Life these days often seems "oxymoronic" for me, but over the couple of  weekends, I think I saw it all!.

Two weeks ago, I went on a date with "Mr. KellyHB1" (woo hoo!) and we went to a classic western bar in Scottsdale called Handlebar J's.  It is a fun place to go if you like beef, drinks, and people dressed up as "cowboys".  I think I was one of the few that actually had manure on my boots!  Which leads me to the first "oxymoron" I encountered that weekend.  With all the folks dressed up to western dance, I became aware of a guy dressed in a T-shirt and shorts and Birkenstock sandals approaching our table.  People at the bar seemed to know him and he visited many customers as he made his way to our table.  Now, this guy looked like he should be sitting on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean drinking out of a coconut!  When he finally got to our table, he took a good look at our cowboy boots, and told us that we needed a shine! ( I guess he saw the manure all the way from the other side of the establishment.)He handed us his card and it turned out that he had a shoe shine business inside of the bar!  I told him thanks and that maybe another time...

When he left, I thought to myself I don't know if I wanted a guy in sandals to be shining my boots! "Oxymoronic"  I would have preferred if he had a coconut drink to offer me instead!

Next Oxymoron:

My filly Star popped a shoe off last week messing around in the pasture!  I guess that it is hard to keep shoes on such a young horse since they run and buck, etc...

Now I had just gotten her shoes the week before so it wasn't something that I was willing to wait for to get fixed and I called my farrier to see if he could put it back on.  He told me he would be out on Sunday morning to put the shoe back on.  (My farrier loves me!)

So, I got up early and fed the ponies, opened the front gate, and went inside for a cup  of coffee.  I thought I'd hear his big Ford diesel truck so that I would be ready to meet him outside by the barn.  I got through half of my cup, when I heard a tapping on the front door and there was the farrier!  Strange, I didn't hear the truck and he was so quiet!

I went outside with him to get Star and I realized why I hadn't heard the truck!  There sitting by the barn was a very Hot and Sexy brand new red Corvette!  I turned to him and said, "You really have been charging me too much!"

He laughed and opened up the trunk, pulled out the anvil and other equipment and 5 minutes later, Star's shoe was back on.   Apparently he didn't have any clients that day and thought he'd enjoy a nice Sunday drive after he put the shoe back on.

As he drove away, I laughed to myself and thought, "Why not!"

"Oxymoronic!"

Later that night, I enjoyed a delicious Cheesy, pepperoni pizza with my Diet Coke!