Hillbilly HQ

Here is an update on John & Matt's Truck Adventure:

The GMC that they got a few weeks ago has been worked on, torn apart and is parked in the garage, where something new is being done on almost a daily basis. They even made the wooden, movable stand that the bed sits on. Cool! Don't ask me exactly what they do, even though they tell me, since I'm not 'into' that stuff. But I'll act like I know.

Fill in the blanks:

They took off the ________ and fixed the _____________, using the ____________ to repair it and then ________ed something else to ____________ that __________ __________ __________.

Did you happen to notice the picture of a different truck? Yeah. That's theirs too. Bought it and brought it home during the horrendous tornado, severe lighting, hail and the darkest clouds I've ever seen rolled-into-one storm this evening. Yes, that's TWO trucks. The one they got tonight is for the engine and parts. Once they are done with it, their plan is to get some cash-ola from the scrap yard. To them its a great deal.

Super fun.

That Girl

You must visit JJ's blog to read about her Kaffy.

Read the two posts: "Kathrynisms Part 33 1/3" & "Oh yeah, and one more."

You'll love 'em.

I did.

www.idontevenwannablog.blogspot.com

p.s. Kathryn turned five today. Happy Birthday Kaffy!

Scrabble Dabble

Bought this ultra-cool mini Scrabble game at a garage sale last summer. The tiles are little, the game board has individual indents for each tile and the tile bag is even made of cloth, not plastic! I think I paid a whole dollar for it. Rachel and I got it out and played a game after dinner last night.

Josh and Kevin came in the house at the end of our game and helped us with the last few hard to come up with words. Then, as we all sat in the living room to catch the brand new episode of The Office, the two of them played a game with Alec. College is paying off so far for Josh, he came up with some good words....

'88 Flashback

My mother-in-law gave me a box full of pictures the other day. I hadn't had a chance to go through them until yesterday afternoon and I was surprised at the pictures that I came across. Not surprised that they were in there, just that I hadn't seen them in years and had forgotten about them. Oh my! Some good ones.

The picture of John and I in front of my Firebird was taken before we were married. I think we were engaged at that point. Look at the hair! On both of us! The kids were 'grossed out' by the length of John's shorts. Hey, that was the style.

The picture of me with my Mom and soon to be mother-in-law was at one of my bridal showers. (side note: my Mom is about a year and a half younger in that photo than I am right now!)

The photo of me sitting on John's lap was taken after we were married and its in our trailer, our very first home together! We were a whopping twenty years old.

My Future Husband

Who knew he would get married and have four children...and one of them would look just like him.

How's Your Day?

Just thought I'd ask because for John first thing this morning, it didn't go too well. After loading the trash cans in the back of his work truck, he backed up to the garage which, by itself is nothing out of the ordinary.

Except that since Matt's truck is now in the garage, John's Dodge is parked where Josh used to park and now Josh parks in front of the small garage door. Got that?

So....BAM! John backs into Josh's car.

This, after Josh JUST got his new rim on one of his wheels after his dazed/sleeping at the wheel incident on M-24 early one morning two weeks ago. This caused him to drive John's Dodge for a few days while a donut wheel was on his car, while waiting for the new rim that John had to pick up in Detroit. Think: inconvenience as well as extra gas dollars for Josh.

So, yeah. Now Josh's car will need to have the front driver's side repaired.

Nineteen

It's also how old I wish I were. Just kidding. Okay, I'm not.

It's how old Josh will be this year.

It's how old John and I were when we got engaged.

It was a favorite number of my early high school best friend Tina. How do you come up with that?

It's obviously the first two numbers of the past century. Does 1999 sound long ago now? Yes.

According to Wikipedia, 19 is the 8th smallest prime number.

19 and the Pentagon - The number nineteen also plays a unique role in the measure of the pentagon... the diagonal of the pentagon has the remarkable property of being the geometric mean between the diameters of the circumscribing circle and the height of the pentagon. These numerical relationships which approach those of the Pharaonic canon of 18 and 19, are as follows:
diameter/diagonal=20/19.021=diagonal/height=19.021/18.092=1.051 (yeah, like that makes sense to us normal folk - just thought I'd throw that in)

Matthew 19:19 says, "honor your mother and father and love your neighbor as yourself". (I choose Matthew because it's one of my favorites)

Nineteen is also how many pounds I've lost since mid January.

Doesn't feel like it, but I'm going to believe my scale.