Status report....

Hello again, blogfans!

Saturday, I fitted and re-installed all of the rot boards, built and hung the gate, and installed the latch; fence finished! Woo-hoo! While I was doing that, MDB cooked and cooked, and COOKED!!! Most of what she cooked was for the Nelson's going away luncheon, which took place yesterday. It was very nice and I really believe it produced the sort of closure that everyone was looking for.

We were rather in a hurry, unfortunately, because part of what I got MDB for her birthday was a "Sunday in the Park" ticket package for the Astros games, the first of which was yesterday against the Cubs. The game was scheduled to start at 1:05 Central and we didn't leave the luncheon until about 12:45 or so, which means we got to the game at the end of the 3rd inning. When we got there, the Astros had the bases loaded but I couldn't see how many outs there were. We had to go up a few levels to get to our seats; when we got there, the inning was over and the Cubs were batting. Here's what was strange, or maybe NOT so strange; we heard a huge roar from the crowd as we ascended the escalator and thought that the Astros had gotten a timely hit and managed to score but that was clearly NOT the case when we got to a place where we could see what was going on. What was the big roar about? Well, come to find out, there were more Cubs fans in the stadium than Astros fans and everytime the Cubs made a good play or got a hit or whatever, there was a huge cheer from all the Cubs fans! WEIRD!!!!

Well, maybe not so weird. Sort of like the Braves courtesty of TBN, the Cubs generated a huge fan base thanks to WGN and those fans come out of the woodwork wherever the Cubs play, or at least that's my theory. If that's not it, we have a nation of IDIOTS out there! The Cubs are the veritable POSTER KIDS for futility in MLB, having not won anything to speak of since 1908. That's right; it's been 100 years since the Chicago Cubs won a world championship!!!

Oh well, let's continue the news update. As I said yesterday, I used the new Ranger to pull my 16' flatbed first empty, of course, and then with a load (7 sheets of 3/16" 4x8 plywood and one 2x10x16' board for the trailer). It pulled JUST FINE, thank you very much! As you may suspect, I went ahead and got the plywood we need for the windows, so that little job is done as well.

It took awhile, unfortunately.

Our little neighborhood Home Depot has exactly ONE person who knows how to operate a cash register and, whenever there's any problem of any kind, she gets quite a line backed up. Today, the credit card of the man in front of me wouldn't approve and he had to call his company to find out what to do while the poor cashier had to call for a manager to override the computer and cancel the transaction.

It took 10 minutes to pick out suitable building materials and 35 minutes to check out!

Well, today I guess I'll go ahead and prime the little chest that MDB has been wanting me to do for MDBM (My Darling Brides' Momma) for the last 6 months or so. It won't take very long and if we get it done today, she may very well be able to deliver it tomorrow when she goes downtown to the doctor.

We'll see!