By by male population. Don't worry about us!

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So this weekend all the male macho men are headed north to kill deer and drink Bud leaving all of us girly men to take care of the lonely woman folks. Yea - who really wins on this one ;-)

When I was a cook at a fine restaurant on 51 and I94 this was a big day as thousands of orange clad males were making their way north. It was almost like a holiday. If you were from another country you would think that all the protestant males were making their way to some a protestant temple in the woods. William of Orange was a hunter right? And he DID marry his first cousin (who was a babe) . . . . . just saying . . . .
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And now a verse to calm you.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before sleep - Robert Frost

Geez - I almost broke into song there!
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A new Thanksgiving tradition!!!

Since it looks like DJ and I will be having Thanksgiving by ourselves I think we will change it up a little!

Skip the turkey this year - we're going with Haggis!! A former friend asked me if I wanted to buy some Haggis as he was going to order some. He was in Scotland and loved it. Before I screamed out YEA GET ME SOME I thought I better ask what it was.

Haggis is a traditional Scotland dish made of sheep or calves viscera minced with oatmeal, suet, and onions and boiled in the animal’s stomach.

WOW - That is even better then bacon popcorn!!! How can I NOT want this.

Let me do the carving, PLEASE???

YUMMO!!!

Haggis is traditionally served with "neeps and tatties and a "dram" and a lot of Scotch whiskey is consumed along with it/them. . . whatever.

Haggis is also used in a sport called haggis hurling (this can be taken a few ways I believe), which involves throwing a haggis as far as possible. The Guinness World Record for Haggis Hurling has been held by Alan Pettigrew for over 25 years. He threw a 1.5 lb Haggis 180 feet, 10 inches. Yet another sport for the Silverdome!
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We had HomeBrew club last night. What happens in Homebrew Club stays in Homebrew club! Sorry - nuff said.

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So y'all know that I'm in a Vendor Arts and Craft Fair (meaning anybody with anything can have a booth selling any ol' garbage) and there are two Networks covering this amazing event.

Here is what FOX news was showing last night as anticipation for the event is ramping up outside the High School.

But then on the other side of the coin here is what the BBC was showing.

Clearly someone is lying.

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On this date in 1945 The Nuremberg trials began. FOX is blaming ACORN for WWII.

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QUICK - who was the 25th governor of Wisconsin. I'll let you think about it! It's his birthday!
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Speaking of my package

that is arriving today. Before we left for work DJ felt the need to de-poop our sidewalk. The UPS guy probably HATES delivering to our house (and for that matter I wonder where all of our Girl Scout Cookies are). Blake seems to think that pooping on the grass tickles his toes so it's all sidewalk pooping now. The UPS guy probably has poopy shoes every time he delivers to us.

I have no wonderful photos of poop - sorry, I'll work on that.

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Fred Zimmerman.

Here is Fred posing - he is the one in the black suit.


His claim to fame was he had a reputation as a man "who never forgot a name or a face". Seriously - that is the most interesting thing I could find on him.

Have a great weekend

always
Rod

Lincoln, Lambert and Creed Oh MY!

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What happened to Pizza Shak! IT'S GONE!! The best Pizza in Columbus. Sure, there might have been warning signs like, randomly not open on Saturday nights the last 2 times I tried to order Pizza but . . . . . now when I call I get a "this number is no longer in service" which normally means if I call back in 15 minutes it will still be not in service and if it is not in service I have to think it was hurting sales.

SIGH!

This weekend is the Holiday Open House for the downtown area. Perhaps Kim can fill me in on the details OR I can go to the Columbus Chamber of Commerce website. WHAT? - they really don't have one? What are they doing with all the money that the businesses are giving them to be in their exclusive club. The #1 thing a Chamber MUST have is a website to advertise Columbus!

If you google Columbus Wi Chamber you can get to the Beaver Dam Chamber Site pretty easy.

Maybe the Main Street Organization will have to start doing the Chambers work since Chamber is dropping the ball by doing nothing.
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I had my camera yesterday and was walking to the car, everything was so gray and rainy but the popcorn cart was like a ray of sunshine.
Did you know that a large bucket of popcorn at a theatre can have 1,200 calories and 34g of saturated fat? But it tastes soooo good. My dad, rest his sole, used to fry up bacon and pour the grease over popcorn when I was a kid. Now THAT was heaven. Bacon flavored popcorn, you just can not get any better then that.

Anybody watch The Office?? Here is a YouTube of Creed a few years ago when he was in the Grass Roots. He is the dude on the left with the striped shirt. Not a lot of air time but, oh, it's him all right.



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I received a package in the mail yesterday with some matting and backing and hinging tape. I had to bring the tape to work to try to figure out how it works. I CAN'T FIGURE OUT TAPE!!!

I also finally changed my tire last night. I put it on upside down! What an idiot.

I see Adam Lambert is being called the male Lady Gaga. I'm just not seeing the correlation.

is that a nipple thingy?

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I know there are only 10 Milwaukee Buck fans in Wisconsin but there is getting to be a pretty big buzz going in Milwaukee with their new rookie Brandon Jennings. The guy is awesome scoring 55 points the other night (29 in the 3rd quarter). 4.7 rebounds and 5.8 assists. The Bucks are clicking WITHOUT Micheal Redd who has been injured for a number of games. 1st place but a lot of Home games so far.

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I've not sure I have ever purchased a Stephan King book. Kink is the #1 threat to the global paper supply. You would think the environmentalists would be gunning for him. His newest book is about a small town (pop, 5000) that has a force field plopped over it and it's citizens must fend for themselves. The newest book is his 17 #1 best seller. Of course that in reality means nothing. I worked in the book industry and being #1 is just an arbitrary selling point. Does not mean he actually sold that much. Although normally they do because, well, it's #1 and people ALWAYS buy the #1.

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Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg address today in 1863. I tried to read ALL of it so I could explain what it was but after my 4th try and only getting to the 3rd paragraph before I drifted off I gave up. I guess it was better to hear it then read it.

Here it is and maybe someone can give me the cliff notes on the last part. I just can't do it. WHO WILL BE THE FIRST. Remember - start at the beginning. How far can you go!

Here is an actual photo of Lincoln at the Address. He is hatless in the middle looking down (probably checking his zipper) just before he gave his speech.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

OK - I drift out in the middle area but come back at the end for the finale'.


have a great day



always

Rod

Packers have the #1 Defense in the League

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I received a call from the upcoming Vendor and Craft Fair being held Saturday 9am to 3:30pm at the Columbus High School and they seemed pretty upbeat. Looks like 60 booths with a wide variety of things from Mary Kay to people selling cement. There will be concessions and so forth.

Of course Char from up dar in Schofield has been screaming at me to DON'T BE NERVOUS and bringing up things I will need that I had not thought about (I've never done this before). Receipt book, cash box, make sure my zipper is up, stampy thing, bags . . anything else?.

I will have my postcards (must order more) and bookmarks. DJ and I stained my tri-door set up. Wish I had more prints but . . . all in good time.

One thing I have been doing as I slowly populating my new website with images

Melotte Photo Imagery

and I'm finding all sorts of wonderful shots that the owners of the cars do not have and I bet they would want. This was taken at Public Enemies Days (the first and last I fear as Chamber called it a failure while most of the people involved said it was a huge success). I have a lot of photos but in one of my learning processes I found it's easy to take photos and write down names . . . . but then you have to match them all up! OOPS! Lesson learned. No . . not really . . I'm still at a loss on an EASY way.

I have all the names in a notebook. I think I'll just put all the images on the web in my portfolio page. I have shots of every car that attended.

Some people say that this style of image reminds them of old postcards. I'm advancing into the past.

And of course here is the love of my life, the woman that keeps me grounded and on my toes (also called the only sane member of our family).

My One.
and Blake

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SO . . . . NOBODY told me the Silverdome in Detroit was for sale. Someone purchased it for $500,000. I'm not going to say how much our overpriced yet modest home cost but if I would have known I could have purchased the Silverdome it would not have been a HUGE stretch to take out a bigger mortgage. I could have practiced my golf IN THE LIVING ROOM!!

But someone else bought it and I have an idea what it can be used for. THE FASTEST GROWING SPORT IN AFGHANISTAN. Goat Grabbing! (also called Buzkashi) a sport with 20 players, 20 horses and one dead headless goat. What could be more fun! Seriously - I can't make this up, it's real. I found some photos but I won't post them.

It's like polo with a dead headless goat. Of course he would be dead I suppose. Would that make dead and headless redundant? One implies the other? If you are dead you are not necessarily headless, yet, if you are headless you are most certainly dead.

Deep thoughts.

But think of all the untapped market for paraphernalia. We could make GoatCheeseHeads.

OK OK - one photo I found but I made it kid friendly! Notice the "fan" with the big ass gun! I guess security is not as much of an issue as it is at Packer/Viking games.

Oh those whacky Afghans are at it again.

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Speaking of the Packers. According to Football Outsiders who take all luck out of the stats and factors in WHO a teams opponents have been. The Green Bay Packers have the best Defense in the NFL. 13th best Offense and 32nd best Special Teams (Vikings are 8, 17 and 1).

And finally -from the BBC who for the 1st time ever broadcast an NFL game played in the U.S. bacl to the UK. Here is the commentators blog. Pretty interesting about Green Bay and his experience.

What a weekend in Titletown!

This comes from a the BBC.


Talk to ya later.

Cheers - always

Rod