Memorail Day 2011

 After being off for a bit tomorrow I will be headed back to work. I am pretty excited. The wives hate it when i get this way cause I turn into a bundle of energy. They get upset. They wanted to go swimming and I was like it's a nice day lets hang out in the back yard... I had two reasons one  the family needs to get outside and the other is that I needed to mow the grass and get yard work down. ice day to relax in the backyard and get stuff down after it's been rainy. Our Garden is starting to come in and so  not only is that wonderful its time to start weeding.

The Vans.

The Venture is getting a new engine. Stage one take the  parts off the engine.

I will post more pictures as the work progresses. Last December I blew the engine. Instead of parking it I drove on an overheated Engine. Should have parked it and called for my mechanic to come get it but we live and learn and this is a costly lesson.

 But it did lead to a silver lining.  I bought the Ford Aero star thinking that it was  on it's last leg and just need a temporarily Van to haul the family. When my mechanic heard that I intended to junk it he looked at it and deduced that the problems were a relatively simple as it needed a tuneup bad. I call my Buddie the Car whisper. The white Ford Aero Star has almost no rust and the body is in good shape not to mention it's all wheel drive makes it ver desirable in the Wisconsin Winters. Above it the Areo Star  as it was being tuned up. it has a 4.0 and is AC so to do the tuneup we have to remove a lot of parts just to get to the components. It was misfiring on two cylinders and totally  missing on another one. The dealer sold my it for $700 just to get rid of it. They thought it was junk.

We call the Aero Star  our family A.P.C. Armored Personal Carrier. Haven't figered out a nickname for the Venture yet.The Aero Star is a tank. Drives nice now but before it drove like one and it's become our family work horse. I even used it to push a neighborer car uphill.

THE THREE HONEY DO LIST!

 Well again on unemployment,.... Lots of guys think that a polygamist man with three wives  would spend the whole time in bed..... So not the case. Eventually the newlywed stage wears off and then you realize that you have a Marriage times the amount of wive you have. In my case everything is three times more then most conventional marriages. When I am home the wives pull out the Honey do list..
 The biggest author of the list is Julie. For her I  am getting the Garden ready to plant. She has some great idea's on Gardening and saving the family  money on the food bill. Not to mention it's healthier. Well our plot is rather small so  did the soil turning by hand. this time of year and due to the fact that most of the Garden last year was  our compost pile. What we planted the rabbits helped themselves. I  got one pumpkin and one raspberry.  last year we moved in Jun 1st. By the time we got to the Garden the growing season was almost done. This Year going to  make my own Topsy Turvy tomato plants. Going to be interesting.
 Well cleaning the back yard  was ans is also on my list. I have to build a fence and the wives want the turtle in the back yard in his own encloser.
 Thats just to start on the list.... I have been doing home repairs and so one as well.
 now the dryer isn't working properly so have to fix that. Also have to fix he toilet. it works at least but  it's works  it just leaking a bit.. The list goes on and on,...  But then again I don't know of a married man that doesn't have an unending honey do list.