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Time to hit the road again. We stayed a few days in Akely, Minnesota to rest up on the next leg of our trip. Today we bid old Paul Bunyan farewell. " Wade, " can I drive the bus, can I??? I don't know Wade?? You have the flare for the unexpected in our travels. What do you passengers think should we let him drive?? Show of hands and everybody says yes!! Might be a HUGE mistake?? Ok, Wade get behind the wheel of this old bus and promise you will be on your best behavior and drive safe????? EERRRRRR............spinning wheels as Wade applies gas to the old bus!!! Hey Wade I forgot to tell you this bus has one of those old 428 Hemi. She's old but fast. Flora is holding on to her seat and looks a little mad. Dakota hollers out; floor it Wade. Mia just about ruined her expensive camera. Poor old Loish is heard saying, " I should have stayed home."
Wade has calmed down and is driving great and yells out we are almost in Alliance, Nebraska. It's the home of Carhenge. Carhenge, what kind of sight is that Wade asks Mia?? It's a sight that copies the famous Stonehenge in England but it's with cars. It's an odd sight to behold!! Look out to the right there she blows. Everyone is out of the bus as Wade comes to a stop
and are in awe with this sight.
Loish, " That was amazing; who in the world did this??" Wade, some fellow who didn't want to use the land to plant corn." LMAO!! Look out Texas here we come!! On the road again, on the road again as the radio blurs out an old Willie Nelson song. The old bus is into the Great State of Texas and we need to pick up Chuck in Fort Worth. Wade has the GPS programed with Chuck's address and we will be stopping around the corner from his house so his neighbors want see him getting on the bus. " Turn left in 1.5 of a mile.........Turn right in 600 feet.........you have reached your destination. Wade, " I love this GPS, it sure beats having to listen to your wife give directions." The bus is stopped and Chuck has entered and greets every body with a big Texas HUG. Well he hugged all the women and handskakes for the men, both of us. Wade, Flora wants to go see the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo. Chuck, " I've been there and it's a sight to behold." Off again to another odd sight. Dakota, " I've heard of that place, they have a number of old Cadillac cars buried in the ground with there nose up in the air." This is going to be a blast???? Chuck. "Turn on the next road to the left and it will be on the right side of the road." WOW!!!!!!!!look at all those pink cars in that field!!!! Cameras are out and flashing. Mia is walking around looking for that perfect shot??? Flora is speechless, imagine that?? Dakota and Loish aren't very impressed. Dakota," why in the world would they ruin those good Cadillacs??"
Everyone back on the bus, Wade I'll rest you and drive to our next stop. OK, NickO, thanks. "Aint he sweet" well that's what his wife says. Nevada and the Mustang Ranch is our next stop. Nevada is the only state where prostitution is legal. The famous Mustang Ranch has been shut down by the IRS, run by the government for a while, sold several times, burnt down but always makes a comeback. Sold on Ebay for the sum of 145,100 the new owner moved the buildings to his property in Patrick, Nv. and refurbished the old buildings and it's business as usual. Chuck and Wade are off the bus in a hurry!! Chuck is entering the business, I don't think he will be in there long??? Wade you amazed me in not going in there with Chuck??
Will Chuck ever come out of the Mustang Ranch?? Will Wade stay on his best behavior?? Find out next time the old bus is rolling down the highway.
Hey, guys and gals lets go on a sight seeing trip to see some odd sights across America. My bus is filling up fast so get on, find a seat and no smoking. Our first stop is in St. Louis, Missouri, I think Dakota lives near by. Look out your window on the left at that giant shoe made out of shoes in front of the Brown Shoe Factory. Anyone remember, " I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe??" This is the factory that make those shoes. Ok, I see some of you aren't impressed at all. Maybe the next stop will be more to your liking.
On the road again headed for Allen Park Michigan. Wade's from Michigan I bet he has seen this sight we are going to. This was an attraction at the 1964-65 New York's World Fair. It was a ride and 2 million people rode it. WOW!!!!!! We are on the road that leads to THE WORLD LARG
EST TIRE. Get those camera's out we are here. Click, snap, flash and a lot of ohs,ohs and wows. This baby weighs 12 tons and is 80 feet tall. How would you like to change that tire if it went flat??
Ok, back on the bus and by the way this bus is very old but it will get us to our next destination. Look out Georgia here we come. Flora lived in Georgia a short time ago but moved back to Oklahoma. Who's back there drinking beer on my bus?? I think it's that man from Michigan a voice calls out. That's alright but no throwing your empties out on the road. Someone shouts out, " Look at that GIANT PEANUT MONUMENT over there in ASHBURN, Georgia."
Amazing isn't it guy??
Anyone need to go to the bathroom?? You better go while we are here, the next stop is a long ride to Minnesota, land of the VIKINGS. Night time as the bus travels across the highways and interstates as the people are heard snoring and complaining. Are we there yet??? No it's another 100 miles. Wake up you sleepy heads I see old Paul Bunyan up ahead. Man you can't miss that monster can you?? Paul is located in Akely, Minnesota. Everyone is out of the bus taking photos. They found that it's a great photo op to have their photo taken while sitting in Paul's hand.
Man, I'm tired and hungry lets stay here and rest up before we hit the road again in a few days.
Most every year I make wood turtle stools for those kids in the family and friends kids. They need to be at least 2 years of age to enjoy them. This year thanks to relatives supplying me with 4 kids; I made 4 stools. The kids love them and so do the parents. I even have one which is nice to prop my feet on watching tv.
This year I wanted to make some thing for the older relatives for Christmas. I had seen a lamp made from a glass block with lights embedded inside and a ribbon around the glass block. I had 6 to make this year. I had to buy the glass blocks and a drill bit for boring the hole to insert the lights. That bit wasn't cheap!! I also encountered a problem securing the glass blocks. I had bought 2 from Lowes to try and when I went back for more they had discontinued carrying them. I had to order them online at Home Depot and you had to purchased a case of 10. Finally they were all made and ready for the ribbon. The ribbon my wife selected just made them perfect after they were finished. Those who received them were thankful; even my wife. 
Lynn always had trouble with putting up the curtains during the Christmas season. The ceilings were way to tall for the six foot step ladder with her on it. It wasn't a problem for her husband Barney. The problem with Barney was getting him around to doing the curtain hanging. The couple always had there problems when it came time to change the curtains. Lynn was one who wanted the curtains hung her way and Barney just wanted to get those curtains up and go back to what he had been doing. Each year they would get in a fight over how the curtains looked when Barney was finished. They sagged and the pleats were not straight to Lynn's satisfaction. Barney would leave her mad and fuming for days. Words weren't spoken for days but they would finally get over the ordeal. Each year it turn out the same when it came time to hang the curtains.
After all those years of hanging the curtains Barney had a great idea on what to get her for Christmas. He found a 10 foot ladder at the hardware store that would hopeful solve the problem. Lynn could use the ladder to hang her curtains. He asked a neighbor to hide the ladder in his shop until Christmas and please don't tell anyone. The neighbor told his wife and the wife told her friends and soon everyone in the neighborhood knew what Lynn was getting for Christmas.
Christmas day arrived and Barney made an excuse to leave the house to get the ladder for Lynn. Barney soon reappeared with a red ribbon tied around the ladder. Lynn was shocked with what Barney was about to give her. She had envisioned a diamond ring or something romantic. She sank into her chair and began to cry. Soon Lynn knew the ladder was a perfect gift and jumped up and gave Barney a big long kiss. Barney told her I hope we never fight over those curtains again. I hate it when we bicker and shout when we can't agree on any thing.
From then on when feathers began to fly, Barney would bring out the ladder and they would laugh there troubles away.
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!! ANYONE NEED A LADDER??????????????
Through the years while I worked for my father and later when I worked for myself as a contractor; I look back on some funny happenings on the job sites. I hope some will bring a smile to your face.
We were building a house to sell and a Captain in the Air Force was transferred to our town with the military. He and his wife were looking at the house. My father always built the cabinets right on the job. Dad had the cabinets done but the sink hole hadn't been cut out yet. The man asked, " Were is the sink in this house??" Dad replied, " It's out in the garage." "Well that's a hell of a place to put a sink, up north we put them in the kitchen." When they left Dad called him a nut. Well that nut bought the house.
While working on a remodeling project the man of the house was trying to remove a wheel from a small lawn mowing trailer. He had been working a long time and had run out of ideas to remove the wheel which was stuck on the axle. " Nick do you know how I can get this wheel loose?" Yes, go to the store and get 2 bottles of Louisiana Hot Sauce, pour the sauce around the wheel and wait an hour and you can take it off with one hand. It was all I could do to keep a straight face!! the next morning when I returned to the job I asked him , Did you get the wheel off?? No he replied but that Hot Sauce ate all the grease off the wheel. LMAO!! To this day he thought I was serious about how to get the wheel off. Yeah, he finally got the wheel off!
Dad and I were building a new home for a couple. The land was next door to the guy's father who had a dairy farm. The rooms were all finished and painted. The flies were real bad and were specking up the walls and ceilings. His wife asked Dad, " Can you do something about these flies messing on the ceilings??" Dad replied, Sure can Patsy, you catch them and I'll put some diapers on them.
More stories to follow in a few days.
My sister has always been an animal lover. Over the years she has had a wide variety of animals as pets. Everything from dogs and cats to horses, calf's, bulls, rabbits, ducks. She is always on the lookout for stray dogs and cats. Her husband has been very sick over the last few years and recently he decided to buy some hens and a rooster. He found 8 hens for $6.00 a piece and gave $10.00 for a rooster. The man he bought them from assured him that the hens were of the age to begin laying. My sister built a pen for the new additions to the farm and installed some boxes with straw in them for their laying nest.
After a month Rick told Pam if those hens don't start laying this week I'm going to have some fried chicken. Pam had talked to my wife about the hens being in danger of becoming dinner. My wife told her to get some country eggs and act like the hens have started laying. Sis found some country eggs and gave $2.00 a dozen for them and began to announce to Rick, " we got two eggs today which thrilled him to death. " Well I guess that little talk I had with them being fried chicken paid off." Pam was way too smart not to take the clean eggs into the house for Rick to see, she would smear a little dirt on each egg. As of today poor old Rick brags to everybody about the great deal he got on the hens and rooster and how they are producing eggs every day. He would blow his top if he knew those eggs cost $2.00 a dozen. Hey, he got 3 eggs yesterday. It's the same eggs????
