Fair trade?

Well last night was G-man's Blue and Gold banquet. It was a Chinese themed dinner with chop sticks and all. I was nice but I was fighting a headache so I wasn't at the top of my game. I wore my newest USU tee shirt that I ordered from their web sight for $4.00. That's right cheep coverings and Aggie-ness to boot! I got one for Linc as well. I'm not trying to influence his post high school decisions in any way... GO AGGIES!

Speaking of the big guy, he is in UW country today and tomorrow at the state in door track meet. He will be competing in the high jump and the 55m hurdles. The first he has practiced for about a week since basketball ended (yippee!) and the second he hasn't even ran a complete race in yet but he is going to the state tournament. He doesn't expect to do overly wonderful.

We traded him for one of Holl's friends who is going to stay the night. I wasn't so hip on the whole idea until I learned that they were going to make dinner for us tonight. Well, it might be OK for one night.

Looking at how things are going in the world today I think I will take the government hand out they are giving out and buy food storage. We may not have food shortages we just might not be able to afford to buy it. To answer Wife's uncle from a few blogs ago, I see the state of things and wonder if we may just be headed for a greater depression or at least the good ol' seventies with double digit inflation, interest rates and unemployment. I think that BHO is really just "Jimmy Carter lite" so to speak.

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This picture is for the wandering Grannie.

The thing on her head is a burp cloth that Omaha SIL sent to us. She has one for her own youngster and he just loves it.

Holl was in a piano recital Friday and played without sheet music, which I could never do (I can't even play chopsticks).

'Leenie has learned how to turn over but doesn't always like it when she does get turned over.

fore for four

OK, all you non-blogging family bloggeres! I just got an e-mail from Hillbilly Sis that had a four things list on it and my challenge to all your slow-posters (this means you Magdogs, we know what you got for Christmas, what did your get for Valentine's?). The challenge is to post your own "four" list. Here's mine.

4 jobs you've had:

1. Ranch hand
2. Hospital orderly
3. Fireplace designer
4. Gun maker

4 Movies you would watch over and over again:

1. Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail
2. The Princess Bride
3. McClintock!
4. Kelly's Heroes

4 Places I have lived:

1. Crow Creek, Idaho
2. Rotterdam, Netherlands
3. Ruby Valley, Nevada
4. Woodruff, Utah

4 TV shows I love to watch:

1. Star Trek (the original series)
2. My name is Earl (can't though, young kids around)
3. Myth Busters (don't see it that often though, don't have cable)
4. How things are made (see #3)

4 Places I have been:

1. Zwolle, Netherlands
2. Bozeman, Montana
3. Bone, Idaho
4. Pebble Beach, California

4 People who E-mail me regularly:

1. Hillbilly sister
2. Laramie sister-in-law
3. Sled-head Brad
4. Spammers

4 favorite foods:

1. Meat
2. Dairy
3. Sugar
4. Caffeine-free Dew

4 Places I'd rather be:

1. in bed
2. in the mountains by a lake on a warm summer's evening
3. in the back yard on a warm summer's evening
4. anywhere on a warm summer's evening

4 Things I'm looking forward to this year:

1. Anniversary-moon
2. all the snow being gone
3. warm summer evenings in the back yard
4. getting "Oggie" going (my VW Thing)

(yeah, the spell check works!)

Things that happened

Just to catch up on what has been going on in my little corner of heaven. We had another good dose of snow (not near as much as others, I've been told) and then it wormed up some so the town went through and scrapped the streets of old ice and snow this made a rather nice jump at the neighbours that go away for the winter. You see our next door neighbours push their driveway across the road and onto thier neighbours lawn (the neighbour that goes away for the winter) this creates an eight foot tall ski slope for the neighbour kids to sled on. well when the town went by and scrapped the road it made a great little jump at the end and as you can see by the pictures G-man and Sparkey made full use of the situation.

Friday and Saturday Linc went to a tourniment at Evan's-town. We went to the game Friday (I took half a day off work) and they played "Rio Verde". They won rather decisively. The crowd gasped when Linc went up for a rebound/tip in and almost dunked it. He did rather well with at least six points and many assists, rebounds, blocks and so forth. I can tell that the Freshman team is not used to having him on the team (he has been bouncing around from Freshmen to Sophomore to Junior Varsity this year) because they pass to him at his knees and all the other kids try three pointers instead of trying to get it inside to him. Anyway Linc came back Saturday saying that they lost their next game and then played for third and lost by one point.

Holl went with her Beehive class (a church group for 12 to 14 year old girls) to a basketball game in Ogden (one of the girl's aunt was playing for Weber State) Saturday and had a great time with her friends.

G-man and Wife went to a chess tournement at the middle school and G-man won third place in the 9 to 12 year olds.

The M's and I just stayed home and watched cartoons except for going to the post office to get the trophies for the chess tournement that came almost too late.

I appoligize for all the spelling errors, I can't seem to get this thing to spell check for me any more.

Waiting for May

Winter is long here. We have probably gotten a foot of snow in the last several weeks. You can see that Linc is making his own entertainment this weekend because of the storms we were having cancled his ball games in Evanston Friday and Saturday. I think they have rescheduled the tourniment for this week but I'm not sure about any game schedule anymore.
Wife's Uncle K sent us an e-mail the other day of his girl playing soccor. I thought I would post a picture of what G-man and Sparky did this weekend. They had a rather nice day Saturday, the temprature was around 30 above so all the neighborhood kids went around digging in the various snow piles and making caves and forts. This is the fort infront of our house. G-man is kneeling down, not standing or sitting.
This is a shot of Angus looking over the snow pile infront of our house. Note the broom stuck into the snow bank. The snow has settled quite a bit in the last several days because of the worm weather (above 30). Saturday I went with Linc and his friend JC and one of mom's neighbours and shoveled off her roof. The wind blew so bad Thursday that they cancled all ball games and wresteling matches in our corner of paridice. Idaho (who closes their schools if two snow flakes join hands) has had their schools closed more then they were open in the last two weeks. Well we must have shoveled two feet of snow off the roof and when we were done the two boys jumped off the front roof into the pile in front of the bushes... many times.

Another picture of 'Leenie.

What's a good Politically Correct American to do?

• If you don't vote for a woman you're a "sexist".


• If you don't vote for a black you're a "racist".


• If you don't vote for the war hero you're "unpatriotic".


• If you don't vote for the preacher you're "not christian".


• If you don't vote for the crazy Texan you're ... sane.


• If you don't vote for the Mormon ... well... he is a Mormon you know, so that's OK.

It looks like it might be down to "the Black and the woman (or vice versa) verses the Hero and the preacher (look at what happened in West Virginia if you don't think Huck is running for vice president now)".

I have voted every year and in every election that I have been elegibale to do so but I may just skip the top contest on this years ballot.

Do you vote to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens and most likely thousands of American civilians or do you tell the Republican party that they have left you behind? Do you vote for a man who admits that the economy isn't his strong suit in the hopes that we have enough money to continue fighting terrorism or do you just say to hell with it and let the Democrats totally mess up everything. I honestly don't know if I will vote or not. Please talk me down from this paranoia tree I seem to be stuck in.

By the way, how's your food storage comming along?

PS. my spell-check doesn't seem to be working so sorry for the spelling errors.