We only have two rooms with carpet in the house (I pulled it all out to put down laminate flooring). We rented a very large carpet cleaner and put it to the test in Ian and Emily’s room. Wow! You don’t realize how dirty carpet is until it is really clean (or you rip it up and throw it out).
I attended the Veterans Day ceremony in downtown Hattiesburg, and it was a beautiful day. The bagpiper was Jessie Langham, and I also ran into former aquaintance ‘Soup’ Campbell (he was the actor in my very first television commercial for WarZone comics).
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Jude and Candy sleep on the couch in exact mirror-images of each other.
(Please ignore that trash under the couch)
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But I can stir a mean taco meat mixture (if it has been properly prepared by Janet)!
Janet and I have started walking around the loop at the bottom of the hill. Today we noted several ‘fall’ish things.
Geese in a perfect ‘V’ flying south;
Leaves turning colors;
And Ian taking a leak under the big magnolia.
Ahh, the seasons.
Janet killed a snake today. Well, it looks like it was more bludgeoned than ‘killed’.
I let Ian and Emily hold an old survival knife I had in the closet (made famous during the ‘Rambo’ movie days). Immediately they felt like THEY HAD THE POWER!
As we were pulling into our normal WalMart parking aisle, I noticed a fellow coming very fast in the next aisle. We were going very slow scouting for a space, and we just happened to get ahead of him. I could see in the rearview mirror he wasn’t too happy about this. I mentioned this to everyone saying ‘That guy is mad because there must be a good spot up front.’ Sure enough, there was a golden spot right up front! As we were pulling in, I thought about saying ‘Hey, one of you kids act sick so maybe he’ll feel sorry for us.’ Instead, Ian threw open the side door and stood up in the doorway, raised his little fist and yelled “WE GOT HERE FIRST, SUCKA!!!!”
Note: this is a re-enactment at home.
I performed at a memorial service on the coast for a Catholic diocese official who died while visiting Ireland. It was at the Church of the Nativity in Biloxi. I played in front of the assembly at the very beginning, then was free to go. As I left, I snapped this pic of all the other priests entering to begin the ceremony.
During one of our daily Wal-Mart runs, Janet decided to get some air freshener. Of course, she decided to test each one by spraying it in the air and walking into the scent droplets and inhaling. The kids quickly picked up on this and it started to look like a square dance of coming in and going out.
The Incredibealls! 