Texas, Yes, Everything Is Bigger

In Texas this week, holy cow I am impressed with the personnel Terry Siegel arranged in Mineral Wells, and I'm not just saying this because my boss reads this..............................BTW, this is a pound of ribs at the RailHead, a lady in the office showed me a plum..............it was the size of an apple, raised in TX!

Jackson and me at Rod and Debby's place in Beaufort, good food at a great place. And Debby turned 30-something last week

Pulling TAR and Cooper in good old Spooners Creek, I got them up to about 40 MPH and they were able to hold on, good going CookeeAnna crew!

Jenny eating crabs, that was a happy lady! Lucile's in Fort Worth, insert your own caption: and it's OK, she's cool with whatever you write

She signed a disclaimer.....................

And for your viewing entertainment, and absolutely guaranteed to make you laugh:

Made you laugh didn't it? I'm in with a good crew and I'm busy as forty...............

DC, NJ and wherever next week and I'm driving instead of flying!

Little Lord Fauntleroy

This week I traveled to Indianapolis, Chicago(land) and Milwaukee. A fun productive was had with a husband and wife team whose professionalism should be a benchmark in the industry. Really good people who are also a lot of fun. AND I caught a three leg trip home Thursday evening which worked all the way home; I should have bought a lottery ticket.

Here is my brother and his friend Butch all dressed up to go fishing, sorry, couldn't resist. And yes I'm jealous that they went..........and caught fish. Bet that was fun. Wonder if they ever dreamed as teenagers they would dress up like this to sneak up on a trout? Who took the picture?

So just when you thought you'd seen enough funny looking guys wearing shorts, we find this in the old cigar box; very appropriate follow up to the first picture don't you think? We were setting the fashion world on its ear with the sweater and shorts look which would eventually become popular many years later; trendsetters I would even dare to say. The US Navy surplus sailor caps didn't quite catch on the way we anticipated. Great picture from several decades ago, and yes that is Niagara Falls in the background. 

And this is just plain old funny. How quickly we forget. 

Back to HQ in Texas for more training early Monday morning, home Friday night. I'm getting acquainted with everyone who works in the New Bern and Charlotte airports. Happy birthday to Niece Kristie, Kristy, Kirstie, Krusty, ok, Kristi!

Nobody Bit?

So no one had a caption for last week's video? I am truly disapointed. So let's try another audience particpation, you pick a caption and make your own comment(s)

So this guy walked into a bar.......................................

Since the World Cup is here and we are guaranteed victory I will celebrate by painting my teeth, no? I mean come on, what can stop us now?  

                                                  

No caption here, this was on display in an Arizona restaurant last week, to give you an idea of the size of the cake I asked that something be placed in the display; that is a bottle of BBQ sauce to the right of the cake. Jokes?

No joke here. This beautiful young lady was at our house last week to witness first hand what a hurricane is like. Fortunately Arthur was kind to us, and although we lost power our generator worked as planned, and Elizabeth had ice cold milk with her cereal Friday morning. I took this picture so she could send it to her mother in San Diego to show that all was well. 

Grand-dog Daisy on her first boat ride, she did very well. Had a little trouble with the throttle but steered like a champ. Think I'm going to give her opposable thumbs for Christmas. 

And out of nowhere a picture of my grandparents, wonder whose house they were in? I remember those fancy glasses, they were green and came from the Sinclair gas station. 

What are we going to do with these Heat season tickets? Watch Josh McRoberts? 

Hang on, I forgot this from last week. You may know that I have a habit of waving at airplanes or anything that flies overhead. I even waved at a drone recording the fireworks last week. I have been topped! While crossing the Roanoke River last week on AMTRAK I looked down and saw a guy standing on a rock in the middle of the river. He was wearing cutoff jeans, no shirt, yes, go figure.................................. as we passed he looked up and waved. A kindred spirit, probably in far too many ways. 

I was in Phoenix last week, they have sand storms that look like something out of Iraq. And 107 degree heat, yes I know..............dry heat.....................right, so is the oven.

Off to Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin next week. 

Arthur! Arthur!

Arthur came and went, hope he wasn't viewed too lightly because the damage around our neighborhood wasn't that bad, especially for a  CAT 2 storm. We were without power from 10:30 PM until about 11:00 AM, not bad at all, and we got to use the generator for the first time. It worked well. Friday was so pretty that we took Elizabeth, Jackson and the grand-dog Daisy out for a boat ride. Found some flotsam, but nothing good enough to keep, awwwwwwwwwwwwwww

It was a lot different when I came in on the AMTRAK bus Friday afternoon, I thought we were in for a bad one.

Now for some levity, more often than not I ask for audience participation and more often than not I get very little. This is easy, you don't have to give the punch line, you can if you like, but let's see if you can give the setup line. And it's OK if you answer as ANONYMOUS. Here we go:

...............................next week we will work on the punch line.

And speaking of punch lines, on my way to the airport in Dallas a couple of weeks ago I drove by a Frisbee golf course. I looked over and saw a guy in a ditch under a low hanging branch trying to throw his disc. See, if you look hard enough you can find an honest man.

Last week in Maryland, Virginia and DC. Next week in Phoenix, yes, at 107 degrees (it's a dry heat) I'm crazy but the hotel rooms are cheap this time of the year.