That will do in a pinch.”

My friend Lindsay who is really into it, will be a big help. She out of all of us, is more nature minded, and a live off the land type lady, than most in our little group. I have a feeling she is going to give us a lot of tips, since I know at one time, she lived up in the hills in Virginia for a two years, as sort of a “test” to herself and also out of necessity at the time. Something I never asked about and she never has told. I value her privacy as she is a very wide open type person, except for about certain things in her past. When she lived up in the hills,  she didn’t have electricity or even any running water. Bless her heart…she liked it like that. I personally need more civilization, but if need be I could indeed do without a lot of things if I had to, to keep alive and keep my family alive and sheltered.

To be honest,  I’m looking forward to the books recommended, along with the links and videos to learn what I can, but I think I’m going to leave the real hard core living off the land to my little friend. And yes…she indeed is a very small person, but can chop wood with the rest of them!