Well for what its worth, I do like it even the red neck part..It turned out just about as good as I expected. Had planned to use plexaglass on that roof but that would have made it pretty classy, and may have made some of my red neck friends uncomfortable when they seen it. So I went for this stuff called foamcore and to be honest it was less than half the money of plexaglass...The experts tell me plexaglass would crack eventually and fade and discolor, did not take long to get me convinced I did not need to spend 800 on something that was going to not hold up. Instead 300 paid to Meyer Plastics in Lafayette for a super material similar to PVC pipe material...Should last for years and just rednecky enough and classy enough to impress both my classy and red neck buddies....Anyway slideshow pics to the right show it off along with some before pictures of the porch we closed in....glad it is done...............................................
But the main thing is the outside is 100% complete, the inside is still to go and I will get to it someday not sure though when...I work on it from time to time when nothing better to do...But this week lots of social stuff to take advantage of...Lilly my granddaughter is getting married Saturday to a great guy Ryan..She took her time and found a keeper for sure.....and Susan and I get to go to the rehearsal dinner friday night.Lilly and Ryan were guest writers on this blog once, if you write Lilly and Ryan in the search box it will bring up their story...maybe they will write again about the wedding.....so big week end a coming...then on Sunday her Uncle Jack Kaiser is to be inducted into the Loeb Stadium Hall of Fame...He being deceased she has been asked to be there and accept the award for the family. It will happen at the Colt World Series game that day...He was an outstanding coach in Illinois she tells me...should be a fun time.....
Had about and inch of rain a few days ago that the corn and beans sure liked, but more is needed soon and now they tell us a heat wave is coming next week but it should only last about a week and hopefully may produce some thundershowers like heat waves sometimes do.
Well next week I fly to Wash. DC and attend a Marine Corps fun week with 150 "still marines", touring the Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery, and the new Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico VA.....Being accompanied by a friend Bill Robinson and the two of us will be choosing a hotel and making an adjenda for our old Marine Boot Camp Platoon 3002 Fifty Four year reunion next August.
We will also be attending the Marine Sunset Parade on Tuesday at Arlington Cemetery...Never been to that and looking forward to it...It takes place around the Iwo Jima Monument on the north side of Arlington Cemetery....Then on Friday night we will also be in attendance at the Marine Barracks at 8th and I streets in DC for the 'evening parade' put on by the Marine Band and the 400 Marines stationed there...They do ceremonial duties around DC including the white house and they do the burials at Arlington and they practice riot control all week as they are located just a few blocks from the Nations Capital building....hope they never have to use them but I know they do practice for it a lot....then on Friday night they offer free to the public a really cool parade featuring the Marines Silent Drill Team...The Commandant of the Marines lives in an old Mansion at the north end of the drill field and usually attends these parades each week...I was there once about 6 years ago maybe with Linda and three granddaugters...It was a great parade of such precision that it sometimes sent chills down my spine...Like at one point when they give the order for "order arms" and both rifle companies A and B with a total of 400 young Marines bring their M-1 rifles to their sides....I guess you have to have been part of this to get that emotional over it but I know it takes an awful lot of practice for 400 rifle butts to hit concrete in the exact same mega second...and I do mean mega second, it is awesome.....
Then the silent drill team takes front and center with their completely silent no verbal commands and tosses rifles back and forth to each other spinning in mid air with bayonets attached.....that has to take who knows how much training...and always comes off without a hitch....Semper Fi...........oooh/rraaaahhh............it will be fun.....
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