The date

When the kids went to Ex Springs to spend some time with the family Meg and I found our selves nothing to do but,

Have fun

So we decided to go on a date.

First was dinner
next was a movie.

Yes, we went to Bueno's.
It's a TexMex kind of restaurant.
I thought it was one of those places were you go in have a margarita while you wait on your food to be served to you.

I was wrong!

This is where you order...and wait for your food

Seating

The salsa bar

As you can see it's more of a fast food restaurant..with no alcohol
at all..totally dry,
man what a bummer.

Meg's food

My food

The food was good but in my opinion over priced for what you got and not salty at all. Maybe the small salsa bar was supposed to make up for that, any way save your cash and go to Taco Bell instead, their food has a better taste and will fill you up.

Then we went to see Evan Almighty what a fun time that was and the company was even better. Meg bought the tickets on line so we just walked right on in and we were suppose to let the guy at the podium have them so he could rip them in half then tell us were to go, but the place was dead and there was no guy so we just found it our selves.

If we would have known this going in then we wouldn't have wasted the money on the tickets and just walked in there like we were supposed to be there and saw the movie for free.

Un-used tickets

All in all I had a great time just hanging out with my woman.

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Locked out

I'm having a problem with the brakes on my truck.

Whenever you drive it the wheel on the front drivers side gets HOT and I mean hot to the touch, you can even smell it, so my brother Larry came over. He said he thought it might be a caliber because we just had new brakes put on which ruled out other possibilities. We took off the tires to get a better look but somehow in the process we managed to lock the keys inside...with the lights on....Oh and the only other person with a key is Meg and she's out of town...
CRAPOLA.
I went across the street to ask my neighbor if he had a Slim Jim (he has a repo business) but all his equipment was tied up in St. Louis. Then I went to the guy that lives next to me but he was unable to help. I made a few dead end phone calls for help but to no avail. Then the "repo guy" summonsed me over with some good news. He said his son in law (I think thats what he said) had a kit to get me in and was on his way. Oooohhhhh what a relief when he showed up to save the day.

He's got all the goods.

Hard at work

He even took great pains not to break or scratch anything on this 1991 Toyota
(like you could even tell if he did).

Well he got us in and asked for nothing in return...man how great is that? Do you even know what a locksmith would have cost? Anyway he "Mike Jr." (they call him) did this on a Sunday when he was probably in the middle of watching a game and was the nicest guy you could have met.

Thanks so much Mike Jr.

My dad said I should of just let the battery run dead and wait tell Meg got home.

Struck it Rich

You won't believe what I got in the mail today.

I now have in my possession Gold.

When my brothers and myself were small we had the most strict, most kind, most forgiving person you could have as a babysitter....

That person was none other then Veda Mitchell.

As I rember it she was an awesome woman, raising 3 kids of her own and at the lose of one, with nobody but herslf and strong will to get her through. She used to scrounge the house for things for us to eat and always came up with something healthy even though I doubt she ever had more then $20.00 in her purse at any one time. She taught us about love, compassion, rules of life and, how to be strong when things are looking bleak. Always strong willed and wouldn't let us fart sideways if we didn't have a good reason for it.

One thing I remember most is how late at night before she put us to sleep, she always had a scary ghost story to tell us. I have for many,many,many,many,many years wanted those stories because I can only remember parts of each.

Well today my Mom called and said she had some letters for me. 3 letters to be exact all from Veda....Oh Man my heart jumped 2 times when she said that............here's what I received.

Here are the stories I got...

1) Margie, Margie, give me back my BIG TOE

2) The Bear and the Monkey

3) Bloody eyes and Bloody bones

Oh by the way they are all hand written. How often do people hand write things now-a-days?

Thanks Veda and thanks Mommy for those letters...My kids are going to be scared out of their skin....HaHaHaHahehehehe

Camping in our woods

This last weekend the 2 neighbor boys, D'Artanyan, and myself went camping in the woods that are in hiking distance from our place.

All loaded up and off we go.
We had to climb under a bob wire fence to enter the field that leads to the woods.

Finally got to the woods but then...

....OH MAN another bob wire fence.
We had to study this one and come up with a great plan to get past it.

There were also some streams we had to cross and we set up camp next to one of them.

For dinner we had ramen noodles and hot dogs, and for dessert we had marshmallows.
For breakfast we ate eggs, sausage links, and toast.
We played the bug game and the neighbor boys are now addicted to it.

This was in the morning and I had most of camp packed up.

On the way to the campsite we encountered a wild turkey and I chased it around in a big circle trying to get some good pics but my camera settings weren't set right so the pics didn't turn out. The boys all thought this was the funniest part of the whole trip, watching me run in circles. They thought it was a beaver. Sorry, but I will tell you it was a Mom turkey because there were 4 or 5 baby turkeys following her, and she kept trying to divert me away from them.
We had loads of fun and the kids can't wait till we go again. Of course we came home with lots of tics in tow.

For a good time call...

Sometime I'll have to call one of the numbers I see and who knows...I might just get lucky.

Weekend in Ex. Springs part 3

We got everything ready just (barely) in time for the 4th of July party.

My brother David showed up for last years party. He wanted to help out by buying some beer.

So this year when I went downstairs to get something out of the fridge I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened the door. Guess what caught my eye, beer David bought for all of us to try. Over a year later there was still some left.

(They sucked, that's why there's still 2 left.)

Since it had been raining we didn't have as big of a turn out as we should have had but as the night wore on more guest showed up.

We had live music, that's always a special treat but I went to down to the house to get some pics of the kids shooting off their works so I missed out on all the fun up at the barn.

One of the rockets that they fired up fell over as I was taking a pic and hit me in the chest....oh man did it hurt, it left a big tan/brown spot on my shirt were it smacked me.

The fire works the city put on were great and fun was had by all...I went to bed early because I was suffering from war wounds.

Weekend in Ex. Springs part 2

It has just been raining all day long here so we decided we couldn't do the 4th of July party in are usual spot which is the back porch.

Audrey tried sooo hard to help dry things up but it just didn't work

So off to the Barn we go.

We had to move every thing from the house out to the barn...Then set it up!

Oh and we had to have help...i guess...

...more help...i guess

I thought we had it all under control?

More tomorrow.