Words silent no more

I have found some time for just you and I. Aren't you glad?

I guess I'll start off with our camping adventure. Even though it was a week or so ago, it is still fresh in my mind. As I think about the whole thing some more, it's been a long while since I have felt like I did while we camped. It was a very welcomed thing. Anyway we camped out over memorial day weekend. My clan (Me, "sissypants", S, D, Connor, Gabrielle) and my friend Jamie's clan (him, Rachel, Ezra, Paige, Abby, and the dog Bugsie). Rachel's brother Jake showed up with Harry. More on Harry later...

We got to camp Friday night and got set up. The weather was not the nicest and I admit, made me think the whole weekend would be rained out. The next morning was overcast, leading to more doubt. As it was, the weather turned for the better just about the time Jamie showed up. A little later in the day Jake and Harry showed up. The gangs all here!

We played a little baseball (me being the only one to hit a homer run, oh I mean 3 home runs :-) ), went for a walk, roasted marshmallow, played volley ball, gathered firewood from the woods, fished (I did not fish), talked, had a couple beers and found some time to burn one or two...

No fussy kids. No fights. No natural disasters. It was just about as perfect as it could be. There was even an unannounced lawn tractor race going on. Best I could tell there were 3 classes. Your basic grass cutter without a deck, slightly moded tractors, and then extreme moded. There was this one tractor that had some sort turbo charger on it with a big ass intake on the hood. When the guy started it, it sounded like a fucking crotch rocket. Lets just say, this tractor took names at the starting line.

Are you ready to talk about Harry?





That's Harry everyone. I don't know his last name. I don't know where he lives. I have seen this man a couple times in my life. Every time I have seen this man he has been either too drunk to stand, or he is in fact down on the ground. You see Harry can sit for a very long time. How long? He stayed in the car, sitting, the whole first day he was there. He refused food. He would however take a beer. Or, perhaps he'd have a cup full of black velvet and pepsi. That is a favorite of Jake's. You see, Harry is a friend of Jake and Rachel's family from way back. Jake's dad was originally Harry's friend, but as Jake put it "My old man gave up on him and I took over".

After the first night I was the fourth one up. Harry was first, Jamie was second (went fishing), Paige, then me. As Jake and I neared Harry, he said "I see the fairy's aren't awake yet." This made us laugh. In fact we'd say it the rest of camping and it made us laugh every time. So then I wondered just exactly what did Harry see. We all shared our opinions on it. Most of the opinions were followed with a chuckle. Harry did go on to say the boys were out and about late one night. Harry, PI for hire.

The second day/night saw Harry move from the car to the picnic table. And that's where he stayed. All day long. All night until it was time for him to crawl back in the car out of the rain.

I had asked a couple general questions about Harry to those who knew him better than I. I was always told in a nut shell not to go down that road. That is where I left it lay.

I just got off the phone with Jamie. He's got the fever, the Ozzfest fever. The tickets are still free boys and girls. I get early dibs because I pre ordered Ozzy's new album. I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Ozzy or has been in the past. The man really can do no wrong in my book.

Oh shit! I got a new tattoo. 4 days have passed since I got it, that explains any flaking you may see.



The new job still continues to go well. Just had my 30 day review. All was good.

I would like to find some time like this to sit down and try to write a poem or two. I really like the the title of this blog post. I may try to do something with it. I think I have written that at least once before in this blog.

Later.

I love you Julie!