"Oh, The Places You'll Go!!"

 
The Tale of the Traveling 00 Jersey
 
One Friday afternoon, T00J hugged the back of a Big Guy and hopped a school bus at CLHS. They rode for hours, crossing the mountains and going through the woods, until they got to their destination, Culver, Oregon!
T00J had a great game with a bunch of other TJs, coming away with a big win. T00J hung out at McDonalds with Big Guy and some of his friends, then traveled on a couple hours, through the desert. T00J spent the night on a big ranch near Hampton, in a room with about half a dozen guys.
Here the story gets a bit muddled, but at some point on Saturday, T00J was hurriedly snatched up and thrown into a strange backpack, and traveled more hours, over more mountains, farther to the northeast, where T00J may or may not have spent two nights in the backpack!!
Meanwhile, Big Guy got home Sunday night and threw his basketball clothes in the washer. Monday morning, as Laundry Lady was folding clothes, T00J was discovered missing!!  A Great Search followed and everyone in the household participated, but to no avail!  The Mistress of the Ranch House also searched her guest room, but T00J seemed to have vanished!! Finally, through a series of text messages, T00J was located in Seneca, five hours from home!  And T00J was expected at a game in Pleasant Hill at 7pm, on the WESTERN side of the mountains!!! Alas, Big Guy had to sit on the bench for the PH game!!
The return of T00J became a very high priority to a Certain Family, as it would likely be needed again on Thursday and Friday.  It was agreed that T00J would be taken to the post office first thing Tuesday morning and sent Priority Mail!! Or... should Sister drive over the mountain to pick it up? Such decisions! Then a Tuesday Morning Solution! It just "happened" that a truck from the West Side had made a delivery to Said Ranch and would take T00J back over the desert and mountains and rivers, but on a more northerly route!!
Somebody's Mother happened to have an appointment in the north on Tuesday, so she drove nearly another hour farther to Estacada! The Kind Lady in the Office handed over the paper bag, that held the plastic bag, that T00J had ripened, ummmm, traveled in. Somebody's Mother had to put T00J in the back seat because of the peculiar smell, but soon it was home again, fresh and clean and ready for the next adventure!!


"But He knows the way that I take..." Job 23:19





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