How is the year half over already?????
And I'm still going to complain about the heat & humidity - this stuff is disrespectful.
I made my first Facebook Marketplace purchase!
I had every intention of meeting the seller at a police station or someplace, but she said she had a pole barn filled with stuff that I could look at if I wanted - and she wasn't exaggerating in the slightest! Her barn looked like an antique store threw up. I love blowmolds (obviously, since I bought one!) I could have gone crazy there since she had probably 50 in there! A lot I'd seen before, but some I haven't. Some vintage, some new. These things can be $$$ and the one other I asked about was way more than what I would be willing to pay. So I kept my dollars - just got this and a couple toy race cars for the grandkids.
Speaking of half a year - someone turned 5 1/2 recently!
We'll ignore the fact his mom was a dork and got him candles for 1/5
To go along with the humidity, like most places, we've had a lot of weird off & on storms.
This rainbow is an aftermath of one of those.
We went over to my Mom's house on the 4th to watch the parade in my hometown.
Yes, Chuck the skeleton went with me!
I wasn't the only one there with a skeleton, either!
There was a float with one of the 12' skeletons, so I held Chuck up to wave and the guy pointed and waved, then waved some paper at me, so I ran over to get it - It was a sheet of stickers for his haunted house display! So of course, I had to go follow him on YouTube to see what kind of place he has.
There's always a bunch of Jeeps at the end of the parade, representing some off-roading club or something - one of them almost always has a 5' skeleton in their back seat.
Me & The Spouse at the Parade.
After the Parade, we just hung out at Mom's with her, Sis1, Bro1 and niece Lulu (and everyone from my house, of course) We threw some meat on the grill and had some beverages and just visited.
OMG - have you heard of Jay Renshaw on TikTok?
He does a character named Chit and he's hilarious. When Lulu pulled this White Claw out of the cooler, I had to show her this episode..... (I hope this works!!)
I'm a newbie when it comes to TikTok. I've had an account for a while, but I just recently half-heartedly got into actually scrolling thru stuff.
Sis1 took the granddaughter home with her on the 4th (she took the grandson a couple weeks ago) to spend the night. Sis1 has always been the greatest auntie - she loves the kids and is happy to give them right back to their parents! And the kids love spending time with her and her animals.
So we had to delay our fancy fireworks display (the cheapies from Kroger) until she got home.
July 5, we got a call out (for search & rescue) to assist another county in looking for a missing man with dementia. Sis1 & I opted not to go, since it had been so hot that the idea of putting on long pants and heavy boots and various other gear to chase after a K9 in the woods just didn't appeal.
Update on that - a neighbor of the man went out to check on his cattle late Sunday night and found him deceased (possibly over a week!!) in a swampy area. Very sad.
July 8 was mine & the Spouse's 19th anniversary! The top photo of the flowers is what he had sent to me at work. 19 carnations (my favorites) and 1 red rose.
We did our annual his & hers pedicure date and went out to dinner.
He also got me a pair of beautiful aquamarine earrings, since aquamarine is the traditional 19th anniversary gift.
Last Friday night, I went over the one of Sis2's friend's house for a few beverages and to go swimming. She has a group of friends that are always doing stuff and vacationing together. They sent their guys up north to camp and were having a "girls' weekend". I (and Sis1) don't usually get invited, so I'm not sure why we were this time! <shrug> However, I wasn't able to stay late or drink a whole lot since I had to be up and on the road to Sis1's house at 0630 Saturday morning.
We had a search & rescue drill at 0800.
That's all the info we were given. We had to wait until the actual "call out" to find out where to go and what the situation was.
We were supposed to treat it as a real event, but of course we had to get a few laughs in.
We came across this obstacle while searching our sector.....
It wasn't a terribly big snapping turtle, but I still wouldn't want him to get hold of my fingers!
One of the guys from my team became "ill" and we had to stabilize him and I (as team leader & radio peep) had to call to get him picked up and make the decision to carry on with the search. Which is good, since we made the find. There was a moment of confusion, since the mannequin wasn't wearing the same clothes as the person we were told about at briefing! We thought maybe there was a second subject. Nope.
The Spawn thinks if I ever find a dead body, I should poke it with a stick!
While I would NEVER do that with a real person, I would with a mannequin!
So when the medic showed up and we all thought it would be hilarious to put the victim on the kayak rack on top of the car!
We did decide that it really wasn't "professional" so we started to move him into the back seat since the story was he was having a diabetic episode and it was cooler inside the car.
But then it was discovered that the mannequin was covered in ticks so he stayed up on the rack. Ewwww.
I didn't feel like I even had a weekend! Sunday, I went to training for VFW stuff and made the mistake of carpooling with the commander. The only part that applied to the programs I'm the chairperson for was in the morning and he needed to be there all day. It was well after 4pm when we left and it was being held at a post about an hour away from my house. Ugh. I did actually learn a lot, tho. And it's kind of neat to check out other VFW posts - this one was huge compared to our's and their canteen / bar area was beautiful! They had a nice BBQ area & pavilion outside, too.
Monday evening, the Spouse & I met up with my Mom so she could take us out to dinner for our anniversary. Tuesday, we had to babysit the grandkids because the Spawn wanted to go out to dinner with a friend. She doesn't go out often, so I reluctantly agreed. I think there's stuff going on every night this week! Sis1 mentioned inviting the Spawn & kids out to a little festival that is happening in her town this weekend - I sure hope they go! Some peace & quiet for a while would be so nice.
Woot, see ya later!
for fun!
It's funnier without the subtitles, tho.
