A Busy Saturday

Yesterday was a busy day for us. It started with me sounding like a woman getting ready for a night on the town and complaining, “I don’t have a thing to wear!” As my waistline shrinks, the blue jeans I normally wear are all way too big, and I need to get a new belt because I’ve punched so many holes in my old one that it looks like a sieve. I finally found an old, tattered pair of jeans from a few years ago, and they fit just fine. But I definitely need to upgrade my wardrobe.

After taking Alli out for her morning potty break and ritual ball chasing, we came back in and I fed her. Terry and I had a light breakfast of English muffins and milk for me, and coffee for her. Not long after we finished, Tiffany and Kenny showed up because we all had plans for the day.

The four of us went to a manufactured home dealer so that they could show us a couple of the models they have been looking at to put on their property. We all seemed to like the same one the most, now they just have to work out the financial end of things.

When we were done, Terry and Tiffany took off to run some errands, and then Terry was going to drop her off at home before she went to go to Safeway to stock up on groceries.

As for Kenny and I, we drove out to one of the informal outdoor shooting ranges in our area to burn some ammo up. Kenny has loaded several hundred rounds of 9mm ammunition, and we’ve been shooting those in several different pistols with no problems. He had also loaded about 50 rounds of .45 ACP, and we weren’t sure about them yet. As it turned out, they functioned in his full-size Springfield 1911, except they wouldn’t lock the slide back after the last round was fired, as is normal. However, with my compact Kimber .45, I could get one shot off, but there wasn’t enough power to work the slide and chamber the next round. We decided that he needed to up the powder charge a little bit on the next round of ammo he loads.

After spending an hour or so shooting, we came back to our house and got ready to start cleaning guns. About that time, Terry came home from the grocery store with the back end of her Subaru loaded. Everybody likes the freeze-dried pineapples she has made, and they never last long when she makes a batch. Since they were on sale, she got six of them. There’s going to be some good eating at our house pretty soon! 😊

Speaking of good eating, later she made shrimp scampi over linguine for dinner. I don’t know why I ever bother going to restaurants when I have Terry cooking for me here at home. It was delicious!

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And finally, here’s a chuckle to start your day from the collection of funny signs we see in our travels and that our readers share with us. When we saw this sign at one of the model homes yesterday, I told Terry there had to have been a unfortunate reason to post it.

Thought For The Day – Someday isn’t on the calendar.