With Gustav, Hanna, and 2 low-pressure areas following, we don’t know when to leave Mobile. As it stands now we plan to hunker down for Gustav and run from Hanna. If worst comes to worst we can leave Mobile as late as Monday, September 8 and still be in Wisconsin for the Tapestry planting. Cross your fingers for us.
The September Trip
Well, next month’s bills are paid, our travel plans and reservations are made, the trailer (still got to name it) is ready, a through PM has been preformed on the truck and we are almost ready to go. All that is left is for us to pack our clothes.
We plan to visit Lynn, Bill and Nancy Jackson, Robert and family, Mount Rushmore, Ken and family, and lots of points of interest along the way. Since the truck only gets about 11 MPG when pilling the trailer, We also figure we will spend most of the kid’s inheritance along the way. We will stick to US highways and state roads most of the way, just getting on interstates when we have to. Hope to see more of the country that way.
Granny Grumps and I have been married a long time, but we figure that if we can stand a month in the trailer together, we will make it forever.
A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
‘House’ for instance, is feminine: ‘la casa.’
‘Pencil,’ however, is masculine: ‘el lapiz.’
A student asked, ‘What gender is ‘computer’?’
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two
groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer’ should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
The men’s group decided that ‘computer’ should definitely be of the feminine gender (‘la computadora’), because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself
spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
(THIS GETS BETTER!)
The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine (‘el computador’), because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
The women won.
The last deck board has been screwed in place. After $300.00 in lumber, 10 pounds of screws, lots of help, and lots of work we are finished with the floor.
Granny Grumps did everything except screw the boards down. She picked up scrap lumber, held boards for me to cut, helped me lay out and hold the boards for screwing down, kept me in coffee and cokes, and in general kept me working. Ken and the kids helped rebuild the fondation and John kaser helped me build some supports. All that is left is for us to build and install the built-in seats along the long side.
Well it is 12:00 pm and I have just gotten back up for the 2nd time. I am trying chocolate milk as a sleeping aid. Looks like it could be a long night. Floyd is sleeping fitfully. He has RLS (Evelyn’s diagnosis) and until the leg stops jerking, I am up. 🙂 Can’t blame it all on him though. I have been trying to figure out the facebook stuff and it has the old brain excited. According to some research I read this could be good for old people. Helps prevent dementia (can’t spell that alz word). I quess it is a mental excercise thing.
The breakfast bunch plus one went honkey tonking last Thursday night. Well we really went to a Baybears baseball game.
Tom, John, James and I have been eating breakfast together for several years and have developed quite a friendship, so when I got tickets to the ball game they were invited. James couldn’t go so we invited a neighbor, Gary.
The games was rain delayed and boring so we left after 2-1/2 innings and stopped by Krystal. Three beers and a sackful of Krystals are about all the honky tonking we could handle so we were home by 9 o’clock.
Exciting evening!
Papa 'n Granny Grumps 