My weekend? I'm tired!

These 3 day weekends can be tough! Some of the weekend I've already reported on- that was the trip to the Crossroads of the West gunshow with buddy Loc. I was also able to catch up with Bob from Near the Salty City at the show and we had a dandy chat while browsing the tables. I have to admit that I was pretty disappointed with this weekend's show. The number of gun tables was way down and the number of tables of jewelry, dolls and plastic, toy guns was way up. Overall, the gunshow trip was just a 7 out of 10 and partly because the BSU had come along for the trip and a visit to the Home Decorating show next door. My normal habit is a stop at Hooters for some wings and beer after going to the gun show but the spouse refuses to cross the threshold there and so we all had burgers at Crown Burger instead. Crown Burger does make dandy burgers but I can have those any day, Hooters is a just a couple times per year treat that I missed this year.

The spouse thinks that Hooters exploits women because of their costumes. I figure its the men that are being exploited since we are doing the buying, (and spending) partly because of the attractive waitresses and the uniforms. But I'm a guy, what do I know?

Friday, after plunking down more money for Suzuki parts, (see prior post) I got busy with the springtime yard cleanup. I fixed my little yard cart and built a new tailgate for it since the original seems to have vanished. I cleared out a downed aspen tree and got to use my chain saw to cut it into manageable pieces. There were more branches and limbs that need picked up along with the general effluvia of trimmed rose bushes and even last year's christmas tree that all had to be trailered out front and loaded into neighbor Leonard's trailer.

I thought I was going to be so smart with a mixed load of landfill and green dump stuff with the branches and stuff on top since the green dump is closer to home. Except the green dump isn't open on Fridays! Hooverdamm! I ended up leaving the trailer loaded and then Leonard showed up on Sunday and wanted to use his trailer... Leonard's going to go to the dump to empty it out so he can use his trailer for what he wants to haul... Thanks Leonard!

Yesterday was more yard work. There was a volunteer tree that had grown up in one of our raised flowerbeds that had gotten a dozen feet tall or more that needed removing. That task took a couple hours of digging and I never did get to the end of the feeder root. A couple feet down I finally cut it off and filled the hole back in. The rest of the back patio got a good sweeping and pick up and some of the plant life was cut back. This year I think I'm going to revive this area of our yard and so there's lots of work remaining to be done.

In between all of this I scanned a bunch more pictures and loaded them to my Photobucket album. Terry- there's some indoor midget racing pictures uploaded, if you still have a link to my page. There is a much bigger box of photos not yet scanned and I'm going to keep working on them as time and motivation allow. I need to put a link to my pictures over there in my template- but from home, since I can't access Photobucket through my work.

I also spent a few hours playing and practicing with my guitar throughout the weekend. I'm still no musician but the sounds coming off my guitar are more recognizable than they have been in the past and its still really fun.

In between all that there was laundry to do and dishes to wash, groceries and camp chairs to buy, carpet to vacuum and trash bins to be emptied. No wonder I'm tired this morning!