Butch is DONE!

Yeppers, it finally happened.

butch officially retired on June 1.

i kinda thought it would be a good idea to have a party that he insisted NOT be a retirement party.
yeah, right.
so, since he retired, we've been running around and he hasn't even had time to think about that infamous honey-do list i've been working on.  in all fairness, alot of the running around covered items on that list anyway.

so the party was last saturday.........and into sunday.
i don't think the Mennonite women that lives down the side of our property probably appreciated it as much as we did.  oh, well!

i have to sort though the incriminating pictures that may have been taken, and post any that may not be too embarrassing.  more details to follow.
soon, i promise

Barrett Jackson Palm Beach!

The beginning of April we headed down to Brenda and Greg’s house for a visit with them, and one of butch’s bucket list items.  We went to the Barrett Jackson Auction in Palm Beach.  We had a great time with B&G and had a great visit with all the south Fla family.  We got to meet Madison, who was just celebrating her 1^st birthday, and help Aaron celebrate his with many rum and cokes!

Here are a few of the Barrett Jackson cars we I liked-

Look!  a Stud-E-baker truck!

I just love the little Austin Healy

Sweet little butt convertible Mustang



We spent most of the day Thursday, wandering through the tents checking out EVERY car they had. 

The auction room was much smaller than I imagined from watching it on TV.  There were very few seats, and the small number of bleachers they had around the perimeter of the place were taken well before the auction started each day.  Most of the time you had to stand in a throng of people, smushed in with people constantly trying to push by you.  It was annoying.

We got an unbelievable treat on Friday, G who is in the Lexus business, scored us sky box tickets!  That was definitely the way to watch the auction.  With the sky box tickets, we had a great view with seating, and they even fed you.  We spent the day up there in the high faluting areas.  Got to watch a dog named Dillon bid on 5 or 6 cars.  I realized that sometimes the auctioneer says banana, banana, banana, banana or montana, montana, montana, montana when he's filling in between bids.

butch in almost heaven!

Butch's favorite pics will be along when I can get him to sit down and pick out ONLY a half dozen or so!  

Tough Ole' Broads

Together again.

My heart breaks again.

Bing-Bing

you're free to move about the country!

sitting in the ramada inn bwi doing the park-sleep-fly
thing. why, if we're on holiday are we getting up at
the crack of ass o'clock in the morning.
well, flying out at 8:15am is way better than the
last time I booked the flight at 6:30am.
but the great part is having lunch with Brenda
tomorrow.

My Luck

I know the earthquake in Japan is a terrible terrible thing.
With everything that has happened recently, I hope I never have to experience that kind of tragedy.
HOWEVER, please see the photo to see a bit of my problems.

This is what I figured my recent luck would be.

The good news....when I got home tonight, the car dealer had left a message that my car was in and ready for pick up. 
PHEW

robins

looked out the kitchen window this morning and there were two robins be-bopping around the yard.
the snow is almost melted.  still piles (of snow) in the back yard and anywhere the sun don't shine.

deletion

i've deleted out the post i put up at thanksgiving.  in it, i said how lucky we were and that we didn't take that for granted.  since then, that bitch karma, has just continued to slap us in the face again and again.  so i take it all back.  i've deleted the post, and i didn't mean any of it.
karma you are the queen, i am just a lowly bitch, and you can stop now.