The last couple of days...

Sorry I've been away from the PC and the blogging world these last few days. Most of you know that Doc, my best friend, just returned home for a brief hiatus from Iraq. He's only home for about 10 days, so we're trying to enjoy as much of what north carolina has to offer as we can in a very limited time. To kill two birds with one stone, I'll let the pics tell the story...

 

It started with a few drinks... lol. We all went to On Cue (now called Live) and had a few drinks for the first time quite a while. It was nice to have some of the irregular crowd out there with us that night. Coon Dog and Lil' Bit got to make an appearance for awhile and we drank and danced most of the night, well pretty much until the bar closed and threw us out if I remember correctly.

 

Coon Dog looks great, like usual. I look like hammered kafta! (Mani will get that if none of the rest of you do.)

The two Allen girls sneak off the compound for the night! As usual, we had to drive them home in the cover of darkness, with the lights on the truck out, so as not to get shot by any of the dozen gun-toting relatives that fiercely watch out for these two great girls. If a war ever comes to NC, it's a hard choice between whether I go to Doc's daddy's house or to the Allen Compound.

He's drunk.. I'm just patiently waiting to get him to IHOP at 3 AM for breakfast.

The dynamic duo and the interlopers! Where are our girls? They were quite unselfish and let us catch up with the old gang most of the night. Of course they were flirting around the bar themselves... well not really. April's not much of a bar-flirt. She's more of a gimme-a-hug and buy me a drink type.

Bridget.... trying to think of a nickname that fits her... cause she HATES "fridget". I got it! Eureka! Well get her a tight-fitting green costume and put a giant GG on the chest for "Glamour Girl"... fighting bad hair days wherever they may appear! Heroine to fashionless gooberesses everywhere... too bad she can't fly... she could quit her job and be the female super-woman-fashion-model-police!

 

Saturday was next, and it was off to a fish fry at Doc's place. With 4 hours of sleep, we were toasted by the end of this next day!

What? Yes Doc.. fish.. your house.. food... Good boy!

The poor girl couldn't eat because Doc spent the day trying to "teach" her how to debone a pickled-herring.

Doc called this the "redneck Godfather" sequence.

By now, lunch is over and we're off to the backyard to do what we like to do most... blow stuff up! Out came the guns!

Doc teaches his five year old nehpew how to hold and fire a converted Ruger .45 cowboy pistol!

My Mom takes a few cracks with the .22 revolver and then moves on up to the big guns later.

 

Yeah.. that's all of us.. lined up and unloading on that poor tree target back there.

Doc and I back up the hill and work on our marksmanship skills a little while the rest relax under the trees.

My brother and I take turns unloading from a sitting position for awhile. We're a little tired, but there are still bullets left!!!

Dude.. look at that? Me and my women! This was a great shot of the three of us.

 

That's it for now. There are more pics from Sunday, but I need to get those off the camera and upload them before I can put them on here.

Hope you enjoyed.. more real "content" to come in the near future.

Scooby News: ( things ya oughta know...)

Two important pieces of news hot off the press for you Scooby fans.

 

Doc is home! He called me yesterday while driving back from the airport. He's safely back in the USA for a week or two, then he has to return to Iraq for another gruelling nine months.  As much as I'd love to see him (and I know the rest of you want to as well) take my advice and let him contact us when he's ready. He's been gone for almost a year and I know from his prior trips that sometimes the rushed welcomes from friends and family can be as traumatic as where he's been. I'm sure he'll get up with us to go out and spend some time, but I'd imagine he's pretty intent on some family time and some personal time too. I just wanted you all to know he's home and he's safe. More updates to come on this one...

 

Second news: Dez is officially married. We went to the wedding on Saturday in Rocky Mount. Yes, I have pictures but I'm waiting on the majority of them to get here in email from Jimbo. God it was fun to have myself, Dez, Jimbo, and Harry all in the same room for the first time in probably five years. He's leaving for his Honeymoon on Thursday, to antiguas... nice!

I'll post pics when I get them in email.

See you all again soon.

 

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This old house (part 5)

Well, it's almost done! It's 2:09 in the afternoon right now and I'm sitting here at the computer working on some stuff for clients, but I thought I'd take a break and make a post on here.

   One one hand, I'm really tired. I've been working 4-5 hours a night and on weekends for almost a month trying to get these two rooms in to shape. It's not that it's so very time consuming, but more that I'm a really bad perfectionist. When one corner doesn't look quite right, or a board seems to be out of whack just so... I tear it out and do it again.

The latest problem in our saga has been paint. We got the second gallon of Blue this week and gues what... after painting two walls and touching up the rest of the house I discovered it doesn't match! At all! This means that either A) the paint store will remix it to make it match and I can simply repaint the one wall, or B) I have to repaint all the blue in the entire house with a new shade because they can't make a match..... ugh.

 

Here's where we are now:

Another night of wendy's fast food because we're too tired to cook.. lol.. my remodeling is surely playing hell with April's diet. We've only had one home-cooked meal in a month because it's too much of a pain to get all the paint supplies out of the kitchen. As long as I can get to my coffee pot, things are fine!

I finally got that wall repaired and trimmed out. Now all I have left is that giant white wall in the back, which is currently holding my coat of incorrect blue paint... grr.

I wanted to get a few better pictures, but the camera ran out of juice before I could snap any more. The pictures really don't do it justice.

Well, I think it's time to get to the shower and swing by the office for a bit. I need to do some invoicing today to get some money back in the accounts.