This Use To Be Our Driveway

Work on the sewer continues. This hole is 8 1/2 feet deep. We would have been housebound except for the grace of our backyard neighbors. There is a gate in the fence between our properties, and they let us park our rigs in their front yard. Thanks to Sean & Debbie.

Our House; You cant get here from there.

They started work on our sewer project again today. We would be house bound, but we managed to get the rigs moved to our back yard neighbor's front yard in time. The way this construction works is, one guy digs the hole and the other guy fills it back in. In between, someone lays the sewer pipe. It's quite an operation and kept us entertained for a good long while. They should be done with the pipes by end of day tomorrow, but nobody knows when they're going to pave. Still, I feel like a little kid watching my Tonka Toys working.





These guys really know what they're doing.

Fishing Enjoyment with Family

I had the pleasure of fishing with my cousin and her husband recently at Newman Lake. I have a hard time getting into a boat so they brought a household step ladder along to help. It works great. We traveled quite a ways to get to a place that you can't get to without a motor. This year's fishing has been slow, but on this day we all did very well. I think, (and hope) that the fishing is just going to get better for the next few weeks. A great big thank you to Rick & Debbie. Debbie is my mother's first cousin. But she's still what I call MY COUSIN.

Livin' On A Dirt Road Again

Last Tuesday, Aug. 31, Knife River, an outfit out of Idaho, started work on the sewer project in our neighborhood. We're on a culdesac so we had to park one of our rigs in our back neighbor's front yard. They're really nice folks. Anyway, getting around is being a bit different then when we had paved streets. They dug up the asphalt on our street with a grinder and several dump trucks. That grinder operator really knows his stuff. We sat on the front porch and watched for about 2 hours. We felt like we were under temporary house arrest. It was entertaining though.

Poor Taste Ad Campaigne

I can't believe no one else has complained about this;

This morning my wife watched, and I heard a commercial sponsored by right wing conservatives, designed to sway opinion away from current fiscal policies. We both feel compelled to express our dismay at the way the ad was presented. Regardless of where a person stands politically, left, right, or somewhere in between, it was presented in extremely poor taste.
They chose to use children to convey the message. They used a group of children reciting what sounded like the “Pledge of Allegiance” only in very negative terms. While reciting the message, the children had their hands held over their hearts.
We find it appalling that people who claim to be conservative would use such over the top liberal verbiage, especially in the fact that they used children to defile the Pledge of Allegiance.
In the 1930’s, an evil faction in Europe used the same tactic. He created Nazi youth camps, where children were brain washed to believe in a wicked and racist doctrine. We by no means intend to infer that these people are Nazis, but I could not help but picture these children using the Zeig Heil salute instead of holding their hands over their hearts. My wife and I both believe in our right to free speech, but we both feel that the people responsible for this ad campaign would better served if they publicly apologized and removed it.
I sent copies to msnbc.com, our local nbc affiliate, both of our senators, and our congressman.
I still can't understand why I haven't heard a word about this from anyone.