Smoked

Like most things in my life, I have trouble thinking small to start. I jump in with both feet and hope things turn out well.

Saturday evening Jeanette and I hosted some of the people I work with for some smoked meat and pot luck.



The smoker was working all Friday afternoon delivering up some smoked chickens.



... 4 of them.



Jeanette was diligent in helping get things set up.



I am glad that only a portion of the people accepted the invitation to come. We would have been overwhelmed. Thank goodness for being an underachieved overachiever.

Buying Gone Rampant

The past couple months has seen us helping the economy remain strong. With Christmas, birthdays, impulses, and other motivators, I have managed to spend my children's inheritance before they could have any of it.

Christmas came and went and the gifts may still need to be employed. That is definitely not true for the wii. Eric has manged to get gold medals on most of the wii-play game ratings. More than one of us has ended with sore muscles.

But Eric still needs to get on his wheeled horse. The tags are still on it.

Hopefully some of us are now cutting up.

While others may be trying to figure out how to benefit from the Apple dominated world of personal music.

Dad now has a new 'puter to putter with. He still knows all the words @#$!!

For a while we had been talking about getting a commuter vehicle. I had some stock that I bought through our employee stock purchase plan, and as I am, I cannot let money just lie around. So we went to the Chevrolet dealer and secured through the exchange of cash for a Aveo 5. Much different than the Grand Marquis.

Debra and Jeanette are going to go to New York with the choir. Debra as a choir member and Jeanette as a chaperon. As you can guess, they are not going to walk to get there.

With the grandkids photos, and science projects, and reductions in price, we were induced to purchase a color laser printer.



And then our pressure washer died.

Then we are planning to go visit our boys Arlo and Craig when they go through commencement exercises for their expenditures of time and resources at BYU.

Still we decided to have a cow. In processed form. Well -- half a cow.

Then for Debra's birthday she needed someway to carry her belongings in New York.

Just last week I gave up on that pair of shoes that I had grown to like so much. I bought those shoes when I was in Provo one time. The selvages were broken, the sides were cracked, and the insides were getting rather tattered. Time to get a new set of shoes, one for me, and two for Jeanette.

So you see, we have been making our contribution to the economy.