What a day, what a day, what a day!
The first thing I will tell you is the last thing that happened today. I FINALLY SAW MY BEARS! As in PLURAL!
We (Me, Jonny, Steve and Joe - the girls were staying to shop a bit) were just leaving Calhoun's after eating some dinner tonight, and were pulling out the parking lot, when this HUGE black bear came loping across the street in front of us. OHMYGAWD! I pulled the truck around a bit to get a better look, and it just kinda stopped and stared at us for a while! I grabbed my camera, AND THE STUPID THING WOULDN'T TAKE A PICTURE!!! I guess it needed to be set a certain way, and I have no idea how to do it. Anyway, the bear took off across a small parking lot, and Stteve started to get out if the truck to get a better look, when it's CUB appeared! I told Steve to get his ass back into the truck - NOW! You don't mess with a momma bear and her cub. Even I know that! We watched them from the safety of the cab of teh truck for a few minutes, until they disappeared behind a building. It was soooo cool.
I can now die a happy man.
Well, it rained tday for most of the morning, and we told everyone tht they could take the day off if they wanted, but stay close, you never know. So about 1:30 we decided to give it a shot. Met at the pod, loaded the truck, and 7 of us went at it. Everyone else was gone. But we got about 3/4 of a large wall painted in only a few hours. Not too shabby.
Amd today teh papparazzi showed! OK, he was just a photographer from the Knoxville News Sentinel. Wants to send a reporter back to do a story. Great eye candy.
OK. This next one is something that you only read about in Reader's Digest. But it actually happened to one of our very own. I swear.
Marsha had to borrow Mickie's red Explorer so that she could drive down the street to use the facilities. No problem. Now, she had never driven Mickie's car before, So it was no surprise when she unlocked the door, climbed in, and tried to start it. Nothing. She couldn't even get the key to work. She kept trying and trying. Finally, an older gentlemen came to her window, and just kinda looked in, smiling at her. Finally he said, "Roll down your window." She looked at him like he was nuts. She didn't know this guy. Well, she kept trying the key, and nothing. Again, the smiling older gentleman asked her to roll down her window. She looked at him again, wondering what the hell he was talking about. So, she cracked her window, and asked him, "WHy".
"Because this is my car."
In her hurry to get in and get back to painting, she didn't notice that Mickie's car was 2 cars over. Oops. The key "worked" only because the gentlean's truck wasn't locked. He was very good natured about the whole thing. Coulda had her arrested. Didn't though.
And a nice adventure for Jack. We went to dinner last night, then ran by Food City to pick uop a few things, then came back to the condo. Jack was missing his phone and license. Kim swore that he left in on the table at the restaurant. So Jack calls the restaurant, talks to the manager, the waitress, the bartender, a couple of cooks - nothing. No phone. He notifies the police, the media, rents a plane with a banner - still nothing. Tonight, Mickie gets a call from Jack's mother, who lives in Bowling Green, KY. Seems a worker at Food City found the phone, switched the language to Spanish so he could read it in hopes of finding it's owner, and with broken English eventually contacted Jack's mother, who calls Mickie, who calls Jack. Phone is back, and Jack's a happy camper.
Never a dull moment.
Here are some pix.
Mike
Caught in the act. Hey! - Quiet! I'm busy being creative.
Hamming it up for the camera, all of these guys truly want to be in pictures.
The first thing I will tell you is the last thing that happened today. I FINALLY SAW MY BEARS! As in PLURAL!
We (Me, Jonny, Steve and Joe - the girls were staying to shop a bit) were just leaving Calhoun's after eating some dinner tonight, and were pulling out the parking lot, when this HUGE black bear came loping across the street in front of us. OHMYGAWD! I pulled the truck around a bit to get a better look, and it just kinda stopped and stared at us for a while! I grabbed my camera, AND THE STUPID THING WOULDN'T TAKE A PICTURE!!! I guess it needed to be set a certain way, and I have no idea how to do it. Anyway, the bear took off across a small parking lot, and Stteve started to get out if the truck to get a better look, when it's CUB appeared! I told Steve to get his ass back into the truck - NOW! You don't mess with a momma bear and her cub. Even I know that! We watched them from the safety of the cab of teh truck for a few minutes, until they disappeared behind a building. It was soooo cool.
I can now die a happy man.
Well, it rained tday for most of the morning, and we told everyone tht they could take the day off if they wanted, but stay close, you never know. So about 1:30 we decided to give it a shot. Met at the pod, loaded the truck, and 7 of us went at it. Everyone else was gone. But we got about 3/4 of a large wall painted in only a few hours. Not too shabby.
Amd today teh papparazzi showed! OK, he was just a photographer from the Knoxville News Sentinel. Wants to send a reporter back to do a story. Great eye candy.
OK. This next one is something that you only read about in Reader's Digest. But it actually happened to one of our very own. I swear.
Marsha had to borrow Mickie's red Explorer so that she could drive down the street to use the facilities. No problem. Now, she had never driven Mickie's car before, So it was no surprise when she unlocked the door, climbed in, and tried to start it. Nothing. She couldn't even get the key to work. She kept trying and trying. Finally, an older gentlemen came to her window, and just kinda looked in, smiling at her. Finally he said, "Roll down your window." She looked at him like he was nuts. She didn't know this guy. Well, she kept trying the key, and nothing. Again, the smiling older gentleman asked her to roll down her window. She looked at him again, wondering what the hell he was talking about. So, she cracked her window, and asked him, "WHy".
"Because this is my car."
In her hurry to get in and get back to painting, she didn't notice that Mickie's car was 2 cars over. Oops. The key "worked" only because the gentlean's truck wasn't locked. He was very good natured about the whole thing. Coulda had her arrested. Didn't though.
And a nice adventure for Jack. We went to dinner last night, then ran by Food City to pick uop a few things, then came back to the condo. Jack was missing his phone and license. Kim swore that he left in on the table at the restaurant. So Jack calls the restaurant, talks to the manager, the waitress, the bartender, a couple of cooks - nothing. No phone. He notifies the police, the media, rents a plane with a banner - still nothing. Tonight, Mickie gets a call from Jack's mother, who lives in Bowling Green, KY. Seems a worker at Food City found the phone, switched the language to Spanish so he could read it in hopes of finding it's owner, and with broken English eventually contacted Jack's mother, who calls Mickie, who calls Jack. Phone is back, and Jack's a happy camper.
Never a dull moment.
Here are some pix.
Mike
Caught in the act. Hey! - Quiet! I'm busy being creative.
Hamming it up for the camera, all of these guys truly want to be in pictures.
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