The Curse of Favre!!!!

Here is a photo I forgot to post yesterday.

A couple more photos sitting at various positions on the deck of the house.



This area is 100% Ceder evergreens and 90% of the houses are made out if this wood. Lake Tahoe was a timber area that surrounds the actual Lake Tahoe the largest alpine lake in America.


The interesting thing is that there is only two ways for water to leave the lake, evaporation or this tiny stream.

Once water reaches the lake from snow or rain "on average" it will take 700 years for it to flow out (compared to 2 years for Lake Erie).

There is enough water in this lake to give every person in the U.S. 50 gallons a day for 5 years. it's 1700 feet deep.

So our goal today was to head south to view the southern popular end of LT and maybe a casino.

But first - a DJ photo.

There are very few places to stop and take photos of the scenery but when there IS a place I go snap happy.

The problem with the above photo is scale. You can't see how high that background mountain is. We talked about it and it was like taking a photo of the Grand Canyon - no scale to show how BIG it is.

Notice Kurth T-shirt

After leaving this beautiful area with way more photos then I'm posting we go UP higher and have an in vehicle experience.

You know when you are on a mountain road and there is a cliff DOWN on one side and a cliff UP on the other side. Well, the road was like that and then BAM, there was a cliff DOWN on the left side and a cliff DOWN on the right side. NO shoulder, NO railings. SPACE. DJ is saying WHAT'S HAPPENING and I'm looking strait ahead and the road slops down into space ahead.

FREAK OUT!! seriously, there was NOTHING to keep a car from plunging on either side of this small road. I wanted to stop for a photo but perhaps now was not the best time.

So we continue on to south Lake Tahoe which is in Nevada and it has LV style casinos. Big ones. We eat at The Hard Rock and check out Packer super Bowl odds (8 to 1) and then for lack of anything better we all grab a seat at a Roulette Table.

The next story is 100% true and I will always remember it.

We all start placing bets here and there and some are winning and some are losing. I have a plan and am watching for series like lots of odd numbers or 3 REDs in a row and then playing the opposite. I'm up about $45 but Don, DJs brother is raking in the cash.

He is hitting numbers right and left with $3 bets on one number and winning. He was up a few hundred at one point and starts to place 5,7,9 dollars on points.

Don who is a HUGE PAcker fan (even though he lives near Dallas) decides to play #12 Aaron Rogers and we say maybe he should put $ on Favre #4. He puts $5 on Favre and we laugh joking it will hit the number and bounce out.

The ball spins around and bounced and lands on #4 and Don jumps up pumping his fist and we are all screaming and making a scene. YEA BABY!!! and then at the very last second it bounces to #16 next to it!! NO!!!!!

A true Favre moment. Giddiness followed by extreme disappointment. We laugh pretty hard at Dons bad luck.

Here is an action photo of The Don at work. That "0" you see? He had $$ on that baby when it hit.

Speaking of bad luck. As we were leaving the casino I noticed this gruesome scene.

Has anyone seen Left Hand Louie lately???

That 6 foot long trench looks pretty ominous.

It rained on the way back to the house. First time in 4 months!

That's it from here. talk at ya later.

Note to balderdash - I can not get into the protected FO. ????? Also your work email is FUBR. no biggie at the moment.

PACKERS - BET THE FARM!!!!

Rod