Want to hear a STRANGE but true story?

And don't ask me what made me think of it.  Well OK, I'll tell you.  Know how certain things, seemingly trivial things can start a flood of memories, that can be almost overwhelming?  Well, as I was finishing up one project today, before I started on another I decided to clean up my bay (yes, I know AMAZING!) and happened to find a photograph of the kids (pre-Izzabella) from a point in our life that was rather painful.  One of those moments, that at the time, we were uncertain,  as if your whole life was so unsure and out of our control.  BUT in the end it turned out OK (HUMOROUSLY SO).  But it started me waxing nostalgic.
So here's the rub.  Today's is St. Patty's day!  Now I'm not Irish, but I married one.  And despite the Red Hot temper...I couldn't imagine being with a better nationality!  Sure keeps things interesting!
But I digress. 
I am branded. 
YEP!
Fate itself had determined the course of my love life in a way that is so eerie, it borders on unbelievable, but a series of events occurred in my life that in retrospect could be nothing but preordained. (PLUS, I've always loved Irish music, so it standed to reason)
When i was sixteen, a year and a half before meeting my FIRST wife (Don't ask, we are ALL allowed 1 mistake in life) I had a TERRIBLE car accident, two weeks after getting my licence (sorry to bring up bad juju mom...it was her car).  I became airborne, bounce off two trees and WRAPPED a Ford Escort around a telephone pole.
I mean WRAPPED!
less then an inch in either direction, You wouldn't have anything interesting to read!
And that accident occurred on my first wife's birthday.
I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE HINT!
Well, stranger still, one of the injuries caused scar tissue in the inside of my left bicep, that when healed spells out...
Angela.
YEP!  I AM NOT KIDDING!
It doesn't show all to well now that I have been living in the South (I remain tan 24/7/365) but somewhere in our memory albums there is a photo of it.  I'll have to look for it sometimes. 
So, that combined with the almost comedic timing of Angela's and mine meeting for the first time (LOTS of things had to happen in succession to make THAT possible) God and The Devil themselves couldn't have kept her and I apart.
(OH, and as a historical side note in the "Too weird" dept.  Exactly 10 years to the day, a young man driving the same kind of car, in the same direction, at the same time of day, that had the same first name as I, had an almost identical accident, in the exact same spot, and the car came to wrap around the same telephone pole.  NO JOKE, my mom has the article clipped to her fridge!)
ANYWAY!
On the work front.
Today was another BUSY buying day !  YAY!! getting ready for the weekend!  Picked up a vintage Schwinn beach cruiser, 4 bangers, ANOTHER beach cruiser (SWEET SLICK BLACK), a LIKE NEW Hyper jolt, A vintage Raleigh MTB, a 3 wheeler, a couple of kids bike...and a Partridge in a pear tree!
No skip the last one.
Sold the Banger from yesterday first thing to another semi-CONVERT!!!! YAY!!!!!
Looking forward to more!
And the re-pairs flow unabated!  As always, our deepest heart felt thanks to all for your trust!
Pumped out the Trek Ladies 3700, Jose' did a FANTASTIC job! And he has another pair of Banger MTB's about 90% done.  I...organized...several times, as we got fuller and fullerer throughout the day.  And put out the Hyper (oh THAT was a lot of work *sarcasm*) and built out and painted a vintage Schwinn three wheeler special (Dark Metallic purple...FAB-U-LOUS)  And Zombie-Boy?  Meandered about, occasionally poking at the tandem.  *sarcasm*
So in short, I feel tired but feel like I didn't do a damn thing!
ANYWAY!  Tonight is the St. Patty's get together (with a makeshift live Irish concert in our living room COOL!  So I gotta git home to corn beef and cabbage! 
Y'all have a Green night!

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