Well I was changing out the CPS in the truck at dusk..was getting dark. I couldn't hold the flashlight and screw in the CPS at the same time...so...I had to put the flashlight somewhere. I was so cold I didn't care anymore.

 

So whats everyone have planned for Easter weekend?

 

I'm babysitting from 12:30ish to 6ish then once I'm home we're driving down to Pennsylvania to spend the rest of the weekend with my aunt/uncle/cousin down there.

They live in a house that is on the estate of someone who was related to the Rockefellers. It's a couple hundred acres of farmland and it had a HUGE house with it, but the house got sold to M Night Shyamalan. He's the super-rich horror film guy.

I've got to bring my STIHL edger along with me to redo the edges on their flower beds. My uncle is NOT what you would call mechanically inclined at all. He's got the mechanical knowledge of your average (Sorry, Cris and Lisa you weren't average when you fit this age bracket) teenage girl.

They had a leaf blower and he didn't know how to start it so he was using a rake on their yard.

I showed him 3x how to prime it, set the choke, etc. but still nothing so I guess he must either rake it all or they have someone do it for them because he sure can't.

 

not much...got a wedding to go to the week after...need to save my pennies

 

maybe he needs an electric leaf blower

 

Eew. I hate weddings. If I get married my wife will have to accept the fact that my ideal wedding is this:

A backyard
A lot of beer (soda for the kiddies)
A moonbounce (again for the kiddies) (and any adults drunk enough to get in the moonbounce)
Everyone in shorts/jeans/t-shirts

I can't understand how people take themselves so seriously that they need to have a 100,000$ wedding.

My cousin (Son in the family from PA that we're visiting. Now lives in NC) got married last June. I happen to know it was a 100k + affair. It was close to 100 degrees that day and everyone had to wear the whole getup jackets and all. After a while I said screw this and just ditched my jacket. It stuck to my back because of all the sweat. It was pretty nasty. The place they had it was supposed to be really nice and all that, but where they had the actual ceremony was fine crushed stone which was nice, but it must be the landscaper in me noticing all this stuff.

1: They didn't even take the time to pull/spray the weeds that were in the stone.
2: The lawn there needed SERIOUS powerseeding+fert+irrigation. It was half dead.
3: They had a half-dead cedar there that looked pretty terrible.

Seems like pretty easy to remedy stuff that was shabby for such an expensive joint.

Miserable event that was...

Did I mention I hate weddings?

Edit: Just saw your most recent post, Mark. The problem with electric is it has no *****. I've got a BR600 and it could literally blow away an electric blower.

 

Weddings, Marrige, WHOA! I'm just starting to come to terms with college in a year and a half.

 

Haha. Sorry, Jake. Just rambling about how I hate those things.

 

Yeah I know, its just a little frightening thinking about that stuff.

 

okay just curious! I was wondering why someone so young needed that much truck. I am 22 and I wish I had a job that required me to have a big honkin diesel. I may soon though. Lookin at gettin a job on a farm with a family friend. Watermelon , hay, cattle, soybeans, cotton, corn..big operation. He uses chevies though so my Ford will probably take up slack when his are in the shop. he he.

 

Haha. Yea.

Dad owns a construction company so I'll end up moving a lot of stuff for him. Picking stuff up from auctions and dropping stuff off. Or yanking around compressors and light plants or anything that my PSD could tow that needs moving basically.

I wouldn't call my truck a "Big Honkin Diesel" because as far as diesels go it's pretty small.

I'd call dad's International with a 35 yard dump box on it with a Cummins powerplant a "Big Honkin Diesel"

I'd call the 525hp CAT diesel in Blakeslee's truck a "Big Honkin Diesel"

Blakeslee is a hauling company we use to move our largest dozers and excavators. Ie: 73,000 pound bulldozers that require escorts and permits and regularly get stopped for inspections

Plus I've grown up around diesels and couldn't imagine driving anything that wasn't a diesel. It's just in my blood. (figuratively and probably a bit literally) When I was little I'd sneak near the back of dad's 88 Ford diesel to get a whiff of the exhaust. Gotta love the smell of diesel exhaust.

I've wanted my own PSD since I was like 9 years old when dad got his 2000 model year F350 w/7.3 PSD in it.

We've got 3 PSDs in the family. Dad's, my brother's, and mine. Everyone except mom.

And whatever you do don't take this post the wrong way. It wasn't meant to be belittling or anything like that. I just re-read it and it seems like it might come across that way. You lose a sense of how it was meant when you see stuff written down instead of it being spoken.

 

Well, I'm swapping Saturday for Tuesday with another guy at work, so I get a 5 day weekend. My wife wants to go to Vegas for the weekend. Not a bad idea, but the way things are going, I'd rather stay home.

 

Easter weekend... hmm we probably wont do much. Might end up going to my womans parents place for the day, and other then that take er easy.

Sandi wants to do some reno to the place we have now to get it ready to sell, plus its her b day the next weekend after this one, so we are gonna go do whatever she wants to do then!

 

The Hill Country, bluebonnets and barbecue.

In that order.

 

A little piece of advice for you.....Its not "YOUR" wedding, its "HER" wedding! You may get lucky enough to get a girl that wants a wedding like that, but those girls are few and far between. Especially not a first marriage for her. You just remember that its her wedding and put on a smile and before you know it, you will be off on your honeymoon getting laid 24/7.