Now normally I’m not that fond of Monday’s, but for this week I can honestly say that I love it! See I took a vacation day today and Daryl also has the day off. And then to top that – both boys are also home with their girlfriends. Yup, it is indeed a really good day!
I originally took the day off because I didn’t know if we were going to be able to have our family Christmas Sunday night and if that wasn’t going to work, well Monday was next in line. But we did have a late Christmas at our house on Sunday, so Monday morning was spent getting stuff organized and then later on Kyle and Kelcie headed to Des Moines and William and Jude went to her parents house. So the afternoon was pretty much free for Daryl and I. And guess how we spent the rest of the day? If you guessed with a traveling salesperson – you were correct! I was upstairs cleaning and then I heard the door bell ring. Now Daryl and I were just talking this morning that the FedEx guy was going to go through withdrawals at our house now that Christmas is over – but I knew that William was waiting for one more gift. So when the door bell rang I didn’t think much of it until I kept hearing a conversation in our kitchen – and much longer than I was sure that the FedEx guy wanted to have. So down the steps I go to investigate. And in our kitchen stood a guy with a large bag that had pictures in it. This salesman was traveling the area trying to sell farm pictures. Having someone travel around selling farm pictures is almost as common as the gate guy driving around selling gates. I’m guessing that some people haven’t really heard of either one of these things – but for us on the farm it’s not that uncommon. So now the dance begins. How much does he want for the picture? Well, it’s been about 30 years since we bought a picture of the farm and the picture he was trying to sell was actually even a good one. Sometimes when they want you to buy a picture the house is cut out or it’s the worst year for crops in that decade and your farm is surrounded by brown corn, you know.. bad things on a picture. But I had to hand it to him. The picture looked good! Well he wasn’t someone who just started to sell these pictures because it took a lot to have him tell me just actually how much he wanted for it. But little did he know that I also watch the Pawn Stars on TV and I’ve seen how the Old Man and Rick operate, so I know how this whole thing works! So after quite a bit of haggling and Daryl even left the room at one point, we did come to an agreement for price. I don’t know if he was so happy with it or not, but it was a fair price and I was OK with it. And just as I was heading back upstairs I could hear the door bell again. I thought, just what does this guy want now? And then just as I was coming back down the stairs I saw it was the FedEx guy.