tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62592365833247203292024-03-13T07:48:33.497-05:00The Eclectic CompanyWelcome to Keetha's place. Come on in, kick off your shoes, and sip a latté. His grace is new each morning. (Late Summer Wisconsin Sunset - photo by Keetha) Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.comBlogger1657125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-17022654400464247172014-09-28T21:25:00.000-05:002014-09-28T21:29:39.547-05:00So, This Really Happened Today<span style="color: #ffe599;">.</span><br />
This evening, after it had already gotten dark - and this fact is very important to my defense, I asked Fisherhubby to pull into Walgreens so I could pick up some Dramamine to calm my dizzy head. <br />
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When I got into Walgreens I was utterly amazed at the remodeling they'd done in there since my last visit no more than a month ago.<br />
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They had rearranged the shelves, there were new colorful identification signs hanging from the ceiling, the Pharmacy had been completely redone, and even the debit/credit card box at the check out was a shiny new model.<br />
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I was utterly amazed.<br />
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I hopped back in the truck & said to Fisherhubby: "you won't BELIEVE how much they've remodeled in there. It looks like a new place."<br />
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"I wouldn't know," says he, "I've never been in there."<br />
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Well, I let that fly right over my head so intent was I on noticing that they had completely revamped the parking lot too.<br />
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"Look!" I squealed, "Walgreen's has completely rebuilt their parking lot too!!!"<br />
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Fisherhubby looked at me like I'd lost my mind and said:<br />
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"Keetha!! This is CVS!!!"<br />
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I don't believe there's a Dramamine on the planet strong enough to cure me!!!<br />
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.Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-83650981597264231562014-09-19T23:26:00.000-05:002014-09-19T23:32:56.411-05:00So We Had Us a Day!!<br />
Yesterday was Fisherhubby's birthday. He has been planning his birthday outing since last July. Ended up he had to work yesterday so the birthday adventure was today.<br />
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This is pretty tame stuff to be called an adventure - but we call it that anyway.<br />
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We began with brunch at Perkins here in town. I'm telling ya, they need to ask me to write their menus. I took an ordinary egg dish & revamped it right before their eyes. Made it delish.<br />
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After brunch Fisherhubby pointed the nose of his new, to him, truck toward Eau Claire.<br />
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Along the way, when our morning coffee necessitated a potty stop, we found this particular brand of bottled water. It is my very fave and we don't find it just everywhere.<br />
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SCORE!! <br />
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The drive was quite lovely - even though a bit overcast. We passed fields ripe unto harvest, leaves trading in their greens for more flamboyant hues, and animals doing what animals do.<br />
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In one field nine(ish) Sandhill Cranes were forming a perfect pyramid. That was all it took to launch Fisherhubby into a detailed description of how they must practice their flying formation on the ground to get it just right before they take to the skies for migration.<br />
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I didn't believe him, and neither should you for IF Sandhill Cranes practice their formations on land before taking them to the skies, which I sincerely doubt, HE certainly doesn't know about it and was only trying to trap me into one of his fables.<br />
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I shall not be trapped, nor shall you.<br />
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Upon arriving in the metropolis of Eau Claire we imbibed in a bit of shopping.<br />
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First stop Kohl's for jeans & other accoutrements.<br />
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Next Gander Mountain where I spent time in the camping chair department with this for my vista as Mr. B shopped till he nearly dropped.<br />
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I met a young lad who wore a crimson Alabama hoodie though he knew not one thing about AJ McCarron, Nick Saban, the elephant, nor even Roll Tide.<br />
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I did my best to edjumacate him, even warning him that his most vile rival was Auburn, to which he replied: "I just liked the shirt."<br />
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I shake my college football loving head in disbelief. <br />
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Finally we reached our final destination - Red Lobster. Fisherhubby dug right into his salad knowing it was a mere precursor to his main event:<br />
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Two pounds of Alaskan Snow Crab legs.<br />
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I look at these and wonder from which perilous seas they were wrought. <br />
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But Fisherhubby dissected them with the skill of a surgeon giving not a moment's thought to their procurement.<br />
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Too much work.<br />
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I preferred the ease of never-ending shrimp with an add-on lobster tail.<br />
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It was a veritable feast. They lost money on me.<br />
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With briny hands washed & dried we wended our way home over long and winding roads.<br />
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I swear the leaves had gotten more colorful in just one afternoon.<br />
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We arrived home none the worse for the wear, Fisherhubby already with visions of next year's birthday adventure dancing in his head <br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"></span><br />Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-81442987521450452312014-09-18T11:50:00.000-05:002014-09-18T12:44:21.981-05:00TBT - Throw Back Thursday<br />
I've been out of blogging too long to know if TBT, throw back Thursday, is a meme that is a "thing" here or not. I'm gonna make it a "thing" today anyway.<br />
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On the last Thursday in May Fisherhubby and I set out on a wee adventure - the end goal of which was a new fishing pole for one of us.<br />
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It was a gorgeous sunny day as we drove through the heart of Wisconsin Dairyland.<br />
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We succumbed to the temptation to stop at roadside venues like this - and purchased a log cabin bird feeder for our back yard.<br />
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We even pulled into the Wisconsin Concrete Park where we moseyed amongst the whimsical creations and the gift shop.<br />
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We had barely been back in the car when disaster, in the form of another car suddenly crossing our path, struck.<br />
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I only had time to think "so this is what death is" before the soundless slow motion grinding of impact occured. <br />
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Somehow both of us survived - death was cheated that day.<br />
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Fisherhubby was able to walk away unscathed but for a pinprick on his thumb. I, on the other hand, had to be cut from the car by the jaws of life and ambulanced to the ER.<br />
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The force of the impact was enough to bend my zipper pull into this L.<br />
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Fisherhubby wants me to throw those capris away - but I have chosen to keep them as a reminder of God's grace and protection.<br />
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We are grateful. <br />
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Obviously my shiny red Durango was totalled and had to be replaced.<br />
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After our ordeal my number one requirement for the replacement: a substantial front end. I don’t see how anyone driving a small compact car could survive that impact.<br />
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We shopped locally and found this cute Buick Rendezvous - new only to us. I am very happy driving it.<br />
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Of course Fisherhubby could not STAND driving his old rusty bucket of nails truck with me having a new(ish) car. Within a month he upgraded to this Ram.<br />
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As luck would have it, our life jarring wreck occured just minutes from the fishing pole factory destination, the ER to which I was transported a mere three miles away.<br />
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However, Fisherhubby has yet to get that fishing pole.<br />
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<br />Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-55939948651342922372014-09-12T11:45:00.001-05:002014-09-12T11:46:48.379-05:00Big Heart<span style="color: #fff2cc;">.</span><br />
We received this check in the mail the other day.<br />
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Being the big hearted kind of person that I am, I told Fisherhubby he could get it cashed & keep it.<br />
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I'm not at all sure why he wasn't more grateful..<br />
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That skunk.<br />
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<br />Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-70279438541765215142014-09-11T22:03:00.003-05:002014-09-11T22:03:28.109-05:00If Wishes Were Horses Then Beggers Would Ride<span style="color: #fff2cc;">. </span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc;"> <span style="color: black;">I really wish I could give this story a different ending.</span></span><br />
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On the 4th of July I went to a big family picnic at my cousin Chuck's (on the left) farm. Lots of once-removed, second, and shirt-tail cousins were there. I thoroughly enjoyed reconnecting & even meeting cousins I'd never met before.<br />
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Just before I left to drive the hour and a half home my cousin Bud appeared. (center) Bud & I had met as kids but I hadn't seen him since high school.<br />
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We quickly caught up. He told me he had stumbled across my blog & had gone all the way through the archives reading it. He said he wished I'd make more posts.<br />
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I begged him to let me take this picture, he consented only on the condition that I not put it on my blog. Then we promised to get our families together again soon & said good-bye.<br />
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Last week Cousin Loretta (right) phoned to tell me that Bud's wife came home on September second and found him lying in the yard - dead.<br />
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Oh Bud, how I wish I could undo this. How I wish we could roll the clock back and meet for dinner like we promised we would. You left us too soon. .<br />
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I also hope when you look down from Heaven, where I have no doubt you are, you will forgive me for posting your picture and story.<br />
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At Bud's visitation I was able to reconnect with these second cousins (siblings with their mom) whom I have not seen for years.<br />
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And I also got to visit with Second Cousin Mary Jo whom I met for the first time on July 4th.<br />
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I think the moral of this tale is - don't waste time. Make time to embrace those whom you love. Cherish time spent with them.<br />
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Because I'd rather be a begger walking than a bunch of wishes riding.<br />
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<br />Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-15109883673900070342014-02-23T20:14:00.002-06:002014-02-23T20:27:17.956-06:00Hayward Night Life<span style="color: #ffe599;">. <span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Our Hayward/Birkie weekend is nearing an end. We decided we'd better party on our last night. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">WARNING!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">What follows depicts the wild and crazy partying of two senior citizens.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">It may get ugly, so use your own discretion about looking any further in this post.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">You have been warned.</span></span><br />
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We got the party started at one of our favorite haunts. This is the same place where we got the Birkie brat which we ate on the street.<br />
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We took it indoors tonight.<br />
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No one else was eating on the patio either. I don't know why not, it's a balmy 13° out.<br />
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After giving the menu very serious consideration Fisherhubby ordered sausage, pepperoni, and hamburger pizza.<br />
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Fortunately for him this is health food containing 4 essential food groups: grains, dairy, protein, and vegetables.<br />
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I ordered the fat and calorie free Nasty Burger with portobello, jack cheese, bacon, and caramelized onion.<br />
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After eating a very light supper, (interpreted: stuffing ourselves til we could barely walk) we took in the lights.<br />
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Hayward goes all out to transform into a fairy village of Christmas lights.<br />
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They kept them up for the Birkie.<br />
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After the light show we headed back to our hotel where one of us wanted to party like it was 1974 in the jacuzzi.<br />
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Someone also got a little carried away with the bubbly - - -<br />
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And was proud of himself for it.<br />
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Sadly, now that we've played late into the night, the party's over.<br />
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Someone partied too hard and is already snoring.<br />
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<br />Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-80152415351614439872014-02-23T16:13:00.002-06:002014-02-23T16:18:01.153-06:00All's Quiet In The Northwoods Now<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">It's Sunday afternoon and nearly all10,000 Birkie skiers and 30,000 cowbell ringers have gone home. </span></span><br />
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Only a few nonHayward residents, like Fisherhubby and myself, are still here basking in the glory of the Northwoods.<br />
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It's so quiet now you can hear a snowflake drop - if it were only snowing, which it is not.<br />
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Truth be told, this is how I like the Northwoods best.<br />
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Oh, the Birkie crowds and excitement were fun while they lasted, but there's a whole lot to be said for the solitude of the boonies when peace descends upon it.<br />
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Fisherhubby and I are in no hurry to head back to the routine of our everyday lives, so we are lingering.<br />
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Most of the Birkie accouterments have already disappeared. Now only hints of the Berkie remain - a tent or two, a porta-john here or there, and some Birkie decor in church this morning. <br />
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Fisherhubby and I are quite content to take in the view of Hayward Lake, now devoid of Birkie skiers, from our hotel room.<br />
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And should we get bored with the snowy vista, we have this view right in our room.<br />
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Perhaps Fisherhubby will avail himself of the jacuzzi later but I, not being a hot tub fan (nor fan of any tub for that matter) shall not.<br />
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Tomorrow will come soon enough and we shall then wend our way back to the real world and home.<br />
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Hayward, we love you and we shall be back.<br />
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<br />Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-41430128486691713132014-02-22T20:18:00.001-06:002014-02-22T20:18:13.136-06:00A Dog On a Blustery Day<span style="color: #ffe599;">. <span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">We hoped to arrive in Hayward today by 10 a.m. to ring cowbells for Birkie skiers as they come up Main Street and cross the finish line. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">That's what we do. We ring cowbells. We're expert cowbell ringers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Some people skate ski in the Birkie. Some people ski classic style. Both take skill and endurance. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">The rest of us stand around ringing cowbells.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">I am a cowbell ringer extraordinaire. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">HOWEVER, our "slip slidin' away" adventure of the morning (see previous post) took soooooo long we didn't hit Main Street until 1:17 p.m.</span></span><br />
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By that time it felt so late the cowbell ringer extraordinaire didn't even bother to bring her bell. She just hurried to Main Street and - - - <br />
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Snapped some pix of skiers turning the final bend.<br />
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These Birkie cross country skiers ski over hill and dale all the way from Cable to Hayward. (look on a map) That's a 30 mile track for skate skiers and 32 miles for classic.<br />
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I SAID 30 OR 32 MILES.<br />
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I thought the three blocks I had to walk from the car was FUR 'NUF on a blustery 9° winter day.<br />
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This was not our first rodeo, er I mean Birkie, so I knew EXACTLY where to find a delicious brat.<br />
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I just gotta tell ta, there ain't much better on a 9° blustery day than eating a steamy "dog" right out on the sidewalk while Fisherhubby rings a cowbell in your ear.<br />
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After lunch and cowbelling we headed to one of Fisherhubby's favorite haunts - The Fly Fishing shop.<br />
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We've vacationed here for so long and hubs has hung out in the Fly Fishing shop so many times that the owner Larry is now a friend.<br />
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Our next stop was Backroads Coffee - where skiers come to warm up and refresh.<br />
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(And cowbell ringers extraordinaire come to find a little girl's room.)<br />
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It was warm, cozy, crowded and the little girl's room was available.<br />
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In Backroads I met Ken. Ken skied 32 miles on the classic Birkie.<br />
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In just a few hours of one day. <br />
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I couldn't walk 32 miles in 10 days, so Ken is my hero.<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">And SOMETIMES adventures spin out of control like ours did today.</span></span><br />
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The morning was sunny and bright. The fresh white blanket of snow made an absolute wonderland.<br />
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The highway was not so gorgeous unless you enjoy glare ice as slick as a soapy baby's hiney in a bathtub.<br />
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I was tooling down the road at a moderate 40 mph OR less as conditions warranted.<br />
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Foolish drivers, and by foolish I of course mean more foolish than me, were zipping by at ridiculous speeds.<br />
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I fumed. I fretted. I told Fisherhubby those speeders were gonna end up in the ditch and take me with them.<br />
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I spied a rest area which I needed for coffee elimination. I slowed and attempted to GENTLY ease over one lane. Suddenly- we were spinning across the ice.<br />
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Thankfully we were not teetering in the edge if a precipice - which in a few yards we would have been. But my door wasn't opening. <br />
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Because obviously I wasn't going anywhere.<br />
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The cars and semis whizzing by slowed nary one bit and I began to fear we'd be squashed like bugs in a rug if one of them lost control and came slamming into us.<br />
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In a little while an angel, cleverly disguised as a wrecker operator, came. He said he had two other cars besides us to extract from icebergs but that he came to us first because we were in a danger zone.<br />
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About that time an unmarked police car pulled up and stopped to observe my foolishness.<br />
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He asked for my driver's license to check my criminal history. I guess it is now a crime to innocently spin out on ice and bury yourself up to your gills in a snow bank.<br />
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After about half an hour's hard work the angel released me from my icy prison. The undercover state trooper took pity on me and gave me back my license. <br />
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Joy to the world!!! We were on our icy way.<br />
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Oh but my joy was premature. Our transmission would NOT go out of 4 wheel low. Fearing the worst we slowly limped into Hayward and our hotel. We thought we'd be paying a pretty penny to some mechanic on Monday.<br />
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Later in the day this man, known to blogland as Fisherhubby, figured out the problem and got the car back in 2 wheel drive.<br />
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Now he expects to be paid mechanic's wages.<br />
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<br />Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-2342601374752144072014-02-21T19:21:00.003-06:002014-02-21T19:23:28.440-06:00Feast or Famine<span style="color: #ffe599;">.<span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">After a famine of blog posts from me - today I'm serving up quite the feast. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Drought's over. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">At least for now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">While I'm on the drought topic - if you're still stopping by this little ole blog even after all this time I surely do thank ye.</span></span><br />
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The cessation of the blogging drought <span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">may or may not have something to do with the fact that Fisherhubby & I are on an adventure which is providing me with both fodder AND time for blogging. </span></span><br />
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We went to our FAVE, Red Lobster, for dinner tonight. We don't have one near where we live so it's famine until we visit the city.<br />
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After we sat down to eat I noticed Fisherhubby was the ONLY one in the entire place wearing a hat.<br />
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Naturally I pointed this out to him.<br />
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"Well", says he, "If the Duck Dynasty guys were here they'd have theirs on too."<br />
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There is that.<br />
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Shaking my head.<br />
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Later a few more hat heads arrived. Whew!<br />
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We ordered our feasts. And WHAT a feast I had!!<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;"> For much of the way there was only one clear(ish) lane - if you call a thin strip right down the middle of the road a lane.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">I DO so I took it until forced over by the rare oncoming logging truck.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Atlantians: Yes we DO continue to travel in these conditions or we'd be hibernating until March or April or quite possibly even May.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">We do expect to be completely snowfree by July.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Sad to say we passed three vehicles along the way whose drivers had failed to account for the less than pristine conditions. Two of those were on their sides and one was completely upside down.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">While we are very thankful to be safe and sound, I feel a wee bit sick for those others who took what turned out to be a much greater risk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"> </span>Headed to the Northwoods to once again spectate at the Birkie.<br />
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Last step before departure - a good old fashioned Fisherhubby staffed carpet steam cleaning.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've been celebrating my birthday in my city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This was one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad birthdays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You know the kind - - - the ones where the first digit of your age gets bigger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are forced to graduate into a new decade. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not a better decade either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My first digit is now larger than 5.</span><br />
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I decided if I must move into a new decade of old age, the LEAST I could do was prolong the celebration.<br />
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<a href="http://annjav.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">U.P. Annie</span></a> helped with this - - - in fact I rather think she was the originator of the month long birthday celebration. Anyway, she sent me random e-cards all month long. It was awesome.<br />
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Next, my FIL and MIL Robin sent me a lovely birthday check.<br />
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Money is ALWAYS an appreciated gift!!! I went shopping with that money and even still have some of it keeping my pocket book warm.<br />
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Then our oldest daughter sent me an e-gift card for <a href="http://www.debrand.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">DeBrand</span></a>. DeBrand is ONLY the very best chocolate on the planet.<br />
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I am doling it out to myself very slowly in order to savor every single bite. <br />
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Today was the apex of my celebrations - - - the big birthday bash itself.<br />
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Our friends Bill and Eloise (pronounced E - Lois) went with us to Stevens Point. First we shopped, I did most of the shopping - - -<br />
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Eloise gave me birthday treasures like this stinkin' cute snowman boots and britches coffee mug.<br />
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Then we ate.<br />
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NO birthday bash is complete without delectable food.<br />
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I had shrimp tacos from Chili's.<br />
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Fisherhubby had Chicken California flatbread.<br />
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In Wisconsin no less.<br />
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He hates avocados, so I got to eat all of his. <br />
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And this is my birthday shopping haul.<br />
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Which ever shall I wear first????<br />
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I don't have any idea - - - but I've only got a few hours to decide 'cause I'm definitely wearing ONE of them to church in the morning.<br />
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This part has precious little to do with my birthday or its bash, but since I've been so blog challenged lately, I want to throw it in here.<br />
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It is, of course, a Fisherhubby funny.<br />
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The man bought himself two remote control helicopters for Christmas.<br />
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I guess one wasn't enough.<br />
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Anyway - - - he's been working hard to train himself to fly them.<br />
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This more often than not results in collisions with the ceiling and other household objects - - - INCLUDING my forehead a while ago. OUCH.<br />
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The collisions with the ceiling are knocking off tiny bits of styrofoam texture, which are transported all over the house via the air vents.<br />
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This makes for extra dusting work for our wonderful cleaning fairies. So just look what they left posted near the ceiling over the helipad:<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">I've resurrected my blogging habbit enough to join all my old bloggy buddies over at Mrs. 4444's place for Friday Fragments where we can unload the bits and pieces in our minds AND make our confessions. </span></span></div>
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First, let's address this "issue" I seem to be having with blogging.<br />
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I'm choosing to call it the blogging blues.<br />
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You see, I don't KNOW why I've been in absentia from blogland for so long.<br />
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I am well. I am happy. I am busy.<br />
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I have plenty of fodder, but little imagination or creativity and positively NO DRIVE to "get R done" when it comes to my blog.<br />
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You are all great. I miss hearing from and about you on a regular basis.<br />
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So - - - to answer all of your kind SOS emails which asked if I was all right and what in the blue blazes was WRONG with me and my blogging, here's my answer:<br />
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I DON'T KNOW.<br />
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I'm not going to be foolish enough to PROMISE that my blogging blues are now over and that I'll be back cranking out a post or more a day like I did for over 7 years.<br />
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But I will say this: I have no intention of tearing my blog down and from time to time I will post. Any of you that don't TOTALLY give up on me, will again find my "wit and humor" (if I have any of that) here.<br />
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Think of it as potential for a surprise. Phhhht <br />
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Thanks for caring.<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">* * * * * * Family Time * * * * * * </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">We were very blessed during November to have two chances to be with our family.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">First we made an unplanned, unexpected trip to Indiana where we were able to see all four of our children, three spouses, my dad, our grans, AND the two granpuppies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">At the Cracker Barrel dinner pictured above, all of us except our youngest daughter and her hubby and their two puppies enjoyed an evening together.</span></span></span></div>
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At Thanksgiving, three of our children, two spouses, one girlfriend, my dad, two grans and two gran puppies all piled into this little duplex with us for the holiday.</div>
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Oh what a time we had!!!<br />
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There was eating. Lots of eating. Too much eating.<br />
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There was game playing.<br />
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There was laughing.<br />
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There was NO fighting or crying.<br />
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It was awesome.<br />
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Christmas came at Thanksgiving for the grans this year so we could all be together when they opened their gifts.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>* * * * * * Dreaded 6 - 0 * * * * * *</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Someone in this immediate household had one of those dreaded decade changing birthdays on December 30.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">That's right folks, she is now officially OLD.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">A granny.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Kin to the dinosaurs.</span></span></span></div>
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But still and all, I'm PRETTY SURE good old dad REALLY meant to send THIS particular card Sister Pam!!</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>* * * * * * Fisherhubby Antics * * * * * *</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">I'm pretty sure one of the best of my blogging topics comes to me free and clear of charge via my very own Fisherhubby.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">He just CAN'T resist performing various and sundry antics - - - including wearing his ski hat indoors on a long winter's eve.</span></span></div>
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He's SUCH a kid at heart. When a recent gift arrived in the mail, he was far more interested in the bubble wrap than in the gift itself.<br />
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I, on the other hand, went STRAIGHT for the chocolate.<br />
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The other day he said he was going out to get a new bird feeder.<br />
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I envisioned something MUCH smaller.<br />
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Then the "fun" ensued as he tried, masterfully, to figure out how to use it WITHOUT reading the directions.<br />
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The box said, "easy to open." I dare not tell you how long it took him to figure it out. <br />
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For Christmas he purchased himself TWO remote control helicopters.<br />
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Now, he "sends himself" to his room at regular intervals for flying instructions, self taught of course.<br />
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He says his instructor frequently gives him an "F" on the lesson - - - when he spikes the copter right into the ceiling and crashes it to the floor.<br />
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So far, the highest grade he's earned from his very tough instructor is a C-.<br />
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We have bits of ceiling texture Styrofoam ALL OVER the house. If he continues to take these lessons, soon our ceilings will all be smooth.<br />
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Oh well, textured ceilings are "out" anyway. <br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>* * * * * * Badger Girl * * * * * *</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">Bucky played in the Capital One Bowl on New Year's Day.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">We were invited out to our friends' place to watch it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">I wasn't sure I wore enough Badger Bling to ensure a win.</span></span></span></div>
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Also, I knew my friends didn't have ANY Badger decor, so I brought some along.<br />
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A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to ensure a win.<br />
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However, I must not have worn enough bling nor brought enough decor, because my boys didn't win.<br />
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I'm still grieving. <br />
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Sigh.<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>* * * * * * You Know You're in Wisco * * * * * * </b></span> </span></div>
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When your world is a snow globe from early December right through Spring. </div>
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Isn't it BEAUTIFUL??? No, it is NOT too cold - - - why, according to the weatherman we going to have a slightly chilly HIGH of -14 come Monday.</div>
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I do LOVE my winters.</div>
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(BTW - that water isn't frozen simply because that is the Wisconsin River which keeps moving. Most waters are round these parts are covered with at least 12 inches of ice.)</div>
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You also might just be in Wisconsin if the entrance to your Supper Club is a giant beer barrel. (Hill Top in Stevens Point, WI)<br />
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I'm just sayin'<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>* * * * * * Ice Fishing * * * * * * </b></span></span></div>
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On New Year's Day, Fisherhubby would rather go out and sit on the ice than stay indoors and watch football.<br />
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This year, our little friend Jessie joined him for a spell on the ice.<br />
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We'll save how tangled Jessie's fishing line got for ANOTHER post - - - shall we??<br />
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Fisherhubby got himself a portable two man ice palace with a built in bench and sled complete with a heater. <br />
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He has been chomping at the bit to try it out. In fact, he is out on "The Pete" right now as I type this bloggy post, this time sans Jessie.<br />
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I think all he needs now is a colored TV and "that which I dare not mention" for fear he'll actually try to get it. (It has to do with PULLING all this paraphernalia onto the ice.)<br />
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He even sat on the ice outside his palatial tent for a while. It was a balmy 4 or 5 degrees that day if I remember correctly.<br />
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Our lives are full.<br />
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Our hearts are fuller.<br />
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We head into 2014 with hope and a song.<br />
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Hope you are all able to do the same.<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">.</span>Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-85015870819817824802013-10-18T20:30:00.000-05:002014-01-03T13:34:41.383-06:00One Of These Frags Just Doesn't Belong Here<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ahhhhh, Friday Frags. That time of the week when we all get together to rid our souls of the bits and pieces, fragments if you will, of useless - though possibly entertaining - information that have been collecting there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many thanks go to Mrs. 4444 for hosting this meme AND putting up with all of us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am once again LATE to the party - - - but here I come anyway, hoping late is better than never.</span><br />
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Oh my dear bloggy friends, THIS is the footwear that Fisherhubby deemed appropriate for Sunday-Go-To-Meetin' wear this past Sunday.<br />
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My attempt to dissuade him and get him into more church-worthy foot coverings was an abysmal FAIL.<br />
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I KNOW Jesus wore sandals, but I'm pretty sure He did NOT pair them with Packer socks. <br />
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Shaking my head.<br />
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This is little Miss Piper's latest artistic rendering. It is, of course, her Mama and Daddy.<br />
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We do NOT know why her daddy needs to shave his entire face NOR why her mama looks like Jar Jar Binks.<br />
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My friend Eloise (pronounced E - Lois) and I went on a shopping adventure one day this week. I'll talk more about the shopping part in my last frag of this post.<br />
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When we were hungry, we stopped at Chili's for lunch.<br />
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Imagine our surprise to find on our table a game/payment/internet terminal box.<br />
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We began to play the "kick a field goal" game.<br />
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It was a little harder than it looked - - - so exclamations of joy and high 10's were in order when Eloise kicked it through the uprights for the first time.<br />
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She is so fun.<br />
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Sister Pam, BIL Joe, their daughter Misti and her fam have gone to West Virginia for a wee fall get-away.<br />
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They've been taking in the sights, hiking,<br />
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And even biking for miles and miles. After days full of all that - - -<br />
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Some of them have been found unwinding in the hot tub.<br />
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MOST of the frags of my week involve FOOD. Dreaming of food - - - getting food - - - and ENJOYING food.<br />
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This was my supper tonight at our fave Mexican Restaurant. It's called Jimidore con Pollo.<br />
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It is SOOOOOOO yummy I am forced to go ummmmmm, this is sooooo good - - - right out loud - - - with every bite I take.<br />
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Our sweet little Pipes is suffering terribly with her very first true love crush.<br />
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She's crushing on her young computer teacher at school.<br />
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Whenever he is around she gets red in the face and wears a goofy expression.<br />
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"He's pretty cute, isn't he???" queried her mama when they were safely out of ear shot range of the school.<br />
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"No!!" says Piper, "I HATE HIM."<br />
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Yep - - - it's gotta be true Kindergarten love.<br />
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Now, don't you DARE tell her I told.<br />
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When Eloise and I went shopping this week, it was for me to purchase some new bras.<br />
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Girls, I HATE shopping for bras - - - all that stripping down and trying on only to do it all again when the size is wrong.<br />
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Bucky here consented to model one of my new bras, though he was NOT happy to do it.<br />
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Mostly because, and I HANG MY HEAD IN SHAME TO ADMIT THIS, I have had to graduate into the infamous GRANNY BRA!!!!<br />
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I don't know WHY I am so shocked at this, for I AM MOST CERTAINLY a granny these days.<br />
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I guess I just didn't want to ADMIT I needed over sized sling shots to corral my boulders.<br />
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I also learned something rather more disturbing than graduation to granny bras in this process - - - <br />
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I learned that one of my girls "just doesn't belong here" because she is substantially larger than the other.<br />
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AND, as far as I know they do NOT make bras with a leftie DD and a rightie D.<br />
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So - - - I was forced to choose between suffocating leftie or allowing rightie to swam free.<br />
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And such is the life of a senior.<br />
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Fall has arrived on the highways and byways of my state - Wisconsin.<br />
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This year it seems to be a kinder gentler Autumn in many ways.<br />
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One way it is kinder and gentler is that we are still very warm for mid October. Highs have been in the mid to upper 70's.<br />
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The other way it is kinder and gentler is that its colors are quite muted.<br />
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Many leaves seem to be falling while still pale green, yellow, or brown.<br />
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I think these muted colors are a result of drought and no early frosts.<br />
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Still - - - the leaves are falling, <br />
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The corn and beans are ripening, <br />
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And the farmers are harvesting.<br />
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The sun has gone down on summer,<br />
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And the clouds of winter are on the horizon.<br />
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But for right now let's just enjoy these in-between Fall days, shall we?<br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Thanks to <a href="http://www.unknownmami.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Unknown Mami</span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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OH, WHO AM I KIDDING??? I've never just had two frags in my life.<br />
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I've had NO frags - - - but never just two.<br />
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Frags are those bits and pieces you want to share on your blog and our friend Mrs. 4444 gives us the outlet to do so on Fridays. Welcome to the party!<br />
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A few weeks ago our oldest son, Kelly, came with a friend of his from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Milwaukee to take in a Brewers / Reds game.<br />
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He did, however, manage to snap this gorgeous pic of the Brewer's stadium for his mama.<br />
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It has been noted here before that my great niece, Carson, is a chip off her old great auntie's block.<br />
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Notice the disheveled hair and tongue hanging to the tip of her chin??? Um, yah - - - pretty sure that was my look all during my growing up years.<br />
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OH, WHO AM I KIDDING??? It's still pretty much my look!!!<br />
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Lately this similarity has shown itself in her going to AND ENJOYING football games.<br />
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RAH RAH Carson, keep it up!!!<br />
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Did you see this?<br />
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Earlier in September, during the Texas Tech / TCU football game a fox ran onto the field.<br />
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Yep, a real live fox.<br />
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I snapped a pic of my TV screen so I could show you. <br />
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He said to himself, "OH, WHO AM I KIDDING???? I JUST WANT OUT OF HERE!!!<br />
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Escape proved to be more difficult than entry.<br />
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They never said how they got him off the field, but I think it's safe to assume no foxes were harmed in the making of this frag.<br />
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Papoo and Pipes like to keep a close eye on each other via skype.<br />
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Speaking of Pipes - - - looks like Kamma Kamp will be in full swing again next summer toward the end of June and the beginning of July.<br />
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It will be a fun week of enjoying the grans. <br />
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On Tuesday suddenly and with no warning our TV decided to fade right out of existence.<br />
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Not sure why they make TVs these days with a life span of only about 5 years.<br />
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Oh, WHO AM I KIDDING?? Of COURSE I know why! They do it to make more $$$$$ when we buy a new one.<br />
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Fortunately for us, we had already planned a day trip to Eau Claire where there is a Best Buy and were able to get this new TV.<br />
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Ain't she a beauty? 46", ultra slim, HD, 3D, and internet.<br />
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I may be blogging from her soon.<br />
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While in Eau Claire yesterday we stopped for a mid afternoon repast at one of our favorite watering holes, seeing as we don't have one anywhere around here.<br />
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I was a very good girl and ate ONLY salad and Cheddar Bay Biscuits.<br />
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OH, WHO AM I KIDDING???? I had the roasted garlic crab bake too.<br />
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ALL OF IT.<br />
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It was delicious.<br />
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I like to eat meat, and do NOT feel one bit sorry for the crabs, shrimp, and scallops who gave their all so I could feast.<br />
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It's all about eat or be eaten.<br />
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And THIS is the evidence left at the scene of the crabicide.<br />
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In my last post I showed my fall decor.<br />
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I neglected to show THIS, most important bit - - - the red football ornaments in the wire chicken egg basket with the "On Wisconsin" beads around it's neck.<br />
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OH, WHO AM I KIDDING???? This bit of decor will stay with me all through fall, Christmas, and right on into February and the Super Bowl.<br />
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OH WHO AM I KIDDING??? It's WAY smarter than moi, as evidenced by the fact that last night while I was TRYING to watch a You Tube video on my equally smart phone, it (the You Tube video) was suddenly transported and displayed on the TV screen.<br />
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I think I've figured it out now, but for a while there I thought the new TV came complete with programming fairies intent on working their mischief upon me.<br />
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Some of you bloggy gals have decorator blood running through your veins. You give your homes seasonal makeovers replete with mantles and vignettes galore.<br />
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I admire your handiwork, but am too bone idle to do the work involved. So today I gave our space my own version of a ptresto chango fall redo.<br />
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First I strategically placed this pillow on a chair.<br />
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Next I plopped a set of placemats and napkins - WITH pumpkin napkin rings - on the dining room table.<br />
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Lastly, just for good measure AND because Sister Pam reminded me of its existence, I draped a Fall afghan over the back of the love seat.<br />
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Best of all?? It cost me NADA 'cause Sister Pam GAVE me all these things when she moved out of the midwest and into Florida's tropical clime.<br />
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You may think I refer to Fall when I say "it's that time" but that would not be precisely correct.<br />
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What I refer to does of course happen in the Fall, but I'm referring specifically to cranberry harvest time.<br />
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Cranberries are very important to our county and to our state.<br />
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This county previously was known for paper and cranberry production. Sadly, paper production has dropped off due to various factors like the death of "Look" and "Life" magazines and the outsourcing of paper production.<br />
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Thankfully, cranberry production is on the rise. This little county produces more cranberries than anywhere else in the United States or even the world.<br />
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Harvest is an awesome time. <br />
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A few days ago, my friends Shawn and Stephanie took their three youngest children out to look over the beginning of harvest.<br />
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Shawn has himself worked on the marsh (as cranberry bogs are collectively called) until he went into law enforcement. His dad retired from the marsh, though why he says he's retired I do not know as he still spends plenty of time working out there. One of Shawn's uncles is a current marsh employee.<br />
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So it was that on a particularly fine Fall day last week, Shawn and Stephie took their children out to "check" on the cranberry harvest, which was just beginning.<br />
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In the above picture you can observe one of the access roads used to reach the bogs. A bog is a bed in which the cranberries grow. You can see a bog, with some red from the cranberry hue, on the right side of this photo.<br />
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That particular bog does not appear to be flooded as yet for harvest.<br />
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Because of the popular Ocean Spray commercials, some folks who are unaware of cranberry growth and harvest think that cranberries grow underwater.<br />
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This is not the case. They grow in hollowed out rectangular bogs which are NEAR a steady supply of water - - - usually in a marshy region. The water is used to keep the plants/berries from freezing when the temperatures dip below 32 degrees. At times like that they are continuously sprayed with water as liquid water is not yet frozen and will protect the berries.<br />
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When harvest time comes, the bogs are completely flooded with water to assist in the harvest process. This results in the images you are used to seeing in the commercials and which I have shown at the top of this post.<br />
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Once flooded, the berries are gently "loosened" from the vines at which time they float freely to the surface.<br />
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Once floating on the surface, they are corralled to one end of the bog with large floating booms. From there they can be gathered into the back of waiting trucks. The water is gently shaken off the berries as they ride up a conveyor belt. Any flotsam is separated away from the berries to the bed of one dump truck while the berries are taken the other way into a delivery truck.<br />
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Little Jessie, seen here in his cranberry bandana, is only 5. I don't know how much of previous harvests he can remember, though he is fascinated by this one.<br />
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Fortunately for Jessie, big brother Dane is in 5th grade and is an excellent guide, explaining all the ins and outs of the harvest.<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">I lied. There will be no planes or automobiles in these frags - - - but there WILL be trains. One out of three "ain't" bad???</span></span><br />
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When Lee Corso picked Georgia to beat Clemson (he was wrong, by the way) on College Game Day last Saturday, they brought a couple of bull dog puppies onto the set.<br />
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This one promptly fell asleep on Kirk Herbstreit's notes.<br />
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Awwwwwwww. So cute!!<br />
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And normally I don't even LIKE bull dogs.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.keethastuff.blogspot.com/2013/08/friday-metamorphragsis.html" target="_blank">Maxzilla</a> <span style="color: black;">finished his (they say he's a she, but I like him as a he better) metamorphosis this week.</span></span><br />
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Isn't this stage absolutely AMAZING??? The fact that the chrysalis becomes a clear window and you can see the colorful wings through it is astounding!<br />
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Furthermore, Maxzilla chose Labor Day to complete his morphing so our grans were home to observe the process.<br />
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There was much delight all around as he took his rightful place in our world. (And now I'm giving him his rightful place in cyber world!!!)<br />
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Our daughter Keri and her hubby celebrated their 9th Anniversary this week. Aren't they the bees knees??<br />
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Keri took all those gorgeous Maxzilla photos above.<br />
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This little target sticker surfaced somewhere in Fisherhubby's closet this week.<br />
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I know it isn't mine - - - I don't bow hunt.<br />
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He has no clue where he got it nor why.<br />
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I have no clue how he FOUND it in his closet. (Er hmmmmm)<br />
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One afternoon this week on my way home from the library I decided to hop over to Dollar General for a few good deals.<br />
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As luck would have it, I got stopped behind this long, long, long, slow, slow, slow train.<br />
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The train finally passed through the intersection and I continued on to Dollar General.<br />
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I shopped for maybe 15 minutes upon which I came out to head home, only to get caught at the VERY SAME INTERSECTION - going in the opposite direction this time - - - by ANOTHER train.<br />
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It was shorter and I barely had time to snap this picture and tweet it out.<br />
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And that, dear bloggy readers, is the TRAIN portion of this post.<br />
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I guess technically there ARE automobiles in the photo AND a huge noisy old plane has been taking off and landing at the airport across the street from us, so there you have it - - - I DID manage to include planes and automobiles in these frags!!!<br />
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All Mack's hard work paid off - - - he had a MUCH BETTER spelling week this week.<br />
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You go, Mack!!!<br />
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When mommy and daddy went out for their anni, Pipe's and Mack got to have their favorite babysitter.<br />
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Pipes BEGGED her to braid her hair.<br />
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I can see WHY, can't you??? Gorgeous.<br />
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Last week I told you I'm the commish of three college football pick 'em games.<br />
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Here's a Fisherhubby tale about that:<br />
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He was LATE getting his picks in this week. Being a hard-nosed commish, I did NOT remind him until after he had missed the deadline and he will get the SAME 20 point delay of game penalty as any other player.<br />
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When I told him he needed to get his picks in pronto, he disappeared into his room to submit them to me from his i-pad via e-mail.<br />
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I opened them - - - he had picked for the week 14 games OF LAST YEAR!!!!<br />
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Don't ask me how he manages these things - - - all I can say is that while he makes it his daily goal to "trap" me into some foolish action, all I have to do is sit around and wait and he does it to himself all by himself with no help from me.<br />
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:-) Happy dance.<br />
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We found a new restaurant this week that had a player piano making very lovely ambiance.</div>
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Of course the peaceful Petenwell Lake views from the windows served to enhance the ambiance.<br />
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There was a lovely deck, but it's been too hot here in Central Wisconsin for us to enjoy it much.<br />
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We did, however, certainly enjoy the sunset on the lake.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">It is Friday.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">It is well INTO Friday.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">That means I've almost missed my window of opportunity to share various and sundry fragments of life with you, my bloggy readers.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Fortunately I've arrived at the fragment dock just in the nick of time to catch the fragship before it sails.</span></span></span><br />
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College football season arrived last night and the NFL will be back in full swing as of Thursday evening.<br />
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Some of us are WAY more excited about this turn of events than are others.<br />
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Obviously from the above scenario, little Piper is in the less than excited category.<br />
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I, on the other hand, am definitely in the excited school of thought.<br />
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I've already got three versions of my College Pick 'Em game going - - - as evidenced by the return of my "bookie" ways shown above.<br />
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Suddenly this week our temperature soared back up into the high 90's - - - yet further evidence that FALL ISN'T HERE YET, just in case you were tempted to forget that it is summer until the sun's position says it's fall on September 21.<br />
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Anyway, with the return of heat my Famous Wacky Macky Pasta salad sounded really yummy, so I made some.<br />
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Alas, it's only famous in my own eyes. <br />
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I proceeded to eat it, with precious little help from Fisherhubby who isn't a pasta salad connoisseur, in a two day window of time.<br />
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Do you <a href="http://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">shoebox</span></a>???<br />
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We always fill shoeboxes at church this time of year to be sent to children all over the world at Christmas. It's such a fun project.<br />
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This is my first "installment" of donations for the shoeboxes - - - 12 boxes of brand new crayons.<br />
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I can hardly keep my hands out of them - - - that's the effect new crayons have on this old gal!<br />
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Fisherhubby proudly and affectionately dubbed this his "Tower of Tackle." It resides in our small one car garage, right where I TRY to open my car door.<br />
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And I'm pretty sure there are two facts about it you really do need to know in order to comprehend the IMPORT of it:<br />
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1) NONE of it is mine.<br />
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2) This is only PART of Fisherhubby's fishing paraphernalia, in fact if you look around and behind it you will see handles of poles, nets, and various other fishing accoutrements.<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">1) Don't make posts, tweets, or statuses that mainly consist of endless lists of what you have accomplished - sorta like this: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">"I just tore down our house with my bare hands, rebuilt it with bricks that I made myself from mud and straw, harvested the wheat in my garden, ground it, made lasagna noodles with it, and made homemade lasagna for hubby AND half the neighborhood, then I weeded all the flower beds for a 120 block radius, after I finished my 20 mile run. Now I'm making sure there is nothing else I need to do BEFORE I sit down to rest my lazy bones." </span></div>
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This just looks like a humble (or not so humble) brag and is BEGGING for the "atta girl, I could never walk in your footsteps" response. <br />
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2) Don't make whiny health posts.<br />
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All of us get colds, runny noses, cookie-tossing episodes. We aren't cold hearted, but we come to our social media to ESCAPE the minor drudgeries of our everyday lives. So, unless you are dying just skip that part of the post, K?<br />
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Now, I realize that some of us are suffering - - - truly suffering - - - with chronic long term conditions for which we desperately hope others will pray. I'm not talking about that, that's not whiney and is an animal of an entirely different color.<br />
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I'm also not talking about telling a medical incident with full on humor - - - those are fun and funny.<br />
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OK - - - enough for today. I may or may not revisit this social media faux pas topic on another day.<br />
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You'll thank me later. ;-)<br />
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One of the VERY BEST things about moving back to my junior high and high school hometown has been getting to see school chums, usually for the first time since we graduated 41 years ago, from time to time.<br />
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This time I got to spend some time chatting with Conrad at his parent's 60th wedding anniversary. Conrad lives in Oregon now.<br />
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I also got to spend some time with his sister, Gretchen, who was a year behind us in school and graduated with Sister Pam.<br />
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What a joy!!!<br />
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Somebody around here figured out - first time they saw it - how to use my communication station!!!<br />
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No, Fisherhubby is not my Cleaning Fairy, though he has left me ONE message so far.<br />
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All his message said was: Cigars.<br />
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Ever since an infamous "Fail Mary" game between the Packers and the Seahawks late last season, the Seahawks are despised.</div>
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And now - - - the fragmare this way comes!<br />
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"Ain't" he a beauty????<br />
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I saw him in a little antique/collectibles shop and I truly wanted to bring him home and put him beside Fisherhubby's bed.<br />
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Fisherhubby HATES snakes.<br />
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But Eloise, whose transportation I was enjoying that day, said she wouldn't let Fragmare in the car, so that was that.<br />
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But doesn't he have gorgeous, if evil, amber eyes????<br />
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Please head over to <a href="http://www.halfpastkissintime.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Mrs. 4444's</span></a> place</div>
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Sundays in My City is a chance to cruise around the world investigating all kinds of interesting places without ever leaving the comfort of your own computer.<br />
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Come with me today to the Red Mill.<br />
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The Red Mill is a quaint little eatery tucked quietly along a rural stretch of County HH (we do that here in Wisconsin - we name our county roads in a very alphabetical manner) near Stevens Point, Wisconsin.<br />
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Aside: Fisherhubby says he can't drive on nor even find roads like HH because he doesn't know his aa bb cc's.<br />
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I don't know if it's called the Red Mill because it's red or if it is red because it's called the Red Mill.<br />
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Not being one, I didn't park in this spot.<br />
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But NEITHER did I advertise the fact - - - not in THIS state anyway.<br />
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This Bucky Badger was guarding the parking lot.<br />
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I could park by him as I AM his biggest fan.<br />
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There were all kinds of other sentinels watching the parking lot.<br />
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Most of them were of the bear variety.<br />
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We are up here just south of the Northwoods<br />
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And bears have occasionally been known to make their way down into our vacinity.<br />
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Especially THIS kind of bear.<br />
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The yard behind the Red Mill was a quiet, inviting oasis<br />
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Where I found this miniature replica of the Red Mill's namesake.<br />
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There were a variety of inviting dining areas<br />
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Scattered about the Mill<br />
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Both indoors and out.<br />
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My dinner was delicious and didn't entirely empty my purse.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Thanks to <a href="http://www.unknownmami.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Unknown Mami</span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">For hosting Sundays in My City. </span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">.</span>Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-63439705828632765852013-08-23T14:04:00.002-05:002013-08-30T13:36:56.458-05:00Friday Metamor"phrag"sis<span style="color: #ffe599;">.</span><br />
Welcome to my Friday Metamor"phrag"sis post.<br />
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There are so many phrags metamorphing around in my brain that I just have to share them with you.<br />
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In fact, it would appear that this little ole blog is turning into one long metamor"phrag"sis, as phrags appear to be all I'm capable of these days.<br />
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So many thanks and shout outs go to <a href="http://www.halfpastkissintime.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Mrs. 4444</span></a> who makes this meme available to us each week. After you finish here, be sure to follow the links over to her place and see what kinds of phrags are metamorphing all over blog land.<br />
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Meet Maxzilla, the Monarch larva (caterpillar for those of you who may or may not recognize the biological term larva) our grandchildren (and their parents) are observing this fall.<br />
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Maxzilla, like all of his (her?) kind is quite an architect. In a matter of 15 minutes he was able to remodel himself into this beautiful pupa (chrysalis).<br />
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I'm especially fascinated by the golden jewels he (she) weaves into the top third of the "building."<br />
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Our "pet" chipmunk, Chippy, who used to live in our back yard has disappeared. We are pretty sad about it as we did so enjoy watching his (who turned out to actually be a her) antics.<br />
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He did, however, leave us a surprise which has sprouted up in our window well.<br />
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We are letting his sunflowers grow - just for fun - and to remember him by.<br />
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I had my hair cut and color appointment this week.<br />
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I just wish THIS part - - - where Tracy is gently arranging my "locks" would last longer.<br />
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BTW, Tracy is da bomb. No lie.<br />
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I have been a BAD Kamma and have passed my poor speller gene on to my grandson Mack.<br />
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Oh Mack, how I WISH I would have given you a GOOD speller gene - - - I remember struggling with my own spelling words back in the day.<br />
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I also remember while doing my homework shouting out to my parents: how do you spell _____? Only to hear them reply: USE THE DICTIONARY! <br />
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And I'm sure it is NO HELP AT ALL to tell you that in just a few short years, after your spelling classes are over, it WON'T MATTER at all if you can spell or not 'cause spell check and google will take care of all that for you.<br />
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SOMEBODY in this family drives a candy apple red Durango AND has covered it with Badger pride.<br />
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Then the other day SOMEBODY noticed another vehicle with a BIGGER Badger helmet on it. True, that vehicle just had the ONE bit of Badger flair, but still SOMEBODY felt passed by.<br />
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These are my cute little "summer" salt and peppers,<br />
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And these are my cute little flip flop corn on the cob holders.<br />
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I NEARLY forgot to put these fun summer ornaments out this year!!! Fortunately I thought of them in late July and got them out.<br />
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Since summer doesn't end until September 21, I can enjoy them for nearly two months.<br />
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The three "children" that have joined our family via marriage are gems. We couldn't have hand selected better spouses for our three married kids.<br />
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This is Jason, the first SIL to join our family. He comes up with little witticisms which his wife, Keri, has dubbed "Jasonisms"<br />
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Funny guy that Jason.<br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: black;">Except for me of course - - - I'm pulling for "my boy" <a href="http://keethastuff.blogspot.com/2012/08/one-of-my-boys-makes-good.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Russell</span></a> and am proudly wearing my #3 Seahawks jersey all day - - - even when we go out for supper tonight.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Fisherhubby "tried" to burn our house down this week by turning on the patio light and then forgetting it.<br />
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The flammable problem was THERE WAS A ROBIN'S NEST ON TOP OF IT.<br />
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I don't know how many times he had told me "don't turn on the patio light or you'll set the house on fire."<br />
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Fortunately my "bloodhound" nose saved us in time that this was all the damage that was done.<br />
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First time EVER that Fisherhubby was thankful for my bloodhound nose. <br />
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Marry a Fisherhubby and you too can have THESE in YOUR refrigerator.<br />
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Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-64356577595924652122013-08-16T03:18:00.001-05:002013-08-16T23:23:51.189-05:00Friday Fragways<span style="color: #ffe599;">.</span><br />
A segway links one talk show topic to the next or transports a mall cop to various parts of the mall.<br />
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A fragway takes you, my bloggy reader, from one of my weeks to the next in a somewhat concise manner.<br />
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Much thanks to <a href="http://www.halfpastkissintime.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Mrs. 4444</span></a> who was the creator and is the sustainer of this fun weekly Friday meme.<br />
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I believe I must be cheap and easy.<br />
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I'm easy 'cause it only takes a cheap thing like a few packs of brand new cotton dishclothes to make me happy, happy, happy.<br />
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The grans returned to school on Monday, August 12th. WAY too early in my humble opinion.<br />
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For Pipe's it was her first foray down public school lane, and she had quite the nervous trauma over it ahead of time. She was afraid she'd do something wrong, disappoint her parents or teacher, and not know how to do her homework.<br />
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Fisherhubby has found a new Wisconsin fishing buddy - Mark, whose wife's name is Jenny. (Mark is pictured above holding a muskie he pulled out of the Wisconsin River and then promptly released so all you animal lovers can CHILLAX)<br />
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You may, or may not as the case may be, remember that Fisherhubby's best ever Indiana fishing buddy's name is also Mark, whose wife's name is Jennie!!!!<br />
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That's why I don't fish. I'm neither a Mark nor married to a Jenny.<br />
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I found this cute little magnetic dry erase board at WallyWorld for a couple of bucks.<br />
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This guy, known to bloggy land as Fisherhubby, will have a place to leave me a message as to his whereabouts and other bits and pieces of vital information.<br />
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He took one look at it and said, "but I don't know what that MEANS!"<br />
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Arggghhhhhh - I shall NEVER be able to train that boy.<br />
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Little Miss Piper completed 1,000 books BEFORE Kindergarten. (Having them read to her counted.)<br />
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When she turned her reading list into the library, they called her name out over the PA system. She had the graciousness to blush.<br />
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She also got a hand written note of commendation from the librarians and her name in the paper.<br />
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Already a celebrity at just barely 5.<br />
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Lately Fisherhubby and I have been taking evening fishnics at this very lovely spot on the Wisconsin River.<br />
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First we sit on a bench and eat the "nic" part (yes, that IS my Wisconsin mug, funny you should ask)<br />
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Then hubby indulges in the "fish" part while I text and tweet to my heart's content.<br />
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Some of his catches are FAR more noteworthy - - -<br />
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Than are others which barely should be mentioned at all.<br />
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Note, small or large he ALWAYS catches something. <br />
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Yes my friends, he throws them ALL back to swim (and be recaught) another day.<br />
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This little video of our daughter and her fam car dancing just makes me happy, happy, happy.<br />
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I guess the family that car dances together stays together. ;-)<br />
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Keetha Broyleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850398844489825600noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259236583324720329.post-23215251955812984702013-08-01T22:00:00.000-05:002013-08-01T22:56:09.375-05:00Let's Go Fraggin' Now! Everybody's Learning How! Come on And Fra-gari With Me!!!<span style="color: #ffe599;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friday Frags are so fun and so happy they just make me want to sing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">OK - - - so I made the whole Beach Boys Surfin' song a tad cheesy - - - but when you come here you get eclecticity AND cheesy all in one fell swoop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's sorta what I'm known for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you're new to Friday Fragments, I suggest you surf through the fragments riding the waves of your mind, dump them all on a board, and come fragging along with us! You'll find links at the end of this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we got home from vacay last week Eric, a high school friend of mine, was in town. Fisherhubby and I met him for lunch on Sunday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had not laid eyes on each other since graduation in 1972.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had to text him a picture just so he'd be able to FIND me in the restaurant, because you know I've changed a teeny weeny bit in the <strike>2 or 3 or</strike> 40 years since high school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have concluded that we really should go BACK to high shool - - - well the social part of it anyway - - - when we're adults and are over all those difficult peer pressure and other negative factors that can soooooo complicate high school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My friend Eloise, pronounced E-Lois, had a birthday recently. I gave her one of the two tea cups pictured here along with this little rhyme:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And both so fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I dust mine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And you dust yours,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On grateful shores</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">'Cause you'll think of me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I'll think of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And know our friendship</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know my friend very well and I told Fisherhubby as I was getting the gift/card ready, "This might make Eloise tear up."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is what we came home from vacation to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The mid July Wisconsin Rapids dry spell is killing our lawn AGAIN.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh - - - but I'm not complaining 'cause it is SO MUCH less dry this summer than last. This is just pretty much status quo summer dryness around here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(For those of you who mistakenly called HIM </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our friends, the Woods family, have gone on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Hopnoodle%27s_Haven_of_Bliss" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">REAL </span>Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss </span></a>vacation this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They've got the fishing - - - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The little lakeside cabin (though NOT named Mildred or any other girl name, at least that I KNOW of) - - -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And even the antics to go along with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I do not know if on the way they succumbed to buying a huge lawn ornament and strapped it to the top of their vehicle or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nor can I tell you if they were sprayed by chicken detritus and feathers along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These are things we shall have to find out when they get home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The color that is painted across the sky and reflected in the water is simply astounding some evenings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I accused Fisherhubby of doctoring these photos up they were so spectacular - - - he vows and declares this is exactly how they came out of his camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">'Nuf said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And that's all the fraggin' I'm doing today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please hurry over to<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.unknownmami.com/" target="_blank">Unknown Mami's</a></span> place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where you will see LOTS of other frags.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why not go fraggin' now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everybody's learnin' how!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Come on and fra-gari with me!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you do, be sure to link up! </span></div>
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