Start of Memorial Day Weekend
It is incredible to me how this year has flown past, as it it were a penguin, who was dreaming he had wings and was particularly speedy. I am coming up on my 150th post in a few days. I am a full on addicted blogger now. Most days I blog about woodworking, some days I blog about Henry Wood, and on occasion I take a flyer and do something about a camel, as I did yesterday.
I have said on more than 1.5 occasions that the key to success in learning woodworking for me, is to not be a zealot about my plans. I have started a 30 days of dovetails and tonight would be day 5, but tonight is also the start of memorial day weekend. I am going to take the weekend off from dovetailing and spend it with my parents in Des Moines. Howie and Sandy are cool. They will feed me, I will will do some lawn work, and there will be a fair amount of golfing.
When I arrived tonight mom had a lovely hamburger with gouda cheese waiting for me. It was especially tasty. Gouda may be the funniest cheese to say, but it also an especially yummy member of the familia fromage. Afterwords Dad and I went to TCI, a local golf course, and spent some time on the practice putting green. My putting, if it were being analyzed by a golf pro, would be described as somewhere between stinky and abysmal. After focusing on short putts I improved to mildly malodorous.
After Dad and I got home, Mom and I did a lap around the house and she showed me her latest gardening triumphs. Her containers are starting to look marvelous. And that was a fair synopsis of the day. Nothing too note worthy, except for one side note.
The drive from the thriving metropolis of Martelle Ia to Casa Del Meeks in Polk County, is about 2.5 hours. During that time I mostly thought about Winston the camel and Libby the black panther, from yesterday’s blog. It is possible that Jo is going to write another chapter to the story, in which case, I am going to continue to write the parts of the animals. I really enjoyed creating Winston, and I hope to get to write more of his story. Everyone loves a good camel story.
Have a great Memorial Day Weekend and tune in tomorrow for more of…well…to be honest, I don’t really expect anyone to read my blog this weekend. People will be much too busy eating food cooked with propane and propane accessories, to bother with getting online. So in the interest of full disclosure, my blog is likely going to be a collection of mindless ramblings with little structure, numerous spelling and grammar errors and possibly a picture of two from mom’s garden.
There does seem to be a consistent reader from South Africa. So whomever you are, hello. It is a holiday weekend here in the U.S., that is why everyone is going to be ignoring the blog. So I will likely just write the post for you. I don’t know who you are in South Africa, but I imagine you are pretty excited about the World Cup. I know I am.
Ok, that is all for tonight.
