85

Today Pepa would have been 85.  Happy Birthday!


Well, there is lots going on, on  lots of fronts.


We are through shredding cotton stalks, and the plow has moved to the last field, which is two farms but we work it like one except for stripping.


The tear out on the boat is almost complete.  We are fixing to begin gathering materials.  I figure the substructure will go slow, but once it is in place, the floor should be a piece of cake.  Everything in the floor has been fiberglassed over, but I may have come up with a really good idea.  We are going to paint everything with carpenter's glue, then fiberglass it. 


Our biggest obstacle may be if we wan t to find and use marine plywood.


For some reason foreign to me, I woke at 5:30 this morning.  My first text message came in at 6:15 and my first phone call was at 6:40.


Then Coach called telling me we needed to lock in the facilities for the Stevens-Freeman Reunion in Sweetwater.  He said he had tried numerous times since June and the manager had been unable to do the contract.


Today was no different.  But because the manager was not in.


Then I got a call asking me if I would be interested in signing on with the Texas Truck and Tractor Puller's Association as their touring announcer.  I would be paid in to every show they have on the circuit.  The first thing I asked for was a tentative schedule for the upcoming season.


Wow, the first show is April 4 & 5.  The last show is November and all sorts of stops in between.


So far I see only one possible scheduling conflict.


Now to put the numbers together and see if we can make a deal.  I'm going to have to look at it several different ways, but it may come in handy having the motor home.


FATHER, thank YOU for opportunities.  As the little seven year old girls says, "I know Pepa is having a great time dancing with the angels in heaven, having a big PARTY!"