The Treadway's

Mornin Ya'll
Everyone must be busy

MP3 and Zac and Emily, so glad you got to have a lunch date. I know that was fun. Isn't Marleigh just the cutest, happiest, baby you've ever seen. I don't think I've seen her cry...ever.

Bobbie, Janet DVR'd (Ha) "Coal" so Blain could watch it. He had to go out at 2 this morning. He'll get 13 hours today and has to work tomorrow too. At our house, it has always been either "Feast or Famine".

In Daddy's early years of mining coal, they would Dynamite it out and then hand load it onto buggies. They didn't have a roof bolter, they would set timbers to hold the roof up. That was before the machines. Before Daddy left the mines, They probably had some of the machines by then, but most of his mining was done by hand. Can you imagine???

Blain said that he has roof bolted 10 cuts and as much as 500 ft a shift (He became a member of the 500 ft club) and yeah, they had pizza and it was quite a big deal. They were running 2 Continuous Miners and When they would shut one off to be serviced or moved to another section, they would start the other one. One Bolt crew (2 men) would bolt all the top. Would you believe, he said that was his favorite job underground. The last bolt machine Blain ran was the kind that 2 men could Bolt at the same time. I think it was called a "Double Headed Fletcher"? I might be wrong about the name.

It snowed here last night, just enough to cover the ground, but it is pretty. However, I hope it is our last. I want to see flowers!!