[caption id="attachment_249" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="New Set Up for P nats"] [/caption] It has been awhile since I did a Ramblings post.  This is just a bunch of disjointed thoughts that have been bouncing around in my little pea brain. One day while on the road, I came out of a Walmart bathroom, a bit shaken and very pale.  "What's wrong?" Peggy asked. "I need a hospital," I stammered. Thinking the worst, she asked, "Is it your heart?" "No," I responded.  "I've shrunk.  I can't reach the urinal" It seems that the urinal in that Walmart was about 4 1/2 feet off the ground.  I couldn't even think about hitting it.  I'm just not built that way--in more ways than one.  You'd have to be about 8 feet tall to reach it.  I was aghast. [caption id="attachment_250" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Entertainment on Friday"] [/caption] Peggy's grandson has started putting two and three words that you can understand together but he still mostly talks in some foreign tongue.  When we got back to Peggy's and I was relating the urinal story to Todd (Peggy's son and Kagen's father) Kagen stood right next to me and mimicked everything I said including the hand gestures I used trying to show how to hit an 8 footers urinal.  It was much funnier than my story. For the past 22 days, I've been home for 12 hours.  That run finally came to an end last night when I got to the farm about 10PM.  I'm here until Wednesday when I head to Richmond to set up for the Indy Car Races this weekend. While I know this won't be as big as the NASCAR races in May, the Big Red Crew will have two locations.  One will be at the foot of the new tower inside the track where we were in May, the other outside on the compound in the food court on the parking lot.  There will be other vendors and merchandise trailers.  Hopefully, with the two locations, we'll come close to our sales from May. I have invited Danica Patrick to stop by for a funnel cake on me.  So, I'll keep a camera close by just in case.  Peggy will also have her leash nearby. I announced this morning that Big Red was going on a worldwide tour.  Actually, we're going to Louisville on July 21, but that seems worldwide to me.  Jason has lined me up to sell at Waterfront Park in downtown Louisville during the day, and then we'll move over to the Social Media Club of Louisville's outing that evening for burgers, dogs, fries and funnel cakes.  I'm hoping to announce a sponsor for that event in the upcoming days but at any rate, we're going to Kentucky. [caption id="attachment_251" align="alignleft" width="223" caption="12 Yr Old Singer Brandon Diaz"] [/caption] My war with the weatherman and Mother Nature continues.  My long home stand with the Potomac Nationals had more rain problems this week but we still managed a pretty good 8 days. I got hammered on Monday for $1 days.  Way beyond my projections plus I was by myself.  Tuesday was a little slow, Wednesday was rained out.  We set up Thursday only to have the game cancelled due to a flooded outfield.  Total sales for the day- $29. Friday was OK but nothing like a weekend should be.  We did have some entertainment again.  Pretty good youth group band playing Christian rock.  A big storm hit Saturday afternoon and flooded the outfield again.  Finally the double header was cancelled and rescheduled starting at 10AM on Sunday.  At least there were enough people hanging around that we had a pretty good day.  Sunday was OK after folks came in the afternoon.  Nothing for the early game however. On Thursday, one of the cancelled games, a 12 year old  by the name of Brandon Diaz was supposed to sing the National Anthem.  Good young man with a great voice.  Too bad he didn't get to perform.  Hopefully the P Nats will get him again for a game real soon. [caption id="attachment_252" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Some of Peggy's Quilts"] [/caption] I've been driving for some 44 years and in that time, I've had three blowouts.  Two have been in the past 30 days, the one Friday at 70MPH and a little dicey on my driving skills.  Peggy was in Sweet Pea both times.  Is there any conclusion I can draw from that? Before the last home stand of the Nationals, I spent the weekend in Harrisonburg helping Peggy with a Quilt and Yard Sale.  She has some quilts left and I got pictures of them.  I hope to get another post up before I leave this week featuring her quilts.  If interested in any of them, let me know. Finally, a big welcome back to Liberty U as it appears Big Red will be returning for football season this fall.  I'm bringing Tank out of retirement to run that operation as I will be all over the country as usual.