WERE OUTTA' HERE!

WE ARE OUTTA HERE!

IN THE WORD'S OF JOHNNY PAYCHECK, "KEEP THE LONESTAR COLD, AND THE DANCE FLOOR HOT WHILE I'M GONE!"

GETTING THE S.S. TEAM-T IN SHAPE FOR SUMMER!

I SAY BRING ON THE SUMMER PARTIES!

THE SS TEAM-T IS READY TO SAIL!

THE STORM HIT! 31 IS HERE!

Yesterday was my 31st BDAY! Thanks to all for the calls, cards, gifts.....















I spent most of the day sleeping 3rd shift off but upon waking, my son and I visited the TEAM-T home-spa for a haircut and pedicure......The staff at the spa were friendly and gave great service....and of course.......The staff was my wife! Pedicure extraordinare lady! And of course, I chose the "you want happy ending?">>>>>

I got my hair cut as it's time to start phase 2 of my life! Time to step it up a little! Just as a soldier shave's his head for battle, I cut off the thinning locks for a fresh clean start! Besides, It'll look better once I get some ALABAMIE sun on the ol' noggin....

So, 31 hit.......







And here is how I feel!!! Bring it on!!!

A GUN LAKER SEBATICAL!

As I write this post, I am preparing for 14 days off from work! It has begun! A sebatical!!!!!!!!!!!







ALABAMIE, HERE WE COME!!!!

IN THE WORDS OF W, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Just happened to flip by the WOODTV8 website and see an article of interest.....Man, am I glad I don't live up there in the big city! Those PoPo sound like they have their hands full!

After further reading, I'd say MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
and I quote from the WOODTV website:

""""Nearly 150 people were arrested in an overnight raid by Grand Rapids Police. The raid went down at Stingers Motorcycle Club, the latest twist for a club with a violent past.

Stingers is no stranger to violence. In the last year and a half, it's had at least four shootings. That includes the murder of 33-year-old Brutus Whiteside, who was shot and killed on the dance floor in November of 2004.

Johnson said he didn't know it was an illegal business, and that this has certainly sullied his view of Grand Rapids. "I will never be back to Grand Rapids, ever in life... as soon as I can pay this ticket, I will never come back to Grand Rapids for nothing." Others agreed with Johnson."""



As a side note, I've followed this whole story for years and it sounds like the neighbors up there had their fill of killings and violence with this place! Maybe this will end it!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AFTER HOURS CLUB FUN!

No this post isn't about some rogue motorcycle club......It's about the constant turmoil that appliances and everything else man made present......






Me and the boy are currently up and performing surgery on the TEAM-T dryer, can't sleep......




Starlog-00:47 hours....mother says that dryer is running but no heat......gotta figure it out.....I already pulled it apart and did what most men do, I BANGED ON ALL THE PARTS WITH A HAMMER....Worked sporadically at best....


Man do I love doing this type of stuff at this hour....Funny thing is, I'm wide awake....Now I know why they don't put "A.M. OR P.M." on round clock dials......because it doesn't matter!



My only son kept telling me he knew the problem was the gas coils....I should have listened to him.....He finally put down his beer and set the two gas coils down and said, "dad, this is the problem....We will go to the store tomorrow and get replacements...." Smart little guy, just like his dad......And heck, he drinks my brand.......

Job Well Done......And An Apology

disclaimer.....this picture is not from the crash....but reminds me of it...

Just wanted to take a second to apologize to my partner for yelling at said partner during cpr......I didn't realize until it was over why you couldn't keep a good hold of the victim's head and that it was so slippery from blood/brain matter......Sorry I yelled at you during the heat of the moment....You did a good job in spite of the conditions!

And to all involved, job well done.....Some things are set in motion and the outcome is not able to be altered no matter how hard you try......

Here's to goin' home and huggin' your family after seeing somethin' horrible...

A MISSED CALLING.....I COULDA BEEN TOM CRUISE.....

I COULDA BEEN A FIGHTER PILOT.......OH YEAH....

From the Office of the Fish Police....WANTED INDIVIDUAL!

WANTED!!!!

This man has been seen by other fish taking our relatives and friends away to unknown places.

Excerpts from related FISH POLICE REPORTS:

-A perch came in to our Gun Lake Underwater Neighborhood Office yesterday and reported seeing him load over several hunded of our fish family into various buckets on sporatic occasions after catching them over the last year.

-Yet another large crappie reported a family member vanishing from the lake. The cousin was able to make a frantic call via the suspect's cellphone and describe the man cutting up the other captured fish and frying them while drinking a beer.

CAUTION TO OUR LOCAL PERCH, CRAPPIE, BLUEGILL, AND WALLEYE POPULATION! THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS AND IS BELIEVED TO BE WEARING THESE POLARIZED GOGGLES!

The Community of Bass for Human Beings Rights Council staged a protest today saying this man is completely innocent and provided the Fish Police of numerous examples where he threw Bass back. Numerous Bass testified as eye-witnesses that they were caught by the man and overheard him saying, "I hate bass." They then recall being released back into the lake. In light of this information, PLEASE STILL USE CAUTION!!!!

DEATH

I LOOKED DEATH IN THE FACE TODAY.....4 TIMES.....AND IT WAS UGLY.........

TODAY MAY BE ALL YOU HAVE, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH IT?

BUT, THERE IS HOPE!

Just a reminder, ITS SPRING!

NEW REDNECK DISCOVERY! Built in Fishin' Rod Holders!

I JUST FOUND OUT TODAY THAT MY HOUSE HAS BUILT IN ROD HOLDERS AND A GUN RACK IN THE KITCHEN!

Keep thinking out of the box folks, you never know what you'll find!

The area above my kitchen cabinets will hold two 8'6" WALLEYE trolling rods and a Marlin 22 rifle.....Who would have thought?

An honest day's work for an honest day's pay-A forgotten legacy...

Lest we forget...

There is much to be said of a hard worker. It seems to be a legacy forgotten.

Punching in, working hard, then going home and reaping the benefits of a hard day's work for a hard day's pay.....

Work hard. Play hard.

And be proud of it!

Its Finally Spring!

I'm feeling a new fire inside for SPRING!

The ice and snow have melted away and Here are my thoughts on spring:

Green Easter Grass, Spring cleaning, Robins, steamy rain-showers,

LOVE......

An escape from the duldrums of winter!

Tulips, warm air.....

LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ATTENTION BLOG READERS:

IF YOU DON'T LIKE READING MUSHY STUFF, IF YOU ARE TOO OLD TO STILL FEEL LOVE, THE YEARNING FOR LOVE AND PASSION, THEN DON'T READ ON, CUZ I'M NOT APOLOGIZING!

How can I say it better.....Here are some beautiful artists who's words nail the point!

“Nothin ‘bout love makes sense”


Like a cloud full of rain shouldn’t hang in the sky
Ice shouldn’t burn, or a bumble-bee fly
If you feel so happy, then why do you cry?
Oh, nothin’ bout love makes sense.

Like an ocean-liner shouldn’t float on the sea
A pearl in an oyster, or a circus of fleas
Someone so perfect can’t be fallin’ for me
Oh, nothin’ bout love makes sense

Nothin’ bout love is less than confusing,
You can win when when your’e losing,
Stand while your’e falling,
I can’t figure it out

Nothin’ bout love can make an equation
It is short of amazing
Wish I could explain it
But I don’t know how!

The way that we dance,
The reason we dream
That big Italian tower well how does it lean?
Somethin’ so strong shouldn’t make me this weak
Oh, nothin’ bout love makes sense…

Nothin’ bout love is less than confusing,
You can win when when your’e losing,
Stand while your’e falling,
I can’t figure it out

Like the lights of Las Vegas glowin’ out of the sand
A jumbo shrimp, or a baby grand
How you touch my heart when your’e holdin’ my hand
Oh nothin’ bout love makes sense,
Oh nothin’ bout love makes sense!

IT DON’T MAKE SENSE!

LEE ANN RIMES-THIS WOMAN-copyrighted

BABY I LOVE YOU-JENNIFER LOPEZ

Girl, I never knew I could feel the way I felt when I felt,
The way you were feelin’ me baby
Im so out of control

Every time you look my way, I realize more and more
How much I adore, those pretty eyes of yours
Im helpless babe

What I want to know is, are you willing to try?
Can you love me for a lifetime, how 'bout tonight?

Oh girl, baby I love you
Baby I need you
I gotta have you
Can’t be without you
Baby I love you
Baby I need you
I gotta have you
Can’t be without you


Blessed and cursed on the same day
The day I first felt the power of you
Growing on the inside of me
Such a strong feeling

There come’s a time in everyone’s life
When you know
And everyone around you know’s
That everything has changed
You’re not the same
It’s a new day

What I want to know is
Are you willing to try?
There’s got to be more meaning to this,
Then what meets the eye!
Baby I love you and baby I need you

I gotta have you!

I love the way you kiss me, baby please, I’m about to lose my mind
I’m beggin for you and I’m down on my knees, I know that you’re the one that I need!

Could this be love?-J LOPEZ

If you only knew
What I’ve been goin’ through
Waiting and wanting you
Could this be love?
OH TELL ME, COULD THIS BE LOVE???

How, tell me how will I know?
Will my heart make believe it’s so,
Or can I trust the way I feel?
If you could read my mind
And see how hard I’ve tried
Still I can’t decide….

If you only knew
What I’ve been goin’ through
Waiting and wanting you
Could this be love?
OH TELL ME, COULD THIS BE LOVE???

Do you know if it’s true,
That real love last’s a lifetime?
Does it shine like the stars up in the sky
And do you know?
Can you fall for just a moment, or is a moment for all time?

Why, why am I so unsure?
Is that love knocking at my door?
Or the sound of my beating heart….

If you could read my mind, you’d know I just can’t hide…
What I feel inside…

Oh tell me, could this be LOVE?

TRIBUTE TO 3RD SHIFTERS-CURRENT AND PAST

THIS POST A TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO'S CIRCADIAN RYTHMS HAVE SOUNDED LIKE RETARDED DRUMS...

Well, here I sit.....Its 03:22 a.m. and I'm wide friggin awake......I watched a special on the Discovery Channel about "circadian rythms" and man were they right on. You see, our bodies react to something that comes up every day........Mr. Sun!

And then when it gets dark, our bodies tell us, it's time for bed......Somehow I've altered that little clock and now it doesn't know what to do......Some jobs call for odd hours I guess......

I sit and stare at my wife and dog sleeping peacefully and I think I should really be in bed since I have to go down to the ol' courthouse at 08:30......Oh, I'll be alright..........

Here's to putting on sunglasses on your drive home from work because the sun is coming up....better yet, here's to SPEEDING on the way home to get in BEFORE the sun comes up.....Here's to black trashbags taped over windows, firing up your grill at 4:30 a.m.......To sitting by yourself wide awake in a house of sleeping people, to setting your alarm to wake up at 4:30 in the afternoon.....knowing if you don't set it you might wake up at 6:30p.m..........To watching infomercials about stuff you would never even consider buying since every other channel is showing the same thing in the middle of the night........

WORLD WIDE REDNECK ENGINEERING HALL OF FAME!

Welcome to today's live broadcast from the Worldwide Redneck Engineering Hall Of Fame. Here are just a few items on display from TEAM-T that were built over the years.....You must know that most of these items are out of necessity either from NO MONEY or PAIN experienced dragging stuff, hauling stuff, and listening to kids scream and throw poo....

Let's start first with this item. This lovely item lived it's former life as a ROTO-TILLER. I couldn't help but stop as I saw it abandoned, helpless, on the side of the road at someone's trash can. You know the old saying, one man's trash is another redneck's lawn furniture....I removed the blown motor. Then I put it into my redneck thinker shop better known as a pole barn and stared at the old roto-tiller frame for about 2 months. I pondered, what can I use this for? Then one day, it came to me. I'LL MAKE IT INTO A DEER HAULER! I hate hauling dead deer. I like hunting them, shooting them, and most importantly eating them....But man, do I HATE hauling them.

It all happened on a Saturday. I walked into my thinker shop and started grabbing stuff. An old grill, the wood box from horseshoes I got for Christmas, a broke-ass metal snow-shovel..........I cut the grill portion in half, sawed the beautiful box the horseshoe's came in that I got for Christmas, and burned off the wood handle of the shovel as it really frustrated me and I lost control since it wouldn't come off the shovel part. I then started drilling holes, and screwing things together. Which brings me to another quick point, go out in your garage and throw all of your screws away. Quit saving them. Now, go to Walmart and buy 27 boxes of drywall screws in varying lengths. They work for EVERY SINGLE PROJECT YOU COULD EVER NEED! Unless you are building your own airplane or hanglider, then you might want something else. I would have fixed my own tooth-crown problem had I been able to find a small enough drywall screw to screw into the post installed by the dentist...Actually, JB WELD would have worked for that....Anyway...

Three cans of camo paint and BLAMMO! A DEER HAULER! TOTAL COST:$4.98 for the paint and drywall screws. Look at the first picture and imagine a dead deer sitting in this thing like its a wheelchair and you can see just how functional it is! And the big fat roto-redneck tires make hauling the small deer I kill very easy!

Item #2 up for consideration into the Redneck Engineering Hall of Fame comes to us from the outdoors section as well. For any of you that have ever dragged stuff out onto the ice, you know why I built this. Of course, this is a hillbilly problem I created as I bring way too much stuff. I just like being comfortable. So as my wife told me that I needed to bring this toddler bed out to the trash, my inside's began burning. You guessed it, I dragged it out to the thinker shop and let it sit for several months....

Then it came to me......I'll get some cross-country ski's and attach them to it! IT WILL BE MY NEW ICE-SLED! This sweet baby will haul my ice shanty, two buckets, a lantern, a large and I mean large cooler, a medium sized gas grill, three 5 gallon buckets, my ice auger (rides on top on the yellow mounts), two large fishing chairs, my famous CRAPPIE KILLER ALL IN ONE chair with side mount beverage holder, room for 6 poles, a tackle vault, and a large front compartment capable of holding about 75 perch......AND SHE PULL'S LIKE A DREAM.......IT'S MORE WORK FOR ME TO WATCH MY WIFE TAKE THE FULL TRASH CAN TO THE CURB THAN IT IS TO PULL THIS THING!

Item #3 isn't as redneck other than have you ever screwed wood 2x4's into the interior of your personal family vehicle? I mean have you deliberately, on purpose, with both pre-meditation and excitement went to the hardware store and bought a 10 foot long 2x4 and when the guy at the counter asked what it was for you said, "it's for my van we are taking on vacation with my wife and four kids. I'm gonna mount NEW DVD SCREENS to the 2x4 and screw it to the ceiling." Well, have you? I HAVE!

O.K., put on your pretend cap a minute.........sit back into your seat....."This is your captain speaking, I'd like to welcome you today and thank you for flying with us. We will be flying non-stop to Gulf-Shores Alabama, your in-flight movies today will be Cat in the Hat, Elf, and Toy Story. Please let the stewardess know if you need anything and thank you for flying REDNECK AIRLINES!!!"

Not bad for 2x4's! Beats playing travel Jenga like I did in the car on vacation while I grew up....Total cost, $208.00. $196 of it was for the DVD screens!

So, what's your vote for best Redneck Invention?
My advice to everyone is start thinking out of the box......You might be surprised what you can come up with! There's a little redneck in all of us!

Hillbilly Vacations!

Sit back, and enjoy. Let me show ya how we do it with a little white trashy HILLBILLY STYLE!







Whether its The Smoky Mountains in Tennessee,




















staying in luxurious Mountain Top Log Cabins.....














or really trashy dumps that weren't as described on hotwire.com...........

An Allegan County Fourth of July Parade/Fireworks Party.......

Or having a party on someone's deck when they aren't home since they are at the hospital in LABOR....NOW THATS TRASHY!!!!

Or how about a calm trip to the local KLACKLER'S KACKLE KACKLER orchard that ends in a jarring tractor/apple tree crash while you are being pulled with 50 other people on large wagons!

The driver of this tractor had no business pulling all these people....He ran into that apple tree and the wheels kept spinnin' like you see at a hillbilly tractor pull, I jumped up and yelled with my arms outstretched, FULL PULL! FULL PULL!!!!!

...........................................................................................................Man, I almost forgot MYRTLE BEACH! I distinctly remember how much I enjoyed that 27 hour drive packed into two vans like migrant workers....That distinct smell of unknown origin that always arrives after more than the allotted number of people occupy the same space for too long... You know the smell, ITS LIKE FRESHLY BAKED PLAYDOUGH AND RAVEOLI'S. Are you with me?

My first palm tree, sandcastles, laying on the beach in a cabana......What a relaxing week...

Then there are backyard vacations HILLBILLY STYLE! The only ingredients for this vacation are: pools from Walmart, guitars, Busch Light, and a grill!

Ever get the feeling from the look on someone's pretty face that they are on their own little mental vacation for the moment? See the below Christmas picture for what I mean

Can Anyone tell me why I ALWAYS END UP HAVING TO RIDE ALL THE ANIMALS ON VACATION? Why is it little old me that has to get in the cage with the biting/jumping goats at the petting zoo? Why do I always have to be the first to pet the "safe" stingray? Or ride the camel that spit's at the handler and just ate some ladies knee high boot she was wearing?

Have you ever been to Glen HARBOR? This is how my uncle mis-pronounces it to this day....

......................................................................................................................................................................................................AND FINALLY, One year we didn't get to go on vacation because we thought it would be cool to gut a house.......LIVE AND LEARN!!!!