Archive for August 2009

Savin’ this bar, one beer at a time

Aug 23rd, 2009 | By Fritz Nordengren
Savin’ this bar, one beer at a time

WHAT?  You’ll have to type your comments LOUDER?  I can’t HEAR you!  I spent the night at the street dance: my ears are ringing, my voice is scratchy, and I’m not hungover.
This is rodeo weekend in Grand River, just up the Seven Mile Road from Two Mile Ranch.  In this part of the Midwest, small
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Truck, Ducks, and WTF?

Aug 15th, 2009 | By Fritz Nordengren
Truck, Ducks, and WTF?

Since I sold my 1989 Ford pickup (the title read “Brown” for the color, but each sheet metal panel was a different shade of red), I’ve been looking for a “thousand dollar pickup” for Two Mile.  I wanted 4 wheel drive because the few times I would need it, I would NEED it.  I casually
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August Full Sturgeon Moon

Aug 11th, 2009 | By Fritz Nordengren

The month of August is Sturgeon fishing time on the Great Lakes.  The Sturgeon moon is full August 6.



Roosters

Aug 9th, 2009 | By Fritz Nordengren
Roosters

It takes a brave man to blog about a subject he knows increasingly less about.
I am talking about  roosters.
When I bought the feed-store chicks in April, I wanted barred rock pullets, but the store had only straight run. So I rolled the genetic dice with the Z and W chromosomes and bought two chicks.  Both
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