You're my Tornado

This is in honor of my cute husband who left me high and dry in Utah to deal with all of the kids and their stuff while he went off to Nashville to play and see all of our friends and have fun and party. Miss you honey! Oh, did I mention it's Mother's Day Weekend??????"

My man

My man

I was thinking today about all the things that my husband can do. He is one of those really cool guys who can fix stuff and I like to brag about it. When we first got married, my mom had this washer that had flooded a couple of times and she was sick of it. SO, she gave it to us. The future of laundromats was no longer in our future. Because guess what? Not only did she give us the washer, but the perfectly good dryer as well. Because I mean, please, you can't buy a new washer and not have the perfect match???? Right?????

So, mom gets her new washer and dryer and we get the 3 year old ones. Ron tells me "I can fix that". He goes and buys a Whirlpool repair manual (long before days of the internet) for $10 and buys the part for $15. For $25 and a little bit of elbow grease from him, while I brought him cool, refreshing lemonade in tall, chilled glasses, we had a washer and dryer that served us for 4 moves, 3 kids, and approximately 9,742 loads of laundry.

That was a proud wife moment. My husband could FIX things. And not have to take the whole day off work to do it. He grew up on a farm. He can fix all kind of practical stuff like baylers, tractors, well pumps, fences, and radiators. He also can do a mean trick on toaster, a sewing machine, a cable, a guitar, lawnmowers, any computer, etc. etc. Sometimes he even fixes things when you don't want them fixed because you'd like a new one.

He can also do all sorts of other random things really well. Examples? Juggle, remember useless formulas from math classes taken 20+ years ago, make incredible "Ron-burgers", and talk in any number of puppet voices, i.e., Kermit the Frog, Grover (especially Near and Far), Donald Duck and Scooby Doo. He regularly speculates and pontificates about all things space, time and matter. He is a humble gospel scholar. He makes yummy mashed potatoes and he is a very good marksman (but hates hunting). He can inseminate a cow if needs be, or even deliver a calf if pressed. He's tall and can get stuff off the high shelves. He is awesome to have at a campfire because he can play anything you want him to (and somethings you don't want him to.) But, don't even get started on the whole music thing...that's a whole 'nuther thread.

Oh, he's not perfect though. He has road rage bad and he doesn't play board/card games well, though, because he cheats and he hates to lose. He forgets to put the juice away in the morning and he doesn't pick up his stuff. Something has to keep him on earth, though, doesn't it?



One last really smart thing he did...............Marry me. 'nuff said.