Saturday, November 19, 2016

Life on the Strip



While in Nevada, we stayed at Treasure Island, on the strip.  Great hotel! We had everything we could ask for under one roof.  There were approximately 12 to 15 places to eat, so one really didn’t have to venture out to find a restaurant.  Since it was our Anniversary, we decided to go all out on our special day.  We ate at one of the fancy restaurants in the hotel for lunch, played a bit in the casino, walked the strip, and went to an amazing concert at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. 

Yes, I said we went to a concert.

You want to know who we went to see………

Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano 

Bulldog Man and I figured we might as well go all out on our Anniversary and see Elton John, because we probably won’t ever be able to see Elton John again on an Anniversary.  




 


After the concert, we walked back to our hotel room later in the evening, to a bottle of cold champagne compliments of the hotel.  Now everyone knows you don’t drink champagne on an empty stomach.  So we decided to order room service, something not too heavy…we ordered two awesome club sandwiches and only ate half each; we should have ordered just one sandwich…..but that’s okay :-)

 Here’s a little video I put together on the strip late in the evening, I hope you enjoy it.

More of our trip to come!

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Anniversary








Today’s our 11th Anniversary; Bulldog Man came home from work with a beautiful bouquet of roses.  I made delicious lasagna with cheese bread for the occasion, along with a coconut cream pie for dessert. 

Enough Said!!







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Monday, October 14, 2013

Anniversary, Meeting Friends, Garden

I’m going to start my post out by saying Happy Anniversary to my hero, my husband Bulldog Man.  As each year goes by, I love you more.  Consider today’s post a certificate for one home-cooked meal of your choice!!!!  And after eating this meal, I’ll let you do dishes (a gift from you to me)…………Bahahahahaha!!!!! 
Friday, I did the usual; paid bills, hit Crest grocery store for some spices I didn’t have, and didn’t grow in my garden, and picked up what groceries we needed.  After getting home, unloading, and putting away the groceries, Bulldog Man called me, and suggested we go out to the military base to meet up with some of his good friends he hadn’t seen in over 7 years.  Over the past several years, Bulldog Man always talked to me about his friends, Lorri and Steve, in a positive way. I’ve always wanted the opportunity to meet his friends.  This was the perfect time to finally meet them.  I just wished my sweet husband, Bulldog Man would have called me earlier in the morning, before I went grocery shopping.  I would prefer grocery shopping at the commissary instead of Crest. 
Saturday, amazingly enough, we actually slept until 9:30AM, (this is highly unusual) but I’m glad we got caught up on our sleep.  We both jumped into the shower, and got ready to head to Tinker AFB to meet up with Lorri and Steve.  They mentioned to my husband when he talked with them to look for a motor home parked in the parking lot of the BX. 
To our surprise, we arrived……. found the motor home, trailer, car, motorcycle, bird cages (their birds travel with them), and all kinds of spinners. 
Lorri and Steve, Bulldog’s military friends, retired from the military, left a civil service job, sold their home, auctioned off all of their belongs, and decided to live life to its fullest, and travel the United States.  When they stop at military bases for the night, if they feel like it, they setup their spinners for others to enjoy and buy.  They do this for fun; don’t need the money to support themselves.  Any money received is used to put gas in their motor home.  This just sounds like so much fun, one day I would love to be able to do something like this.  For now, Bulldog Man and I are destined to find acreage and setup our homestead. 
Before saying goodbye to Lorri and Steve, Bulldog Man and I purchased a pig spinner and windsock with a 32 foot windsock pole (Bulldog Man has alternative reasons for purchasing the large windsock pull, he will outline this in one of my future posts).  Lorri and Steve are headed towards San Antonio.  If you happen to be on base, tell them we said “Hey”!
This pig is adorable, I placed him in my garden.
Lorri and Steve's setup.  Our rainbow wind sock on the front of the RV.
 
Before the rain came on Sunday evening, Bulldog Man and I went out to the garden to harvest some green beans.  We were able to bring in enough green beans to add as a side dish to a meal.  The peas in the garden have grown and even produce beautiful flowers.  I’m still waiting on peas to harvest.  Hopefully, it will be soon, before we get our first freeze. 
 
It’s been raining a gentle, continuous rain, which should continue through Tuesday.  Once the grass dries, I get to sneak out the tractor and cut grass (hubby will be at work, and he can’t hog the machine).
I hope everyone has a blessed Monday!!!
 
 

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Anniversary - Help A Friend - Construction - Dinner - Football


Today, Bulldog Man and I spent our Anniversary helping a friend.  We woke this morning to a beautiful day. The rain had stopped and it was nice to be outside doing construction type work.  Grabbing our hammers, gloves, screwdrivers, measuring tape, garbage bags and cooler with water (this is all we needed; our friend had all the other tools), we jumped in the truck and drove to the next small town, out into the countryside.  This friend, a single Mom, purchased a 2 story home, built back to 1895, four months ago at a great price.  The house was moved to a 3 acre plot many years ago and put up for sell in the countryside.  Our friend resides in a trailer on the front part of the property, while the house is being fixed and updated for the electric and water. The house has beautiful bones.  Initially, other friends through work volunteered to help this single Mom out with the construction work (long story).  Needless to say, these people removed the roof on this house, and were supposed to come back and put on a new roof.  They failed to return, and it rained heavily.  The rain caused major damage to her beautifully aged wood floors causing more work and money (money, not readily available being a single parent). 

Bulldog Man, myself and 4 other friends (reliable friends) came out to the single Mom’s house and helped clean up all the roofing that was thrown all over the ground from the previous (friends, that failed to return).  We sent truckloads of wood into a pit for burning.  We removed nails from wood (good pieces) that could be reused, helped move plywood to the roof, moved windows into frames and restacked materials out of the way.  The house is a long way from being done but at least the roof is on, preventing more damage and money having to be found to fix other areas of the house.  Overall, Bulldog and I enjoyed our 9th Wedding Anniversary helping a friend in need.

Afterwards, we returned home, showered and Bulldog Man took me out for dinner.  Now we are at home listening to the Green Bay Packers and Houston Texans play football.  Happy Anniversary Honey, love you!!!!!
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