There, I Fixed it.....

For anyone NOT familiar with the official "There, I Fixed it" web site, I highly suggest giving it a look. I love receiving their daily emails. Something about that mentality of fixing things on the fly and making do with what you've got really resonates with me. That's actually one of the many reasons I enjoy hanging around with my buddy John. As he puts, he was 12 or 13 years old before he realized you could just BUY things; his dad was the type to fix or fabricate anything they needed or needed repair. Anywho, my family is very much like that. I still remember being with my cousins at my grandparents house and trying to ride an old bicycle that had no tires.....just bare rims. Not an easy task on pea gravel. My papaw saw us doing this and he took some old, thick, rigid, pink fuel hoses and mounted them on the rims. Not an extremely pleasant ride, but it was a hell of an improvement over bare rims. On a recent visit to see my grandparents, I noticed this old lawn mower body in the shed. I asked my granny about the mower and she explained that my papaw used it to cart a water pump to the creek when he need to pump water out for the garden. Notice the piece of wood so the pump mounts up just right.

Anywho, I am always saving containers and reusing them when I can....often in the garage. But tonight I needed a way to preserve a can of sweetened condensed milk I had opened. (I use it for my coffee.) I had a plastic peanut butter jar in the cabinet. The can fit in nicely, but how to retrieve it each time. The solution gave me a little giggle when I figured it out. There, I fixed it.

Scrabble Turns 37!!!

I swear to Jebus it felt like I was 36yo FOREVER. I even did the math at one point a few months ago to make sure I wasn't adding it up wrong. But it had to end sometime, and that sometime was Saturday. I celebrated by getting a haircut, having a late lunch at Houston's on the Plaza. Houston's makes the world's BEST veggie burger in house, and they also serve a crazy good roasted artichoke. I LOVE their artichoke. There's not a lot of "meat" on the leaves, so it winds up being all about the taste.

What better way to spend a summer evening than at a dirt track. We drove out to Grain Valley, MO, which is just a few miles outside of Kansas City. Valley Speedway has a 3/8 mile dirt oval. They had Modifieds and Street Stock racing last night. The heat races were a little bit better than the actual races. As you would expect, the more cars, the more cautions. I uploaded and embedded some video below. I use to go down south to Adrian, MO. There was an awesome little dirt track down there that was only 1/3 mile. Seeing modifieds race around that tiny track was quite the spectacle.