Off Color Family Summer

But I see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors 

Are beautiful

like a rainbow..

TRUE COLORS

Well it has been a while since the off-color family has been updated here at radical ramblings..

so on a rainy July 4th

I decided that today would be a great time

update you on the off-color antics.

Off-Color daughter had a fabulous time in China,

walking on the wall, clay soldiers and shopping in the square. 

It seems just being in the midst of a different culture is enough for off color daughter to have tales to tell  for years

and

in returning well seems she has left her mark here at the off color abode---

Do any of you recall one of my first blog posts--Who lives in a purple house?---

Well long story short--

I was talking on the phone and had recently purchased some spray paint for two wooden chairs I'd picked up for our back yard--watermelon and sunny yellow---well I was talking on the phone and off-color daughter was talking to me and picking up the spray cans.  Finally, she said, "Do you care if I paint the shed?"  Which is one of those little aluminum/tin buildings in the backyard where one stores their lawnmower and yard supplies--

ours did have rust on the doors--but otherwise is in pretty good shape....

soooo

Off Color daughter heads to the store with her friend and I think nothing of it.

Little while later, I head out the back door on the deck and look out...

OMG...

suddenly I realized 

not only are we an off color family

we have have an off-color yard.

Right in the back of our house--sitting next to the fence for all the neighbors and all the world to see

is this

---

a bright purple shed with teal over the door and door painted black--

I'm one of those people

who 

has a purple shed in their yard

....

oh well

we are quite the off color family in many ways...

Then

there is Big Daddy

and we all know 

Big Daddy is always up to something

...

two mornings ago, Big Daddy was complaining about the fact that our kitchen sink was starting to drip from the facet....

I think nothing of it...

Yesterday, I get home from work and head into the kitchen and the whole damn facet had been removed and was now in a multitude of pieces....

now Big Daddy has many talents but

plumbing and fixing things is not one of his many gifts.

So the water is turned off in the kitchen and the handle is off the spout and springs and plastic pieces were laying on the counter.

I look at the sink and  say, "what the hell...."

Big Daddy simply states, "I was fixing our leak..."

I stare at the sink and think to myself

something so much worse than 

:what the hell:

The facet was dripping and the part he attempted to fix had nothing at all to do with the tiny little drip we were having.

I stare 

start to pick pieces up

and

finally ask

"which of these pieces came off the sink"

Big Daddy simply says, 

"I don't know---I've spent hours trying to fix it and went and bought a replacement kit--I don't know which came out and which is new"

I piddle with it for a few minutes

then google

"how to put a one handled ball facet back together"

i mess with it

and finally

I simply say,

"well guess we'll be needing a plumber"

This morning

Big Daddy once again goes to Lowe's...

brings home a new handle

which of course will not fit...

so paper plates and plastic forks it is

no plumber on July 4th...

oh yeah...I guess i better tell my part or Big Daddy will be trying to blog himself..

I did try to fix it this morning as well...

I think I have it

and

tell Big Daddy to turn the handle under the sink which turns on the water....As I am fiddling with it,

Suddenly I hear Big Daddy Scream...

turn it off...

I get up from under the sink and

water has actually shooting up on the ceiling and dripping off, running down cabinets and window frame...

the ball that controls the water had actually shot off...

so needless to say...

I might be sexy hot 

but 

a plumber

i am not...

Hopefully tomorrow...

Big Daddy will get it..or get a plumber...

YouTube and google plumbing 

does not seem to be working!!!

Off-color son just returned from a young life adventure camp...

He graduated from high school and is getting ready to start a new adventure as college begins.

It has been a busy crazy summer

....

and

the 

off-color family

is just as off-color and colorful as ever...

Big Daddy and I celebrate our 20th year of marriage...

now that is a long time 

but 

yet

it just seems like yesterday...

So as you can see..

we have been doing it...

letting our true 

off colors show...

hope the same for you...

hope all of you are having a happy summer...

Enjoy your 4th...

Blessings....

the radical rambler....