Kieffer's paint job

I guess I wasn't supposed to tell anyone they were spray painted! He wants it to look like custom parts... Oh brother...  "Ya like all my friends are going to run out and spray paint their motocross bikes Kieffer, give me a break!"

Today I have my very first eye appointment! I want to know why I can't read anymore... I know I am getting older but sheesh I always had perfect vision WTH?
I guess Sam and I are a perfect pair... He can't see far away and I can't read up close!

I guess you could say 'we are the blind leading the blind over here' LOL

 

Sunday

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend... I tried to talk my honey into a repeat of last Sunday... [movie, lunch and a new book] but he wasn't going for it... Darn it!

He is working on the motorcycles... We have a race coming up the next two weekends and then we are done for a little while... Yesterday, Kieffer wanted to paint some parts on his motorcycle [spray paint] and he tried to buy it at Home Depot... [I don't know if you have to be 18 to buy spray paint in your town but you do here] So I drove back with him to get it... I have to say it looks pretty good! Ill take a photo and show you later!

Remember our friend Jeff who was in Texas trying to get enough AMA points to make it to 'the big show' with the pros!  We watched him race last night on TV from Colorado... He made the main and raced with the big boys! You would have thought it was Superbowl Sunday the way we were crowded around the TV cheering! It was so exciting! Only 3 weeks ago he was racing at the Dealer Series with the boys!!!

Not much else going on... so I'll be back later with Kieffer's photo of his bike he is so proud of it ;}

The end of the story

 

 

Okay I could go on for days typing up the details of that day at the high desert... but here is the shorter version...

Kris wouldn't give us the name of his drug dealer friend, and we told him if his drug dealer friends are more important than his family who is trying to help him "than get the fuck out" Kris said "I knew you were going to kick me out" and he got up in Sam's face like a big tough guy... Sam told him to get out of his face... Kris mouthed off some more...

It was not a good scene... anyway... Kris packed his stuff and left... and we found Kris' old cell phone later... We have the name of the drug dealer and we gave it to the police...  We also called Kris' friend Mike [who is not on Meth] and talked to him... Yup that was the drug dealer guy driving down the street...

 

Kieffer remembered later that Kris woke up at 6:30 in the morning and left he came back about 7:05am...

After putting the whole scene together here is what I believe happened...

 

The drug dealer [Ryan] wanted to get some of his stuff out of Kris' apartment so he shows up at 3am and starts banging on Kris' apartment door [because we found out later from Tom, the door had NOT been kicked in... Robert the other tenant thought it had been because he was banging on it so loudly] finally around 6am Ryan the Drug Dealer gets ahold of Kris and drives up to the high desert and gets the key from Kris... only to find everything in the apartment is cleaned up and gone... So Ryan the DD drives back up to tell Kris its all gone WTF? That is when we see him drive by the house...

 

We also find out from Kieffer... Kris had a brand new Sony laptop... Where in the hell did Kris get that?

 

Whatever I am SO over Kris and his bullshit... you don't even know...

 

He is living at his Mom's in Long Beach... My SIL Tina called me yesterday and said she saw Kris and he looks like Hell... She asked what is up? She said he had two black eyes... I said "Those are from the drugs"  So I told her the whole story... She understood... She said "Enough is enough" I said I know... Remember she had to kick Kris out of Grandma's house and he left it a mess...

 

You can't help someone who won't help themselves... So I don't know when we will see Kris again... Candice's wedding in September... who knows... but I do know this... we are done... once again... drama here, move there...

 

He is 26 years old and needs to grow up...

 

Thanks for listening... love you guys

 

Below is a picture of Kris at Grampa's funeral... Can you tell he is on drugs... I believe that is when we really started to see it... This a week before his accident...

He has black eyes here too... Its the Meth...

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Part 4

So Sam and I headed up to the high desert with the dogs... Kieffer, Kris, Kevin, and Diego were up there already. 

Sam and I arrived and I walked in the house... OMG you guys I couldn't believe the fuckin mess!!!  I was SO pissed... I turned around and walked out and said to Sam "This isn't going to work" Sam said "I know, just calm down... we'll head down to Home Depot to buy the outdoor furniture... go tell him to clean it up"

So I told him "Kris look, you need to pick this place up. Do the dishes, I can't cook dinner later in this mess" he said "I know Mom, I'm doing the best I can" So I started thinking Ok Kris is coming off Meth, he has no energy.. I will TRY to be more patient... However the more I looked around the more pissed I was getting... There were 3 shot glasses washed and on the counter.. WTF? Did he have someone up here? He was obviously sleeping in OUR room too! On the list of 40 things to do Sam gave him, Kris did 1...

I went off on Kieffer... "Did you guys make that HUGE mess Kieffer?" "No Mom, I knew you were going to flip out... so Kevin, Diego and I cleaned a lot of it up!"  "Are you kidding me?"  "No"

So Sam and I left for Home Depot... We were livid... when we got back... the place was STILL a fuckin mess!

Some dishes had gotten done but that was about it.  Kieffer, Kevin and Diego were busy working away and Kris was playing video games inside...

Sam went in the fridge to get a water and noticed the 12 pack of Becks beer we had just bought last week was gone! What did we tell Kris? Stay out of the liquor and beer, Don't sleep in our bed etc...

Kris didn't even leave one beer for Sam! So Sam said "Kris I told you not to drink the beer?"  "I know" "So go down to the store and buy me another 12 pack Kris!" he had a major attitude about having to do that! WTF?

When Kris got back, he plopped right back down on the couch and started playing video games again...

 

Sam, Kieffer, Diego, Kevin and I were outside sitting down talking about how they needed to go to Home Depot in the morning and get the stuff we bought... When all of a sudden this white F150 drives down our street by our house... All of us turned to stare... I can't tell you when the last time someone drove down our street and went out to the highway... It just never happens because of the way our street goes to the highway... See its dangerous to get on the highway from our street because its so low and if you turn on the highway from there you risk getting in an accident because someone won't have time to see you as they come over the hill.  We don't even go that way...

 

We started trying to figure out who in the hell that was...  when I think it dawned on me and Sam... that must have been Kris' drug dealer friend who kicked in his apartment door last night...  Great...

 

So Sam went inside and told Kris about his friend kicking in the door last night and Sam said I need his name Kris, Tom wants to press charges... Kris said nothing... So Sam walked outside, let him think things over for a minute...

 

to be continued...

Part 3

 

So Kris finally comes up to the high desert house after borrowing $10 from someone for gas...  He seemed to be normal. We didn't feel he was on drugs but how could we know we were not expecting him and left the drug test at home...

 

Anyway he had to be out of his apartment in 48 hours now... Sam talked to him... telling him he could stay at the high desert house until October 1st, then he had to be out because we were having a family reunion there for Thanksgiving.  Kris seemed to be shocked Sam said that... [what did he think he could live there forever? Who knows what he was thinking at the time]

 

Sam told him the rules "No ONE, is allowed up here Kris... NO ONE... you are supposed to be getting your life back on track and saving for another apartment, I will not be giving you any money for all the work your going to be doing up here... it goes for your new apartment... You will drug test any time I want... Stay out of our room, you can sleep in the other bedroom... you don't need to be in our room Kris... Stay out of the liquor and the beer... No long distance phone calls, Don't give ANYONE this phone number... these are our rules... if you think you can abide by them, then you can stay here... if you don't feel you can live by these rules Kris... that is ok too... we'll shake hands and you can go somewhere else"  Kris seemed grateful, said he could abide by the rules... asked if he could put his stuff from his apartment at our shop.  We said sure... then he asked to use the company truck to move the stuff...So Sam said "fine"...

He stated he would be moving the following day and then come up to the high desert ready to work and live on June 15th...

The next morning Kris was at the high desert ready to work... I remember thinking how in the hell did he move so damn fast? I would find out soon enough... Kris worked a full day and then fell asleep on the couch before we got ready to go back home... So we thought well at least he seems to be off the meth...

Sleeping, tired... etc... Hhhhmmm maybe he is ready to get his life together...

Oh I almost forgot, we had been bugging Kris about his unemployment he was supposed to be getting... So, Gram Pam got on our slow laptop computer and helped him fill out the forms... We had been getting on him about it since before his accident and he was always too busy doing nothing to handle it.

 

This was on a Friday... Saturday morning we got an email with photos from Tom, showing us exactly how Kris left his apartment... It was embarrassing to say the least... couch, clothes, papers, crap everywhere! It was a mess... Tom said "You know Sam, Kris left behind some momentos in all this stuff I am sure he will want later in life, I will box it up and bring it by your shop" Sam said "Thanks Tom, I am so sorry about all of this" Tom always liked Kris, thought he was a great kid who just got mixed up with some bad people in the last year... Tom was just the property manager, he had to answer to the owner... He had been covering Kris' ass about the drug stuff for the last few months. Now the owner was coming into to town and he was covering Kris' ass again by cleaning up the apartment Kris left in such a mess...

We were furious to say the least... but we didn't call Kris about it... he was out of the apartment FINALLY.. 

This was the Saturday before Father's Day... I think Sam and I headed over to the office that day... I went in the back of the shop to see how much stuff Kris had left there... He left a crappy dresser and two nightstands I wouldn't buy at a garage sale?  WTH? Where was his queen size bed? Where was all the stuff he had accumulated in 4 years? Where was his dishes? WHATEVER... No wonder that apartment was such a mess.. He pretty much left everything there... 

Sunday Father's Day... Kris never even picked up the phone and called Sam... Sam said "Well we told him not to use the phone and make long distance phone calls"  again WHATEVER 

Wednesday Kieffer and his posse headed to the high desert house to start working. I tried to ask Kieffer if Kris had done anything... but Kieffer was vague and I knew he wasn't going to rat out his brother but I could tell in his voice he wasn't happy... I have to be honest Sam and I were dragging our heels getting up there... I think we just didn't want to deal with Kris... We wanted to believe he was being good, working, etc... but deep down in our hearts we knew it wasn't the case. 

Thursday morning, before we were heading up there... Sam got a call from Tom... The drug dealer Kris had living at his apartment for a while supposedly kicked in Kris' front door in the apartment... Tom was so angry, he wanted the guys name.  He wanted to press charges. The owner was coming that day and Tom was going to have to explain it to him...

 

To be continued...

Part 2

Okay... where was I? Oh ya... Kris and the accident... I told Kris afterwards "Look Kris, we all make mistakes in life, its what you do after those mistakes are made that matter"  So Kris stayed on our couch at home for about a week... Then one day, he up and went back home... We hoped he didn't go back to the drugs but what could we do...

We had paid Kris' rent for April and we were going to pay it for May if he got his shit together and was trying... that wasn't the case or he never would have gotten in the accident... so needless to say we didn't pay May's rent... Now remember Sam knows the manager of the property really well [remember Sam cosigned for Kris]

 

The Manager [his name is Tom] called Sam to say Kris hadn't paid his rent for May and Kris had a drug dealer, the drug dealers g/f and a dog now living with him. He also told us the night of the accident... Kris left in such a hurry with that girl, he left his door ajar and the other tenant Robert knocked on his door, the door opened and he saw a bunch of Meth and Pot packaged for resale...  He also told us he believed Kris was doing something with stolen goods for this drug dealer because he knocked on Kris' door one day to talk to him about the rent he owed and Kris wouldn't answer... He knew Kris was there so he parked down the street and waited... about a half an hour later... a van pulled up to Kris' apartment [There is only 3 apartments in the whole place]

and then pulled down the street and waited, Kris then drove his truck and met the van... Then Kris started taking T.V.'s and stereo's and whatever was in that van and put it in his truck and drove off...

 

We told Tom to go ahead and start eviction proceedings against Kris... so he did...

 

We learned all this about 3 weeks ago and went looking for Kris...  Kris' friend Mike works and lives in a trailer park... If Kris isn't home he is usually at Mike's...  I can not tell you how it feels to look for your child who is on drugs, driving through the cities nastiest trailer parks...  We couldn't find him anywhere... We went by the office and pulled Kris' cell phone bill [we had been paying the cell phone bill so we could get ahold of Kris] We told Kris not to use the text messaging because it was NOT part of his plan... When we found out he had text messaged over 400 times in the last month... that was it... we shut it off...  We left the radio part on because we figured he would FINALLY radio us to ask what happened to his phone... NOPE never happened... Kris somehow had money and bought another phone with pay as you go features... We couldn't find Kris because he was in Chino Hills doing a painting job... so we quit looking for him, however we did buy a meth drug test at the local drug store. 

 

When he did show up, we were going to test him.

 

Anyway, meanwhile Tom let Kris know he had till June 15th to get out of his apartment.  We told Tom we would make sure Kris was out on June 15th. [Remember Sam had cosigned and felt responsible for this mess] When Kris had gotten in the accident... Kris had asked to move into the High Desert house, so he could save money and get another apartment.  At that point, we didn't have a problem with it... However as the weeks passed Sam told him "We need to talk about it first Kris... you need to come by the house and let's sit down and talk"

Needless to say Kris avoided us like the plague.. and time was ticking down... by May 31st... Memorial Weekend I called to invite Kris to a bar b que... he never returned the call... I thought for sure he should be packing up his apartment by now... 15 days till he has to be out right?

 

We finally gave up waiting to hear from Kris and went on with our lives... 6 days before Kris has to be out Sam gets a text message from Kris  "Hey Dad, this is my new number, I know I owe you a lot of money and I will pay it all back I promise"  okay...whatever Kris ...  we were pissed... So Sam never texted him back... If he couldn't pick up the phone and call... then screw him... We left for the high desert house... with Kieffer, Kameron and friends to do work on the house...

 

Kris FINALLY calls Sam 72 hours before he is to be out of his apartment... Sam says "You need to come talk to me about staying here Kris"  "But I don't have any gas money Dad"  "Well, hopefully you'll find someone to lend it to you then... gotta go Kris" click...

 

to be continued...

Forgive me J-land for I have sinned...

 It has been a long time since my last confession...

It has been a week since this happened and I have had to mull it over on the porch swing for a while till I was ready to write about it... 

 

Oh boy... where do I begin?  Okay, lets go back to 4 years ago...

 

4 years ago Kris moved back down here and moved in with Sam's Mom...

I would not let Kris in the house... I was so damn tired of him moving back and forth between our home and his Mother's... Drama there move here, drama here move there... I was sick of it!  The reason Kris had moved back here was he needed to work to pay off his debt to the courts... Seems Kris was busted with Meth...  and had to go to court ordered drug rehab... which he completed but now needed to pay the court fines...

Anyway, after he read a 12 page letter from me... showing him all the shit he had put us through growing up... he was allowed back into the family...

Then Sam's Mom passed away and Kris was still living at her house...[ to save money for an apartment... which he never saved for... then Sam's sisters told him he had to go... Kris left the place a total mess and they were sick of it... understandably so!!  I kept telling him to keep it clean, help them out, so he could stay... he didn't get it as usual...]  because Kris' credit was so bad, Sam cosigned for his apartment... He lived there for 4 years... at first Kris was a perfect tenant... always paid his rent on time... everything was going pretty good till Kris got that DUI a year and a half ago... it has been down hill ever since! As you all know!

Now, fast forward to Kris' accident a couple of months ago...  When we went to the hospital and talked to Kris... he was saying stuff like "I gotta get my life together, I could have died tonight"... The Dr. who was taking care of Kris, took Sam to the side and said "Listen, your son seems like a nice enough kid... you need to keep him away from this girl... Your son was drinking tonight and he has pot and meth in his system... but her levels are off the charts... Your sons are no where near her levels... and I want you to know... witnesses at the scene say your son was driving and the police do not believe he was ejected from the car"  Kris was ejected from the car [you all saw his back...] I have photos of the road rash... He swears up and down he was not driving... I said "Kris they are going to know from the seat positions in the car if you were driving son, so if you were tell us now"  he swore he was not... he was happy they would be able to tell from that! 

Sidebar: Now I do not believe Kris was driving and these are my reasons why... [however Kris could be lying]

 

1. I believe witness's assumed he was driving because it was a male/ female situation. Both were ejected and only he was walking around afterward... She was face down unconscious...

2. This was 2 blocks from Kris' house and the driver blew a stop sign, they hit a dip, fishtailed and thats when they flipped and were ejected...  Kris would know that stop sign was there but she wouldn't living 40 miles away in Beaumont

3. This was a brand new car and I don't believe Kris would be so reckless with someone's brand new car, I believe she would be trying to show off her new fast car...

4. Kris didn't have any bruises on his thighs from the steering wheel... He is 6'3 don't you think he would have bruised his thighs on the way out of the car?

5.  She came over, and wanted to show him her new car... Kris left his house without his shoes, wallet, or cell phone... I believe she wanted to take him for a drive...

 

Anyway, she is permanently brain damaged...  so the police want to talk to Kris about the accident... they left a card on Kris' apartment and we went looking for him and found it a couple of weeks ago...

 

Sam is taking me to breakfast...

 

so I will continue this story later...

 

Trust me this is the tip of the iceberg on the story...

The gene pool, needs some chlorine

 I have a porch swing at the high desert now and I LOVE it!  I have wanted one for so long... I think America would be a better place if every home had a porch swing!

 

So last night Sam and I are swinging in our porch swing and just talking about nothing in particular... The weather was PERFECT... The sun was setting, the tiki torches were lit and Gi Gi and Rider were swinging on it

with us!

I was in heaven... 

So I said "Sam, if I was marooned on an island... I would want to be with you"

He thought about it for a minute and then said "I would want to be with you too... BUT can I have a Home Depot and a Napa Auto parts store on the island too?"

I laughed "A Napa auto parts store? Why do we need that?"

"So when the truck breaks down I can fix it"

"Ok... but why do we need a truck on the island?"

"So I can run to Home Depot!"

 

 Duh, I should have known that...

 

On Wednesday, Sam and I ran to town... to go... where else?  HOME DEPOT!

Sam was working on getting two commercial size swamp coolers running [ one for the garage at the high desert and one for the open breeze way area]  We also bought some new shades for the house... then we ran to the local Walmart in Yucca Valley... Sam and I counted 21 security camera's facing the parking lot... YIKES!  I could understand why when we were shopping...  Have you ever been somewhere and thought... "The gene pool, needs some chlorine"  I started telling Sam some of the stories Lisa Jo tells about customers in her Walmart... I think the same people migrated to the Yucca Valley store! One family was standing in front of the toys screaming at their kids... Both Mom and Dad yelling at 4 kids who were yelling right back at them...  It was a family meltdown moment... Sam and I looked at each other like "Uh Oh, who is in charge in this family?" 

A few minutes later I said "Sam, have you noticed all the men with LONG beards?" [like ZZ top long] It was weird!

We were looking for a blue kiddie pool for the dogs... they were out... so we got out of there quickly... 

We got back in the car... and busted out laughing!  I said "Was that like a twighlight zone episode or what?"  he said "It looked like the lunatics, had a field day from the asylum"

 

21 security cameras facing the parking lot... they need more at the Yucca Valley store...

When ya coming home?

Hey ya'all,

Sam and I are back from the Hi Des house... I know you missed us huh?  Kameron missed us for sure!  Tuesday after he got home from school we got a call...

"Hey where are you guys?"

"We are at the high desert house"

"Oh... Nobody told me you were going up there"

"You didn't get the memo?  Maybe you should attend family meetings more often!"

"Ha Ha... when you coming back?"

"When we do..."

"No really, when are you coming home?"

"why you throwing a party?"

Sam hung up laughing...

"I thought we were supposed to be looking for the kids asking when THEY are coming home... not the other way around!"

 

Gi Gi enjoying her doggie bed at the end of our bed at the High Desert house

 

She can't just lay on one she has to hog both hers and Riders

 

After we got home... Kieffer giving Gi Gi some love...

 

 

Candice...

Kieffer and his posse are headed to your house...

then to the beach Friday...

Ask Kieffer for a picture I sent with him ok...

[he said you said it was ok]

XOXO Mom

 

BTW: Its 8:34pm  Sam and I are home alone... Kameron is at his g/f Amber's house for dinner, Kieffer is driving to Candice's... 

Sam just said "Jeez, we should have stayed at the Hi Desert house" 

Joe, Joe, Joe... shaking my head

Today Sam and I are going to the Hi Desert house for a couple of days... part of me wishes we would stay there for the weekend because its supposed to be 119 this weekend... Yowza!  It is WAY to HOT too early!!!

 

Today Gram Pam also goes to her GYN Oncologist appointment...  she is going to call me later... hope they hurry up and give her a surgery date...

 

OMG Kieffer's friends are weird! I went downstairs to tell Olga, we would be gone for a couple of days... and she didn't really understand in English, so I told her in Spanish... Then Kieffer's friend Joe says "OMG Kendra I didn't know you spoke Spanish! I know Spanish too!  Want to hear the only thing I know how to say in Spanish?"  I thought Oh boy, here come the bad words...  Then he said

[Ill tell you in English because if I knew how to write it correctly in Spanish... I should be a translator or something!]

 Joe said "Tell your Mom, thanks for last night"

I have to admit Olga and I started laughing.. I never saw that coming...

Like every other married couple...

 

Good Monday morning ya'all,

 

Sam just left to go to our office building to meet a Commercial Real Estate person... We are thinking of selling the office building.  Depending on the market.  We rent part of the property to a Pilates studio, I wish she would just buy it, that would be sweet! 

Kieffer is going to meet with my old trainer at the gym... Remember when I USE to go to the gym and have a trainer?  Maybe he will have better luck with Kieffer...  It kinda ticked me off he never weighed me, never measured me...  Kameron and Kieffer's trainer did all that and did a body fat count on them... WTH?  Mind you... I worked out with the OWNER!!!  That is who Kieffer is training with today... How could I see a difference if he didn't weigh me or measure me? [Okay, so what if you could bounce a quarter off my butt... LOL]  Just kidding! He also pissed me off about changing work out times [he was going through a nasty separation and divorce... found her cheating on myspace.com] I didn't care if he changed the times but then he would act like I was the ONLY one changing the times... whatever... 

[Ignore all those excuses... I am just upset with myself for not going to the gym like I should...  I just needed to say its not my fault... you know... even though it is]

 

Oh... I had to laugh at some of your comments about yesterday! 

 

You two are so cute.....it's sickening.../(ROFL)

 

Sam is the perfect husband.

 

We might have fun together but when we fight, the neighbors open their garages, get out the lawn chairs and start selling tickets! If you don't believe me... Ask Gram Pam! 

Remember when she was here a couple of weeks ago and we went to the movies to see Sex in the City?  Well, like I told you... I LOVE movie popcorn!

Half way through my popcorn bag I turned to Gram Pam and said "Take this away from me" and she laughed and said "No" [maybe she didn't want it near her or she would eat it... I don't know] so I kept the bag... and kept eating it, and eating it, and eating it... Like a dumb ass!  After the movie, we went to Sizzler for a double Malibu chicken... mmmm yummy!  I had been craving one for a while... When her and I went to town at the high desert, we went to Sizzler to have one but it was their graduation day and the place was packed so we left...

So anyway, we get home from the 'movies' [we didn't tell anyone we went to Sizzler too!] and Sam wants us to go to the grocery store to get steaks to bar b que for dinner... OMG... I had eaten WAY to much popcorn and a double Malibu Chicken and the LAST thing I wanted to do was go to the grocery store and buy stuff for ANOTHER meal... I could barely MOVE as it was! 

I kept telling him stuff like "Its Friday Sam, the kids won't be home for dinner anyway" blah blah blah...

An hour later, Pam and I reluctantly went to the grocery store for some steaks... when we got home... all hell broke lose!  We got in the biggest fight... 

 

[he ended up apologizing... when in reality I should have apologized... he STILL doesn't know about us going to Sizzler... Shhhhh!!!!!]

 

So you see...  I just wanted you guys to know... we have fun but we also have... door slamming fights like every other married couple does... only my neighbors sell tickets and start taking bets on who will win... LOL

My Sunday with Sam

 

I wake up this morning and Sam had already showered and was heading to... Guess where?  Yup Home Depot! 

[We do have a serious bee thing going on and he needed more wasp killer...] He called me when he was leaving Home Depot and asked if I wanted to go to Borders to look at books... So I said "Sure"...  he came home, sprayed more bee killer and we took off...

First we went to get gas... 48.00 to fill up our little 'grocery getter' car... or as I call her Fredarica the Ford Focus LOL

Then we went to the car wash... as we were waiting I said "Honey I should have brought my camera... its her first bath" he laughed

 

After she was all pretty, we drove to Rancho Mirage ['The playground of President's'] to go to 'The River' [its a shopping plaza with a river of water running through it] When we pulled into the River Sam said "Hey you wanna go see a movie?" I said "Sure lets go see what is playing"  The movie Get Smart was starting in a few minutes so we bought tickets...

Now I have to tell you guys something...

I LOVE movie popcorn! Love it!!! This is what always happens when Sam and I go to movies... I munch down about a half a bag of popcorn then I say "Honey, take this away from me" and he does... then about 15 minutes later I always ask for it back and he hands it back to me...

So there we are... watching 'Get Smart' and I can tell he is getting bored... [Its an ok movie... but I would wait for the video to come out] He keeps trying to make out with me... which I wouldn't do with a mouth full of popcorn! Eeeewww... So finally, I ask him to take the popcorn away and he does...

15 minutes later... I ask for the popcorn back and he shakes his head no, lifts up his eyebrows a couple of times and dumps a handfull of popcorn in his lap... as if to say... you want the popcorn... get it out of my lap... I laughed so hard... I thought that was so funny...

 

Maybe its a had to be there moment...

 

Anyway, after the movies we went to Borders Book store and who do we run into?  Kieffer's Orthopedic Surgeon... Dr. McClennan... he was standing at the magazine rack, reading a Long Boader surf magazine!  We said hello and asked him what he was doing "Oh just waiting for my next surgery to begin at Eisenhower"

[duh he was in surgical scrubs]

 

Then Sam took me to Mimi's Cafe across the street for lunch! Yummy! I told him "Honey, I had so much fun with you today!"  he replied in a low sexy voice like my secret lover

"You'll have to sneak out more often then!"

 "Oh just come by and get me whenever you can HE is ALWAYS at Home Depot anyway" and he laughed 

 

I LOVE it when he does that!!!

Never a dull moment in the Silva Household

 Its Saturday and Kieffer decided to go race the REM race today... I think he is crazy... it is too damn hot but what do I know I'm just his Mother... [sigh]   Recently I got a "Strong Woman Award" from Jeanne because I allow my kids to race:

 

  Kendra.  Kendra just buried her FIL.  She took such wonderful care of him and his death hit her hard, but she kept on going and held it together for everyone else.  She is also a fantastic mom.  Her sons race motorcross, wakeboards, snowboards, surfs and all of these other "dangerous" sports and she spends alot of time in the hospital with them...but she still lets them do what they love.  It takes a strong woman to do that!

 

Thank you Jeanne...

 

Kameron didn't go with Kieffer... he needs to give an estimate on 50 t-shirts for a painting company! Whoo Hoo!  Hope they give him the job...

 

I woke up this morning and Sam was MIA... Can you guess where he was?  Yup Home Depot... We have a bee hive starting in our backyard [on the house where there is an opening] Eeeewwww I hate bee hives! Sam just fixed the problem by filling in the hole... He just told me "Bee's are not happy about it"  Oh well, sorry bees go find somewhere else...

 

Yesterday Sam and I woke up at the high desert house and turned on the TV trying to find some news on how hot it was going to be... The only thing we could get was Racheal Ray [remember we have rabbit ears only till October]  So anyway, Racheal Ray made citrus chicken, ricotta mashed potatoes and roasted green beans...

It looked so good! So after driving home... we went to the grocery store...

 

[yes people in Palm Springs still function when its hotter than Hell... however we do make sure there is no change on our car seats... you haven't lived till George Washington has been burned into your ass cheek!]

 

So we went to the grocery store and bought stuff for the weekend.  We have also been trying to find a Sun Tea Jar... you know... the kind you sit in the sun and make Sun Tea with... I can NOT find one anywhere!

We went to Stater Bros, CVS, Wal Greens and the Dollar Store... I haven't ventured out to Wal Mart or Target yet... I am sure they have them... but jeepers they use to ALWAYS have them at my Albertson's!

Anyway, Sam and I made that dish from Racheal Ray's show... OMG it was good!  Everyone liked it... Kameron, Kieffer, Kevin and Joe [Kieffer's friends] loved it too! 

I do have to say one thing... Rachael Ray's 30 minute meals... should have been called Rachael Ray's 30 minute meal after 30 minute prep time!

 

OMG... I am sitting here typing and I hear this sawing noise... WTH?  So I got up and looked... Sam is standing on a chair cutting a square hole in the roof of my bedroom?  "Honey what are you doing?"  "Oh I bought this vent, so when the swamp cooler is going we don't need to have a window open, it vents out the attic"  "Oh... Okay..." 

[We have 4 swamp coolers in this house... because its cheaper to run swamp coolers than AC all summer long... right now however... we ARE using the AC because it is HOT HOT HOT here..] 

One of the kids said they drove by the bank and it said 126 yesterday...  The news said it was 118...

 

OMG... Sam is making a big mess in my bedroom...  he just said to me "Sorry, about the mess... do you have a vacuum?"  I wanted to say "No... Nope I don't own a vacuum... sorry... you have to hand pick up the mess" I don't think he would have thought that was funny tho...

 

Oh and we just called the bee man... seems the bees outside are VERY pissed and have attached to the wall outside the hole...

 

Never a dull moment in the Silva household!

 

Kieffer just called to tell us the REM race was canceled... Uh Duh... its TOO damn HOT to race... but what do I know I'm just his Mother... so he is practicing instead...   I said "Ok, try not have a heat stroke if you can help it"  he said "Ok, tell Dad my lap times are 1 minutes 57 seconds..." ignoring my heat stroke comment...

 

Never a dull moment in the Silva Household

Its not hot here... It's hotter than Hell here!

Some photos from my two days away...

Its the most wonderful day... of the year...

I have my housekeeper back...

 

oops that was politically incorrect...

 

[Domestic Engineer]

 

I am SO happy you don't even know! She has already accomplished in 2 hours, what I haven't in 6 months!

Her English is so good too! We could talk before with my limited [housekeeper Spanish] but it was all wrong and I knew it!  For example I knew I was talking backwards to her but she understood me... see in Spanish the words are backwards... we say 'Hot Water' they say 'Aqua Caliente' or water hot...

So even tho my words were always backwards we could talk... I'll never forget the day she told me about 'the other woman' and her husband...

She told me today she NEVER went back to the SOB! Thank God! She said he now has 2 other kids with 2 other woman... So he cheated on the 'other' woman and had a baby with another one... Nice guy!

She said her little girl remembers me and she kept telling her "Mom, call Kendra!" she said she came by 3 times trying to see if I needed her... Oh boy... You HAVE no idea how bad I needed her!

 

You see I tried to keep the house up...

 

Remember Thursday's were for cleaning... my kids had to bring the clean laundry up, take dirty laundry down, vacuum, take the trash out of their rooms, make their beds... etc..

I would do 'our' room too!

However, Sam wouldn't back me in MAKING them do it... "Oh Kendra its their rooms, just let them shut the doors... I am tired of fighting them to do it"

Then I slowly gave up on the house too! Oh... the everyday stuff got done like the dishes, sweeping the kitchen floor once a week, mopping, that kind of stuff... but then the laundry began to pile up in the laundry room... everyone started using it to get dressed everyday... no one would help take stuff up to their rooms anymore...  The more laundry piled up, the more I got overwhelmed and didn't want to go in there... The clothing from the trailer we took to Texas is still in there... I kid you not!

If you are like Nurse Pam she said "Oh I know what you mean, when I get down to the last pair of clean underwear... its time to do laundry"  I started laughing... and told her... "Pam, I have a platinum card to Victoria Secret... I have... seriously 300 pairs of underwear... add to that a horrible towel fetish... and I don't HAVE to do laundry for a LONG time"

Oh sure I would run a load of Sam's clothes with some of mine, and our sheets,  but that was it! The pile continued to grow...

 

After Olga finishes the pile I will show you before and after pictures...

 

So anyway... I am so grateful for Olga... you don't even know!

 

I have to go to the high desert house for 2 days...  Man I will miss my wife Gram Pam! That girl can cook!

 

Behave while I am gone people! 

Maybe my mojo powers are all gone...

Ok now I have to use my powers for the LAKER game tonight...

"Go Lakers"

Oh no... 

Candice I told you the Lakers had to help me out... but they didn't...  they lost by 40 points...

Maybe my mojo powers are all gone...

Oh No Mr. Bill...

Remember Mr. Bill?

My day with Sam in the car

Sam and I went to Chino today and got a great deal on a jacuzzi for the high desert house... Its 8ft x 8ft and it was the floor model... It will be delivered around the 30th of June... Woo Hoo!

Guess who is coming at 8am in the morning!!!!!

Olga... YEE HAW

Ok now I have to use my powers for the LAKER game tonight...

"Go Lakers"

Ask and ye shall receive

I think I will use my powers to get a maid today... 

I wrote that this morning...

Tonight Sam took me to the movies...

We come back...

Kieffer says "Mom, Olga came by she wants you to call her!!!"

this is a little scary people!

Sam says "Oh no way Kendra, you must have called her..."

I swear to all of you I didn't call her...

How in the Hell could I have called Olga... She moved to Apple Valley 7 years ago...

I DID NOT have a number for her...

See our 'first' maid was Marta...

Our second Maid was 'Olga'

I loved Olga so much you have no idea...

She moved here from Nicaragua, with her daughter... Her husband was supposed to send for them but he never did... so she saved the money and came here...

One day while cleaning her house she finds a photo of her husband and another woman and their BABY!  She was so hurt and sad... but she was so smart... she NEVER said a word to him... Waited till she had enough money to move to Apple Valley and then CLEANED out their apartment... Took EVERYTHING and left only the picture in the apartment!

Damn I admired her for that... I took her out the day she left and bought her and her little girl cold weather clothing... I said goodbye with tears in my eyes... I have never spoken to Olga since that day...

and then she shows up on my doorstep tonight...

All I can say is "Ask and ye shall recieve!"

I'll call her in the morning...

Thank you GOD!!!

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

 

 

It WAS brilliantly funny...

OMG!!!!! I hate it when you trip a breaker because it's 116 degrees outside and you lose a journal entry you were almost finished with!!!!

 

It was brilliantly funny...

I don't think I can be brilliantly funny two times in a row...

 

Your just gonna have to deal with it tho... I will try my best... however it could have been my 'powers' that did it... and it might happen again...

 

Okay...

 

uh...

 

what was I writing about... 

 

Oh ya... my day...

 

11am - Got out of bed

 

[I was tired from racing yesterday.. sheesh... Don't be so judgmental!]

 

11:30am - Wrote a journal entry, then jumped in the shower...

 

12pm - Talked to Nurse Pam for the first time and she is a kick! 

 

"So Kendra is your dryer humming?" Nurse Pam asks me and I start laughing  "No! Right now I am going to meet Sam, Kieffer and his posse for lunch at Margarita's... I will do ANYTHING to get out of chores!" and she laughed

 

We talked and laughed while I drove around Palm Springs getting lost looking for Margarita's... I finally arrived and said good-bye to Nurse Pam...

 

I walked into Margarita's and on the patio was Sam, Kieffer, Diego and Kevin...

 

I looked at Diego, who had the worst sunburn on his face and said

"Diego, I have one word for you!"

I stated seriously

"Ok" he said worried

"Sunscreen!"

he laughed  "I know, I went surfing in Newport Beach for two days"

 

as if that should explain it...

 

I said "Ohhh... I forgot, they don't sell sunscreen to surfers in Newport Beach... my bad! I'm sorry" and he laughed

 

So there we sat... on the patio at Margarita's with the mist system spraying, fans turning, and the wide screen HD TV on... We watched Tiger Woods win the US OPEN...

I have to tell you, it doesn't get any more 'Palm Springs' than that... 

It was a 'life in Palm Springs post card' moment!

 

[Sadly, I didn't have my camera]

 

After lunch Sam and I went to Home Depot...

 

[Sam goes at least 457 times a week]

 

We needed stuff for the high desert and chlorine for our pool...  So I am standing there, like a good wife, waiting for him to decide on some product...

He is taking way too long and I get bored and decide to amuse myself...

"Um Honey" I say

"Hmmm?" he mumbles

"I want you to know... your a Home Depot Ho"

"Ok" he says ignoring me

"I think there is a 12 step program, you can attend"

"Ok" he is still ignoring me

 

{It was my Kendra... party of one... Kendra... party of one moment for the day}

 

Then we drove home... it was 116 degrees... WAY to hot to get laundry going,

 

Don't you agree?

Its a domestic goddess position... anybody? anyone?

Good Monday morning you'all,

 

I think I will use my powers to get a maid today...  I swear if you saw my laundry room right now... you'd run screaming from my house... I wonder if I can run screaming from my house?

Nah... its too HOT... I'm not going out there...

The humidity is up today and I do NOT know how you guys can live with humidity...

Are you crazy?

 

I just want to tell you guys this...

 

No one has probably told you right?

 

Sit down this might shock you...

 

"You CAN move away from snow and humidity"  there I said it... 

 

As a matter of fact, there are some nice homes on my street for sale... Anyone who needs extra income, I will gladly pay high dollar to come over... say... uh... 5 days a week...and do my chores...  Its a domestic goddess position... anybody? anyone? 

I can get free Disneyland tixs as a perk... anybody? anyone?

 

Seriously... I am not going to get any sympathy from all you normal Mom's... especially you working Mom's but listen its not my fault... Really its not... I grew up with a housekeeper... a LIVE in housekeeper...  I use to have a maid here 5 days a week when my kids were little...

 

[How the hell else do you think I could do it... I volunteered at the school 5 days a week [Hi Jeanne!], I had a horse I HAD to ride 5 days a week, [my 35th birthday present]

 

[Side note:  When the OJ trial verdict came down, I had just returned from the stables and walked in the house... I had to stand and watch it so I didn't make my WHITE couch dirty from the stables!]

 

So you see... its not my fault... I also hit 40 years old and my energy level went from some to none... Actually, I think I just burned out... I hope you don't Jeanne, but I see me in you and its scary I'm telling you!

 

Ok, the truth is... I have been boycotting the laundry... hoping to get a housekeeper back... but alas I think I have to do some today...

 

I should take a picture... would you like to see a picture?

It was so hard to do Candice...

I called Candice when the Laker game started

"OK Candice, Tell Mike Bob Bill I am using my 'powers' for the Lakers tonight"

It was VERY VERY hard! 
It taxed me...

They won but it wasn't pretty...

The Lakers better help me out in the next game Candice...

I don't know if I can carry the game on my own powers again...

I have to recharge my power pack now...

goodnight...

Fathers Day at the track

Kameron brought home a 2nd place [Intermediate Class] and made $50 in Yamabucks woo hoo

More later because I am tired...

I wanna a baby too Emma!

Kameron just got home from a 6 hour class on screen printing [he has a tshirt company named Ranked clothing - you know... like Ranked #1]

besides his t-shirt thing he has going on... Kameron goes to school two days a week to learn welding fabrication

[Sam taught him to weld when he was younger and he was really good at it]

 

Last night we are sitting around the dinner table in the backyard... everyone [Pam, Sam, Kameron, Kam's friend Travis, Kieffer and Kieff's friend Joe]

had finished eating... Then Bolts walked by me and I put her on my lap [ever since we went to Texas, Bolts will let me hold her like a baby... I am weird I know]

So I am sitting there holding Bolts [mostly because I don't want her to get into it with Rider... Just so you know Candice]

then Kieffer says "Jeez Mom, are you ready for a Grandbaby or what?"

"Ya, actually I am... any offers?"  dead silence  "Ok... for now I will hold Bolts...   Besides if you make a baby Kieffer it might come out with metal in it" [Kieffer has two metal rods in both his legs] he laughed "Ya it probably would" then Kameron chimes in

"If your baby ever gets broken Kieffer I could weld it back together..." we all laughed...

Hey everybody, go see Emma and the baby...

http://journals.aol.com/crayzawhitegirl/the-happy-place/

 

and say hello

 

 

She laughed and said I hope you do...

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend... It's a tad bit warm here in sunny California... about 110 degrees today... and we race in the morning.  We have the advantage at Glen Helen because its always 10 to 15 degrees cooler than here... So while most racers are getting over heated, we are saying "Ahhh isn't it nice here" LOL

 

Pam just left... Phooey... it was very nice having a wife for a week!  I think the moment I knew what it would be like to have a wife was the second I realized "OMG, someone put the toilet paper on the roll" 

 

We laughed a lot and talked about serious stuff too...

Pam had a baby die of SID's [sudden infant death syndrome] when he was 2 months old.  She wants to be buried with Micheal one day.

 

We talked about her Cancer, her OB/GYN Oncology appointment is June 24th and we all need to say a prayer it hasn't gone into her lymph nodes. 

I teased her and said "Pam, when you have your surgery...

I am going to show up with "Its a GIRL" balloons...

She laughed and said I hope you do...

Sex in the City in MY City...

First I have to say... if I didn't know I live in Gay-ville California... I would have quickly realized it at the movie Sex in the City! 

Gram Pam and I counted 4 male couples in the theatre... Not young guys either... guys in their 50's and 60's...+

Now that may not seem like a lot to you... but considering it was 1pm on a Friday afternoon wouldn't you say that was a lot?

Could have been a bunch of Gay woman too but how can you really tell that? 

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I am so happy Sam didn't go... He would have hated that movie... Its a chick flick for sure!

I knew that... so when Gram Pam came down I thought 'Cool someone to go with!' but instead of just saying "See ya Honey, Me and Gram Pam are going to the movies" I did it like this...

"Honey, I want to go see that movie Sex in the City"

Sam groans "I am NOT going to that movie, why don't you go with Pam"

I smiled "Ok Honey"

Sam squinted at me "You just set me up didn't you?"

batting my eyelashes "No I would never set you up"

"Yes you Did!

You just played me like a fiddle... didn't you..."

"No... Honey... I would never do something like that..."

 

Hhhhmmm or would I?

I never knew I had such powers!

Yesterday, I was IM'ing with Candice and I jokingly said "Go Celtics" I was teasing Mike Bob Bill [Candice's fiance is a HUGE LAKERS fan] and then Candice said "Mike says your going to jinx the game!" and guess what... I did! Lakers lost last night...  Oops...  Now that I know I have such powers I will have to be more careful...

 

Only last weekend... I dreamed Big Brown didn't win... then I woke up and left a comment for Ellen saying "Wow, the race was over before I got out of bed and Big Brown didn't win!" she must have thought I was crazy because the race was hours away from starting!

 

Wow... I'm psychic and powerful!

 

Well... I am taking my power and Gram Pam to go see Sex in the City right now...

 

Stay tuned... you never know what might happen when the two of us go out... LOL 

Hey! Where is my posse

We are at the Hi Desert house still... Sam ran to town to get something at Home Depot... So Pam and I are here... and let me tell you something when you do not have cable T.V. the days are much longer and quieter... I kinda like it but after a while it does get kinda boring...

Right now Pam is cleaning the kitchen and I start to think...

 

Hhhhmmm ok I get the whole polygamy thing... When one wife has no energy, another one does! I don't think I could share my hubby!  Can I have a wife tho? If I can have a wife... I also want a secretary, cabana boy, maid, personal assistant, pool boy, and personal chef...

Do I have to move to Utah tho?  

 

Just so you all know.... everyday Pam and I come online  [we patiently wait for this old slow laptop to get going... we can't wait to read your comments...]  and everyday we are disappointed... 1 comment in the last entry...  Thank you Nurse Pam... [you are excused]  So... I just want to say... What the hell, where you guys been?  Where's my posse? Show me some love...  

A moment in time with Gram Pam and me

I know you all are waiting to hear a funny story about me and Gram Pam but we haven't had a 'blog' moment yet... Well we sorta did the other day when she got here... We ran over to CVS to get more Amaretto DiSaranno [duh] and we are waiting in line and this black lady was standing at the photo machine... The black lady says "It won't print?"  Pam says "What are you trying to print?"  "The man of my dreams!"  I said "Uh oh, might be a sign!"

"Oh girl... Don't say that!"  then she says to Pam "Girl check it out, is this border to kiddie like?"  Pam says "No its fine... betcha I know where that photo was taken..."  The black lady smiles "Ok... where" Pam says "The penitentiary!"  "Yup, he gets out this week"  I said "Oh ya, how long was he in?" I didn't know what else to say but she was so happy "a year"  then we left... I said "Pam, How in the hell did you know it was taken at a prison?"  I never would have guessed that... "Ohhh c'mon Kendra, blue shirt, beige khaki's and it was a Polaroid..."    I said "Oh"

Then Pam tried to talk me into going through the Jack in the Box drive thru the wrong way... I said "If I do it... you have to talk in an English accent and say something like "Oh I'm sorry... in my country.. this is the right way" she laughed and we just went home...

We are headed to the High Desert house in about an hour... UGH Now my hubby is trying to kill me and my partner in crime... LOL...

Oh check this out... I know you guys are gonna say [oh you have such a nice body you are so skinny anyway] Don't you dare! I have gained so much weight recently you don't even know but I hide it well with my bodacious ta ta's, and 5'10 frame... Ok I just want you to know I am not fishing for compliments, I just find this very strange ok...

Gram Pam brought me 2 bathing suits ... 1 piece's... I always wear a bikini but I also feel like I am 42 years old, I have gained a bunch of weight and maybe it is time this Mom starts acting her age and wear a 1 piece...

So I wore one yesterday and Sam didn't like it [he is my hubby he is suppose to feel that way] but then later Kieffer says "Mom OMG! Are you wearing a 1 piece? What are you doing? Take that off you look 70 years old!"  I said "It's my new look, when people ask how old I am now I am going to say 70... then they will say "Damn YOU LOOK GOOD for your age!"

 

Kieffer says "Seriously Mom... no 1 pieces"  WTH?  So I told Gram Pam "I am going upstairs to put on a G-string and some titty tassles, see if he doesn't like the 1 piece after that" Gram Pam laughed...

 

I didn't do that... but jeepers I never in my wildest dreams thought my 16 year old son would care so much about my bathing suit...

 

Just so you guys know... Me and Gram Pam are gonna be buried in G-strings and titty tassles... [we wanna give em something to talk about at the funeral]

I also told Sam to air brush my casket to look like my blog and give everyone a marker... so they can leave one last comment...

 

Gram Pam wants her casket to look like a Ameretto DiSarrano bottle...

 

That is a running joke with us!

Sam's good sisters and Gram Pam

These are Sam's good sisters Lisa and Tina... Sam is on the far right... I had to give the Good sisters a turn also...  Sam is the oldest at 50, then Becky WWof the W is 48, [can you believe she is 48?] then Lisa is 45, and Tina is my age 42...

Below is my partner in crime Gram Pam... My boys gave her that nickname when they found out she had 3 Grandkids... The oldest Corey is 13... and loves to hang with Kieffer...[16] 

below she is sitting with her Grandson Blake who is 7

[I think?]

Guess who is driving to my house right now? YUP GRAM PAM... Nurse Pam get your ass out here too!

Stay tuned you never know what crazy shit we might do...

 

 

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My SIL

I was reminded today... thank you Mary... you guys have never seen the Wicked Witch of the West... My SIL! So are you ready?

Here she is...

 

Is it what you pictured her to be or what?

She looks like a WWof the West huh? 

Did I say that?

"I'm not one to gossip so you didn't hear that from me" LOL

 

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TGIF and Ranked Clothing

 TGIF everybody... We are heading to the high desert to FINALLY drop off the Willy's Jeep today... The wind prevented us from doing that exponentially [LOL]

I try really hard to see the wind as Mother Nature's way of cleaning house... Cleaning up the trees etc... but it sure makes a mess of my house when she decides to sweep like that!  The birds love it afterwards... twigs everywhere for building nests... one poor little bird was so busy yesterday not paying attention... GiGi got her...

Don't be sad... its the great circle of life!

My 'bird' dogs have been teaching Kameron's pit bull how to be a bird dog... Now she stands really still when one is on the grass and then begins stalking it like a pro! After GiGi killed that bird yesterday...

 

[bird dogs squeeze the air out of prey and then drop them, they do NOT mangle and eat them... that is why you take them bird hunting with you... they will retrieve them and bring them back to you with hardly a mark on them] 

 

Got that? Ok so, Gi Gi kills the bird and drops it... Then poor Bolts was confused... So she guarded it like a treasure between her front legs... I guess this is why you don't take pit bulls bird hunting with you because they wouldn't let you have it afterwards!

 

Anyway... I am getting the famous... "C'mon Babe lets go, before it gets too hot" 

[What Hot? It has been PERFECT here! We went swimming yesterday... the pool is all better now... Might be 100 today... that is NOTHING! I wish it would stay 100 all summer long or even 105... that would be PERFECT! Hot is 113 to 123... now that is HOT...]

 

We are coming back later today... 

 

Where did the UFO come from?

Ok... so we had wind gusts up to 49 mph yesterday and I went out on my balcony to take a photo of the palm trees to show you how bad it was... but I don't remember the UFO being there... Oooo Eeeee Oooooo....

Behind the trees are mountains but you can't see them because of the sand in the air

Ok, anyone wanna go swimming in my pool after a wind storm?

We had to pull out 2 lawn chairs...

Look my grass is as green as my pool! I need to plant some flowers in my pots but I don't have the energy...

Send energy please

 

It will look fine in a few hours...

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Wind Wind go away,

Please come back another day... We are currently having 50mph winds... The kind where they close down the streets in my town due to sand making white out conditions... Good news is... we didn't go to the high desert house Whoo Hoo!! I guess we are going Thursday instead... So I did get to sleep in and rest today...

Maybe I will go take some photos of how bad the weather is here...

You'all come back now hear!

 

1942 Willy's WWII Jeep

Ok... I am back from a 5 hour drive to Grampa's house and back... UGH!!! We went to go get the 1942 Willy's WWII Jeep Grampa left to Sam...

 

Oh boy, what a job!

The tires were flat, one tire was missing and after Sam and Kieffer got it rolling...

We quickly found out it had NO BRAKES!

Pushing it up on the trailer... Wow... that was a chore...

 

Then I told Kieffer to get in it, so I could take a photo... He said "I don't fit! Guess I would have had to walk in WWII!" 

I said "Nah you would have had to drive from the back seat"

 

 

He had me laughing all day...

When we got home a little while ago, Sam told him to go get the air compressor out of the back of the truck [its pretty heavy]  Kieffer goes to pick it up and groans then he says in an old man voice

"I'm not as spry as I use to be"

I laughed "Oh really"

he said "Yup back in the 90's when I was a young-ster, you know...right around the turn of the century... picking this up was no problem..." 

 

That kid cracks me up!

 

Now... we have to drive the Willy's up to the Hi Desert house in the morning...

 

Sam is killing me I tell ya! 

 

Maybe its the diesel prices?

 

$150 to go do that today!

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My Hubby is trying to kill me... exponentially...

My hubby is trying to kill me... Yesterday, he woke me up... "C'mon we gotta go to the High Desert today and get the trailer..."

 and I was thinking we were gonna be home to rest after spending 12 hours at Glen Helen the day before... UGH!!!! So we grabbed the dogs [all 3 of them] Rider, GiGi and Bolts cuz she's NUTS... We took Bolts with us because Kameron was sore after going over the bars twice...

I gotta say I was little nervous putting all 3 in the car because Rider does not like Bolts... They got in a fight the night before... It sounded worse than

it was... but Rider put her in her place... not too bad for being 8 years old!

I said to Sam in Rider's voice [its an upper crust Martha Stewart type voice] "Oh really Father... the youth today... no respect... where did you find such 'white' trash"  [get it... she is an all white dog...] 

Anyway, they all behaved and had a blast running around... I started watering all the trees at the high desert and BOLTS loves water... she attacks the water and tries to bite the water coming out of the hose... She drank sooo much water, I turned the hose off and said "Sam, she is so full of water, if she has any dry dog food in her it is growing exponentially" he said "Ohhh big word... can you spell it?"  "Very funny..." then he teased me using the word exponentially all day... making me laugh...

When we were driving home, I kept saying "Are you ready to take a nap, when we get home?"

 

can't tell you the rest because he is dragging me out the door as I type this... Shit... he's killing me I tell ya...

 

"C'mon Babe, we gotta go"