Father's Day is in the books.....

As father's day winds down tonight, I was trying to remember what this week has been all about....  Let's see, I was eating that tenderloin in the rain on Tuesday, and came back home in Al's car...

Then on Wednesday he called me early in the Morning wanting to go riding again....   To a town called Circleville 40 miles north of Topeka....  That meant it was 105 miles out there...........    .............   ...........  I passed..  Al wasn't too happy about it...

So he rounded up some of the other guys and went without me..  They had some nice pictures, but the town was really a wide spot in the road...  But its about the ride and not the destination....  But I had ridden 4 times in the last week, and just needed a break...

And our yard was up around our knees...  And son Ben had just returned home from his three week holiday, so I did his that day as well...   I used the John Deere riding tractor, so don't worry about feeling sorry for me...  But when you ride on it for several hours, even it becomes work....  That was the only sunny day too...

So on Thursday it rained and kept me inside where I worked on bills and paper work for most of the morning...  And then the afternoon had me out in the garage cleaning out Loyce's CRV Honda....

I have argued with myself about selling it... Didn't want to go thru the grief of having to list it and sell it to some person..   Didn't want to deal with the financing and worry of receiving good funds...

So on Friday, I took the car back to the Honda dealer after it was spiffed up all around...  It took about a half an hour while the sales manager took the car up to the general manager and they shot me a low ball price...  Then it took another half hour while I argued them up another thousand.....  But in the end the deal was for a strong wholesale price, and I tossed him the keys...

They had one of the salesmen drive me home in a newer car and just like that it was over....  But you sit here and wonder if you did the right thing.....  But hey, she's gone so I have to move on....  Besides if she could come back, I would buy her the best car possible...

I went to one of the grand daughter's soft ball  games on Friday night just to keep myself occupied and not over stress about it..

Then today we had a big father's day brunch after church at Ben's home...  I was proud of his (my) mowing job on his yard, but it is long again as it has rained three times since Wednesday...  He teased me that I shouldn't worry about it since he had this service with a white Jeep and a John Deere in a trailer....  And that they would be by this week....  Uh, that would be me......  Ya right!  Good try..

We had had Ham Balls and Twice baked potatoes for the brunch, and Melissa brought a barbecued shrimp dish on cheesy grits mixed with polenta.. This was quite good as well and I took seconds of all of it......   I haven't eaten much for the rest of the day.....

We sat out in Ben's back yard under the trees on his patio... He has these massive knock out roses that surround the seating area.... They are over six feet high with flowers all over them....  Somehow the afternoon just drifted away with story after story....

The grand girls were inside playing house...  My 13 year old grandson is starting to hang out with the older folks as he is transitioning to a young man.....  Time marches on.....

So happy father's day to all of my readers.... !!

Retired Rod