It's another Tequila, Monday*

Ok, Campers, we are officially back on our normally scheduled postings.  Beans, that means I only have to write one post a week, not one daily for 11 days or so.

Folks, I don't know how Sarge does it (and gets it done as superbly as he does).  Heck, almost all the posts I did in the past couple of weeks were reruns.  Still a bit of work, updating them a bit, choosing better verbage, fixing misspelled words. That sort of thing.  And even with all that already done, getting it published was still a bit harder than I thought it would be.

Beans, that means the next time Sarge goes AWOL, you've got the keys to the blog until he shows back up.  Your gonna  love it.  I absolutely guarantee. Bwaa-Ha-Ha!

Anyhow.... An update on the Mrs J and my "Move to College Station Front".  Some progress has been made.  Almost a month ago, we had a realtor from Colorado contact our Realtor and ask him if he could visit and video our house.  Our Realtor contacted Mrs. J and I.  We went into the clean and store extraneous stuff out of sight mode.  That was the easy part of this episode.

Their realtor came by and did his Cecil B. DeMille work and emailed it to them.  Didn't hear back from them for about 3 weeks.  Oh Well!

But then, their realtor contacted ours and said they wanted to fly down and do a walk through the following week.  We were able to work out a date which worked for AlCon.  That morning, as the time of the walkthrough approached and the house had been set again (we're getting pretty good at that!), we loaded up the 4 dogs on leashes and the cat in a carrier and put the gaggle in the two cars.  Drove into Town and went to the Sonic Drive-In for a Route 44 Diet Limeaid with Burgers and Fries. Taking lunch slow and easy for an hour and a half until we got the all clear.

Well, they asked our Realtor if we would accept a Contingency clause of 60 days so they could sell their house in Colorado.  Since that's what we will have to do soon with the house we like in College Station, we understood that the Real Estate market isn't exactly booming, so we said OK.  Haven't gotten that paper work yet (or the offer), but progress!  

So, fingers crossed and prayers going heavenward relatively frequently. We shall see what will be!

One of the irritating things about getting the house ready as well as living in the country is animals.  Now, I'm not talking about our pets, or our horses. (Oh, did I mention the folks from Colorado have horses and want to bring them with them?  Merlot and Cabernet (our horses) will have some new friends (if this goes through, Please Lord!)

Back on Subject, juvat!  On subject, Aye, Sarge.

No, animals as in undomesticated animals.  It seems we have a Roll of Armadillo on our property. A "Roll" is what a herd of Armadillos is called, didn't know that until now. Now you do also!  

ANYHOW!  They don't really do any damage to the property and they do keep the ant population under control.

BUT, I'm sure you remember our two adopted Great Pyrenees (GPs) , Atticus and Gryndhll. 

Atticus

Gryndyll . Both have been on guard duty all night outside, Chasing who knows what!

Well...They seem to like "playing" with the Armadillos. No, Beans, the Armadillos don't reciprocate in the liking of the game.  

In any case the Armadillos seem to have taken residence under the shed where we store our lawn mowers and other gardening equipment.  It's far enough off the ground that they can get under it, but not the dogs.  But like all of the Lord's creatures they must eat.  Since the GP's are guard dogs by genetics and bark at any strange noise and I like my sleep, they have been sentenced to spend the night outside.  Which is when the armadillos come out to eat.  That's when the fun and games begin.

Well,  I've gotten used to waking up in the morning, getting dressed, getting a shovel out of the garage and scouting the yard for dead armadillos.  Yes, Beans, the dogs' Kill Ratio is rather high.  I'm thinking about painting Armadillo silhouettes on the sides of their Dog House, but I'm pretty sure (OK positive) Mrs J will not approve.  Party Pooper!

(Update as of this morning) Canine armadillo Kill Ratio went up by one.

Just in case anyone thinks I'm spoofin them.
 

So, Mrs J has decreed that my anti-armadillo project for today, as you are reading this, is to put some wire mesh for horses around the bottom of the shed to see if that keeps them away.  So it is written, so it shall be! 

Finally, this week has an important date in it.  It's one of the two most important dates for me to remember in any given year under a penalty worse than death.  Any married guy reading this already knows what dates they are.  Yep, Beans,  the date of your Anniversary and her Birthday.  This one happens to be our Anniversary.

So, I've spent the last few days in my workshop working on a Top Secret project for our kitchen.  Saw it on a YouTube video.  It's a 6 part video on easy gifts to make (They had me sold at "Easy").  This one was #5.

Yeah, I threw in a new Cookbook also

It's a combination Cookbook holder and can be used as a cutting board if needed.  The Board itself is popler and walnut. The Stand is Maple.  3 coats of Lacquer for the finish.  Mrs. J thinks it looks fabulous.

That opinion is the only thing that matters!

 Well, that summarizes a fairly busy week.  I'm looking forward to Sarge getting his Muse spun back up to speed and some of his excellent posts coming into view.

Peace out, y'all! 

*With apologies to the Eagles