Drinking the Lake

Robbi - we can't leave Blake at home - that would be like leaving a kid at home. He loves the forest and drinking the lake. In fact we asked him once at home 'Are you drinking the lake?" and now he gets to drink Lake Michigan, ant not the clear stuff, he likes the tasty slimy green stuff.  

also robbi - The tower rocks will be a long long project! it's like 600 feet of planting, one tiny plant at a time.

deppfan - MSNBC is pretty much like FOX but on the other side of the aisle. It's just hard to see how opinionated MSNBC is when you agree with them so much, which I do. In fact I was just reading yesterday that they call themselves the anti-Fox Network.
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Speaking of bad news - man, have you heard what happened in Hungry? Makes the BP spill look like a little spilled milk.

The walls of a  reservoir containing 35 million cubic feet of toxic sludge gave way inundating homes, sweeping cars and burning people through their clothes and poisoning the air.   It's making it's way to the Danube River.  It kills pretty much anything it touches!

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Has anyone seen the new quarters featuring National Parks?   They have been out since April I guess. There will be 56 new ones when it's all said and done.  In circulation now is Hot Springs, Yellowstone, Yosemite (I hope Sam is on it) and the Grand Canyon.

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The movie Secretariat is coming out and it looks pretty interesting.  Did you know that after Secretariat won the Triple crown it lost to a horse named Onion in Saratoga?   Secretariat's heart weighed 22 pounds and was two and a half time larger then the average horse heart and when he died he was given the rare honor of being buried whole (I hope I get that honor).

Usually only the head, heart, and hooves of a winning race horse are buried, and the rest of the body is cremated.  His remains are in Claiborne Farm, Paris, Kentucky. He was 19 years old.

In his Kentucky Derby performance Secretariat ran each quarter-mile segment faster than the one before it and was still speeding up at the finish. He still holds the track record and was the first horse to run the race under 2 minutes. It was 28 years before another horse ran it under 2 minutes.

The final leg of the Triple Crown, Secretariat won by 31 lengths! If you were a betting man a $2 wager would win you 20 cents!
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Hey - I think I see Joe Bidden parachuting onto the Monona Terrace.

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I shook Tom Barret's hand yesterday - that guy is a big dude - he could kick the shit out of me if he had too. I'm not sure a tire iron would do me any good if I ever had to fight him. I'm glad I said friendly things to him.  Walker?  I could spank him and I bet he would cry like a baby!  but I don't want to spank him . . in fact I feel a little weird now even thinking about it.  How about kicking him in the ass for hating government employees.  It Is all our fault right?

ooooooo  don't get me started.
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BTW - that photo yesterday of the water tower - I have it as my background and I really like it.  Looks pretty cool LARGE!!    I might have to blow it up (the photo, not the water tower).

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Have an amazing warm weekend - MAYBE hit 80 on Saturday??

Rod