Dinner with Joe & Diane

Joe phoned last night asking if we would like to get together for dinner.

(Joe & Diane are on the picture to the left of me and Wilma in the picture of "Our Camping Friends" to the left of this Blog)

I said sure, where would you like to go? Joe named a few restaurants, and we both decided on Dimetre's Rendevous, (not sure of the spelling). So the plan was to meet there at 5pm this evening.

As Wilma and I pulled out of our driveway, on our way to the restaurant, she made a comment that Joe has not seen our new car yet. I realized that it was just too full of salt from the roads so I stopped at a car wash. Yep that did the trick...it's looking like a new car again. It doesn't take much road salt on a dark blue car to make it look really bad.

We arrived about 15 minutes early. While pulling into the parking lot of the restaurant, I told Wilma to keep a look out for Joe's Chevy Van or Diane's Buick Century. Neither vehicle was there yet so we sat in the warm car waiting.

In 10 minutes Joe pulls up in a (new to him) 2006 Chevy Denali. A white vehicle, and he didn't think to get a car wash, to show it off to us. But that's ok, it is a beautiful vehicle. He said it has all the options that Chevy could put on it. So for a couple minutes we both examined each others new vehicles. Then we all went inside to eat as we were all pretty hungry.

Our meals were delicious, the bill was not bad for the quality of food we received, and after we paid our bills we remained to chat for almost a half hour.

We did notice that the restaurant wasn't filling up like it usually does this time of day, and that there wasn't a line of patrons waiting for a table. Another sign that times are getting bad and people are cutting back saving their cash.

Tomorrow evening we are taking Mom & Dad out to Red Lobster for Mom's 81st. birthday.

I called her this morning around 9am to wish her a happy birthday, as today is her actual birthday. I then proceeded to tell her we where going to take them to Red Lobster for dinner tomorrow. Did she ever get excited, she just loves shrimp. The local "family style" restaurants that they usually go to just have the pre-frozen sea food. You know the type of food I'm talking about. It's the type that if you close your eyes you really can't tell what your eating because of the heavy coating of batter.

So tomorrow evening around 6pm, Mom & Dad should be returning home from Church, and Wilma and I will be waiting to take them out to Red Lobster. I think we all are looking forward to it except Dad. He isn't a big fan of sea food, but I told him they must have other choices on the menu. Now let's hope I'm right!

Until our next adventure, be safe and God Bless.

Lawnmowers Ready for the Summer.

This morning started out with sunny blue skies. Temps in the mid 60's. Perfect I thought for getting the lawn mower out of storage and ready for the summer cutting.

Angel mentioned a couple days ago that her lawn mower won't start. I told her it had the same problem that Tina's mower had. They have a plastic carburator and for some reason only last a few years, well, maybe 5, maybe 7 don't know for sure but not really long enough. I paid to have Tina's fixed years ago at a price that I won't spend again, seeing how the mower only lasted another 3 years after the new carb. was put on. With this knowledge I told Angel to trash the mower. It's age makes it not worth fixing.

So after I oiled up the linkages and put fresh gas in my Toro...pulled the cord a couple times and it fired up. GREAT! This will be Angels new mower now. I'm sure she will appreciate using a quality mower, and I know she will take good care of it.

Tina on the other hand had aquired a small electric mower. Wow what a neat little mover! No gas, just sharpen the blade. Perfect for her. HOWEVER....it won't cut the thick turf at Angels home. I say this because Angel asked Tina if she could borrow it to cut her lawn prior to getting my Toro. She said it seemed to light and wouldn't cut the thick grass.

So when I took the Toro over to Angels, I brought back Tina's electric mower. Now you have to picture what took place next. And Don't Laugh Too Hard.

As I am the proud owner of a "luxury 1997 Saturn Wagon" the size of this car won't allow anything to be put in it except groceries. So I had to keep the hatch back open as I transported these lawn mowers. Taking the Toro over to Angels was no problem at all. BUT bringing back the little light weight electric mower was. As I was getting ready to pull out of their side street, onto a 5 lane 50 mile per hour highway....the darn mower decided to "jump" out of the car! Darn....there it sat in the middle of the highway! Lucky for me that being Sunday Morning there was no traffic at the moment. Slamming on the brakes I ran back and put it back in the Saturn. This time making sure it was in as far as it could go. Made it back home without any problems, just a bent wheel that I was able to straighten as good as new.

Now in all my years of driving I have only had one other piece of furniture decide to jump onto the highway. I figured I had learned my lesson on that one long ago. But NO...I had to repeat it again. Dang it I hate it when that happens!

Anyway, as Tina will be moving into the same Mobil Home Park as Angel is in, the lawn is much nicer than the park Tina moved from. So I'm figuring the electric mower won't work for her either. Guess I'll be in the market for a new gas mower for Tina.
Give to one you have to be fair and give to the other. Don't mind as I'm still working and can afford it for her.

At 1:30pm Wilma, I and Dakota were to have lunch with my side of the family. Catherine and Scott were in town and wanted to get together before she left for her home "up north". We all met at Dimitri's family restaurant on 23 mile rd. and Hayes. We had a great lunch "get together" and Dakota enjoyed his time with Austin and Nathen, his second cousins.

We ended the day lounging around the home. Another great "Adventure" in our lives.

Come back again, be safe and God Bless.