Semi-tough

The following bumper sticker attempts to give the impression that all persons (particularly males) in Wyoming are mentally strong:
"Cowboy up or go stay in the pick-up"
Notice the type of vehicle.

HOUSE has now tied THE CLOSER as my favorite TV series. I like to outguess the writers and figure the plot outcome but these two always fool me.

From the Calendar:
"You might be a Redneck if.....You've ever had a riding mower repossessed."

It's getting feisty already

I saw an interesting T-shirt on a kid at the Casper Ghosts game last night. It was a Minnesota Vikings shirt in the Vikings' purple and yellow. On the front was a caricature of a boy clad in a Vikings' jersey with the name Farve on the front taking a whiz on a piece of cheese-representing the Packer cheeseheads.
That Monday night game in October should bring out some nasty feelings in both states. Go Vikes! We've got too many pseudo-Packer fans here already.

St. O is a clandestine aggie school

I have to give credit to my wife, a former Ole herself, for finding this article in relish, a some time supplement to the local CS-T. The article title-"The New School Lunch."
It's about STOGRO (St. Olaf Garden Research and Organic Works), which is a student-run, on-campus farm that supplies local organic ingredients to the college cafeteria.One student is described as a St. Olaf student-farmer. Founded in 2005 STOGROW is a self-sustaining business that rents farmland from the college. Bon Appetit, which provides meals to students, buys all produce the farm can provide. It's all organic. Some students say they can tell the difference. The only livestock are the rabbits and other varmints, who sample the crops.
The boy and the daughter-in-law never mentioned it when they were there through 2006 and 2007 respectively. At least niece Julie, an incoming freshman and Iowa farm lass, will benefit from STOGRO. I suppose there are other farm kids at St. O so there should be plenty of applicants for any student work-studies programs at the farm. On the other hand, maybe some are trying to get away from the farm.
Anyway, it's an interesting article especially for folks with St. O connections.
The relish email is relishmag.com. Bon appetit!

Good stock tip

I ran into a high school classmate yesterday. She was with her husband who graduated a couple year before us from the same high school. We were talking about our 50 year HS reunion next summer. They has gone to his 50th last summer and were talking about all the people with hearing problems. They changed their reunion site from a more formal site to a picnic area with shelters just as we had done for our kids' rehearsal dinners. They said it made it so much easier to move around and visit.
I bring this up as the number of people who are retired or nearing retirement and who often suffer hearing losses to differing degrees is growing at a terrific pace.
The point of all this-Buy Hearing Aid stock! As the boomers retire, the demand will be incredible. We now have digital hearing aids. The next great leap in hearing aids will make its investors rich. You heard it hear (intentional misspelling) first-pun intended.

Eyes and ears

I renewed my driver's license this morning. I aced the eye test as I was able to read the smallest line on the eye chart on three different charts. At my age a person always has doubts.

Stopped at a Taco Bell afterwards to celebrate. I received a senior discount without asking. I arrived just as the high school students were coming in for lunch. I listened to several groups talk about the classes and teachers (several of whom I know) and which ones are tough and which ones are easy. I guess after 38 years in the business I still like hearing students' perspectives on life, etc., and best of all I could hear them.

From the calendar:
You might be a Redneck if....you have more "kills" with your truck than with your gun.

My Kennedy memories

The first and only time I ever saw Ted Kennedy was at the State Democratic Convention held in my hometown of Thermopolis, Wyoming. It was April 1960, my senior year of high school, and my senior Social Studies was let out for the afternoon to go to the convention. Ted Kennedy was there working the delegates for his brother, Senator John Kennedy. Hubert Humphrey, along with several other prominent Democrats, was there also campaigning for delegate votes. Ted Kennedy must have done a pretty good job because at the National Democratic Convention Wyoming delegates put John Kennedy over the top and he won the Presidential election that fall.
I don't know if it was a payback to the 1960 delegates but President John Kennedy spoke at the Field House on the University of Wyoming campus, which ironically was my senior year of college, before a crowd estimated to be 12,000-15,000 of us in attendance. Another irony-Dick Cheney was a student at UW at that time. The date was October, 1963 and President Kennedy was assassinated approximately one month later.

Why did I do that?

I joined Facebook a couple of days ago. I almost felt like a predator shopping for young girls until I saw the sign-up page and my birth year was far from the bottom. So far it's immediate family and I don't know how soon I will try to branch out. Why did I do it-did I spot a trend or am I just a common lemming?

Saw a great bumper sticker but if I could ever get it-which I probably can't-to whom would I give it. Here's the problem: Here is the sticker found on the back of a pic-up (what else is there in Wyoming?) Real women don't date Yankee fans. If I could ever obtain one would I give it to Neighbor Brad, a strong Yankee fan or to Neighbor Dave, staunch Red Sox supporter? I guess it would look better on Dave's SUV.