Last week I discovered that I’d been suffering from amnesia for almost 20 years.
It all started back in 1990 when I was building a new garage.
Actually, it started when I tore down the old garage. More on that in a little bit.
Getting back to the amnesia.
After lying the footer, and pouring the floor and getting the whole thing framed up. Things get a little fuzzy. Actually things are hard to remember for that month. This is what I was told later. However, it may not be true as I do not remember it.
I guess the way it all unfolded was two of my friends were working above on the truss and I was down below. One of them dropped, lost hold or threw a 2x4 to the ground that somehow hit me in the head. After waking up in the hospital, I was told that I had a bad concussion. Like thing are hard to remember during this period of my life.
Life went on and I got better and friends and neighbors built the garage while I was recovering. I noticed that the only effect of my concussion was that it was hard to recall how to spell some words, such as (if). One time I typed ef , or (of) came out ouf, which did not look right but then it did. And so on. However, over time I seemed to overcome these short comings.
But last week I realized the extent of my injury. I was rooting around in the shed by the barn and came across 4 ½- five gallon buckets of lead cast into ingots. I looked at them for a long time trying to remember where they came from or how they got there. Not being able to recall the source or the how of my good fortune, I went into the house and asked my wife about the source of the lead.
She explained to me that several months before I tore down the old garage that I’d melted down a bunch of lead I had in the old garage and put it in the shed knowing I would tear down the garage.
My guess is about 5-600 lbs of w-w cast into ingots. I will see if I can wear out some gun barrels. I hear that you can wear out gun barrels with this stuff.