Friday, December 6, 2013

The Three Idiots

Apache Junction, AZ  High 53  Low 30

Just for the record, I looked at my blog for this week last year and it was in the 70’s.

I also wanted to add a note about the fish tacos – these tacos are made with a white fish and a variety of 17 different ingredients including tomato, cheese, France’s coleslaw and mango salsa. I left off the coleslaw and cheese but let me tell you that mango salsa was fabulous.

I just want you all to know how much my hubby loves me. My sister is a garage sale addict. She found a garage sale that she really wanted to go to this morning and Jim agreed that he would take her and of course I went along. We got up at 5:00 a.m. (that’s five in the morning before the sun comes up) so we could heat up the house and Jim could get the girls out before we left. The garage sale started at 6:30 and we had to be there before the crowds. It was only 31 really cold degrees.

We picked Judy up and found the garage sale at just about 6:30. This garage sale was a fundraiser for the East Valley Democratic Party. So we were expecting it to be a large affair probably in some building. Boy were we wrong. Did I mention that we drove 30 miles to get to this place?

It was at somebody’s house with no lights out on the driveway. At 6:30 in the morning it is still really dark out. They clearly did not expect anyone to show up on time because they did not have anything put out. Everything was still in boxes and bags. And there didn’t appear to be much of anything. However, my sister did find something to buy (she always does) – a small white board to hang in her kitchen for $1.

We had a great laugh and called ourselves the three idiots. We did end up having a good breakfast at U.S. Egg.

P1070472We took Judy grocery shopping and then headed home to the let the girls out. Jim had a couple of projects to work on today and we had to make a run to Lowes for supplies.

First he repaired our old surge guard. The wiring got destroyed at an RV park in Wyoming. I don’t know what Jim did but I know he was able to replace some of the wiring and we now have two surge guards.

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After finishing that chore, he started to work on a generator muffler box. I have no idea what it is really called but he researched on line how to build a box to put around the generator to make it quieter.

generator

Had to order a small box fan for it which won’t arrive til Tuesday so he’ll have to finish it later.

Tonight we are tired. Watching Jim do his projects wore me out.

One more picture. When we got to Coconuts Jim backed into a parking spot which is what he usually does. I used to get out and guide him back because he has the ball hitch on the truck but with his new back up camera (yes, he also installed one on our truck) he thinks he doesn’t need me anymore. I guess this proves that he doesn’t. This is exactly how the truck ended up in the parking spot.

Jim

26 comments:

  1. Were the garage sale people even up yet? I've had 3 husbands and not one of them would take me anywhere at 6 in the morning!

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  2. How'd that building jump in the way??? I got quite a chuckle out of that one... :cD

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  3. impressive parking job! garage sale?..not so much! glad you all had a great day!

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  4. HAHaaaaa Gypsy... and that's the I park period... poor ol Homer and he doesn't even have a ball hitch...

    What a peach! you have, Sandie... told you this before and I'm telling you again... Jim's a peach.

    I'm iced in and I'm going to google how that metaphor came about... 23º .... feel sorry for me?

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  5. That is too early for a $1.00 purchase.

    Nice parking job, was there some luck involved? We have a back-up camera on our SUV and found out it has a blind spot...oops, minor dent.

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  6. GOODNESS!!! That is a good backer upper, I have GOT to say, it could not have been even a smidge closer!!

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  7. Gotta love those back up cameras, good job!

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  8. Of course Jim loves you. What isn't there to love?

    Egads. I never heard of a garage sale starting at 6:30. Seems rather early for anyone!

    Oh dear Jim...that is a bit too close for my liking. But great parking job!

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  9. HAHAHA I can't believe you got up and out the door so early!! How funny to only find one little item with all that work. However, you did get lots of laughs with it and that's what it's really all about.

    Love the backup camera!

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  10. I like the idea of the generator box. Let me know how it works. Is this something Bill could make?

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  11. I like the idea of the generator box. Let me know how it works. Is this something Bill could make?

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  12. Whoa--that's an impressive parking job! Jim and Mike are two peas in a pod--always fixing something!

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  13. Great job of backing up and parking.

    I know all about early garage sales as Paulette always likes to be the first one there - it's a disease I tell ya.

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  14. I've been known to go to places like airports at crazy times in the morning, but usually not by choice. A garage sale?

    Let just move on to the parking job. Awesome, to say the least.

    *pfft* *garage sale* good lord.

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  15. Jim is terrific, as you well know. I can't believe that he could do such a great backing job with that camera. Is that what he intended?

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  16. Let's hope that $1 board brings your sister a lot of happiness!!! Is there a 12 step program for that? Just kidding, and Jim is a good sport to go along with that. He's a pretty good backer-upper too!! Doesn't look like you could get a piece of paper between the ball and the building.

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  17. Now that is what I call parking!! Cute picture! He will still need you because guys just simply couldn't function without us!

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  18. AIN'T NO WAY !!! I love her, but I only feed hosses at 6am...
    Jim, you NEED a LOCKING PIN in that ball-mount and wrap it in 4' foam... SAVES SHIN-BONES !!! Good job of 'missing' the corner of the building.. With a 'back-up' camera you don't need no stinkin' backer-upper !!! YEAH RIGHT !!!!

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  19. Add me to the folks that would not be heading to a sale at that time of day, never mind in freezing weather. Of course, I dislike garage sales in general-what can I say:)

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  20. This was a great post..... Not many of us want to head to a garage sale at 6 AM ...... Much less one that is not set up !!!!
    And that back up job takes the prize ....... GREAT JOB !!!!!!

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  21. Pretty tough to get up at that hour for any garage sale, and then drive 30 miles. But it seems the local section of the Democratic Party might not have enjoyed a big sale that day.

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  22. I don't know about "idiots" but definitely INSANE to get up at that hour for anything !!

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  23. Yikes! that was a close parking job. I like the warmer weather. Looking forward to it when we get to Arizona?

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  24. I wouldn't get up 5am to go to a garage sale at any time. Especially when it's below freezing.

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  25. I think I would have been pretty ticked off after driving to the garage sale that early - and finding them not even set up! That's just not right!

    Love the picture of the truck ball hitch so close to the building. Wow, is he good, or what! :)

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