Ok…
So after finally getting to sleep at around 4:30 this morning :: I stayed up watching two really good movies.. Powder Blue (or Blue Powder, don’t remember.. it was late) and Pathology :: Chief decides to wake me up at 9am for a trip to Home Depot to get seeds.
He’s been talking about planting a vegetable garden in the shop’s yard forever and actually started the process last week. Don’t know whether his motivation was his perceived collapse of the economy or the fact that tomatoes jumped from 15.00 a case to almost 57.00 in a weeks time but whatever.. it’s now another project that has nothing to do with either fixing my cabinet door or dining room table.
But it’s something so who am I to complain, right?
As if..
Anyway.. there’s a Home Depot really close to us and one that’s a little further. He wants to go to the one a little further because he figures that THEY would have flats of tomato plants for like, 6 bucks.
I swear he thinks it’s still 1943.
I ask him why he doesn’t just bury some tomatoes like my grandmom used to do and I got the look of death so I figured I’d just shut the hell up with being frugal and let him find out for himself that tomato plants were NOT 6 bucks a flat.
So we drive out there and when we pull into the parking lot both our chins hit our knees and glitter started shooting out of our tear ducts because there.. THERE.. all over the parking lot was THIS:
Is This Beautiful or WHAT?
The local chapter of the antique car whatever-you-call-it had their cars displayed in the parking lot today.
Chief is a major motor head. No.. wait. Isn’t that a band? I must mean GEAR head.. or CAR head.. or ROAD master or whatever you call someone who can rebuild a car with duct tape and bubble gum.
But little known fact is that I’m into cars too. No, I can’t tell you about engines.. or whatever it is that make them do the things they do but I can definitely tell you when they are pretty! And when I say “pretty”, I mean PREEETTTTYYY!!!!
And let me tell you.. there were A LOT of REEEAALLLYYY PREEETTTTYYY cars!
Love The Chocolate and Cream Two Tone
At one point, when Chief had completely drooled all over his shirt, I said:
NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS WHEN I WALK INTO A SHOE STORE, HUH?
All he could say was UH HUH.. UH HUH.. UH HUH!!
But sadly, even though I always carry my digital camera with me, it wasn’t juiced up so I had to resort to using my crappy Metro PCS cell phone camera. The pictures were better then I thought they were going to be but I wasn’t able to zoom in or take some randomly bizarre shots like I usually do.
We walked around ogling.. with me saying that my birthday was coming up and DAMN! wouldn’t I love to wake up to one of those with a big ass bow on top of the hood.
That's Chief Figuring Out How He Could Sell His Offspring To Buy It For Me
Finally, it all got to be too much so we tore ourselves away and headed across the parking lot to the Depot.
We found the tomato plants.. at 5.68 FOR ONE PLANT.. which sent Chief into a mild seizure.
I refrained from saying “.. I told you so”. Points for me.
So we went ahead and started looking at the seed packets and wound up with tomatoes, onions, lettuce, romaine, peppers, basil, rosemary, oregano, carrots and something else. Oh.. cabbage.
We also bought those little seed starter trays and a hoe.
No jokes about buying a “hoe”, please. I said them all yesterday when he first mentioned it.
Oh.. and another thing. Just a side note. If you’re thinking about buying the Topsy Turvy things.. yea. They don’t come with dirt OR seeds. Really. They don’t. Your just paying for the plastic thingy that hangs up. Consider it my public service to you.
This one gave me GREASE flash backs
So the whole shabang .. including the cheap hoe.. cost less then 20 bucks. So his cheap ass was happy and my don’t want to spend any money on this crap anyway ass was just as happy.
We had to pass the cars again on the way out of the parking lot so we ogled some more and then made our way home.
The plan was to stop at the shop and set up the seeds and stuff but he figured it would give him something to do tomorrow when the shop is slow so we just came home.
And then I spent the next hour and a half emailing the pictures from my crappy phone! Here’s the rest of them but let me warn you.. I saved the best for last!!
The RED one!
This is an Edsel. The worse car ever made but EVERYTHING on it was original except for one re-paint.
... really. EVERYTHING was original and only 45g miles on it. Talk about little old ladies driving to church!
Now.. I have to say before I add the following pictures that THIS car is my ABSOLUTE favorite. So if anyone feels compelled to buy it for me? I won’t turn it down!!
Bel Air. Is this beautiful or what?
Bel Air. Is this beautiful or what?
LIVING ME 101 