What a wild weekend

So this old Horsefarmer was talking with the Bus yesterday morning about a cousin of ours who used to dive for Jacques Coustoeo (SP) and I relayed that I was too tired to do anything.

The Bus told me that #10, our baby sister, the school teacher, was in town and had stopped by his place for a visit and they had a grand time looking thru old pictures. A little later, my daughter relayed that #10 was going to call me and wanted to come out for a visit.

In the mean time, that younger brother of mine, the Ole Long Roof Fan, called me from the Birth Place of Speed to relay that he was pounding the pavement of that great race track trying to see all 1,800 vendors at the hot rod show and parts extravaganza being held this weekend. Seems the Jeep got tickets from some friend of his and the Long Roof just couldn't see them going to waste. I told John to get tickets next year, and I would pull the mobile house down and spend the weekend there. Well not being able to sit on the phone while he bartered some guy for a beer mug with Springfield Mo hot rod nationals (or something like that on it), I told him I had to head for the garage to find a box of old photogs for the #10 school teacher and I to go through prior to playing out on our little homestead.

So I trudged out to the Ford Garage, that's what we call my little garage, it's only 30 by 40 and stuffed full of old ford parts, 3 fords, and misc horse items like stagecoach, wagons, harnass etc. Well one wall of that Ford Garage is nothing but shelves, floor to ceiling, 30 feet long. And let me tell you, those shelves are plumb full of everything that doesn't fit in a seabag. So the other day I tell the Barngoddess that I need a shop building to hold all my wood working equipment, my welding outfits, all my parts supplies, etc so we could park our Fords in the garage. I won't repeat what was said about a new building going up before she gets a roof over her hot tub....

So I made sure I had the correct boxes pinpointed should #10 the school teacher, come out.

The barngoddess mean whilst, is in bed with the flu, or some resemblence of the flu, that is making her sicker that a dog that ate horse manure..... anyway,

So my noble assistant and I decide to paint the master bathroom while waiting for the school teacher to come out. Saturday was picture perfect, the day to play outside, but as my noble assistant said, we can play when Aunt Joan gets here.
Well, the school teacher never did rescue me from painting that bathroom. And in fact, my noble assistant and I had to make two mad dashes to her favorite NASCAR sponsor's store for supplies.

For the first time that I can remember, that store did not have what was wanted for the master bathroom. Not on line, not in the store... boy was I disappointed. Their competitor (Home Depot) was too far away, so we dropped by Sutherland's in Aurora .... and bingo, they had what we wanted, and the bulbs were on sale too. Looked like the bulbs had been in inventory for awhile based on the dust covering them, but what the heck.

So late this evening, after another run to Lowes for paint... we came up a quart short of having enough wall paint to finish.... typical Lee planning.....
so off to Lowes and the noble assistant is laughing her head off at my presentation ........ I am dressed in shorts that are paint splattered, got paint on my legs where the shorts didn't cover, got my Lowe's commercial services shirt on that was also paint splattered, but who cares.... I also had paint in my hair... never said I was a neat painter, just a danged good one.

Ran into a woman from work, bound to hear about that tomorrow.......
So my noble assistant and I finally get the painting done, and put the new lights up and connected, and presto, everything works as it should.
So the new lights over the mirror now make it possible for me to shave in the mornings without guessing where I had run the razor. And the Barngoddess said she could see to put makeup on... I asked her why she put makeup on when she was such a hot chick.... won points for me today......

After doing a quick job of evening chores, grabbing a bite to eat, my noble assistant and I settled in for a 5 track race on the playstation... it's a game that I understand, 4 wheelers racing over circuits that I can easily manage.
For once since we have been playing, I only lost to my NA but 2 points.... boy did that make me feet good. She replied that she was exhausted from having to follow me around wiping up all the paint droppings and that's why I got so close....

But the bathroom is done, the Barngoddess loves it, my Noble Assistant even painted the baseboards, all the while our Sharks Angel was doing homework and studying for finals later this month....

adn that's how we CELEBRATED LIFE this past weekend.

#10 the school teacher, missed a grand time, I even had a rag for her to follow me around wiping up paint splatters...........

Joanny, catch you when we visit your state next year....