POW 08-16-2010

POW – Picture(s) of the Week

Having recently returned from my 9-day adventure from Texas to Brooklyn New York, I’m proud to claim my photo library has increased by more than 1,000 pictures. It’s BYOB to my house for sharing each and every one of those with anyone interested (not to worry…you won’t see them all with the weekly photo send).

We saw beautiful country, enjoyed many eats, and laughed our way there and back. But it was yesterday’s last leg of the trip that garnered the biggest outburst of laughter. We were driving through Little Rock Arkansas when we happened upon a vehicle…. Needless to say, Deb had to take the last few pictures as she thought I was jiggling the camera too much with my laughter. I not sure if it was the bleacher-butt wear-n-tear of a 4,111-mile trip, the 12-hour drive last-leg home yesterday from Nashville, the fact we were in Bubba-land Arkansas, or perhaps it was a combination of all of those that made me nearly wet my britches and caused tearful driving for several miles.

So, be it known:

The winner of the “Creative and Multiple Use of Trailering” awards goes to……….the Arkansas lady pulling a fishin’ boat with a Lincoln, with trailer lights connected through the trunk, wearing a soft microsuede soothing and relaxing U-shaped neck pillow (as Deb is my witness she was) while driving, carrying a sofa braced by the outboard boat motor and not getting a bit of grease on the upholstery….

I don’t know what happened to the sofa cushions, or whether the furniture arrived with a peculiar embedded fish smell…I don’t even know the cargo made the trip intact and atop, but it seemed rather funny to me.

8/15/2001: Little Rock Arkansas

More trip photograph to come! Hey y’all – send me your “what I did on my summer vacation” pictures. I’ll do a collective send out as I get them (already got JaiJai’s trailering photo today)

It is the little things in life we should be appreciating. They are much more fun and less stressful than getting worked up about the everyday tribulations of life.

Think about the happiness-rush that this feel-good moment offers up (we’ve all been there/done that at least once);

this is an excerpt taken from Neil Pasricha’s The Book of Awesome:

http://1000awesomethings.com/ and/or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtvghLgJP94

“When you arrive at your destination just as a great song ends on the radio”
“…AWESOME!”