Monthly Archives: August 2011
Pistols and Potato Salad . . .
Breakfast again started out at Robbi’s Restaurant about 9 and once again ended up with trips to Rural King and Wal-Mart before headed down to Debbie’s for the day.
We mostly just took it easy enjoying the great company and talking, talking, talking.
Gwen, Tana’s daughter spent the day again, and was really good helping out and keeping tabs on Landon.
She’s cute as a button and smart as a whip, a deadly combination when the boys start hanging around in a few years.
Later in the afternoon Lowell, Brandi, Tina, Tana, Jim, and I went down to his target practice area and fired a couple of his pistols for a while. We punched a lot of holes in the targets and everyone had a good time.
Around 6 pm we headed out to the fire pit to roast hot dogs over the flames, to have along with a big batch of Debbie’s potato salad.
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Landon made himself right at home,
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even kicking back and taking it easy.
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In fact everyone did.
We had planned to roast marshmallows, but by the time we were finished with the hot dogs, the thunder, lightning, and then rain moved in, so we all moved inside.
After a long, fun day, Jan and I headed back to the rig about 8, ready to do it all again tomorrow.
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Thought for the Day:
"Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female." – Desmond Morris
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Rural King and iCarly . . .
This morning started just like yesterday, with all of us meeting at Robbi’s Restaurant in Vandalia for breakfast about 9. Part of the Day’s Inn Hotel, it’s the local’s hangout for breakfast, where everyone knows everyone, and their business.
After a good breakfast, we split up. Brandi and Lowell headed over to St. Louis to visit the Gateway Arch. and maybe get in a little gambling, while Jan and I (well, Jan, really) took care of Landon for the day.
The rest of us first stopped off at Rural King, kind of a combination of a Tractor Supply Store and Menard’s, and then headed over to, where else, Wal-Mart.
Driving back to Debbie’s, we passed the towing yard and saw the results of a tour bus/semi trailer collision about 10 miles east of Vandalia yesterday.
The tour bus was carrying Miranda Cosgrove, actress, singer, and star of “iCarly”, and her family. “iCarly” is in its 4th season on Nickelodeon, and apparently a big hit.
The news reports say that the semi trailer jackknifed and overturned on I-70 W. Miranda’s tour bus then plowed into the empty trailer.
Miranda ended up with a broken ankle, and luckily, no one was killed.
But the results look like this.
No mentioned of what caused the trailer to jackknife.
Getting back to Debbie’s and getting things unloaded, I headed back to the rig to take some ‘Momentum’ and lay down. I pulled a muscle in my back yesterday and it had really started to bother me.
But Jan lost no time snapping some more photos of Landon.
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Here he’s discovered a whole basket of Beanie Babies, with his cousin Laura and her daughter Ella.
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And here, Landon wishes PaPa (me) would stop taking flash pictures of him.
We had a great dinner of homemade tacos and burritos with all the fixin’s, courtesy of Debbie, Jan, Christina, Tana, and Laura.
Brandi and Lowell showed up about 7:30 pm, and then Jan and I headed back to the rig about 8:30 after a long day of Landon-wrangling.
And we’re going back for more tomorrow.
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Thought for the Day:
Just accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
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