Saturday August 13th 2011

This will probably be a short one, not a lot happened today, nice and quiet!

Work went well until the end of the day and then it wasn’t to bad, had a person call in about 7:30PM and asked about the rates and they were only fifteen miles away at a Pizza Hut.  I figured they would wait until after the office closed to come in and then not pay, am I bad or what???  Just don’t trust some people I guess.

It was a little warm today but actually not bad at all, the humidity was down so the day actually felt very nice.

I guess I should explain that this is Monday and I can’t remember what I did on Saturday…

Got a picture of Sparky, can you guess what he is doing??

Yep, he’s begging.  Not sure sometimes what he is begging for but usually he is begging for something and he can sit like this for a long time and not even move.  What a talented dog!!

Now here is a picture of a tomato that is the first one on the expensive Heirloom tomato plant…

Now I had to get within about a foot of the tomato to be able to see it.  I think it is about the size of a pea.  I don’t see anymore on the plant either. The other tomato plants are producing already, not much, but producing. I would take a picture of the garden but it really looks terrible now.  The grass has about taken over the whole garden, sure haven’t given it enough attention!

Well, that’s about it for today see you on the next go around…Night Y’all..

Friday August 12th 2011

This is Friday August 12th and it is the first day of school for the neighbor boys.  Can’t believe school is starting so early!! This is Landon..

Here is Wesley and Keaton…

Yes they are twins and no I don’t know which one is Wesley and which one is Keaton.  It is hard to believe that they are going into the fourth grade and Landon is going into the seventh grade. The twins were in Day Care when I first met them!

I’m not going to do to much today.  I’m using the computer and getting caught up on some things.  Such as looking for a new mower.  Mark wants me to get a Kubota and I’m not sure I want to spend the money on one but they are really a good mower.

I decided to grill out today, Grant gave us some corn yesterday and I put that on the grill, Linda is making sweet potatoes and broccoli.  We had a couple of steaks we had bought in South Texas at this great little store, so I popped them on the grill.  Linda had a filet mignon and I had a rib eye.  Very good and we have enough left over for tomorrow!!

Rodeo week so the campground is pretty busy.  Fortunately the campers were pretty spread out in there timing.  Mark helped me with the first group of three then everything else was OK.

It took me until 6PM to get the bathrooms cleaned, not because we were busy but the men’s shower was really busy!

After things settled down the sky started turning dark and a little later the wind started blowing. Had a nice little storm!  I think it rained until 10PM so we got a nice little soaker, sure will make the grass grow!

I didn’t really stay awake all evening, I think I dozed a few times.  Time for bed now though….Night Y’all…

Thursday August 11th 2011

It is very nice out this morning!  It is cool and looks like it is going to be a gorgeous day!

When I go in to work at 9AM it doesn’t leave much time to do anything around here except play with Sparky which he kind of demands every morning but then he is young and still has a lot energy.

At work Mark decided it was going to be a nice day and we will  cool seal two mobile homes if all goes well.  On the first one it had some leaks so I took a gallon of tar and sealed everything that looked like it could leak. I think I did find where it was leaking though and tarred it up really good.

I started on the other one before lunch and it was kind of a mess.  The old cool seal was flaking bad and whoever did it before used duct tape on the seams and edges.  Guess that is OK but I had to remove some of it then go over the bad spots with a steel brush to get the lose stuff off so we could seal it.  Worked out pretty good and hopefully it won’t peal like the last coat.

We finished the second mobile home about 3PM and after getting all cleaned up and putting stuff away I got the mower out and mowed for the next two hours.  That was refreshing.

When I got home I wanted to mow our lawn and Daniel’s.  The grass has really grown the last week!  I made a couple of rounds and the mower plugged up.  I had to stop and we hoisted the tractor up so we could clean the deck.  I finally got the pressure washer out and cleaned it to a certain point.  Before I finished mowing it was plugged up again and the only way to clean it is to get it up off the ground and either pressure wash it or use something to pry the plug out.  Either way it isn’t fun and now I’ve decided to get a new mower.  An hour of mowing and an hour of cleaning the deck isn’t right.  Hopefully the mowers will be on sale later this fall.

After a shower and a little supper I took it easy again for the rest of the night.  I was going to grill out tonight but it was after 8PM when I finally made it into the house.  Larry finished mowing my lawn and half of Daniel’s lawn.  He has a small John Deere that works quite well so I may end up getting a John Deere also.

Well time for bed..Night Y’all….

Wednesday August 10th 2011

Early this morning it is a little cooler but still humid.  The grass is dripping wet and so is most everything else.

I forgot to wash my work clothes so I put them in the washer early so they would get done.  I have a couple pair of khaki pants that I wore at Beech Bend so I think I will get some use out of them before I throw them out.

I left my jeans hanging out on the railing outside hoping they would dry. Linda brought them in later and they hadn’t dried so I put them in the dryer when I got home from work, which brings me to work.  I worked on the golf cart again this morning, didn’t get it running.  Grant and I were going to cool seal a mobile home roof this morning but I think it is going to rain so Mark told us not to do it.

It did sprinkle after lunch, enough to get things wet but that was about all. I sprayed a lot of Roundup this afternoon and did some odd jobs around the park.  Today is the first day of the Boot heel Rodeo and the campers are coming in already.  Mierlin and I checked in five before 1 PM.  It slowed down after that though.  Mierlin didn’t require anymore help.  I think he did good for not doing this for over a year!

After I got home I thought about mowing the lawn but the grass was still kind of wet and I usually like to mow on Thursday.  Think I will wait until tomorrow and hope that it doesn’t rain.  The grass is really growing again after all the rain and now it is getting a little cooler.

Nothing going on again tonight, sounds boring doesn’t it?  Well, I did a lot of walking today and I’m tired so a little relaxing will be in order, maybe a little closing of the eyes???  Night Y’all….

Tuesday August 9th 2011

Can you believe it???  This summer is going fast and won’t be long before the snow flies, well, that’s what we used to say back in Illinois.  Here it is mostly ice settling on the trees and power lines etc..

It is supposed to be a beautiful day today, a cool front, or dry front, passed through and it is supposed to be in the high 80s today which will be very nice.

I put the chains back on the chain saws this morning and now they are ready for, well, sawing I guess, haven’t got anything to saw but they are ready!

I have also been trying to figure out about our camper.  It would really be nice to have a building to park it under but I’m looking into a cover for it.  I called a place in California about one so I will see what they have to offer.

Work went pretty good today, had a lot of nice people come in and that makes the job nice.  I’m glad I don’t work in the IRS, I think even nice people come in there upset, just because.

Well, I got out of work on time tonight and when I got home we had a little to eat, fresh tomato sandwiches and a bowl of soup.  Tomatoes out of our garden!  Home grown tomatoes are sure good!

Watched America’s Got Talent tonight.  They got acts off the internet for tonight and some of them, well, actually all of them were very talented. They had a Gothic Dance Group which I didn’t care for but they did dance good and the kids seemed very nice but it sure looked Satanic to me.  The judges all loved it.

Time to call it a day….Night Y’all…

Monday August 8th 2011

I have today off and don’t really have anything planned.  I know that we have to go to town for a few things and I left my chain saw chains at Delta Growers to get them sharpened and they should be done today.

I picked some more corn today and took out the first row of corn that I planted and I found out that Sparky likes sweet corn!

He took one of the ears that I had laying on the ground and he shucked it and ate all the corn off of it!

We have locusts also…

These are just the shells and it looks like they just stop and drop their shells where ever they happen to be.  Amazing.

Some of the corn that I picked I grilled and it turned out quite well except it is a little tough, kind of beyond it’s prime…

It tastes pretty good and looks good but with the hot dry weather we’ve had it is just a little tough and chewy.

This afternoon it seems to have cooled off just a little.  I think our hot spell is over for awhile. The weather forecast says that it won’t be in the 90s now for the next week.  I can handle that.

Well, for today that is about it, guess it will have to do until tomorrow.  Night Yall…

Sunday August 7th 2011

Today is Sunday and I’m going to go to Fellowship Baptist Church again. I like the preaching and the singing also!  I taped the Youth Pastor’s wife, her father and not sure if the other is a member of the church or her mother, guess I should ask…well I took a little video of the special but the video won’t download I guess, or maybe I don’t know how to do it!

Here is a picture of Josh the Youth Pastor…

I’m going to leave this picture small because it is kind of blurry.  He had a good sermon and it was actually the same as the Sunday School lesson. It was on love and he did a very good job and really didn’t use much of anything from Sunday School.  He used the 3 P’s… Passion for what you do and for those you love or those who need Jesus.  Pride, well, pride is what keeps you from the love of Jesus. Perseverance….keep on keeping on, don’t give up under pressure.  That was  a nutshell of what his sermon was about.

This afternoon I went to Morehouse Baptist Church.  The lady that sang the special was Ms Payne and I forgot her first name but I’ve seen her at Fellowship Baptist Church….

My pictures are really getting blurry for some reason and I can’t tell what they look like from the viewer.  I won’t even guess how old Ms Payne is but she has a beautiful voice!!  I was talking to our old Pastor from Harvest Time up in Rock Falls and I had mentioned about the singers they have down here.  She is one of them.  They really have a lot of great singers down here!!

Here is a picture of Paul who preached tonight.  He is just filling in for the regular pastor.  He did a great job.  I guess he is a regular pastor and attends church at Trinity Baptist Church in Sikeston.  Not sure but I think I’ve been there.

Well, this picture isn’t so blurry.  Turned out pretty good.

Tonight is a finale “Falling Sky” on some channel.  I’m going to watch it so I’m going to go now.   Have a great night Y’all…