I had planned on heading to the beach for a couple of days, but awakening around 0400 to the sound of a downpour kind of dampened my plans. I had seen this cute craft projects, I thought the girls would like so we headed out to shop and run some errands in the rain. The girls picked out different colored bags of marbles and a vase and hot glued them on in a random pattern. Each was completely unique. Allison & Lauren both burned a finger, but only once. The end of that glue gun is rather hot!
And of course, whats crafting without food? That is chips that Lauren in eating and NOT the marbles. ha ha. We actually ran out of a color that Brianna needed so we ended up running back to Michael's for more!
After Chris got off work, the kids wanted to hit Char-grill for dinner and then we were headed to Patsy's to dig up bamboo stalks! We all got milkshakes! Parker of course, dripped chocolate on his shorts. Which made me feel better...now that we got that out of the way, I didn't have to anticipate what actually was going to end up on his clothes. Bless his heart, he is so sweet and so innocent. He makes me laugh at all the cute things that come out of his mouth. He didn't know what to think of the 'RED' hot dog that he got. He isn't old enough to know thats what we eat in the south...and they are good.
Brianna even complimented how good the burgers were. Another reason to move to Raleigh....we have Char-grill!We left there and headed back to Chris' to pick up the truck and some shovels then on to Patsy's. I know people think Im crazy. Some I want to put in the back corner of my yard where I can't get anything to grow, then also some on the opposite side of the back yard where I have a huge pile of dirt that nothing grows but weeds. I figure the way bamboo multiplies, it should cover it fairly quickly.
Chris & I shoveled through and got some, which at the time didn't see very tall. Everyone knows how hard bamboo is, but I was actually almost hanging off a stalk pulling it while Chris was shoveling the other side to attempt to loosen the dirt and it never broke. Totally amazing!
I then needed teamwork to get the 7 or so stalks to Chris' truck. As you can see, they are tall.
It wasn't until we got them in his truck, did I realize how long they actually were. They hung off the back of the truck a good 18 feet and dragging the ground. Chris used a tie down to make sure they were going anywhere. I followed him and laughed most of the way because we were all betting at what speed it would take to get all the tops actually off the ground. I thought maybe around 45mph they would be airborn but we got up to 45 and they were still barely on the ground. I had to stop for gas, and I told Chris that if we had hit I-40 that he probably would have gotten them all off the ground. We were all laughing. I meant to get a picture, but all of us there will never forget the picture...including Patsy, whose driveway we left and Im sure she was thinking how crazy we were. Well, maybe not, of course she's Chris' mom and she has known me for about 15 years...so I guess she knows we are pretty crazy...just now we are crazy together!
Chris & I shoveled through and got some, which at the time didn't see very tall. Everyone knows how hard bamboo is, but I was actually almost hanging off a stalk pulling it while Chris was shoveling the other side to attempt to loosen the dirt and it never broke. Totally amazing!
I then needed teamwork to get the 7 or so stalks to Chris' truck. As you can see, they are tall.
It wasn't until we got them in his truck, did I realize how long they actually were. They hung off the back of the truck a good 18 feet and dragging the ground. Chris used a tie down to make sure they were going anywhere. I followed him and laughed most of the way because we were all betting at what speed it would take to get all the tops actually off the ground. I thought maybe around 45mph they would be airborn but we got up to 45 and they were still barely on the ground. I had to stop for gas, and I told Chris that if we had hit I-40 that he probably would have gotten them all off the ground. We were all laughing. I meant to get a picture, but all of us there will never forget the picture...including Patsy, whose driveway we left and Im sure she was thinking how crazy we were. Well, maybe not, of course she's Chris' mom and she has known me for about 15 years...so I guess she knows we are pretty crazy...just now we are crazy together!
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