We made it back to the new fish store

It was closed early for Father’s Day the first time we stopped, so we came back and enjoyed browsing.

She fell asleep after she asked me to rub her belly…

 

I found another Swiss watch!

Imagine my surprise when I was going through the old stuff of Julie’s grandparents in our hutch that we got from their North Carolina house… I was looking at her granddaddy’s old watches and found THIS among the other Timex pieces.  He even had a couple spare straps and one of them fit.  I cleaned it up, wound it, and sure enough, it runs.  Another one to have serviced.  I’m amassing quite the collection from my ancestors! :) ❤️

John’s birthday/Christmas present…

…and our little project.  We’re gonna see if we can get a seaworthy Cowan Lake fishing boat put together from this? Another case of being too much like my dad…

Getting Steve’s watch fixed back up

I managed to open it up, clean it out, straighten the dial face, tighten the bracelet back up, and size it so I can wear it again.  It runs, has limited power reserve since the capacitor needs replaced.  I am thinking about having my jeweler refurb my heirlooms one at a time. :)

Julie knew I would love this beverage from Jungle Jim’s!

It’s from their famous pickle barrels. 🤪

Found this in Steve’s drafting tools

It’s an old slide rule used to calculate the factors in an equation for selecting air and hydraulic cylinders.  Pretty cool.

Happy to have found my dad’s last watch again

I had bought it for him.  He was wearing it during his last days.  Andy had inherited it.  In going through some stuff he’d left at our house, I ran across it and added it back into my collection.  I changed the battery, and even found the original bracelet links for it fits nicely.  Just a simple Timex :) ❤️ That’s what he always wore.

My receipt book is used up…

45 sales over the years.

How dirty is your Jeep…?

I just happened to have this one little mud stalagmite growing on mine 😂

My presidential lunches

I was happy to discover that my lunch routine has presidential approval.  In fact, I think they’re modeling their diet after mine🤪

I don’t know if you noticed or not, but they are flipping the script on all the diet and health advice.  They’re figuring out that what they’ve been telling us for the last 60 or 70 years isn’t right.  They had it backwards.  We should be eating less carbs, more meats and proteins, basically turned the food pyramid upside down…

Splitting wood at the farm

They had some trees fall from the storms a few weeks ago, so we were tasked with splitting wood.  We need to fill all three sheds, so they have enough fuel for the boiler that heats the rec center all winter.  There was enough work to keep three of us busy, loading, splitting, and stacking… 

At the very left edge of the left picture, you can see the door into the horse barn (right under the Martin feeder).  In the picture on the right, you can see the gray side of the boiler.  This was our viewpoint when we were sitting and eating lunch.  I thought it was cool to see across the property from two different perspectives.  

Itty Bitty doing her best pillow pose

There’s a black cat on the pillow behind her, but she thinks she makes a better one ;)

Father’s Day at Jungle Jim’s

After we hung out with the kids, Julie decided to take me to Jungle Jim’s to get me some green tomatoes so she could make me fried green tomatoes. It’s always fun and interesting to see what we can find there.  This trip we found MONSTER morels and brought them home.  We also found these little crab snacks, but decided we couldn’t quite bring ourselves to try them… Yes, that’s a bag full of mini dried crabs…! hahahahaha

Father’s Day, memories, and the next generation…

As my kids and wife were treating me out for Father’s Day, and with going through some of our memories, it got me thinking about how much I value the relationship with my wife and kids.  I was chatting with one of John’s friends that was enjoying his first (in utero) Father’s Day too.  We’d all recently been to a Dragon’s game recently and it reminded me of my first Father’s Day where I caught this ball at Fifth Third Field.  Later, on another Father’s Day, Andy gave me this Babe Ruth Card.  It was a sweet gift since it was a sacrifice for him, but he knew I liked it and he could probably find another one…❣️

Anyhow, PSA, live a life that glorifies God, love your wife, treat your kids right, treat your parents right.  Help each other be the best they can be ❤️