more crap

Just got home from picking up more craigslist treasure. Last night drove to Hudson and got the new cap for the truck. The seller had the same exact truck, same color and everything. With a camping trip only two weeks away, it couldn't have been better timing and awesome price too. Tonight went over to somersworth and got a 15 gallon holding tank for all the toilet waste water. Now I just need to figure out what to do with 15 gallons of crap after it's filled.....hmmmm, craigslist maybe?... Tomorrow I swing by another craigslist calling to pickup an RV toilet. Only three years old and $25. The price is great and the fact that's it's a used toilet is a free bonus. So we are all ready to go with used holding tank and toilet. I'm so excited I think I might need to go wipe myself. I guess the porta potti we drove two hours round trip for will just have to go into the boat. A boat with no cabin and a porta potti is like a dare waiting for something to happen...... Who's got guts enough to actually use it right out in the middle of the lake?

Big Weekend Over here

Huge weekend has come and gone. So much and so little time. So here's the glowing high lows of the three day extravaganza. Sis and bro inlaw visited on Friday. Had a small pool party to christen the new blow up. We set it up on the deck right outside the slider with a small fence around it to keep everyone healthy and undrowned. Seems to work and the deck has not yet collapsed. Enjoyed some great Chinese and bakery deserts. The wife's birthday was recognized as well as my daughter's upcoming ballet recital. After a good nights sleep and saying good bye to sis and bro inlaw we drove about two hours round trip to collect our porta potty. Quite a price to pay to shit in something that is nothing more than a fancy bucket but hey, it beats the public rest rooms at the campground......(see white lake low lights from last year). After getting back with our new shitter we decided to organize a play date for the little girl of the house. It's not like we didn't have shit loads to do in order to get ready for my parents Sunday visit but hey, what the hell. So our little one had her little cousin over to continue the pool party and show off her new swing set Santa brought. All went well with that and good thing we weren't being judged on our cleaning or multi-tasking abilities because the only thing that got accomplished was milk and cookies....pool side. Just in that moment someone called in response to my recent Craig's list ad....."wanted, old crappy sail boat parts for my newly purchased old crappy international 420"...just so happens not only does he have some old crappy stuff for me but he also has the old really crappy boat hull to go with it. Now, I know the Mrs. does not want one more single piece of shit in the yard but after I tell the guy I only want the rigging and such, he says ya gotta take the boat too.....I need rid of it.....it's all one deal. Well the mast was pretty nice as were the sails. I thought I had him when I explained I didn't have a register trailer to tow it with. "oh where do you live?", he says. I explained, about an hour away. No problem he says I'll tow it there for you. So he does. Odd guy really but incredibly nice. He had about ten boats in his yard. Everything was a project going on all at once. Real A.D.D. type. So he throws the dogs in his car and we take off to my house with boat in tow. After finalizing the deal at my house we realize his dogs have run off. An hour later, he has his dogs and he's gone. After some good sleep that night we awoke to grandma and grandpa's arrival. My parents brought gifts, took the wife grocery shopping, and we all had lunch before running out the my little one's dance recital. It was two hours long and fairly highly produced. I was very proud of her. She tried her little heart out and did great. To be honest, I never thought she would make it out on stage but she did!! Hooray for you A-girl...!! It was then off for dinner and home. God am I tired. Why does today have to be Sunday??

Lots of unfinished business... good toilet is needed

Ok, so from the previous post, you may be aware that a mommy mouse and all of her wretched offspring did a job on the canvass in our pop up camper. Mouse shit and urine stains all over. I have the mind to fertilize with deacon poison....any dead squirrels would simply be collateral damage. This is war after all. In any case we've decided to patch the holes since $900 is what a new canvass costs or just $300 to replace the worst of the damage and given that we only paid about $1200 for it last year....well you get the drift. So the next big camper news is that we've decided we hate campground bathrooms but don't have the time to wait for me to install a lavatory in the camper. (I do have about a million unfinished ongoing projects which to date include a loft bed, a kitchen, a forty year old sail boat...etc...etc...). Given all that, we've decided to put in a porta potty. Even if we don't use it, it will be handy for the kids. Now,,,Where does one go when they would like to purchase said porta potty??? Where else, Craigs List! Same place we got the camper and the sail boat and our crib etc...etc...etc...Today I got five coffee mugs, three picnic chairs, one baby doll infant carrier, and one car seat at the swap shop. We're like the kings of reuse it. Wish us luck with our new poop receptacle!

camper mice

We opened up the pop up camper to immediately find damage done by mice. There were to little peanut sized dead babies. I guess that's my only vengeful solace, unfortunately the mommy mouse escaped unharmed by my wrath.

ok so I didn't have the guts to present a sarcastic remark to the therapist but that doesn't make me a wimp......does it?