Our guests are gone. We have the house back to ourselves. Laundry has been started.

Well it looks like Sid's parents had a big thunderstorm skirt just to the north of them. We have a storm coming to the metro around 7:00 PM. TV weatherman is on again with nothing but live radar coverage and storm chaser reports.

Must not have been too close or mom would have said something to me about it lol!

We had a great day with my family. We celebrated my niece's birthday,her Dad, mine, and Mother's Day with great food and laughs.

We looked through old pictures and although some brought back sad memories, most recalled the good times.

I brought a couple home to post on FB for old friends. They wouldn't mean anything to my Pelican buds.

Meh, Mondays been and done.

6 weeks till retirement training.

Went camping over the weekend and had good weather for the most part....Sat evening it got windy and dropped into the 40s, but still had fun.

I enjoy having the kids (22 & 17 YO) along for family time, but it gets a bit cramped even in a 30' camper. I hate to tell them to stay home, because soon enough, it will only be me and the wife.

boo hooo...the weekend is over. Well...3 weeks to Memorial Day and a 3 day weekend, Yay!

Monday is back.

The storms petered out and we did not even get rain.

It is possible rain today.

I had to set the AC up in the garage yesterday. It was not that hot but it was HUMID and I broke a sweat! It was horrible, but the AC is back in place and ready to go again for when I go play out there next time.

I wasn't going to post but..

Christmas 1974
My first drum set. The other guy is my drum teacher who brought the set to our house. I was one happy 7 year old!






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Friend picked up a nice electric drum set for free this weekend.

Free is always good.

I've been watching sites for used sets so I can practice on them in the house. Te good ones have actual heads that give the same stick feel as real drums. The sounds you can reproduce are really cool.

Back when I was a kid we were drug over to see some friends of my parents. Sitting in a living room with adults talking is pure torture for most kids. The mom of the other family I am sure knew my brother and I were bored to death. She asked one of the rhetorical questions adults say, something on the order of "Would you boys want to go upstairs to see our sons practicing some songs on their instruments" of course almost anything is better than sitting quietly in a room while adults talk. We took off up the stairs and opened the first door on the left. We were almost knocked over by the sound. The room was soundproofed and their boys were playing drums and a guitar and it was a Rolling Stones song. I was astonished how good they were. We never went over there again and I don't even remember what city we were in.

Didn't even know my friend could play drums. All he's ever had or talked about is his bass guitars, he has a couple of really expensive ones. Think they are Alembic. All his basses were stolen a couple years ago, he got them all back when the thiefs tried to sell/pawn them. He is in a local cover band that usually has a gig about every weekend.. Told me he played drums in JR and HS band and was in a couple of bands. Played stand up bass since in grade school. Basically gave the drums up when he switched from stand up to electric bass.

Friend of his that was the drummer in one of the bands he was in's son passed and played drums as well. Friend just wanted to get rid of his son's drums. He got first choice of the 3 sets of electric drums. Said he also had 3 huge trap sets. So assume the electric drums he got are pretty nice.

Every once in a while he tries to talk me into getting out my sax and getting in a band. Got a really nice one. Look em up the other day and the particular sax I have is very sought after, $6000. Just don't think he understands the year of pain it would take to get the lip calluses back. More painful and takes longer to callus than guitar finger blisters.

My wife did not have a good weekend. Seems everything went wrong. One of the oddest was the tensioner pully assembly came apart on her truck. Easy enough fix once we got it home.

Spoon arrived but haven't had a chance to get to a range with it. :(

I see most of you all had a good weekend.

Weekends like that is usually when the Mess with Richard Moron Patrol is out in force.

They block traffic driving way under the speed limit, pull out in front of me, make traffic lights last longer, pull across 3 lanes to turn 3 inches before their turn, space themselves as far apart as they can without actually leaving room for a car to pull out, remove stuff from the shelves at stores that I went to that store for, and even give me the wrong orders at places to eat. It's a conspiracy I tell ya.

And while I'm on a rant, when did they change the Honey Maid graham cracker recipe? They were a softer, I would be afraid to give them to a kid that was teething. And what happened to the break lines on them so you could half or 1/4 them into even pieces. One of the things I like is to make is mix up chocolate icing and put between 2 graham cracker halves. They were best when you make them then let them age for a few days. The moisture in the icing soaked into the graham crackers making the graham crackers softer and chocolate icing hard. Now it is almost impossible to break the graham crackers into 1/2 cracker squares, and you can let them set for a MONTH and they never get any softer or soak the moisture out of the icing. I know it's not the icing, I make that from scratch it's the same. They also don't taste as good or look quite the same color. It's not hardly worth making icing for any more.

I used to break them up into a bowl of milk and eat it like cereal. Now you are saying that may not work?

I don't think I have eaten a graham cracker since I left home in 1978. It was likely before that. Mom used to make my lunch to take to school in grade school. She would make those icing filled graham crackers for desert when I was in 4th or 5th grade. I had a lunch box and everything. I don't remember what was on the lunch box.

I still have my lunch box "EMERGENCY!".

Found it t my Mom's when we were moving her. She made the frosting filled crackers, too. Richard's right, they were better after a few days of sitting.

All of our old "stuff" was thrown out with another move. My dad said every three moves is almost like a fire. I have very little of my childhood "stuff" because of all the moves. Lunch boxes would have never been moved.

My lunch box was Bonanza. Don't still have it.

Mom used to make them. I started making them again when I couldn't find any cookies I liked. Actually most all of the cookies they sell today they use some amount of coconut oil. I don't like coconut flavored chocolate chip cookies, Peppridge Farm Nantucket being the only exception, but they are also rarely in stock, imagine that. Mom liked Chips Ahoy with the white fudge. Now they've ruined my graham crackers too. I had tried other brands of graham crackers and always went back to Honey Maid for the same reasons. Recently Honey Maid went to being like everyone elses.