We have another first to report…Nicholas got his first ride in the F-150 tonight to dinner at KFC in Zebulon. He did it in true country style…barefoot!
Up to now, he’s ridden in the Mommy’s Escape or Grammy’s Taurus and recently in Daddy’s Passat because they’re better suited to the transporting of a cute baby. But we found ourselves needing to deliver a ton of topsoil/compost to Grammy’s for a sod project that’s coming up at her house. It’s a dirty job but you’d hardly put that stuff in the Escape…not only is the dirt, well, dirty but this stuff has a bit of a manure aroma to it. There’s just one truck in the family that’s up to the job…and no sense taking two vehicles to Zebulon, right?
You know, it’s rather funny but I was just reminded of a story Gramps likes to tell of the way one woos another in rural Illinois. Apparently the method includes occasionally showing up in front of a prospective mother-in-law’s house riding a manure spreader right after doing the deed on some other farmer’s field (not an uncommon thing…usually one farmer has the combine, the other the plow, and so forth). And here I am in front of Ms. Pat’s with a bed full of topsoil/manure compost mix. Fortunately, for me…this load of aromatic soil was a) requested, b) it occurred after the marriage ceremony, and c) Mommy was riding shotgun…a nice distinction Nicholas might want to keep in mind when he pulls up in front of his girlfriend’s house in a working truck with a load of smelly dirt in the back. 🙂
Anywho, we had a wonderful dinner and then we worked it off unloading this stuff onto the driveway which looked so much more impressive actually in the bed of the truck (and she was definitely loaded…that stuff’s HEAVY and Daddy was using every gear to take off from a stop!). Nicholas makes a wonderful job site foreman…he supervises with the best of them! And yes, the obligatory shower for Daddy afterword felt wonderful!
After watching the finale of Trading Spaces: Home Free which was set in Daddy’s old stomping grounds of Orlando (yes, the light blue team won…they earned it!), it was time for a bottle and bedtime for Nicholas and ruthless games of Sequence for us.
And it was amazing how much zippier the truck was on the way home! 🙂