JOYCE ELIASON AKA LITTLE LOIS WINS AGAIN
Joyce Eliason, prominent blog sponsor and quiz judge, won last week's "Donna Quiz."
There was only one other entry which explains the complexity of the quiz, or else the total lack of interest in the quiz. Which ever, Joyce came out the winner. She will receive a small smoked ham of my choice. Thank you, Joyce, for taking the time to enter the quiz and exhibiting your highly ethical, unbiased, impartial, and intelligent expertise in choosing the rightful winner.
CONGRATULATIONS TO JOYCE
My phone range at 1:37 AM last night and it was my good friend Kramer from Vermont. He said he couldn't sleep and asked me if anything new was going on in Manti. I said, "You bet, there are several new and exciting things taking place right now in our fair city." I included some of the most exciting in a picture feature below:
New paint on church tower....
The Center Ward church building is currently getting a new coat of paint on it's steeple. This steeple is actually higher than The Old North Church in Boston.
The steeple is so tall that you actually need binoculars to see the very top.....
New building for class rooms under construction at Manti Elementary School.....
Manti's Main Street was recently re-surfaced and painted with new lines.
New army truck for the Manti National Guard........................
There is a new fan light in my office.
There is a new Red Sox poster on my office door.
There are new flowers on the steps of the County Courthouse.
There is new sand at the Manti City Park vollyball courts.
Fritze has a new shirt.
As you all can plainly see, there are plenty of new things going on in Manti. If you want to live life in the fast lane, move to Manti.
TULIP TIME IN TREE TOWN
My granddaughter, Tulip, lives in Vermont and recently started her first year of school as a student in Kindergarten.
Getting ready for school.......
Making new friends. .....
Why isn't she wearing her Red Sox back pack?
Play time....
The bell rings.......
Walking home from school....
All of Tulip's family and friends in Utah really miss her and wish her the best in the new school year. She will be in Utah at
Christmas time and we all look forward to that.
Rock on Tulip......
THE UNITED STATES OF SKULLARTICA
SHIRT OF THE WEEK
Modeled by Oil Can
Meanwhile, while Tulip was attending public school in Vermont, her Tiny Terror cousins from Manti were sluffing school and fishing at Ferron.
Lane's big catch of the day......
Alex holds a big one......
Alex makes friends with his catch before turning it loose........
Goodbye Mr. Trout......
Lane with a mouth full of chewing tobacco.........
Maddie is happy as a trout smacks her lure......
It's a double as the two oldest Tiny Terrors display their twin captives. We did a quick DNA exam of the fish before releasing them and discovered that they were brother and sister fish. What a coincidence.
Lane grabbing some shade while in deep trolling concentration.....
Time to head back to the cabin after a successful day of sluffing school and nailing a few trout.....
FLY FISHING WITH SPIKE
All photos courtesy of Oil Can.............
Spike hanging on and waiting for a bite........
Hooked up.......
Beautiful autum day on Ferron............
Mr. Brooke Trout and Mr. Spike meet each other......
Time to release the Brooke..........
Spike would sooner grab it than let it swim away.....
Another hook up off the shore of Spike Island........
Anticipation........
Tight line..........
Still tight........
Spike wonders if the fish will ever be pulled in........
A fish is released and Spike tries to grab it under water.......
A very nice Brooke ........
Spike eying his catch of the day.........
A great afternoon was had by all......
One last trout and it's back to the cabin for steaks, potatoes, home made bread, peach cobbler, ice cream, JD, and other heart friendly foods to be shared with friends.........
Nothing is finer than a weekend at at cabin with Spike and family or Spike and friends. This even includes Oil Can.
SHARK TOOTH SKULL OF THE WEEK
(see below)
I couldn't sleep the other night so I got up looking for something to do. I stumbled upon a box of balloons that were left over from the water fight on the 4th of July. I started blowing some of them up and before long I had created the object as pictured below.
I thought it looked quite formitable, but within 10 minutes Tiny Terrors, Maddie and Alex and their BB guns, had completely destroyed it.....
FIRST SUPERMAN COMIC 1938
Looks like Superman is pissed off at General Motors.......
EVIL LOOKING SEMI OF THE WEEK...... from Russia
OUTDOORS WITH RANGER BOB
HOW TO MEASURE THE HEIGHT OF A TREE
METHOD 1
While standing under the tree hold a stick 3 or 4 feet in length in a vertical manner at arm's length. Grasp the stick so that the length of the stick above your hand equals the distance from your hand to your eye (your hand should be at eye level). Next, slowly walk backwards from the tree, staying level with the tree's base. When the height of the tree appears to be the same as the length of the stick above your hand, stop. You should now be sighting over your hand to the base of the tree and, without moving anything but your eye, sighting over the top of the stick to the top of the tree where you have stopped. Measure the distance from that spot to the tree and you have determined its height.
METHOD 2
Get your chain saw, cut the tree down, measure it with a tape measure...
....Ranger Bob
UPCOMING EVENTS FOR SEPTEMBER
It's the good/evil sister's birthday on 9-11...
Stretch run for the Red Sox.....
Karl T. gains strength and begins skate boarding.....
Little Martha uses both ovens for the first time....
Chicago Bears are picked to win division.....
Oil Can pays for coffee....
Hoppy bowles a 300........ using total scores from three frames....
Canal Walker attempts to walk in canal and discovers it is full of water...
Bubba attempts to juggle live cats while riding unicycle....
Andy Cox remembers to take his lunch pail to work.....
Train Wreck doesn't get married....
Talula shows up for work on time.....
Shreader doesn't have a baby.....
Marconi finishes remodel job on his bathroom....... started in 1987
Stainless Steel Sabel actually stops a leak in a pipe.....
F Bomb doesn't get lost on his way home from work....
Curt Wankier performs stunts on his tractor at the Utah State Fair....
Costanza elopes with his regional sales manager......
Obama is impeached for encouraging kids to stay in school......
Milo is disqualified as Alpine Country Club Champ when cork is discovered in his driver.
Mrs F Bomb is discovered selling cats to the bioligy department at Washington State
Piper and Willow Circolia join the Republican party of NM and campaign for Sarah.
Opie AKA Robyn Cox continues to grow but still manages to fit into her class room.
Jackie Wankier wins a quiz......
That's it from here.
Thanks for tuning in.
............voo