Friday, May 27, 2005

My Special Saturday

last weekend was certainly a highlight for me.

friday night we went to swallow at the hollow with brad and aimee and saw some really great music and had some awesome barbeque (i planned that evening). from there it was all down hill. it wasn't quite as exciting as a will ferrel weekend "home depot, maybe a little bed bath and beyond....i just don't know if we'll have enough time."

em was soooo sweet that she invited me over for breakfast (or so i thought). so, i show up about 10am hungry and ready to eat. em, is adept in the kitchen, so i just sat back and watched her finish up...until that is i smelt something awry. i asked how long the bacon had been in the microwave (cooking bacon in a microwave as a valid culinary technique i'll leave for another day)and emily responded that she cooks them 1 minute per slice. how many slices you ask? 8!!!! 8 freaking minutes????


needless to say, the bacon had suffered a fate worse than death. it was not eaten.

i decided to cook some more bacon in the pan. a side thought, and an idea i haven't employed yet, but think would make a good event for the "redneck olympics" would be cooking bacon with your shirt off. it's gotta feel worse on the stomach than it does on the forearms. after i finished and emily showed me her splatter guard (which would have been handy) we sat down to eat.

unaware that emily was trying to kill me, i sat down and jellied up my biscuit. but wait, something about the jelly seems amiss.



apparently emily was indeed trying to poison me. those were real mold spores you saw there. i didn't even know jelly could grow mold.

here emily says "you're not going to put that in the blog are you?" but you can't tell that's what she's saying b/c she wouldn't turn around.


anyway, later that day we got to take her cat to get declawed (as pictured below)


and then she let me fix her weedeater, mow her yard, and hack weeds with a machete (ok, i actually REALLY did enjoy that last bit).

on sunday, having decided i hadn't suffered enough, emily took me to see "monster in law." if i could tell you all but one thing, with my dying breath i would scream out the words, never, EVER, under ANY circumstances go to a j-lo movie!!! and when j-lo has combined with a surgically reconstructed j-fo and a script so sugary sweet that cotton candy would have been more substantive....well, sleep would be a welcome respite from the horrors your eyes will see and your ears will hear. unfortunately, in my case, that sleep would not come. the good news is, i now have a full "clockwork orange" type thing for j-lo. a glimpse of her visage and i'm paralyzed with fear and shame (for having spent the $6). anyway, that was my special weekend. :)

Annual Crawfish Boil

The Crawfish Boil was as good as ever this year. The weather ended up being awesome, and the food was great. The Allvines, Artigues, and Brobsts supplied crawfish, jambalaya, corn, potatoes, mushroooms and onions. Emily and I brought the ice cream (ostensibly for the kids, but the grand ice cream champion was Goolsby who made 3 return trips to the ice cream stand). anyway, kids large and small had a great time.

here mc, celebrates a come from behind victory in the sport of kings (tossing a bean bag into a clown's mouth).


the bubbles were almost as big a hit with the kids as playing with the live crawfish. here gwendolyn and evelyn chase bubbles


and here, gwendolyn gets a better look at a bubble.


we took three attempts at getting a photo where bryan and lyndsay both delivered "the goods" and this is the best i got.


i'm not going to repeat bp's comment from the draft 2 years ago......anyway, and here's the first official blog photo of em and i together (vs the previous unauthorized photos).



we stayed from 4pm until well into the night and had a great time the whole time. thx so much to the Allvines, Artigues and Brobsts for having us over. we're thankful for our friends that were able to make it down for the afternoon and look forward to doing it again next year.

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Random Photos from My Parents House and 1st Fish of 05

Ok, just a quick post.....here are a couple of shots from my parents house last weekend. In the spirit of full disclosure, this post will be 99 and 44/100's humor free. Here is my parents' back yard just after sunrise.

A couple of more in the backyard....a random flower and a lily and the propane tank...."dang it bobby, that's not a toy; that's PROPANE!!"


And here's one of the front of the house at night

When I got back on Monday I went out on the Chatahoochee fishing. Here's the first fish of the '05 season (actually it's the second fish who is the stunt double for his slightly larger sibling who i couldn't get to the camera to get a picture of).