The Waldrip Visit, Spring 2008

Recently my mother, Judy, came for a visit with my stepfather (Wayne) and grandmother (Gram) in tow. They got to stay for 6 days, but of course it wasn't long enough. There just isn't enough time, plus it was a super busy week in our lives. The Floyd Jamboree was that week (which was part of the reason they came), and we also had a Little Dribbler tourney in Dora for the girls. And it was Spring Break (thank goodness, because my mom probably would have barely saw the kids if they had been in school that week!).

One thing Wayne wanted to do while he was here was to learn how to drive a tractor and plow. Of course, there is more to plowing than just jumping in the tractor and going, especially when it's the first time for the season for the tractors to get out. There was servicing, changing the oil, fixing various little things that were wrong from the previous year, welding stuff back together, cutting with the cutting torch, and other manly stuff with tools. Wayne got to see alot of this side of farming. Plowing was the break from all the fixing! LOL!

Jeff's not used to having a "hand" while he's plowing, so it involved some fixing up an additional plow. Now that he has that done, I guess he's going to expect me and Drew out there on this tractor.

Smile for the camera, Wayne!

Jeff got the bigger tractor, of course.

The visit also was an opportune time to catch some blackmail photos of Wayne. Like this gem of liberal Wayne unsuspectingly drinking out of Jeff's Rush Limbaugh coffee mug.

Or Wayne dipping a ritz cracker into a 5 pound tub of Sunland crunchy peanutbutter that he and Jeff had bought out at the peanut mill on Hwy. 70. Well, it was voted by Better Homes and Gardens as the best peanut butter last year, guess he had to try it out.

But we had a great time with them. Did some shopping for the girls, drank a few margaritas, watched a couple of movies, saw more than enough little kids playing basketball, and the Jamboree. And ate more than enough, too. LOL!