My Duck Dynasty Day

     Jeannie's son Mark is an excellent carpenter, very thorough.
     However, I wouldn't want to tackle with Jeannie in a dark alley if she didn't like me. She's very deternined, a good worker and a good business woman.  She and her great big son Mark are rebuilding the deck and the fence around my pool.
     Jeannie and I went to Lowe's yesterday. I put all the lumber, concrete, screws, etc., on my Lowe's credit card because I got a 5% discount and I wanted to make sure things were on the up and up.  Mark and Jeannie tore out almost all of the rotten decking, broken hot tub, fence, rotten poles, bracing, etc. yesterday. The guy at Lowe's said that they would deliver the lumber/supplies early this morning.
     While we were at Lowe's Jeannie had her "spoiled baby" pit bull in her car. She can't leave him at home (I can hear all of you laughing at this red neck story) because he tears up her house. She has been leaving him in her car while she works but he started tearing up the inside of the car. He won't leave her side. Anyway, Jeannie told me that she was going to get the cement and poles and bracing on her trailer in case Lowe's didn't get everything delivered before they got here to work this morning. 
      While we at Lowe's ordering and paying, Jeannie kept having to go outside to check on her baby (five year old pit bull with a head the size of a bowling ball and twice as hard) in her car. When I finishing paying at Lowe's, Jeannie said she was going to get her trailer and come back to Lowe's and get the necessary supplies so Mark could get a head start this morning.
     Later in the day yesterday she said she didn't get the stuff, but was going to get it early this morning on her trailer so Mark could get started rebuilding the deck this morning.
    This morning when they came, she said that they would get the holes dug for the poles, take up the rest of the rotten poles and bracing and Lowe's would be here by then.
    Nada. Lowe's is known here for that, a different time table than their customers.  They have a horrible delivery reputation.
     At ten o'clock Jeannie called them and they said that they had other deliveries ahead of mine. Said it would be two o'clock. Jeannie was livid by now.
     At about 1:00 this afternoon she was griping about them not delivering when they said they would.  I graciously reminded her about the fact that she said she was going back to get what Mark needed to get started, the concrete, the new poles and 2X6s for the bracings when we were there yesterday and she also said late in the day yesterday that she was going to get them this morning. She said that she couldn't get her other sons to unload the firewood off of her trailer. I told her she better get them hopping and then she could get the stuff that Mark needed and bring them here like she said she was going to do.
     She did that, came back after lunch with her trailer loaded with the stuff that Mark needed.
     By this time she was really livid, no delivery from Lowe's.   She called Lowe's and the lumber guy said that they couldn't figure out what all she took with her, so they completely unloaded the delivery truck and started all over minus the list of things they thought that she took. While she was talking on the cell phone, Mark and the pit bull were busy setting the poles in concrete at this time. Remember, the dog won't leave Jeannie's side.
     I called Lowe's and the head lumber guy told me they were loaded up and ready to come this way. By this time it was funny to me, a real red neck (whom I really and truly love), comedy of errors situation.
    They finally delivered the huge load of stuff. You can imagine how much lumber it was with replacing the under bracings, the poles, the decking and the fencing all the way around the pool.
      So it's all delivered now and Mike, Jeannie and the pit bull (tied to one of the secured poles) are all out there doing more work.
     By the way, I bought them cheese burgers from McDonald's for lunch, cheese burgers for Mike and the pit bull and a chicken sandwich for Jeannie for lunch. No kidding, I did. I told them I would buy them lunch. They told me to get two cheese burgers for Mike, one cheese burger for the pit bull and a chicken sandwich for Jeannie. I really did serve lunch to the three of them.
     With all of that going on, I decided to vacuum the floors to let off a little steam.  Darn new sweeper only picked up a little bit of dirt.  The joke is on me.  I just looked at the new sweeper.  It said "Carpet Cleaner."   Yeah, it's been a real red neck and now a red faced day for me. 
     I might not watch Duck Dynasty tonight. I lived it today.