What do you get when you put to great heads together?
Drinking beer from a licorice straw? Nothing finer!
Safety first!
Blinky Butt - drinking beer from a licorice straw from Katy. Tosa's finest by Bubba (I think??).
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25645729@N07/sets/72157620106331377/
Latest race photos are updated.
John
Latest race photos are updated.
John
Friday, June 19, 2009
We're alive! That's all I got for now - that storm rolled through last night was a real doozy!
It started around 11 PM and When it finally started to die down it was around 2 AM or so.
The local TV station was saying at 2 AM that West Allis had received 4.7" of rain so far - with 3.5" falling in the 1 - 2 o'clock hour. Streets flooded, water in basements, rivers have overflowed their banks.
Good news? More on the way for this afternoon. Yippee Skippee!
It started around 11 PM and When it finally started to die down it was around 2 AM or so.
The local TV station was saying at 2 AM that West Allis had received 4.7" of rain so far - with 3.5" falling in the 1 - 2 o'clock hour. Streets flooded, water in basements, rivers have overflowed their banks.
Good news? More on the way for this afternoon. Yippee Skippee!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Ben wins a couple photo contest catagories in the WORS photo competition in addition to doing very well in the races themselves, he's now an award winning photographer too!
Contest announcement
Contest announcement
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Photos from this past weekend's WORS race in Wausau have been uploaded to my Flickr site.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25645729@N07/
Enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25645729@N07/
Enjoy!
Monday, June 01, 2009
Rhinelander Crystal Lake Classic - classic indeed! The Boy Scout camp opens it's doors for another weekend in the WORS circus tour. While the blue train was in full force we were a force to recon with. Congratulations to all who made the trip north (Megan, Keith, Mark, Chris, Travis, Jack, Paul, Sue, Mike, and those few others that I have yet to remember your names - SORRY!).
Race # 2 report for us:
Ben finishes 2nd in his age group - finishing 22 overall SPORT.
Lynne finishes 7th out of 9 in her age group - 16 out of 25 women Sport riders.
John finishes - enough said right! 7th out of 10 age grouper old guys - in top 100 of 135 total finishers in SPORT. That hasn't happened for a while!
Weather was terrific if not a bit cool for spectators. I found it great for racing. Next up is the Big Ring Classic in Wausau. Here's to another great course! No pictures to post. Check out Lynne's facebook for a couple of photos shee was able to take.
Drizzle and light rain began to fall during the middle of the Pro / Comp event - just enough from what I heard, to knock the dust down. A thrilling sprint to the finish by Brian Matter and Jesse LaLonde to top it all off. Multiple gears win this round.
Race # 2 report for us:
Ben finishes 2nd in his age group - finishing 22 overall SPORT.
Lynne finishes 7th out of 9 in her age group - 16 out of 25 women Sport riders.
John finishes - enough said right! 7th out of 10 age grouper old guys - in top 100 of 135 total finishers in SPORT. That hasn't happened for a while!
Weather was terrific if not a bit cool for spectators. I found it great for racing. Next up is the Big Ring Classic in Wausau. Here's to another great course! No pictures to post. Check out Lynne's facebook for a couple of photos shee was able to take.
Drizzle and light rain began to fall during the middle of the Pro / Comp event - just enough from what I heard, to knock the dust down. A thrilling sprint to the finish by Brian Matter and Jesse LaLonde to top it all off. Multiple gears win this round.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Update:
The first mountain bike race of the season occurred this past weekend Sunday in Iola Wisconsin. The WORS dirt circus invaded this tiny town and the course rocked! Team Extreme was out in force.
Lynne finished 4th in her age group.
Ben finished 2nd in his age group.
I finished 7th in my age group.
As we checked our results a strange pattern seemed to be occurring. We all finished in the top 50% of our respective age groups. Weird.
First Time trial race of the year tonight at Crystal Ridge. Registration opens at 5:30 with racing to begin at 6:30. See you there.
Next up Rhinelander.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
It's been way to long since last updating. Many things going on but nothing all that important or interesting for you all.
Drew has had another shoulder surgery. Same as last time but the left shoulder now. He's on the mend and doing better.
Ben has been running on the Tosa East track team and is doing well. He's run the open 200 and the open 400 so far. His times are fair (25.7 & 58.9). He's also really pumped up about the upcoming mountain bile season. He's in prime shape now and I wonder how many times he'll pass my up during a race.
Lynne's been doing more running this off-season. She's aiming for the Door County half-marathon as a first race. She too is in great shape.
I look forward to the new team kits arriving any day. The blue train will continue this year.
That's all for now.
Drew has had another shoulder surgery. Same as last time but the left shoulder now. He's on the mend and doing better.
Ben has been running on the Tosa East track team and is doing well. He's run the open 200 and the open 400 so far. His times are fair (25.7 & 58.9). He's also really pumped up about the upcoming mountain bile season. He's in prime shape now and I wonder how many times he'll pass my up during a race.
Lynne's been doing more running this off-season. She's aiming for the Door County half-marathon as a first race. She too is in great shape.
I look forward to the new team kits arriving any day. The blue train will continue this year.
That's all for now.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Well well, it's been a hectic holiday around our house. I broke a bone in my left ankle the first Saturday of December which has laid me up for a while. I'm just now getting back into the gym. Having been away from the gym for almost 5 weeks, this week I'm trying to get back into the workout routine. The ankle is resisting some.
My Holiday was not as interesting as this guy's!
Ben & Lynne were in Paris with the Tosa Band Marching as part of their New Year's Celebration. They returned last Saturday and are in the process of trying to re-acclimate themselves to Central time.
Happy New Year everyone - see ya for now.
John
My Holiday was not as interesting as this guy's!
Ben & Lynne were in Paris with the Tosa Band Marching as part of their New Year's Celebration. They returned last Saturday and are in the process of trying to re-acclimate themselves to Central time.
Happy New Year everyone - see ya for now.
John
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!
Nothing much new around here - other than I broke a bone in my ankle a couple weeks ago. While downclimbing from a converted playgym I slipped and fell about 4 - 6 feet onto a buried log in the snow. I landed in such a manner that basically I have a severe spain of the left ankle. But, a tendon that connects to the bottom of the Fibula tore a chunk of bone away instead of tearing the tendon itself. Lucky me! It's been a couple of weeks of hobbling around and things are getting better. I can now walk mostly limp free.
My buddy at work has a place in the Sparta area and his kid has had one heck of a hunt this year. One buck bowhunting and one gun hunting. LUCKY KID!
Tosa East HS is packing up and readying themselves for their Trip to Paris for the New Years marching gig.
Good luck to all and Happy New Year too. More next year.
Nothing much new around here - other than I broke a bone in my ankle a couple weeks ago. While downclimbing from a converted playgym I slipped and fell about 4 - 6 feet onto a buried log in the snow. I landed in such a manner that basically I have a severe spain of the left ankle. But, a tendon that connects to the bottom of the Fibula tore a chunk of bone away instead of tearing the tendon itself. Lucky me! It's been a couple of weeks of hobbling around and things are getting better. I can now walk mostly limp free.
My buddy at work has a place in the Sparta area and his kid has had one heck of a hunt this year. One buck bowhunting and one gun hunting. LUCKY KID!
Tosa East HS is packing up and readying themselves for their Trip to Paris for the New Years marching gig.
Good luck to all and Happy New Year too. More next year.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Deer Hunt 2008
This year's hunt started of on a cold note. It was -5 degrees on opening morning. I was able to stay in my stand until 10 AM at which point I headed back to my camp. I packed it all up - it was all frozen anyways, and headed down to Wild Rose to finish out opening day.
I was lucky enough to shoot this Doe at 3PM. We registered it and I was on my way back to MKE by 5 PM.
Now it's hanging in the garage waiting to be butchered - that's tonight's job. The local paper is saying reported numbers of kills are down 25% or so overall for opening morning - they blame the weather and extended hunting opportunities. I think the increased wolf population is doing it's job.
Loaded up and safely tied down.
This year's hunt started of on a cold note. It was -5 degrees on opening morning. I was able to stay in my stand until 10 AM at which point I headed back to my camp. I packed it all up - it was all frozen anyways, and headed down to Wild Rose to finish out opening day.
I was lucky enough to shoot this Doe at 3PM. We registered it and I was on my way back to MKE by 5 PM.
Now it's hanging in the garage waiting to be butchered - that's tonight's job. The local paper is saying reported numbers of kills are down 25% or so overall for opening morning - they blame the weather and extended hunting opportunities. I think the increased wolf population is doing it's job.
Loaded up and safely tied down.
Monday, November 10, 2008
It's been quite some time since my last post and much has occured. I found this interesting as it relates to the newly elected president. For everyone looking for change here's some food for thought
Additionally, as the US Congress and House of Reps have been controlled by the Dems for the past two years, how is it that all of our problems facing the nation are related to Bush???
Now we have a Democratic President and a Democratic controlled Congress and House - how are things going to change for the better? More taxes - cool! Less military spending - cool! Stockmarket taking a dump - cool! Making friends with our enemies - cool! I'm now looking forward to my government providing all the things I need to live now - Just saying....
Fellow Business Executives:
My business employees 14 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go.
So, this is what I did. I strolled thru our parking lot and found 6 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.
If you have a better idea, let me know.
Additionally, as the US Congress and House of Reps have been controlled by the Dems for the past two years, how is it that all of our problems facing the nation are related to Bush???
Now we have a Democratic President and a Democratic controlled Congress and House - how are things going to change for the better? More taxes - cool! Less military spending - cool! Stockmarket taking a dump - cool! Making friends with our enemies - cool! I'm now looking forward to my government providing all the things I need to live now - Just saying....
Fellow Business Executives:
My business employees 14 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our next President, and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go.
So, this is what I did. I strolled thru our parking lot and found 6 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.
If you have a better idea, let me know.
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