somebody said let's have a parade and everybody came???? How am I doing so far??? Are we confused yet?? well I am and I just started writing, well not actually writing, more like typing because if I actually wrote this then I would have to have it rewritten since I cannot even read my own writing so I will type (I guess that is what you call it since it is actually not a typewriter, but then if you are reading this that means you are old enough to remember what typewriters were or at least most of you are and since I am not really sure if any body reads this or maybe a lot of people do??????? Since this is sort of like being on TV and you don't know if anybody is watching I will continue and who knows maybe some body will read it????
So back to the parade well not really back to it since I never really started telling about it but it made sense to say it that way.........
Well it is Memorial Day weekend and out here in the FROZEN NORTHWEST!!!!!! and I mean that quite literally..... It was time to have a parade and since I had some work done on Mr. Blue I met some people who belong to an organization called OLE VOLKS and FOLKS and since I qualified both as OLD!!!! and having a registered VOLKS I was asked if I would like to be in the parade since I have the only vehicle of its type in this part of the country???? to which I said yes, never realizing that I would be driving in INCLEMENT WEATHER and that is being very nice when I say that!!!!!!!!
So Saturday morning I wake up with great anticipation (How am I doing with the big words so far??) only to find that it doing what it has been doing almost NON-STOP since I got here and that is (DRUM ROLL) BE COLD AND RAIN!! So being ever the optimist that I am and having given up on ANGER MANAGEMENT (and at this point there is no need to respond in writing to me about that statement) I proceeded to get ready for the parade anyway thinking that surely they would not go through with this... Well finally at 8:25 AM I had to stay or go so I, with great trepidation (am I on a roll with these big words or what???) stepped outside and into 42 degree weather!!!!! to go drive in a parade????
Well Mr. Blue was having none of it. I was afraid that he was not going to start and once he did he was choking and puking and just not wanting to cooperate at all, but when I told him that he was going to get his picture taken he calmed down and started running smoother..... so I put on my tee shirt, flannel shirt, my regular sweat shirt and my hooded sweat shirt, I have no gloves and started off to town...
I got to town about 9am and there are literally hundreds of people getting ready to be in the parade and I get parked where I am supposed to be and now I just stand and/or sit around freezing waiting for take off time!!!! I had the top on and then I took it off and then it started to rain again so I put it back on!!!! % minutes before lift off it finally quit raining and it actually started to warm up to where the temperature finally got up to a blistering 55 DEGREES! and away we went.
I could not believe the people that were out for the parade??????? I was having trouble just steering because it was so cold and there are thousands of people on both sides of the street. We we both made it through the parade and then back to the heat. Sorry no pictures of the parade, just line up pictures as it was to cold and my hands were shaking!!!! Go ahead and ask me if I would do this again??? Not under these circumstances!!!!!!!! It ain't happening, nope, no way, not ever!!!!!unless it is at least 70 degrees with a faint hint of sunshine!!!!
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