Rumor Control

 There are a couple of rumors going around the interwebs that I would like to address. 

First off. I have never been to or will ever go to a Coldplay concert.

Second. It is true that we got a visit from Jethro and Bambi(aka. Jim and Barb from jimandbarbsrvadventure.blogspot.com).

Let me start from the beginning of how that all transpired. We got a call from a very excited Jethro. I mean he was super excited. He was talking so fast that it all sounded like jibberish. Or maybe it was the excessive amount of alcohol that he had consumed. Thankfully we were on the other end of the phone and not face to face because I can just imagine the spit flying, he was talking so fast. I will cut out all of the "Whoo-we's" and "Hot dawgs" just to shorten this story for you'all. Dag-gummit! Now he has me talking like him!

Well the jist of the conversation was this. They wanted to see our food trailer and how everything worked. Jethro had this great idea of wanting to sell pickled pigs feet, deep fried chicken feet, something he called Blackhills oysters dipped in a marmalade moonshine sauce, Bambi's famous tacos and blood sausage kabobs. I heard that and threw up in my mouth a little bit. So we agreed upon a day for them to visit. One that we were going to take our food trailer to. Well we waited and waited, looking at the time. We told them to be at our place so that they could ride with us and see how the food trailer works. Not kidding, five minutes before we were going to leave, a pick-up camper came barreling down our driveway as if Bo and Luke Duke were behind the wheel. Skidding to a stop. Bambi was hot on his tail just like Daisey Duke in her Jeep, trying to keep up. 

I said "plug in that camper and lock up the hound dogs, we got to git(talking like him again). They jumped in our truck and we were off to the event. A concert at the Kirkbride park in town. On the way to town they sheepishly apologized for being so late. Jethro said that Bambi found a Walmart in a town on the way and was in shopping heaven. I guess they don't have Walmarts where they come from.

We made it on time to the event and got set up. Then we waited for the crowds. The music that night was a tribute band for Bruce Springsteen. They sounded good.

Well Bambi was very interested in how things worked. We showed her how things worked and she helped out as well. Jethro on the other hand was no where to be seen. I asked Bambi if she knew where he was. She said that he found the beer tent and would be gone the rest of the night. Figures.

Photo courtesy of Jethro before he found the beer tent.

Afterwards, we packed things up and went back to the SSUVFL. We gathered around the table along with my sister Gio and her husband Jeff, who also had a booth at the concert. Lisa made Lemon-drop Martini's for the ladies while the men drank their beers. The conversation went on for hours and before we knew it, it was 12:30 in the morning. way past our bedtimes but the laughs kept coming, one after the other. Jethro passed out hours before hand but Bambi was still going strong with the Martini's. 

Morning came too early and I was up. Cleaning and doing the dishes and making an egg bake for everyone. Once breakfast was done Gio and Jeff said their good byes and headed back to the cities. Jethro brought his Bass buggy with him and wanted to work on his trailer and he needed tools. 

Jethro working on his trailer.

Jethro was sure proud of his "Bass Buggy" he called it. "Ain't she a butte? When I'm in there, I'm the captain and what I says goes. It's like the law." He chuckled. 

Captain Jethro

He got his trailer fixed and loaded the boat back onto it. Sure enough, he was taking this Captain thing Seriously. Here's the video.

We eventually went out for dinner at one of the local eateries and then went home. I offered up our shower to him and he said it wasn't the last day of the month yet. We launched the boat back into the lake and had a nice evening cruise. Afterwards we just hung out at conversed until they started yawning.

Bambi thinking about the Walmart.

Jethro and Zoey

Dacotah

The next morning they were gone. No long goodbyes. Just hugs. 

Blogger is so weird sometimes. I cannot get the margin to the left so from now on it will just be centered.

Like I said they left. Jethro said that he had to find some lunker bass and he heard they were in Canada. To me that is a long way to go for fish when we have a supermarket right in town. We watched them drive away but some how we were reminded of them everywhere we turned.

Like the box of books they left. I really didn't think Jethro could read.

Some alcohol Bambi left behind. I thought that that was really strange. (Now blogger changed the font. Why?)

The left over pizza in our fridge.

Parts of a boat trailer just thrown on the ground.

This strange wet spot on the ground by their camper. Then I remembered that I had told Jethro that they were free to use our bathroom. He said, "You have an outhouse in your house? That there is crazy talk. No I will just use the tire because if it's good enough for the dogs, it's good enough for me. Bambi might though. Ever since she went to that fancy Walmart she has some fancy ways about her now. She will probably want an outhouse in the house and a kitchen."

So that was our quick visit with them. All too short with lots of good times.

Here is some food trailer news. We were at the local farmers market downtown Fergus Falls last Saturday morning. Lisa used the bathroom and came back and said there was a little ziplock bag on the ground in there with something in it. So I went in (they are unisex because this is MN) and sure enough it was there. I called the local police and they showed up quite quickly and he said that it was a bag of meth. He said that in that tiny bag there was enough to get two people stoned. There was hardly anything in it. Wow. I told him that I didn't want any kids finding it. Not all heroes wear capes. Some just sling soup for a living.

That's it for this fun installment.