Greetings Fellow Humanaters …

Today I send you greetings from from a little known part of St. Helens where the Bavarian influence is strong and has been integrated with the area’s inherent redneck nature. Oompah bands proliferate the area in late November, most years, when they attempt to relive their heritage by drinking as much beer as possible, at as many Novemberfest events as they can infiltrate during the week long event. I know, most organized folks celebrate their right to overindulge in beer during Oktoberfest, but one year these folks had so much fun doing that that they decided to do it again in November. This allows them to continue the party for two full months. How fun is that?

Here’s what everyone wears … even the wimmen …

Classy, huh?

Seriously, now, I have to tell you what an awesome wife I have. I Have An Awesome Wife! Today, after church, we took Diane’s Mom, Jean, to the local Chinese place for lunch. They have the most excellent food and all three of us can eat for $12. Today we ordered a #4 and pan fried noodles. There was enough left over for Mom to keep for lunch tomorrow. What  deal

After lunch we wound up in Little Bavaria where I donned my special order lederhosen and both went to work scrubbing the RV. It was an all day affair. Diane’s Mom, Jean, stayed to watch the process because we tied her in a lawn chair and put her under a tree in the front yard, so she didn’t really have a choice.

Anyway, Diane scrubbed everything along the bottom, as high as she could reach, and I used the ladder to hit the high spots. The old rig shined up nicely. Had it not been for Diane helping with this, on Mother’s Day, it wouldn’t have never gotten done. Because of her helping, on Mother’s Day, I had time to put new screen in the screenless frames for our front side windows. We’re kind of in  rush because on Tuesday morning we’ll be firing up the old RV and head for Moses Lake. Things have to be done.

The last thing I did, before shutting the garage door, was tape off the front end stripes in preparation for painting tomorrow morning. That’s going to be fun, unless it’s windy.

Here’s a picture of the new wood on the door, and the old wood I removed …

It doesn’t have a finish on it yet because that’s going to happen tomorrow, too. Diane will be doing that part. She’s better at that than I am. She’s better at a lot of stuff than I am. Actually, she’s better at pretty much everything than I am. This is her, the love of my live …

It’s after 2200 and Diane said we can’t dilly dally around in the morning because we have so much to do. So, it must be time for me to go to bed.

Hope all is well with all of you.