When you wait a month before posting, your titles become really easy - this is the month of July. Yep, creative. I know you are impressed.
We had a wonderful visit with Mom, Dad, Vito, and Tico over the 4th. They arrived in classic McGinnis style - dog crate tied down in the bed of the truck redneck style - it only missed duck tape - a tarp was involved - but both dogs were inside the cab. If you know the McGinnis clan well, you know that we will never win style points, but we will always win the most resourceful contest. I didn't know you could rent moving trucks until I was in my teens - but I'm still not sure we actually ever used one. When you moved 7 times before age 15 in the same small town, you just move in the cow trailer. Like I said - never style points, always resourceful.
Anyway, this was the first meeting of Tucker and Vito. They played for hours together.
(Tucker is leaning on Andrew and Vito is leaning on Tucker)
We did interrupt play time to take both of them to PetSmart. You should have heard the comments, it was hilarious! Everyone was talking about the two HUGE dogs. Little did they know, we were dropping the meanest one of the bunch off to be groomed...and he is only 5 pounds. Once Tico returned from PetSmart - this is all we got out of him the rest of the weekend.
They brought us bbq and stew from the small town my mom grew up in - Bostwick, Ga. Look at it on Google maps, it is a single flashing caution light town. If you know me, you know I love the annual 4th of July BBQ in Bostwick. Honestly, it is some of my favorite bbq and stew. It was almost like being at home for the 4th. It isn't the 4th without locally cooked bbq and stew. We still have some in the freezer, but man do I hate to use it up, I have to wait a whole year to get more of it. We took Mom and Dad to shoot on Saturday. Gotta love a family that shoots together - one must assume that we will stick together.
And yes - that is really Mom's gun. She is only a little proud.
They both enjoyed playing with Andrew's toy. When we got home from the range, this is what we found in the yard.
They finally stopped playing and decided to rest for a little while. Every night we would bring them inside. Give a dog a bone and he will be still for hours.
We also took them to their first gun show. That is always entertaining and it did not disappoint...such interesting people there. As soon as they left on Sunday, Tucker assumed his position in his chair and stayed there for hours. We had to force him to get down and go outside.
The rest of July involved a work trip to the coast, which resulted in a upgrade at the Hard Rock to a suite with a view. Talk about a nice little trip. Nothing to fuss about when you can wake up to this view and enjoy the sunset at night.
Andrew and I also celebrated our 5th anniversary with a wonderful dinner at Parlor Market in downtown Jackson. The food was amazing - it is most definitely a spot we will visit again.
