This was a busy weekend for us with some hauling,  assembling and a birthday dinner thrown in the mix, but good news, we not only survived but had a blast!

Taylor’s birthday isn’t until the 9th but she has some wild and crazy plans with her friends next weekend so we thought if we were going to insert ourselves into her birthday month we better act and seize this weekend while we had the chance.  I mean really, what could be more wild and crazy than spending the weekend with the parents.  Don’t answer that.  She arrived Friday evening and we rocked out with a Mexican homemade dinner and some Blue Bloods on TV, wow!!  We were on the road to some weekend freakish fun times!!

Saturday morning greeted us with dense fog and a general all around gloomy  feel but we weren’t in the mood to be deterred because we had some big plans! Yes sir!  My dad moved into a retirement community last week and he had a few straggle items we needed to pick up from the house, namely, the antique grandfather clock he gave us, so off we went, to Grandpa’s house we go!  With no wienie dog in tow!  I had to explain to Jake that we wasn’t going to let him or his paws get in on any of the delicate moving of a grandfather clock.  He didn’t care about the whys he just wanted to go wherever we were going, so I bribed him with a treat and we left.

Back at home, after the clock was unloaded and set back up per Dad’s instructions (by Randy and Taylor, me and Jake just looked on and threw in a supervised word here and there),  we set the pendulum to swinging but it wouldn’t stay swinging, after a few minutes it would stop.  Apparently,  grandfather clocks are a sensitive business!!  To date I am still fine tuning the thing.  I have learned about the causes of one becoming out of beat and what to do about it, the chiming at odd times and wrong number of chimes, a fix I haven’t tried yet; all thanks to clockdepot.com.  It’s a work in progress but I don’t give up easily.  Jake hasn’t thrown his 2 cents worth in yet and doesn’t appear too impressed with the new piece of furniture but I think it’s beautiful!

 

With the day rapidly passing by I had to save the clocking for another day and get to Walmart to wrap up my grocery shopping list for the dinner on Sunday, this included a new gas grill for the steak grilling!  Below is a sequence of photos telling the assembly story of the new grill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Sunday my dad and the rest of the kiddos showed up for the best game in town, heck yea!  Party at our house!!  Woo hoo!!  Let the steak grillin begin!!  We are so much fun sometimes we can hardly stand ourselves.