Hey there gang, haven't posted in awhile. Bobbie is in Las Vegas for David and Jilly Bean's shower, so Kade and I are bactchin' it for a few days. He does real good when Mom leaves and of course, I spoil him pretty good too.
The joys of homeownership continue... over the weekend I went to replace a light bulb in our bathroom and pulled the bulb out without the threaded part (ugh!). So what turned out to be a simple 30 second chore now looks like a project for some handyman to redo our shower and part of the ceiling/ligh fixture. As I wrestled with the fixture to get the rest of the light bulb out of the socket, a portion of the ceiling drywall crumbled so now the fixture can't be secured to the ceiling. *heavy sigh*
While the repairman is fixing that, we figured we may as well have him replace our shower that has had crack in the fiberglass bottom for awhile. There's never an end is there.
Hope all is well with everyone.
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Hey Kev and Kade,
I can appreciate the home repair story-- that's my kind of luck around here. I think there is a gremlin in every house waiting to jump out with every simple looking repair-- turns the procedure into a major professional requiring overhaul. My suggestion is that you send your son to school for something like plumbing or carpentry ( like we did) and hopefully if he isn't too busy one can hope for a helping (and cheaper) hand there.
We had a great wagon train week. Covered about 60 miles of middle of South Dakota prairie across two huge ranches (51,000 acres in one) right along the Missouri. One was a buffalo pasture and we went right past their herd.
Also got to see many of the folks we got aqainted (sp??) with from last year's ride. The riding in the prairie is the excuse, but at least 25% of the fun comes from sitting around after we are into camp telling stories and mishaps from the ride, as well as catching up on everyone's past year. We fortunately had no mishaps-- even when David and Jacob joined us on Thursday for that day's ride.
The biggest mishap might have been inviting Glen Kubal, our neighbor along. He brought a buggy and a driving horse of which he has been telling anyone who will listen about what a great driving animal he had. He did make it through the first day ( with lots of complaining and grumbling) although he did have to fight with the horse from time to time.
Come the second day the horse was ready for him. Didn't want to be harnessed, took three of us to get him hooked to the buggy. Glen got about 1/4 mile down the road and he first locked up and wouldn't move, then reared over the buggy shafts, then reared straight up breaking both the harness and the pulling parts of the buggy. Of course the ride photographer was right there and documented the whole episode. The picture of that rearing horse with Glen sitting helplessly in his ruined buggy was the favorite photo of the ride. EVERYONE bought it. Glen loaded the remains of his stuff up and went home. I am sure he called everyone he knew as he made his way home to comment on the wagon train. What a blast.
(we are endlessly greatful no one was injured). If anyone is interested in photos from the ride (including Glen's) the web site is www.greglatza.com/trail09.html
Hope the shower and airplane flights and visit went well for you guys. Let us know --- Love, Mom
Hi Mom. Glad you had a great time on your ride. Glad Glen didn't get hurt, too. I bet that story will be told for years to come!
I just went to the website, but see that the photos won't be online until next week. I can't wait to see them. Hopefully Greg got some photo shots with all of you guys.
As an aside, I went to college with Greg Latza. We worked on the Collegian at the same time. Good guy and great photographer. I have one of his photo books on my desk at work.
Sounds like a really fun ride Sharon. You can pretty much substitute the word "bike" for "horse" and I did the same thing a couple years with the bike around Nebraska. Of course, none of the bikes reared up on us. Though one guy did get clocked by a road sign.
Talk to you guys soon.
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