Friday, December 18, 2009
Happy Birthday (a few hours early)
Just wanted to "publicly" wish dad a happy birthday (yes I know it's tomorrow). Thanks for helping to keep this blog alive. I hope you enjoy your day. Love you.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
HOOD TO COAST 2011
All right guys enough screwing around. I really want to do the Hood to Coast relay before I die and my knees aren't getting any better! 2010 is already out of the picture; they've already drawn teams and all that but I really want to get some people thinking about doing the race with me in 2011...assuming that we get picked. So I really want to get an idea of who is even interested and if anyone is even going to be available? So if you could spread the word about this thing to the rest of the family it would be good. Leave your comments with questions or if you can do it. Thanks guys.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Christmas tree diet
This diet has many steps so follow carefully.
1. Go into the mountains to look for a Christmas tree (don''t bring any food)
2. Walk around in two feet of snow for an hour looking at mangy trees
3. Get truck stuck
4. Almost run over husband and get even more stuck
5. Jump in bed of truck for a half an hour trying to get free again
6. Successfully get free and continue to look for a decent tree
7. Go down a snowy road but you have to turn around because of down power lines
8. Try your hardest to make it up the snowy hill but make sure to go off the embankment
9. Call a tow truck, but be prepared to wait for at least an hour
10. The tow truck will then winch you out, only to get stuck themselves
11. Watch the tow truck try to get unstuck, but instead they hit a tree and end up at the very bottom of the hill
12. Then proceed to follow the tow truck by shoveling and then driving in 3 foot increments
13. Get an arm workout by supporting yourself as you pee while holding onto the bumper of your truck
14. Wait 5 hours and then the fire and police department will show up with a bobcat
15. Someone will then take sympathy on you and bring you a PB and J along with some baby food. You can eat all of this and it will be the best thing you have ever tasted.
16. Wait for another hour while everyone gets situated and the road gets plowed
17. Wait for the tow truck to get out
18. Get out yourself and meet at the rendezvous point.
19. Pay tow truck people $112
20. Say goodnight (it should be about 10pm) and go home
I've lost 3 lbs on this diet in just one day! Oh, and don't expect to get a Christmas tree out of the whole deal. I didn't.
1. Go into the mountains to look for a Christmas tree (don''t bring any food)
2. Walk around in two feet of snow for an hour looking at mangy trees
3. Get truck stuck
4. Almost run over husband and get even more stuck
5. Jump in bed of truck for a half an hour trying to get free again
6. Successfully get free and continue to look for a decent tree
7. Go down a snowy road but you have to turn around because of down power lines
8. Try your hardest to make it up the snowy hill but make sure to go off the embankment
9. Call a tow truck, but be prepared to wait for at least an hour
10. The tow truck will then winch you out, only to get stuck themselves
11. Watch the tow truck try to get unstuck, but instead they hit a tree and end up at the very bottom of the hill
12. Then proceed to follow the tow truck by shoveling and then driving in 3 foot increments
13. Get an arm workout by supporting yourself as you pee while holding onto the bumper of your truck
14. Wait 5 hours and then the fire and police department will show up with a bobcat
15. Someone will then take sympathy on you and bring you a PB and J along with some baby food. You can eat all of this and it will be the best thing you have ever tasted.
16. Wait for another hour while everyone gets situated and the road gets plowed
17. Wait for the tow truck to get out
18. Get out yourself and meet at the rendezvous point.
19. Pay tow truck people $112
20. Say goodnight (it should be about 10pm) and go home
I've lost 3 lbs on this diet in just one day! Oh, and don't expect to get a Christmas tree out of the whole deal. I didn't.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Miscellaneous Stuff
This will probably be a bunch of rambling...there's nothing important to talk about, but it's been quite awhile since I posted so figured something is better than nothing.
It's a balmy 8 degrees in Klamath this morning. Just a little bit too chilly for my taste. The ducks and geese have long since headed for warmer climes, so duck season is pretty much done. I have a tough time getting motivated to look for coyotes, so other than a drive to Blizzard Gap to look for deer I haven't been hunting since October.
Congratulations Stephanie for your great effort in Missouri the last couple of days. Winning the 100 free against the competition you had is pretty impressive...and a 50.08 (BSU had you at a 50.06, so I'm not sure what's right) is amazing! Glad you got to beat Kim Jasmer...hopefully you made her cry!
Doug's been playing basketball, and it's going to be a long season. The JV are doing well, but Henley's varsity probably won't dominate any teams this year. Doug's only been playing two quarters of JV ball so he can be available for four quarters with the varsity, but so far has only gotten in for a couple of minutes. Hopefully in the future they'll either let him play the whole JV game, or they'll start using him more for varsity...he winds up sitting the bench much more than he plays.
It was nice having all of you here for Thanksgiving...hopefully we can all be together again sometime in the not too distant future.
Time to wrap this up...I have a bunch of commercials to write.
It's a balmy 8 degrees in Klamath this morning. Just a little bit too chilly for my taste. The ducks and geese have long since headed for warmer climes, so duck season is pretty much done. I have a tough time getting motivated to look for coyotes, so other than a drive to Blizzard Gap to look for deer I haven't been hunting since October.
Congratulations Stephanie for your great effort in Missouri the last couple of days. Winning the 100 free against the competition you had is pretty impressive...and a 50.08 (BSU had you at a 50.06, so I'm not sure what's right) is amazing! Glad you got to beat Kim Jasmer...hopefully you made her cry!
Doug's been playing basketball, and it's going to be a long season. The JV are doing well, but Henley's varsity probably won't dominate any teams this year. Doug's only been playing two quarters of JV ball so he can be available for four quarters with the varsity, but so far has only gotten in for a couple of minutes. Hopefully in the future they'll either let him play the whole JV game, or they'll start using him more for varsity...he winds up sitting the bench much more than he plays.
It was nice having all of you here for Thanksgiving...hopefully we can all be together again sometime in the not too distant future.
Time to wrap this up...I have a bunch of commercials to write.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Duck Game
Just wanted to remind everyone of the big Civil War game tonight. Should be a good one. Kickoff is around 6pm on ESPN. Hope you are all watching and cheering on our ducks.
Go Ducks!!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Thanks
Just wanted to say that it was great to see everyone over the Thanksgiving holiday. I hope that everyone had a good time and made it home safely. (Jeff & Breein, I hope that you do eventually make it home!)
Anyway, we'll have to do it again sometime... maybe in a few years when Doug graduates or the next time someone gets married... that could be a while.
A special thank you to mom for all the hard work she did. I think it all turned out very well. I especially enjoyed the Price is Right game. (I would have enjoyed it even if we hadn't won so much loot!)
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