Danny told me his side of the story, rather reluctantly I might add.
Okay, let’s see. What was that? 2009? So, back in 2009 I had a water transfer that I had to do and prove that I was using water beneficially so that COI would certify with the state and not give me a hard time. I was trying to get the irrigation running, the field seeded and everything greened up to prove I was using it correctly.
At the same time, I realized that I was pretty lonely and pathetic and thought I’d find someone to make me less so. I can’t remember if I had been on eHarmony before that point, I think I had, but I had ignored it for awhile. The people I thought were interesting were also living too far away. I think I had told them I would consider matches within the few neighboring states even. I’d have a match, converse somewhat, and then they would be too far away and I knew I’d never go meet them. That would be the end of that. EHarmony wasn’t too big of a hit. I got bored with it. They sent me an email saying there was a free weekend. There were matches from all over the place.
The fourth of July it was free and I was able to communicate with Jenna and someone in Sisters. The one in Sisters just didn’t sound like the right person. Jenna did. I communicated with Jenna and we went through the eHarmony formula. I gave her my email to communicate after the free part was over because it was only lasted about four days.
Jenna sounded pretty wonderful, but she also sounded pretty girly…like maybe more girly than I could handle. She talked about not camping, backpacking, or rock climbing and that being a possible deal breaker for me, but I didn’t think they were things that were that important in the big scheme of things. I just thought I’d get her to try them with me and she’d decide she’d like to do it to be with me. I still haven’t gotten her to do much of it, so it’s a good thing it’s not a deal breaker.
Everything went pretty straight forward on the emailing and everything went good. She sounded like someone I should meet. Even though some days it felt like I was picking rocks for 12-14 hours a day and then driving a tractor after that, it still felt like I should meet her, but that I should probably take a shower beforehand J. Then some days I didn’t think about it at all and I just went home, ate something and went to sleep. I don’t even remember what I did with the dogs at that point.
I don’t know why I finally decided to call her that day—too many e-mails and not enough voice or face-to-face communication—so I couldn’t resist and I called her. I also don’t think I called her until I thought I’d have a chance to meet her. I didn’t want to build up the first meeting too much, but to just do it. So I did it.
I met her mom before I met her, because Joi was out pulling weeds. I met Jenna and she says that my car was clean and that was probably because it was new. Well, that was ‘09 so it was within the first two years of me owning it. So I met her and she seemed really nice.
We went to my parent’s property and we checked on the goats, walked around and talked and I took her back to her house. It cracked me up when a few months later she told me she didn’t know why I was coming up to her house all the time, because I came up to her house regularly after our first meeting, but she can tell you the rest of that story.
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