My little red teardrop got sold.

    The little red teardrop pulled out of the yard today for its last trip. The man that bought it knew it was to far gone to camp in but he wanted the trailer frame and the pattern. He had stopped last week and looked at it and got the price (250$). His plan is to disassemble it and rebuild it out of cedar planking . I showed him what I considered  my design flaw of the hatch. Plus drew out how to do chuck wagon doors.

 

 The wife and I both had mixed feeling about it being sold but I think this young man will use it as a guide and make one live on inspired by what we enjoyed.

    It gave us 4 good summers of camping but has spent the last 2 slowly falling apart in the yard. The roof had a small leak the hatch was broke and I had robbed the good tires off it for the BBQ smoker.  I had wanted to rebuild it but I have to much going on .

 

  I know his picture is 2 years old , I feel bad it was still there when we hooked it up :( .

I survived the 4th.

     Sorry i haven't posted but the week before the 4th was busy.Had a lot of cooking and serving to plan.I had as good a 4th as memorial weekend was.The main problem was everyone wanted to pick up between 10 and 12 o'clock last Friday.It was difficult to have 36 racks of ribs and 48 butts done and ready to go in such a rush.
      In the spare seconds i had to chop make sandwiches fix plates.I am sure some things were not as hot as i like them the doors on the smoker was being opened and closed to much.Will fix some of my troubles this fall by building a new BBQ Trailer .
    
     I have been planning on building a nice all in one trailer for a few years i have all the kitchen equipment and plumbing.I have had an old 1968 GEM camper 23 ft that I paid 200 for and have used as a storage shed.It was gutted but water tight.Now it will become a log cabin BBQ on wheels.This year has been hell on my legs and back the in out and up down of my present set up is taking a toll.This will be built for looks and easy of use. I plan on doing this for a long time so i better build it so i can operate it despite father times affects.I hope it will resemble this but with smokers on both ends .

Spring time is a lot of work!

      Is it just me or is geting caught up on the yard and house and other what not alot of work?Cutting the grass planting flowers tilling a garden(a friends not me this year)hauling garbage fixing the cars.When the weather is in the 70s it seems like work to be done is everywhere.Stop and think about what you have had to do.Ok now just be thanful you didnt have to milk cows or goats gather eggs plant 20 acres make sure the animals were bred.Sharpen tools cleaned a barn hauled manure(OK did that for the wifes flowers).Thinking about what i have to do verses what my greatgrand parents had to do in the spring.My life is a walk in the park. So take a few and compare your spring see how you rate :).

Just back from Orlando .

     Me and the wife took a short trip last week to Orlando Fl. We had bought a trip last Christmas at Bass Pro shop.It was 199$ for 2 nites at the Point at universal studios ,75$ in bass pro gift cards and a 5 day cruise gift certificate.Now we did have to sit through a sales presentation for Blue Green vacation group.That took 2 hours but what the heck.We did stay an extra day at the hotel it was nice.We was in a 1 bedroom condo had a jetted tub full kitchen and a balcony. The pool was heated had a hot tub and poolside bar.:).The nite we paid for was 115$ we could have found cheaper but not much and not as nice.This was alone time for me and the wife,No we didn't go to universal sea world or Disney,.We just relaxed played slap and tickle snuggled by the pool and had a few Margarita's.OK i did soak in the hot tub with some collage girls,boy that made me feel old.The wife said i looked like a white headed Grandfather LOL i am!
  
       I did go to cape Canaveral and coco beach I have never been to the Atlantic ocean in my life.I have been a gulf baby since birth now next year i will see the pacific ocean it has been a goal to stand on both coast once before i die. We will take that cruise some time next year out of port Canaveral.My wife isn't to high on going on a ship so we went to the port and was lucky a ship was just in.She said it was huge and mite not be to bad.Plus we stopped at the port bazaar and they told her it wasn't like on a boat it was more like a hotel, spa, buffet in one that happened to float.

    This trip was very different for us one it wasn't camping.2 it was more for our rest than anything. Every once and a while every couple needs to take a few days of ALONE TIME daily life makes us forget that we need us time. Take a few and remember why you fell in love.

To all vetrans and active duty.

      Today is veteran's day and to all military past and present i wish to say THANK YOU.If at anytime you read on this blog something that is negative about our country's present or resent past military actions it in no way is meant as a slur against our soldiers.I have a great respect our service men and women.All have made sacrifices for the American people and our freedom.At this point in this post it is hard to put down how much we the people owe to our service men but 1 day a year is not even close.

      One thing that grips me is when politions wrap themselves in the flag and talk about our servicemen for political gains.Our military has served without question when deployed.Most of our elected leaders are gutless worms that despise and even fear the men that have sworn an oath to this nation.Personally i think it should be a requirement that a president and congress members have served.If a man isn't willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country by what right should he lead it ? I don't mean to imply that we need a military government but we do need men that believe in founding principles and our Constitution to pledge there life to defending it.This is something veterans pledged to do in the service, and almost all would uphold as  civilians till death.

      We have 1 day to honor our living Veterans and 1 day to honor the fallen.I don't seem right.

I hate this time change

    Twice a year when the time changes it takes about a week for my body to get use to the new time.I don't know about you but everything seems off for a while before i adapt.It also makes me sleep more,eat more and get less done.
      It may have been Ben Franklin's idea but we only do it half the time.See this is a prime example of "A great idea done half way and by government SUXs!!!!!  This week has to end its not been a good week. 3 doctor visits a funeral and the time change.Maybe tomorrow i will have something to right but tonite i just cant think.