Another trade

I’ve had various versions of the Casio G-Shock over the years, but have sold them since they were kind of expensive.  So it was cold to trade at the gun show for this base model just for fun.  Waynesville and Bengal colors even. 🤪 A nice addition to my collection.

“Say hello to my leettle friend!”

These make great little backups and I’ve carried one for years. I recently trade up one of my Life Cards for the one on the left.  I like the snake motif. They’re quite serviceable in spite of their diminutive stature. 

A few of my favorite things

I have had these Vietnam era ammo boxes around my house ever since I was a kid. I kept one, and have sold two over the years. This is the last one I want to sell.  While we were displaying it, a guy that worked on the A-10 warthogs brought around this piece of a barrel from the Vulcan cannon on one. It was a perfect fit in the Ammo box and would make a great display case. However, he said he would NEVER sell it…! I guess not, understandable. Regardless it was cool to sit around and talk with Vietnam vets who remembered these boxesbeing very prized items.  The soldiers could build structures out of them, and the locals would construct coffins… 😢

Trying something new at the gun show

I had some miscellaneous stuff to offload so decided to buy a table. I brought along my trusty salesman, Andy. We had a lot of fun people watching, wheeling, and dealing.  The best part, we sold out!

Waffle House’s new coffee

Johnny and I agreed we had to try one just to have a can to save for the cool graphics.

Lakeside 342❣️

Laura sent this pic of our old cottage as they were finishing up their stay.

The view from one of the buffet windows

One of the same Cincinnati bridges we went under during last year’s Cyclone’s Riverboat cruise.

Julie treated us out to a night of Banana Ball!

We enjoyed watching the spectacle that is the Savannah Bananas baseball game. It was a pretty day for it and a beautiful park.  I still miss Riverfront though ;)

The antics, costumes, and ceremony of the team always kept us laughing.

Even better, we had club seats, so it was ALL YOU CAN EAT for the whole game too! We enjoyed a buffet with ALL the options.  Hot dogs, salads, pulled pork, and lots of other choices.

My minion went head over heels out the Jeep…!

I took a left turn a little fast and noticed something flew out of my rig. In the rear view mirror, all I could see was limbs tumbling through the air.  I quickly u-turned, grabbed him up, checked for injuries, and found a more secure spot than the dash! 🤪

I liked seeing this cool set again

These were some of Janice’s many place settings.  She was always hosting some kind of get together with friends.

Peeps don’t seem to care much about real china sets these days, but I still think they’re beautiful and represent a hand crafting and detail that is often overlooked.

Treasures from John’s basement…

Some original LPs of the New Christy Minstrels.  Julie and I loved listening to these on the way to trips like North Carolina when we were dating or early in our marriage.  It was cool to find them as record albums.  We are looking forward to hearing them in John’s nerd corner!

Speaking of pranks…

…I think we passed the tendency on to our kids… Savannah got John great while they were both at work the a week or two ago… hahahahahaha.  She was quite proud of herself and we all got a good laugh!

Never trust your mother in-law…❣️

As we are going through some of the stuff from their old house, I came across (and saved) this old mug of hers… I remember when she treated me to a nice cup of coffee during a Buckeye’s football game at there house.  She’d made a big deal about waiting on me hand and foot and presenting this “appropriate” mug… Well, imagine my surprise and horror when I got close to the bottom! She always loved a good prank on me!  I deserved it as I was always jump scaring her… 🤪

Johnny gifted me my backpack

We started working on cleaning our combined collections out of their basement a couple weekends ago.  I had given him this backpack for high school after I was done with it.  He’s done with it now, and gave it back to me.  I needed a “new” one for my recovery gear and supplies on the little ATV.  I good third home for it.  It’s already suffered a lot of abuse and survived so we will see how well it holds up in this application.

Cutting, drilling, and setting railroad ties…

The work at Camp Jabez is always interesting and different.  The week before last, we were tasked with getting these ties in place to keep the sand in the arena.