Super Bowl Tail Gate Party

We've never had a super bowl party before, so since we are free this weekend we decided to have a tail gate party. Our super bowl tail gate party was on Saturday night. We had pop corn, diet Coke, some girl scout cookies and mixed nuts. We had a great time feasting. Then we went into our Red Roof Inn room and watched our favority "British Comedy programs." What a party!

Staying South

We have been able to avoid all of the snow and cold weather for several weeks. We have been in Florida, MS, AL, LA, TX, and NM. Now we are spending the weekend in Austin, TX. It should be 79 degrees here today.

Christmas Present

Sandra plays with her Christmas present (DS). She has to catch up with the grand kids and technical competency.

Grandma is in Trouble

That's right! We went into Perkins Restaurant for "breakfast" at about 11:00 today. When the waitress came to our table the first thing Sandra said was, "This is his birthday," while pointing at me. The waitress got a sly look, said "happy birthday" and dissappeared. When she came back by she asked me my name.

In a little while, here comes all these people gathering around our table, our waitress acting as the ring leader and presenting me with my banana nut muffin. Then she raised her voice and asked for the attention of the whole dining room. She announced that it was Larry's birthday and told them all to join in singing - which they all did quite lustily. By then my face was red, Sandra was laughing with glee (her face was red too-from laughing) and the waitress called attention to the fact that I was shagrinned. Needless to say, Grandma is in trouble - but now that it's over, I guess it was O.K.

Happy Birthday to Me

It's Larry's birthday today! We're celebrating by not being in the truck! That's right, we're being lazy at our pad - Motel 6. Guess where we went the other day. Tht's right how did you guess - Kennedy Space Center. No we didn't get to see the shuttle, Discovery being launched - why? well we were picking up a fuel pump to take and have it repaired, but they had put the cover on wrong so we had to take it off the truck and leave without our freight. But we did see these pictures of Discovery and we did cross the water you see in the bacground and we did see several rockets and other neat things. . Hope you have a nice day.

Feeling Young Again!

Well, Sandra snd I have been home for a while nursing our colds/flu. This weekend, I had the privilage of playing with 2 of my granddaughters. I tried on their pirate outfit and pretended to be Captain Hook out to pilfer some gold. Natalie ran and got her camera and took this picture.

Then they had me be a horse (they called me "Old Horse"!!) and guided me around the house with a ribbon bridle which Joelle pulled right and left to make me turn.

Of course, the camera had to be used again and so I gave them one of my dignified poses. I noticed that the date should be 1-19-2008. The girls do not know how to set the date yet.

I may not look like it on the outside, but inside I felt young and playful this weekend. Thanks Kids!

Tub Is Installed

The tub is almost secure in the new bathroom. Grandma supervises and makes sure grandpa sticks to the blueprint!

Break Time

All hard workers deserve a break now and then.

Christmas Vacation

After almost 6 weeks on the road, we decided to build a 2 bedroom house out of our room above the garage. I started by building a wall around the stairs. I had some good help. Natalie helped me pull up studs and Joelle worked on pounding nails.

Resting up

We are in are at a truck stop near Lodi California. It is pretty here, although it has started raining. But it looks like the sun might come out and chase the rain away.

A Long Trip !

We have been on a long trip from KY to CA. Whe had a hard time getting here. We ran into freezing rain in Nebraska and then fought the snow and ice for the next 800 miles. When we finally arrived in California we had our freight unloaded and went straight to the Motel 6 in Fairfield, about three miles from our delivery. What a relief to finally be where the weather is warm - although they think it is cold here!

Blogging

Grandma is an avid blogger. She can't wait to get the computer fired up so she can see what is happening with her children and grand children. What a blessing to have this wonderful technology. We are in the Motel room enjoying some space and the fact that we are sitting still!

Blogging

Here I am trying to keep up with our kids and grand kids by watching the blogs

Thrashed

This picture showes how dirty the back door is, but it doesn't begin to show how grungy the rest of the truck looks. When we started this trip back in KY we had just washed the truck and it sparkled.

Dripping

When we parked, I saw a lot of water dripping down from the underneath the truck behind the back wheels. So I looked underneath to find the problem - guess what I saw! See next picture. . . .

Glacier

There was the culprit - a glacier which after 24 hours was still dripping water. It was about twice that size when I first saw it. When we arrived at our delivery the truck was inspected by a security guard who ran a mirror underneath and all around the truck. At the back of the truck he spent a long time looking up at something to determine what he was seeing. It was the glacier !!

Truck stop, Game machines and Cowboys

We stayed at the TA truck stop in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is one of the truck stops Larry the cable guy visited on his video tour of truck stop activities. We picked up 30 game machines in Las Vegas and took them to a casino in the high desert, Warm Springs, Oregon (oops. . . I might have given away the answers to the previous post - the one with the picture of Mt. Hood and Crown Point near Portland, Oregon).

Anyway, we took the game machines to KahNeeTah casino. One of the guys unloading the machines was enamored with our truck and called it the truck "sports model." I thought that was a good description. What do you think?

On the way to Portland, as we were going through the hills, we saw an old fashioned cattle drive coming right up the road. There were 6-8 cowboys riding horses wearing their chaps, big hats, scarves around their necks and maybe even pistols. They were herding 60-100 cows right up the road and we had to go real slow as the cows passed us by. I really wanted a picture but couldn't get one since I was driving and Sandra was looking and the camera was put away.

Guess where we are

We just passed this way yesterday. The bottom picture is Crown Point. Do you know what state we are in? Maybe the top picture will help. This is your geography lesson for today!

We are getting new thermostats for our truck. It was running cold and we need the heat to keep warm and to clean off the winshield.

Painting Inside The Big Truck

Sandra and I just took a whole month off work. Here is one of the reasons. I completely refinished the freight box of the big truck. The top picture is after repainting and after the equipment has been put back into place.
The bottom picture is the same except that the bulkhead has been painted and placed back into place in front of the equipment.

It's lots of work but I get a lot of comments on the organized, nice looking truck.

More Alumni

Here is another set of twins (Mary and Cherie) who sang in my choir when I taught in Indiana. Second Pic is me directing a rehearsal and the last is one of the choir performing.
I also sang with Randy, John and Bob in a quartet and a duet with Randy but I didn't get clear pics, sorry guys. Of course Jimmy organized the whole thing and did a wonderful job.