Tag: moving

One Of My Favorite Pictures of Joey

This Sunday, Joey performed his first baptism.  It went off quite well, too.  (He’d practiced on The Kid when we were all in in the hot tub the night before, which I think helped a lot.)

Unfortunately, we forgot Joey’s nice, conservative brown swim trunks at my grandparent’s house after we went swimming.  So Sunday morning, Joey realized he was going to have to wear his wild Hawaiian flower ones with the cargo pockets that always fill up with tons of water and then go ooshing everywhere when he gets out of the pool.

Because everyone was in town helping us get settled in and helping the grandparents pack up for their move (which will take place later this week), pretty much my entire family excepting The Kid was at our church on Sunday morning.

Gramps managed to snap this quality picture on his iPhone of Joey and The Brother.

Many things should be noted about this picture:

  1. Joey’s outfit is amazing.  Red shirt, white striped button down, khaki blazer, wild swim trunks…and Simple slip ons.  A true class act.
  2. Joey looks extremely nervous and stressed.
  3. The Brother is drinking a LOT of coffee.
  4. He also looks kind of stressed too (probably from drinking all the coffee?), but likely not for the same reasons that Joey would be nervous and/or stressed.
  5. The sign directly above their heads reads MEN, which is appropriate considering only men are in this picture.

And now I should do what I came to get on the interwebs to do, and that is figure out what kind of interwebs service we will have at our house.  It’s super hard to do research on a service provider when, like, you don’t have internet at your house yet.

A Backhoe

This afternoon as I was sitting in a comfortable chair at Casa de Grandparents, Gramps walked by and said, “It was a backhoe.”

I was all, Um, WHAT was a backhoe…?

And Gramps just crossed his eyes at me and he was like, THE THING FROM YOUR EARLIER POST THAT YOU DESCRIBED AS A BIG YELLOW SMASHING MACHINE.

Oh, that.

Guys know the names of all kinds of heavy machinery implement type things.

I just googled “backhoe” because I wanted to see what it looked like again.  Someone had earlier suggested that the device I was unable to name was a “front end loader”, so I googled that too.  Internet.  They look exactly the same.  Please advise how these are different.

This is a backhoe.

This is a front end loader.

See what I mean?  Basically the same machine.  OH WAIT.  Maybe it’s because the backhoe has an extra claw on the back of it?

Well, I’ve had about as much fun as I can handle.  I’m going to go back to my earlier campaign to see if I could get my grandfather to give us his hot tub.

So far it’s not going well for me.  Or Joey, he’s trying too.