I saw an older fellow toting a watermelon out of the old store on Main St. in Saluda today….and he had such a peaceful and satisfied look on his face that it was memorable to me.
He was really happy to have this big watermelon in his arms.
That’s something to shoot for…..peace….happiness…..satisfaction.
Maybe I’ll grow into that?
I hope so.
Maybe I’m there already?
I hope so.
I know that I love watermelon, too.
We had a salad tonight with….homegrown tomatoes….and I thought about this song again.
Guy Clark died recently….and it was a big loss to the songwriting world.
Intelligence and a great sense of humor are real assets in songwriting….and he had both….in spades.
He was right, you know…..homegrown tomatoes are one of the all-time great simple pleasures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6IB0trJoJU
Here’s a short film about Willie Nelson’s guitar, Trigger.
I wish we could all be so lucky….to have a tool that has so much magic in it.
This makes my point again, too….that an “ugly” guitar with character and special properties outshines the….er…..shiny new guitar any day.
There’s something good to be said for a thing worn smooth by the hands that use it.
Something….soulful.
Willie Nelson could play any guitar in the world….and he couldn’t replace this one special guitar.
That’s cool.
You go, Willie!
I worry about stuff….until I watch a video where it’s explained that I need two tools and the procedure is pretty straightforward.
Cool.
I could use a little “straightforward” these days.
It looks really easy.
Cool.
I could use a little “easy” these days.
Jenny has dealt with an automatic door actuator that doesn’t unlock the back doors every time.
When it’s raining and you’re trying to corral two little guys, it’s a real bugger when the doors don’t automatically unlock.
It’s hard to reach around with a baby in your arms.
So….I ordered the parts and am going to do this in the coming week.
That’s the way it goes….fixing stuff and keeping it all on the road.
I hope it works…but why wouldn’t it?
It looks so easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIBZlURgS5M
I spent the morning weedeating….and Kenny Rankin is (still) pretty great.
I hadn’t thought of this song for a while, but it popped into my head when I had my earmuffs on for some reason, and I figured that I better pop it up onto the blog before I forgot it again.
I’ve been worried about learning the new route….it’s a “mother”, too….and didn’t sleep much last night because of it….but good music, and doing something really straight forward like chopping down a bunch of overgrown vegetation, helps me get through the worries.
That’s what I need….something that I know how to do that makes an impact on the things that I need to handle.
That’s what gets me through.
This route thing is going to be OK….but, good grief!!
It’s a big route….lots to learn.
Man.
And…..Kenny Rankin!
How about that? It’s a good distraction to listen to the good stuff.
Pretty great stuff.
My father didn’t draw Cecil incessantly when I was a child.
That would be too strange.
But, every once in a while, he’d draw Cecil for me when I was really little.
It’s funny the things that we remember.
Even when I was really little, I remember that he didn’t really draw Cecil very well.
It was mostly just a “Cecil shape”…..but it thrilled me.
Of course, it didn’t thrill me TOO MUCH.
I’d be some kind of simp if it thrilled me too much.
That’s part of being cool, you know…..never letting anyone know that you’re out of your head with excitement.
Who am I kidding? I was crazy happy when my father drew Cecil.
Parents do good things for their children….and a lot of them are so inconsequential that they pass by….seemingly unnoticed.
I am a grown man….but I still remember the thrill of seeing a Cecil shape materialize on a piece of paper because my father was drawing it for me.
That’s pretty darn cool.
Heard this song on the radio….driving the mail around on the new route.
Man.
I love this song.
The new route looks like it’s “learn-able”.
That’s a relief.
I don’t think that I have this much fun.
But….I don’t have an LLV, either.
Maybe this is what the guys in the LLV’s do.
I don’t really know.
Here’s a movie that we want to see.
Jenny and I watched an earlier movie that Viggo Mortensen was in called “A Walk on the Moon”.
I think that Jenny enjoyed that one.
I guess that Viggo is in a waterfall at some point in this movie, too.
That’s not why I want to watch it, though.
I could care less about Viggo under a waterfall….but, this movie looks pretty great.
It came out July 8th….why haven’t I seen it yet?
This is what I did this morning….except my repair wasn’t as easy.
It looks like he just stuck it down into the hole.
Easy.
Lucky.
I cut out subfloor in the bathroom….I chiseled out old flange…..I cleaned the inside of the old cast iron pipe where the new plastic flange would go…..I put a new subfloor in….
Man….I did it all !!!
And now, the potty doesn’t leak and the floor is solid….and….I’m pretty darned proud of myself.
It’s a good thing to not have potty water dripping down into the kitchen anymore.
(A disclaimer: the potty water thing was a very short-lived phenomenon. We’re laid back about some things, but potty water in the kitchen is not one of them.)
This Oatey product (#43539) is a very cool product….and, once you get the old cast iron stuff cleaned up and out-of-the-way, is really pretty easy to use.
Easy, after you rebuild the subfloor and figure out a way to even up the level with the surrounding three layers of linoleum.
I’m thankful for people who invent things to solve my problems.
Thanks, Oatey…..that was pretty cool that you did that for me.