OzarkAggie,
(As usual I talked too much so this post will be in two parts.)
I've been so busy haven't even had time to get my much needed DR addiction "fix" lately.
But ya know, it was the strangest thing! Seemed every time I walked passed my computer here in the kitchen today I'd get the smell of delicious chili cooking throughout the room and couldn't figure out why. I had no chili of my own cookin' on the stove, so I did some further checking and found the delicious smell was coming right through my computer straight from your Lupus Chili Fest thread. lol
Seriously, wish I could have made it there this year -- but next year Missouri "Lupus Chili Fest 2010" here I come!
And a Happy Belated Birthday, OzarkAggie!. I know, Leo the Lion, your birthday was also in September. Did you party and have fun?
Say, are you all done helping your buddy on the farm with all his work -- the one who had injured his hand? Hope all is going well for you and him too. You hardly show up here anymore. Lately I haven't been able to stop by nearly as much either -- not as much as I normally did. You were 100% right in your comment above about me needing to fix up the old homestead.
Been running around here like a nut "decluttering" 50 years of "stuff" out of the house and garage and cleaned out my two storage units in another town, blah blah blah getting ready to move. Been workin' non-stop and workin' hard getting ready to throw this place on the market.
My sister and brother-in-law will finally be coming down here next week and plan to stay here for about 3 weeks to move out the pieces of furniture she would like to have and also to help me with some repairs around here I couldn't do on my own. I needed some brawn and my b-i-l is 6' 2" and knows how to do a lot of repairs and fixing of things around a house I either didn't know to do, or physically couldn't do, my own so am really looking forward to having some much needed help. Once that's done the house is in the realtor's hands FINALLY! And you all thought I was just bluffing about moving out of California. Hah! Y'all were wrong.
You mentioned above Goatman had wanted to go to the Lupus Chili Fest too this year. He probably did but you know Goat. He thinks no one in the world makes chili as good as his and no chili could ever taste as good as chili when it's eaten in Texas. That's Texans for ya. LOL
As for me, though, I'm more than ready to plan on going to the Lupus Chili Fest in 2010. My life will (hopefully) be settled down by then and I'll be back on at least a half way normal track (for me, anyway) by then and things won't be so hectic.
And when I get to Lupus next year I want that boat Captain buddy of yours to give me a boat ride on the ol' Missouri River as you promised. Say, did you ever get your coonskin cap finished yet? lol Take a picture of you in it rowing along the Missouri River and upload it on here.
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