I had this grand and glorious plan...


...that included me doing a blog post with a bunch of the photos from last weekend's Chuckwagon Corral Charity Dinner (my mother's charity) as well as some other funny random happenings.

And then today I dumped the photos on my other laptop, organized them on that laptop, copied the necessary photos for my mother's charity onto a flash drive, forgot all the other photos I wanted to share, and then shut down that laptop. Then I started to write this blog post and couldn't freaking find half the photos I wanted to use, and I am NOT about to go power up the other laptop again to write this so fuck it all. You guys don't need to see me dressed up as Miss Kitty from "Gunsmoke" anyway.

Since I'm here, here's how we celebrated my mother's 72nd birthday.


yeah, the TV was on
And she loves the film "Babe" (and champagne)












Here are a bunch of photos of fake cows and a fake chicken that we used to decorate the backyard for this party.

you didn't believe me about the chicken did you?

a donkey wearing a bandana
that's the bottom half of a covered wagon

cow selfie

I call this, "Behind the Corral".



Oh and I live-tweeted the morning my father and I went to purchase 21.5 lbs of Tri Tip steak ($193.98 y'all) so here is all but I think one lb being grilled.

I may just be sick of Tri Tip now.




And, finally, we took photos of each of the party guests when they arrived (in costume)  with their faces in this wanted poster. It was really fun and made for some great photos, especially all the gentlemen/gentlewomen who frowned like criminals. 


It was a good time, and we raised a ton of money so, in the end, it was worth being called "Token Mexican Whore #1" by my mother.

Although I'm still waiting for my public apology from her.

 

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