So Joey Chestnut won the annual Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest again. He ate 68 hot dogs and buns in 10 min. He has won 3 years in a row and beat the Japanese contender, Kobayashi.
I just called the "Poh-Poh." I dropped the boys off, at the pool, to meet up with some friends and on my way back some kids on a tiny motorcycle flew past me into on coming traffic at about 60+mph! The speed limit is 35. They were flying! I followed them into Call State Park and waved them down for a chat. Surprisingly, they stopped. They didn't appear harmful...the kid on the front (15?) had a mouthful of braces and the 13 yr old looking gent on the back couldn't have weighed more than 110 pounds. I calmly (with a concerned face) explained to them that they need to be careful, their driving was awful, they passed me at 60+mph and I have children who bike, scooter and walk on that road. Twice I said, "Please be careful for my children and for yourself." The driver was sorta smiling the whole time and then said, "Okay." Afterward, they gathered with friends (already there) and took off on some trail. I took note of their tag#, went home and called the Police. I would never have called the Police but for the fact that their speed was incredible. If they had simply been going a little fast...I woulda left it at our "chat" or done nothing at all. It was just wayyyyy beyond reckless.
Narc...I knew someone would say that-ha! I hope someone narcs on our kids if they're ever driving like that. I spoke with our neighbor last night (not the cop) who was behind me on the road at the same time...he said he called them in too. Good for him. Our children and those children are in great danger if they continue to ride like that. That pix of Ryan is cool...did u win a contest? As of Wednesday, baseball will be over for the season...can't decide if I'm excited or disappointed. We had only one real "incident" during ABATE. Some kid wiped out on hwy 18 in front of Sarah's. Our Hostess, who is also an RN, ran out there and we brought the people in to see if they were okay. Other than some scrapes and being "shook up" they were fine. We bought them a round of drinks and so did another table. They went up to the Bar to order more and the Bartender said "7.50 please." They said "What? We have to pay?" They got mad and left on a huff. Can u believe it?
Mike and I appeared before the City Council yesterday to appeal to keep our trees (in the parking area, they say our grassy strip isn't wide enough. These are small, fruitless snowcrab trees) After over an hour of discussion they voted...it was a tie, 3-3, so then the Mayor is supposed to break tie votes, and he voted against our trees...The problem with that is he moved to Oak Lake 2 months ago (the Mayor is supposed to live in town), after he voted I asked him if he had moved out of town and he said he owned a house at Oak Lake, but has an Algona address (511 E. College). So afterwards I went to that address and knocked on the door, there were a bunch of college age types inside. I asked them if the Mayor was home and they said he might be back later. Then a guy walked over and said he owned the house, I asked him if the Mayor lived there and he laughed and said the Mayor stores some things there and admitted the Mayor doesn't pay rent...so we have an illegal Mayor!!! And an illegal vote against our trees!!! The Mayor is married, a Grandpa, a part-time sheriff's deputy, and the house at Oak lake cost $325,000 This house he claims he lives in is a college rental type, worth about $40,000. What a liar!!!
Anonymous, If Eli, Liam, Don or someone *you* cared about were in danger of being killed or seriously injured by a cRazY driver...you may feel differently.
I'm pretty sure anonymous was kidding. In fact I thought maybe it was Tom. Of course, calling was good and fine. Mary I think you should write a letter to the editor, talking about how your trees improved the look of your corner, invite people to judge for themselves, and casually mention as an after thought that it seems wrong for a non city dweller to make judgments about civic issues. Even if they are the mayor. Too bad he is a deputy too.
So can those trees be moved without killing them if you have to? Can you plant anything besides grass in the parking? What are you going to do? If you think outing the mayor would somehow get the vote on your trees changed, go for it. But if it won't do anything but create enemies, it's not worth it.
We saw "Away We Go" over the weekend and liked it a lot. (Definitely for adults only.) But then yesterday Gene Shalit trashed it. It's only playing at select theaters, whatever that means. I don't get the tactic of advertising it endlessly and then not putting it in wide release.
Good call on calling the cops. At least the parents will find out, right? That is, if the cops do anything.
Ragbrai starts from Council Bluffs in two weeks. Those guys make motorcyclists look like Sunday school teachers, although they're probably less likely to act like the jerks that got mad at Sarah's. What are people thinking?
Randy and I are hoping that he can get off work in time for him to come up with me, drop me (and the girls) off in time for the Quiz Bowl then he will head down to stay with his folks on Friday night and come back Saturday.
This means we will need not only a place to stay, but someone to drive us there... Mom & Dad? Mary & Mike? Joe? Tom and Nance?
We had a great BBQ at Lisa's Sunday night with yummy steaks and sangria and island music. The girls are all very expressive dancers.
I moved some hostas to my front yard because my now-sunny back yard was shrivelling them up. So now I have to protect them from deer. That spray stinks so bad it makes me feel bad! Like mildly depressed. I guess after a few weeks you only have to use it about once a month. Even though it doesn't smell bad after it's dry unless you get real close and take a big whiff I still hate having it on my plants. Maybe I'll just chain a big wolf out front.
Anybody know any details about the quiz bowl and team? Who's on it? How does it work?
Re: Liquid fence The other day I was spraying our clematis which grows up and around the porch light "pole". As I sprayed and walked in a CIRCLE...I soon realized the error of my ways when I got a face full of it...yuck! I sometimes consider the irony as I spray awful-poo-smelling stuff in order to protect our pretty flowers.
Deer is too nice a name! Lisa,maybe Betty can be there when you get dropped off and the school will be open for tours, etc...in case they get bored watching the quiz bowl competition.
Pat...this has been discussed on the radio after every council meeting(this was the 3rd and last!) and it will be covered in the paper this Thursday. But maybe a letter would be good, less newsy. Both the newspaper and radio reporters stopped me to say how sorry they were and how stupid it all is. I put a photo of where the Mayor says his residence is and a photo of where he's really living and a reference to him voting illegally at council meetings on a table in Daylight Donuts right when ALL the coffee drinkers were arriving...so that will get the word "going"...heeheehee
I don't know....maybe the proposal for an in-town bowhunting deer season wasn't such a bad idea after all...
Just kidding. Although it was I who had to say "just kill'em" while Stevo was deliberating whether to use solar-powered mole-driving-crazy vibrating spikes over molicidal poison grubs. I pointed out that we have a very shady yard so solar power might not work anyway. It helped that the grub package had a VERY ugly picture of a mole on it.
Our Vision Council (newspeak for parish council) is so big-picture that they never arrange any details. We're having a potluck dinner to say farewell to Fr. Lazarus tonight and nobody is in charge - it's all supposed to happen by magic. Nobody's in charge of drinks or coffee or plates or cutlery, nobody specified who should bring what (I'm imagining 27 platters of those rolled-up tortillas that I don't like), the maintenance guy is home with an injured foot and I have no idea if anybody set up tables. They've done this before too. I'm going in early to make coffee and lemonade. If any of us who are taking responsibility (and I know there will be others)bitch, the response will be that everything turned out all right so what's the problem. Visioning dunderheads.
Happy Birthdays to Peter and Ryan. Peter - I will see you this weekend. Jude is very excited as am I of course. Ryan - you must come to MN and take me fishing sometime. I've never caught a fish. I went fishing once at Smith Lake and ended up with my foot stuck under a boulder. I think we were fishing that day. I can't really remember.
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Happy Birthday Ryan and Peter! What a festive time of year to be born.
Happy Birthday Peter and Ryan. Peter, what an odd photo that is of you.
p
Happy Birthday guys. Doing anything good?
Happy Birthday guys...
So Joey Chestnut won the annual Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest again. He ate 68 hot dogs and buns in 10 min. He has won 3 years in a row and beat the Japanese contender, Kobayashi.
U - S - A U - S - A
Nice stuffed fish. Where did you get it? Happy Birthday, Guys.
Tom
This is a perfect summer day.
I just called the "Poh-Poh." I dropped the boys off, at the pool, to meet up with some friends and on my way back some kids on a tiny motorcycle flew past me into on coming traffic at about 60+mph! The speed limit is 35. They were flying! I followed them into Call State Park and waved them down for a chat. Surprisingly, they stopped. They didn't appear harmful...the kid on the front (15?) had a mouthful of braces and the 13 yr old looking gent on the back couldn't have weighed more than 110 pounds. I calmly (with a concerned face) explained to them that they need to be careful, their driving was awful, they passed me at 60+mph and I have children who bike, scooter and walk on that road. Twice I said,
"Please be careful for my children and for yourself."
The driver was sorta smiling the whole time and then said, "Okay." Afterward, they gathered with friends (already there) and took off on some trail.
I took note of their tag#, went home and called the Police.
I would never have called the Police but for the fact that their speed was incredible. If they had simply been going a little fast...I woulda left it at our "chat" or done nothing at all. It was just wayyyyy beyond reckless.
narc.
Ed, where was I when you took that picture? Why am I on the floor?
Peter
That picture was taken by either Betty or Gillian Straub at Granny and Granpa's.
Narc...I knew someone would say that-ha! I hope someone narcs on our kids if they're ever driving like that. I spoke with our neighbor last night (not the cop) who was behind me on the road at the same time...he said he called them in too. Good for him. Our children and those children are in great danger if they continue to ride like that.
That pix of Ryan is cool...did u win a contest?
As of Wednesday, baseball will be over for the season...can't decide if I'm excited or disappointed.
We had only one real "incident" during ABATE. Some kid wiped out on hwy 18 in front of Sarah's. Our Hostess, who is also an RN, ran out there and we brought the people in to see if they were okay. Other than some scrapes and being "shook up" they were fine. We bought them a round of drinks and so did another table. They went up to the Bar to order more and the Bartender said "7.50 please." They said "What? We have to pay?" They got mad and left on a huff. Can u believe it?
Happy Birthday Ryan!!!
Happy Birthday Peter!!!
Mike and I appeared before the City Council yesterday to appeal to keep our trees (in the parking area, they say our grassy strip isn't wide enough. These are small, fruitless snowcrab trees) After over an hour of discussion they voted...it was a tie, 3-3, so then the Mayor is supposed to break tie votes, and he voted against our trees...The problem with that is he moved to Oak Lake 2 months ago (the Mayor is supposed to live in town), after he voted I asked him if he had moved out of town and he said he owned a house at Oak Lake, but has an Algona address (511 E. College). So afterwards I went to that address and knocked on the door, there were a bunch of college age types inside. I asked them if the Mayor was home and they said he might be back later. Then a guy walked over and said he owned the house, I asked him if the Mayor lived there and he laughed and said the Mayor stores some things there and admitted the Mayor doesn't pay rent...so we have an illegal Mayor!!! And an illegal vote against our trees!!!
The Mayor is married, a Grandpa, a part-time sheriff's deputy, and the house at Oak lake cost $325,000
This house he claims he lives in is a college rental type, worth about $40,000. What a liar!!!
"in" a huff, sorry.
So, whatcha gonna do? Do you have any recourse or is it over?
Anonymous,
If Eli, Liam, Don or someone *you* cared about were in danger of being killed or seriously injured by a cRazY driver...you may feel differently.
I'm pretty sure anonymous was kidding. In fact I thought maybe it was Tom. Of course, calling was good and fine.
Mary I think you should write a letter to the editor, talking about how your trees improved the look of your corner, invite people to judge for themselves, and casually mention as an after thought that it seems wrong for a non city dweller to make judgments about civic issues. Even if they are the mayor.
Too bad he is a deputy too.
p
Happy birthday Ryan!
Happy birthday, Peter!
I saw lots of fireworks in honor of your birthdays!
What did you do? What did you get?
Lisa
Nance -
Someone was going to say narc.
Don't worry about it.
I am impressed that you stopped to talk to the kids.
lisa
So can those trees be moved without killing them if you have to? Can you plant anything besides grass in the parking? What are you going to do? If you think outing the mayor would somehow get the vote on your trees changed, go for it. But if it won't do anything but create enemies, it's not worth it.
We saw "Away We Go" over the weekend and liked it a lot. (Definitely for adults only.) But then yesterday Gene Shalit trashed it. It's only playing at select theaters, whatever that means. I don't get the tactic of advertising it endlessly and then not putting it in wide release.
Good call on calling the cops. At least the parents will find out, right? That is, if the cops do anything.
Ragbrai starts from Council Bluffs in two weeks. Those guys make motorcyclists look like Sunday school teachers, although they're probably less likely to act like the jerks that got mad at Sarah's. What are people thinking?
Re: Garrigan 50 anniversary
Randy and I are hoping that he can get off work in time for him to come up with me, drop me (and the girls) off in time for the Quiz Bowl then he will head down to stay with his folks on Friday night and come back Saturday.
This means we will need not only a place to stay, but someone to drive us there... Mom & Dad? Mary & Mike? Joe? Tom and Nance?
Thanks,
lisa
We had a great BBQ at Lisa's Sunday night with yummy steaks and sangria and island music. The girls are all very expressive dancers.
I moved some hostas to my front yard because my now-sunny back yard was shrivelling them up. So now I have to protect them from deer. That spray stinks so bad it makes me feel bad! Like mildly depressed. I guess after a few weeks you only have to use it about once a month. Even though it doesn't smell bad after it's dry unless you get real close and take a big whiff I still hate having it on my plants. Maybe I'll just chain a big wolf out front.
Anybody know any details about the quiz bowl and team? Who's on it? How does it work?
Re: Liquid fence
The other day I was spraying our clematis which grows up and around the porch light "pole". As I sprayed and walked in a CIRCLE...I soon realized the error of my ways when I got a face full of it...yuck! I sometimes consider the irony as I spray awful-poo-smelling stuff in order to protect our pretty flowers.
Despite directions on any product we have used, we find that we have to spray often in order to really protect our plants.
The heavenly scent of wolf poo.
lisa
Deer is too nice a name!
Lisa,maybe Betty can be there when you get dropped off and the school will be open for tours, etc...in case they get bored watching the quiz bowl competition.
Pat...this has been discussed on the radio after every council meeting(this was the 3rd and last!) and it will be covered in the paper this Thursday. But maybe a letter would be good, less newsy. Both the newspaper and radio reporters stopped me to say how sorry they were and how stupid it all is.
I put a photo of where the Mayor says his residence is and a photo of where he's really living and a reference to him voting illegally at council meetings on a table in Daylight Donuts right when ALL the coffee drinkers were arriving...so that will get the word "going"...heeheehee
But, that's all I'm gonna do about the Mayor and ONLY because he is a deputy and an ass and that's a BAD combo.
I don't know....maybe the proposal for an in-town bowhunting deer season wasn't such a bad idea after all...
Just kidding. Although it was I who had to say "just kill'em" while Stevo was deliberating whether to use solar-powered mole-driving-crazy vibrating spikes over molicidal poison grubs. I pointed out that we have a very shady yard so solar power might not work anyway. It helped that the grub package had a VERY ugly picture of a mole on it.
Our Vision Council (newspeak for parish council) is so big-picture that they never arrange any details. We're having a potluck dinner to say farewell to Fr. Lazarus tonight and nobody is in charge - it's all supposed to happen by magic. Nobody's in charge of drinks or coffee or plates or cutlery, nobody specified who should bring what (I'm imagining 27 platters of those rolled-up tortillas that I don't like), the maintenance guy is home with an injured foot and I have no idea if anybody set up tables. They've done this before too. I'm going in early to make coffee and lemonade. If any of us who are taking responsibility (and I know there will be others)bitch, the response will be that everything turned out all right so what's the problem. Visioning dunderheads.
Don't do anything because Lazarus will be coming back, right?
Everything turned out all right, so what's the problem.
Ok
Who's on the Quiz Bowl Team?
And quite importantly, is Joe 4 on?
And...
the send off for Fr. Lazarus was quite nice.
lisa
I made a beet soup today that was actually pretty good. That's the first time I've had a beet soup that I liked.
Was that Monica? It sounds delish. I don't knwo that i've ever had a beet soup, other than borsht. Which is good.
p
If yah check out the ROCK GONE WILD public myspace and view their blog...they mention about Sarah's and the Pre-Party!
You don't like those rolled up tortillas??!! I LOVE those.
Happy Birthdays to Peter and Ryan. Peter - I will see you this weekend. Jude is very excited as am I of course. Ryan - you must come to MN and take me fishing sometime. I've never caught a fish. I went fishing once at Smith Lake and ended up with my foot stuck under a boulder. I think we were fishing that day. I can't really remember.
Oh - m.e. - I like your Lazarus joke.
Thanks Em!! So, you're coming down for Founder's Day??
Monica...are you coming??
Will either of you be in time for the Quiz Bowl?
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