The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[N F C]

And you say it best, when you say nothing at all?

 

[WVduckchick]

But what fun is that?

 

[Pork Pie]

But what fun is that?

Certainly not as much fun as scratch n sniff!

 

[sourland]

What? Berts? No way, he just likes to stand back and watch

I never would have figured that.

 

[WVduckchick]

Certainly not as much fun as scratch n sniff!

I have serious concerns about you now, my friend.

 

[WVduckchick]

I never would have figured that.

I take him for more of the hands-on participant type, don't you?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Yep, I'll toughen up ok. The weather is so changeable...frosty in the a.m., warm & sunny mid-day and windy & cool in the evening. Sort of get a weather sampler every day. Layers are my new best clothing friends. "...sort out your house yet..."? We pushed some boxes around this morning, but a lot of that project will probably have to wait until things slow down (like maybe winter). The golf course is opening Saturday which includes the pro shop. We need to have some sort of food/beverage available by then. And once it's open, that's a 7 day a week job. Until October. I have a feeling October is going to be my new favorite month, lol.

Frost is just nature's way of shortly acclimating you to the climate.... We get frost every month but July and August.

Okay, I'm supposed to ride herd on you jokers.......behave yourselves or I'll have to use this whip!! (aaand I just opened another can of worms, didn't I? )

I think selective would be best. No sword fighting

Visited that site and the photography is gorgeous. Thanks for the link. Just a couple of things odd about the story, though.... first it would be hard to "limit visitors" in the Park. See, for us it's not just the world's first National Park and a wildlife refuge. It's a highway. It's how we get from our end of Wyoming over to Idaho when Ken has conferences there. In the East Gate, out the West Gate. Same with going to Jackson for York Rite Sessions - in the East Gate, out the South Gate, through Grand Teton National Park, and on to the sessions. Folks from the southwest - Rock Springs, Pinedale, Jackson - go north through Grand Teton NP into Yellowstone via the South Gate and into Montana through the North Gate. Hard to grasp, ain't it? Two National Parks being routes, not destinations.... At one time the environmentalists wanted to close the Parks to traffic, make you park outside the gates and take busses in. Senator Enzi had to remind Congress that Yellowstone is the size of Connecticut - and there are too many destinations within the Park to make that feasible. He said it would be like wanting to go to a place in Connecticut and having to park in Massachusetts and take a bus to what you wanted to see. As for the wolves, well, I like them. I think they are magnificent animals and part of the wild. Just a couple of minor problems with filling the Park with them. First of all, the type they "reintroduced" to the Park was never there to begin with. Second, they thought the wolves would be able to read and stay within the Park Boundaries....you know, stop, read the signs at the entrances, and say, "Nope, gotta turn back, end of the line." Third, once wolves roamed free all over this nation - so why shouldn't we "reintroduce" them to Central Park in New York or the Potomac River Basin? Why pick Wyoming? Well, because they assumed we were dumb and since we had so much open space we wouldn't mind. Put it to a nationwide vote and you'd have more folks in other states voting to do it than Wyoming has voters, so we'd lose anyway. It's one of the biggest disadvantages to living in the least populated state in the country - no matter what the issue, there are more votes in one suburb of a big city than there are voters in the state, so no matter what we are invisible, and folks back East decide what's best for us instead of us deciding that. You guys are incorrigible, do you know that?

Don't get me started on wolves....i got no use for them..... They reintroduced then here too.... No they are a big nuisance. A guy here just found what was left of his dog.... The picture was gruesome.... The dog was chained in his yard..... All the wolves left was a head. Someday it'll be a child and those people in Detroit that make all our laws won't think they are so magnificent. I'm all for reintroducing then below the Mackinac bridge.... See how that goes.

 

[Blooie]

Celebration!!!

Today is Kenny and Jenny's 20th anniversary! What a special day when our Jenny joined the family. We woke up to dismal weather. Her dream wedding in Tuthill Park was totally rained out - cold, windy, driving rain - but Kenny and Jenny didn't miss a beat. Whole thing was moved over to her family's church. Then we went on to Tuthill for the cake and toasts, but the barbeque they'd planned wasn't possible. My favorite wedding photo of Jenny was her in her wedding gown, with Kenny's denim coat over it and a smile that brought the sun despite the clouds! Another change in plans - barbeque moved to a garage between SF and Hartford. Many brides would have fallen apart to have so much go haywire on their dream day. Not Jenny. She proved she was flexible enough to get through anything, and she's still proving it. And Kenny held her hand and walked with her. ​

 

[Tumbling K]

awesomeness Blooie!!!

tell them congrats......

 

[Blooie]

I'll do that, Bert! Spending their anniversary preparing their little girl for major surgery is just kinda typical of how their lives have gone on all along, but they roll with it!