A Time in the Future

Walking down a path, sun shining, breeze blowing lightly. A small child's hand in mine. Ahead is a park bench. We sit an talk for a while.

The little one asks "Grandaddy, what is the secret to success?"

I think, well I always thought that you just had to work hard. But then I remembered the last 30 years.

"Well son, I hate to put it to you this way. But you have to out work and out smart the bastards. Don't tell mom and grandmother I said that."

The Nerd Family

Well it is official. We are nerdy and totally owning it.

Everyone in our family have blogs:
http://eawkane.blogspot.com/
http://www.libbawoodruff.blogspot.com/
http://rolleaglewartide.blogspot.com/
http://jacksonwoodruff.blogspot.com/
and of course this one.

It is great for keeping up with everyone who is scattered to the four winds but I do have a question.

Is it wrong for me to check Libba's blog to see what is going on with her?

We have discovered a new form of Crack

Several weeks ago we were in Florence and went to a mexican restaurant.

They had a sauce that was out of this world and we asked what it was. Ranch dressing and salsa mixed together. It is wonderful. You have got to try it. We even drained Rotel and used that instead of salsa.

Yesterday I had a dressing on a salad that the place called, "Southwest Sauce". It was great and you know I had to ask what was in it. Ranch dressing and Buffalo Wing Sauce. OMG.

With these two discoveries I may be able to live off of lettuce for the next 6 months.

Life on Automatic Pilot

We got rained out today on my job so I came home.

Now despite my reputation I decided to do some things that are useful, prune the rosemary bush and wash the dog.

The first went well and with no major injuries, the second had it's moments.

Barkley thinks that we bath her to punish her. This is compounded by the fact that the shampoo is in a clear flat bottle and is green.

I grab the clear flat bottle with green stuff in it and start washing the "Bark". Sad news is that this flat green clear bottle had car wax in it.

Oh well, her coat does shine and look at the water bead up on it!

You may be in a small town in Alabama if....

You may be in a small town in Alabama if:

The local high school's prom queen is pictured in the weekly paper weighing in at 185, wearing faux leather, looking like she did her hair with a leaf blower, sporting the name of her biracial child tattooed around her wrist.

If you ever get lost, that is one way to tell where you are

What are they feeding them?

Heflin is a large city, I mean it is a small place but has many large people.

I went to the local Mexican place to celebrate Cinco De Mayo and here is what I saw.

Some days are tough

Yesterday I drove to Heflin and back because it was raining. Should have been able to go home but I am stupid and went by the office. Of course they had something they wanted me to do.

Last night was ok but Libba was gone.

This morning I had to go back to Heflin and started to leave at 5 a.m. and my headlights would not work.

The real trouble was my coffee. After having to use a scoop of flavored coffee to make a pot, I got one large cup down and then found that I had brewed the coffee with a big fuzzy moth floating in the pot.

I may go coffee free for a while.

Little Sayings..

I have spent more time around a ballpark than I ever thought that I would.

The upside to this is that I have picked up Ballspeak that makes sense and a great deal that does not. Some of it you have to really think about to decide with category it is in.

1: "Send it back the way it came", this means you have to deal with what life throws you and make it work.

2: "Use your top hand", meaning: There has to be strength along with guidance.

3: "Watch it all the way to the bat", meaning: You rarely hit your goal if you take your eyes off of it.

4: "Climb the ladder", meaning: You are in a tight, you are going to have to make one good pitch at a time.

But the latest greatest expression is one that I heard from a subcontractor on my job. He was told the following by someone who was saying, "Don't get all worked up over the little stuff". That expression was, "Don't go pole vaulting over rat turds!".

Think about it, it will make sense

What a week!

My week started with a meeting with the Mayor of Heflin. We are doing a project there and the Mayor did not like the job we are doing. Did I mention that the Mayor is a female? She is smart and bright and really more than you imagine for a city as small as Heflin, but a meeting with a Mayor and with my past, a female mayor is stressfull.

I have a sub on the job that is over matched for the job he is to perform. His answer to everything is either get mad and threaten to quit or just don't worry about it. Did I say that there is no pattern to with choice he will make?

I have to go back to Heflin Saturday to work, then to a game in Gadsden, then back to Tuscaloosa. Sunday back to Gadsden, then I guess to Heflin for the whole thing to start again Monday.

Jackson is trying to make a decision about where to go to school next year.

Libba is making travel arrangement for trips to the far north.

Beth is not taking good care of Billy.

Audra is having allergy issues.

I have not seen or talked to Nora.

Grandmother does not remember what I look like.

Where and when does the madness end?

Ok, I am better now. Just had to vent.

I hope everyone had a great week. Hasn't the weather been nice?