Snowy October

This is from October 10th. It's been a crazy fall. It's snowing again right now.

Heading to Minneapolis this afternoon to a Wild and Avalanche game! Go Avs!!

Gary Allan Rocked the House

Gary put on another great show. He's a great musician and entertainer. We had a blast. It was another opportunity for my new camera to zoom on it and get some great shots.

Going to see Gary Allan

We're heading to Red Wing tomorrow to see Gary Allan perform. We'll be taking Eddie and camping there. It's suppose to snow and be rather nasty. It's almost time to put Eddie away for the winter. Tomorrow will be the 31st night we've stayed in him since May.

Birthday Pizza

This past Sunday was my son in-law Josh's birthday. So Tuesday we gathered at Rafferty's Pizza to celebrate. I scored another birthday present on his birthday. Go figure. It's a really nice big frame with all kinds of little spots to put photos. You know the ones. And it was filled with photos of all the grand kids. It's very nice. And there was a interesting pair of Halloween socks in there as well.

Kaylie, Kalob, Kiehra and KimKay...that's a lot of K's.

Past Weekend

Mike and I do a shot on my birthday downtown at Sheps. Good times! Mike gets a little weird when out in public.

Saturday was dad's birthday. Here we are (along with Chessebelle) having a little birthday cheer.

Thanks for all the Birthday Wishes

Thanks to everyone that remembered my birthday. The calls, Facebook messages and emails started rolling in early this morning. Seems like everyone remembered it except Makita. He called at 6:30 am to say he wasn't walking this morning because of the rain. He didn't mention my birthday. Me sad panda.

I tried to put a JibJab that Jerry Katz made for me on here but it blew the whole blogger up. So here's a link to it instead. Hilarious.http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/jSNVjBrGsfby72NN

Went to Effie Wheel'n

This past weekend we went up to Effie to ride the wheelers with Kurt and Robin Hopp. Here we are after a dusty ride on Saturday. From left to right: me, Robin, Kurt and Makita. I learned some new tricks. They are very dangerous and should not be tried at home.

Robin brought her new toy "Rhonda the Honda". She's a spunky little cycle.

I took Rhonda out for a spin.

Makita built us a nice fire.

Here's Robin enjoying the fire. We had to build a wind block off the lake cause it was pretty breezy.

Here's Kurt and Tucker. I think Tucker is getting a bit of a talking to.

Finding Kitty a Home

This past weekend we went up to Thor to Dave and Ellie's place and "built" a hoop shed for Dave's Kitty. First we needed to clear a 12 x 20 foot spot for it.

Then the construction began. Boy oh boy, all four of us together couldn't read those third world instructions. But we eventually got it started.

Kitty even pitched in and helped with her new digs.

Words from Bob

This past weekend I received word from Bob. He said that it is still very very hot over there. He said that they stay very busy and he's figured out that he may be a little bit too old to be playing with the young Marines he works with. He said they are great to work with but they don't know when to relax. They keep telling Bob that they can all relax when they get home. Bob says that they are truly awesome warriors and great Americans and that he's honored to be working with them.

The pictures shown here are taken in Helmond Providence. The first one is of Bob and some property he had considered for retirement but shortly after he started looking around he decided he really didn't like the neighbors, they weren't that friendly. The second picture is of Bob's group waiting for our helicopter to pick them up.

Nephew Matthew Graduates from Airforce Basic Training

A couple weeks ago my nephew Matthew graduated from Air Force Basic Training from Lakeland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas.

He's the tallest guy in the back row of the forward most group.

Now he's in Witchita Falls Texas at Sheppard AFB.

OOOOOPPPPPSSSS

We just happened across this poor guy's oops last Sunday at the Gilbert Lake public access. This guy, whom I've named Slick, had about as much sense as an oxygen starved house plant. He was trying to load a piece of garbage jetski into the bed of his truck (no trailer evidently). I guess it never occurred to him he was on a cement ramp that ended at some point. Oops...fell off that. He lost his computer and cell phone in the lake. And from what I saw he also lost a lot of oil and gas too. There was quite an oil SLICK. By the looks of his truck and jetski I'm going to go with "no insurance" to cover his loss. And oh boy the tow truck driver (from some operation I have never heard of) was equally as smart. But they did manage to winch the truck out. It's probably still there in the landing.

Aitkin Pheasants Forever Youth Day

This past Saturday was the Aitkin Pheasants Forever Youth Day at the Wealthwood Gun Club.

The kids went through and participated in eight different stations. Here is a little guy trying his hand at Trap.

There was a Turkey Hunting station. Look hard you'll see the instructor all in camo under the tree.

This year the kids got to try a laser shoot.

The rifle range is always popular.

Conservation Officer Bob Mlynar and his dog Maude gave a demo of how he uses his dog to find illegally taken birds.
There is an opportunity for the kids to shoot Skeet.

Conservation Officer Scott Fidzgerald gave a safety and rules talk to each group of kids.

Most of the kids loved to shoot at the Bow simulator.

Sunday at the Races

We make our way into the track on Sunday.

Diamond Rio performs before the race.

Here's all of our fancy headphones that Mike painted for us. Notice Jerry's nice new Mark Martin #5 set. Nice job Mikey.

Isn't this new camera the bomb? I love it. Looks like Kasey was 10 feet away when he approached the stage for driver introductions. Heck he was a long way away from us.

Here comes Jeff's car to get in line for the start of the race.

Jeff coming off the intro stage.

Atlanta Motor Speedway Pole. Where the hell is the number 88? The rest of the Hendrick drivers are up in the top 7 starting spots.

Our seats are simply "AWESOME"! We can see the entire track and we're on the start/finish line.

Kasey waves to the crowd right after his win.

Heading to the winners circle.