Wo, umm just wow

[SeaCat]

Checking in for a bit as the Ribs smoke and nothing much is going on right now.

Did our ride this morning at oh dark hundred. It was still warm out at 0600 but not too bad. The roads were empty! (Made for a truly enjoyable ride.)

Made it home and after getting changed I hauled out the chop saw and started cutting the wood for the planter. My wife was smart, she stayed inside while I sweat outside. I finally quit for a while when I realized the sweat was dripping off my Do-Rag and onto my sunglasses making it hard for me to see the lines I had drawn on the timbers.

When I went inside the wife informed me we had to run down the street to the local grocery store, she needed a couple of things. (Including Wine for her.) Okay not a problem. I peel off my shirt, dry off and pull on another T-Shirt. Off we go.

I'm surprised at just how many people are in the store as well as by the demographic they represent. Very few of them seemed to be over the age of 50. One of them, a cute little Red Head in Bike Shorts and Spandex Top caught my wifes eye and was pointed out to me. (My wife knows I look just as I know she looks. We often point out those the other might find pleasing to the eye.) I looked and we kept on going.

When we left the store here's this same lady standing next to her bike and looking at it in consternation. I glance at where she's looking and see the problem. The chain has come off. Not a problem. I walk over and tell her I'll give her a hand as I glance at her again. Well she certainly isn't as young as her body suggested, from the looks of her up close she's right around my wife and my age. I flip the bike over and quickly have the chain back where it's supposed to be. Standing it back upright I tell her to have a nice day and off we go again. My wife doesn't even tell me that had been a nice thing to do, she knows me and how I would answer that. (It was the only thing to do.)

After we arrived home we worked arund the place for a bit before deciding it was time to wander over and check out the pool. (Not to mention cool off.) You can imagine my surprise when we walk into the pool enclosure and find only one other person there. They are laying on a chaise lounge on the other side of the pool so I ignore her and after dropping my towel on a chair hit the water. Oh man did that feel good and I was wondering why the pool wasn't crowded. (Not that I was complaining mind you.) I did a couple of laps while my wife watched and laughed. (I do laps a bit different from most people. I do them underwater. Hey I'm a SCUBA Diver what can I say?) When I reached the deep end of the pool again my wife said something that I didn't catch so I stopped. She told me to turn around and check out the other person. I did and was surprised to see it was the lady from the grocery store. She was now sitting up looking at us and smiling. When she stands up and starts walking towards us I could only look. If she had looked good in her riding outfit she looked even better in her bikini.

She walked over and slid into the water next to us and we started talking. She thanked me for helping her out with her bike and I just nodded. Then she explained why we had never seen her before, she had just moved in a couple of days ago. Well we talked for a while before she had to leave for a night out with some friends of hers.

We hung around the pool for a while after that then went home ourselves. As we were walking home my wife told me she had been looking through the Harbor Freight Catalog and had found something she wanted to get me. An eight drawer tool box made out of wood. I'll have to think about that one.

So how's your day going?

Cat

 

[Handley_Page]

As we were walking home my wife told me she had been looking through the Harbor Freight Catalog and had found something she wanted to get me. An eight drawer tool box made out of wood. I'll have to think about that one.

Cat

Has anyone ever noticed that when a wife wants to "get you something", you can almost see the ensuing holes in your bank balance ?
just a thought.

 

[SeaCat]

Has anyone ever noticed that when a wife wants to "get you something", you can almost see the ensuing holes in your bank balance ?
just a thought.

About as many holes as when I want to get my wife something.

Usually those things I get for my wife cost a lot more than the things bought for me. That's just the way it is for us.

Then again for anything over a couple of dollars we talk it through. Do we really need or want it? Can we get it cheaper? Can it wait? This is one of the reasons we no longer owe money and have our own place.

Cat

 

[Katyusha]

One of them, a cute little Red Head in Bike Shorts and Spandex Top caught my wifes eye and was pointed out to me. (My wife knows I look just as I know she looks. We often point out those the other might find pleasing to the eye.) I looked and we kept on going.

I would never do that. I'm entirely too insecure to do that. In fact I'm so insecure that I like trying to maintain the illusion that he doesn't look.

So how's your day going?

Cat

Mine's going lazy. We're going to try and catch our local fireworks tonight after Gizz gets home from work. We're sitting on emails chatting with each other and I am getting absolutely nothing done around the house because of it.

Sounds like you're having a good 4th so far. I hope everybody's 4th is going well. What's dinner look like for you?

 

[Katyusha]

About as many holes as when I want to get my wife something.

Usually those things I get for my wife cost a lot more than the things bought for me. That's just the way it is for us.

Then again for anything over a couple of dollars we talk it through. Do we really need or want it? Can we get it cheaper? Can it wait? This is one of the reasons we no longer owe money and have our own place.

Cat

That's a good way to do it. It's the same with us...looking at things we've lived this long without. If we've gone this long, can we go a bit longer without it? In most cases yes, occasionally no, we (or one of us) are at a point where it is, in fact, necessary now. So thus comes the shopping for the best price and such. I like your philosophy.

We still have a mountain of debt due to a couple of bad decisions (that we made together) a few years ago. But we're okay...just not where we'd like to be yet.

 

[SeaCat]

I would never do that. I'm entirely too insecure to do that. In fact I'm so insecure that I like trying to maintain the illusion that he doesn't look.



Mine's going lazy. We're going to try and catch our local fireworks tonight after Gizz gets home from work. We're sitting on emails chatting with each other and I am getting absolutely nothing done around the house because of it.

Sounds like you're having a good 4th so far. I hope everybody's 4th is going well. What's dinner look like for you?

Dinner looks quite tasty thank you very much.

Beef Short Ribs Parboiled and then rubbed with my special mix of seasonings. Let to sit in the fridge overnight then slow smoked/cooked today. Served with Slaw, Garlic Bread and Beer.

To me looking is not a big deal. We all look and we admit it if we're honest with ourselves.

Comparing on the other hand is another matter and one I don't agree with. I don't compare my wife with the person I'm looking at. That wouldn
t be honest of honorable on my part.

My parents put it this way. They are married but not blind. (My mother likes to say it doesn't matter where my father gets his appetite as long as he eats at home.)

Cat

 

[DesertPirate]

Chicken in the smoker!
Gettin ready for Daytona

Wishing Tx much luck tonight, he's running his old modified again
Startin on the front row in the A main

 

[Katyusha]

Dinner looks quite tasty thank you very much.

Beef Short Ribs Parboiled and then rubbed with my special mix of seasonings. Let to sit in the fridge overnight then slow smoked/cooked today. Served with Slaw, Garlic Bread and Beer.

Now I'm hungry, but we'll be having our own bbq'd food in a bit. That sounds delicious.

To me looking is not a big deal. We all look and we admit it if we're honest with ourselves.

Comparing on the other hand is another matter and one I don't agree with. I don't compare my wife with the person I'm looking at. That wouldn
t be honest of honorable on my part.

My parents put it this way. They are married but not blind. (My mother likes to say it doesn't matter where my father gets his appetite as long as he eats at home.)

Cat

Hehehe my parents' phrase was, "married but not dead."

Comparing is the problem. I know the difference between looking and comparing, and I know in my heart that Gizz doesn't compare me to other women. The problem is I can't convince the rest of me of that...the insecurity bit makes me feel like I'm being compared anyway.

It comes from being conditioned (by bullies in school when I was young, mentally abusive boyfriends as a teenager, etc.) to believe that I'm just not "good enough," particularly in the looks department. What this does is make me feel like there's no possible way for him to look *without* comparing.

Gizz knows this and and for the time being does his best to be very discreet about it. I've known lots of couples who point out attractive people to each other the way we point out anything else to each other and I'm envious of that. The problem is within me and I wish it would leave already...but it takes a long time to overcome years of that kind of conditioning.

But I am trying to work on making it go away.

 

[SeaCat]

Quite the end of the race last night. Talk about some excitment.

Dinner was fantastic by the way. The ribs were smoked and cooked through without being dried out.

The Fireworks were easily visible from our yard, we'll have to watch them from there from now on.

This morning I talked with a friend of mine in the Sherrifs Department. He told me they had a couple of shootings, more than a few people injured by Fireworks and enough O.U.I. arrests last night that they were still processing them. I think I'm glad I stayed home.

Today was a quiet day for us. After getting up late we did some Yard Saling, (what a bust that turned out to be.) then did a couple of things around the place as well as visiting the pool. It's amazing how much nothing you can fit in a day.

Tomorrow however will be different. We'll be heading to a local beach in the afternoon heat. That should prove to be interesting.

Cat

 

[DesertPirate]

Tx ran second in Texas and got $2500 not bad for an old fart!

Kyle Bush did it to himself, then hid from the press in his usual tantrum.