HIGH WIND ADVISORY

Lot's of trolling time logged today on Gun Lake.....

Man was it windy. I need to buy some better goggles for my high speed 21mph runs through the waves. Caught one fish, a crappie. "A bad day fishing is better than a good day working" but it is still a bad day fishing.

FISH ON!

Just like in the movie "Grumpy Old Men" ,the "ol green hornet strikes again!!!!


28" Pike from Ol' Gun Lake today! Accidentally stumbled upon a secret way to catch big pike while I have been Walleye fishing!

I'll let ya all know how darn good this tasted after I breaded it in Ritz crackers and fried her up!

A Day Of Spoiling for Mrs. TEAM T

Today was a day of rest and reward for all that my wife does here at home....It started out at 0630 hrs this morning (Tuesday) when I got up and prepared to serve the hungry TEAM T beauties.........Picture below is the breakfast chow line ready to roll:


Here are the hungry robins who have an automatic internal clock of 0700 wakeup.....argh...They have the same thing inside them that these newfangled watches have to keep them on time.....






After feeding the troops, I got em all cleaned up and dressed (*double argh) and we headed off to let mama sleep in.....Undisturbed......With no one in the house. We returned at 2pm to make a late lunch of homeade Pumpkin Soup with Roasted Shallots and Sage. To accompany this delicious soup was Herb Roasted Vegetable Sandwiches......DELICIOUS. A superb selection of Good Harbor Vineyards "Trillium" White Table Wine helped wash it all down.....

I had many helping hands in making dinner.....

(of which I started making right after lunch-NOTE-they never showed June Cleaver in the kitchen all day but it appears that is what it takes to make all this stuff......) Dinner was a scrumptous Butterflied Chicken with Zucchini-Ricotta Stuffing. Here is the bird ready to go in the oven......Lots of herbs on the outside and pads of butter! Stuffed full of my homeade Zucchini-Rocotta Cheese Stuffing!

The finished product!!! I paired up a tarfully delicious Good Harbor Vineyards "Cherry Wine" to put our tastebuds into overdrive!


Just in time for the all time best cake/torte I have ever made.....Can you say Almond Chocolate Torte with homeade Caramel Sauce? Unbelievable...Can you see the sticky sauce glistening in the picture?


NOTE: all of this was made by me from scratch from a cookbook......Suzanne Somers "Get Skinny on Fabulous Food"......

I want to thank you for all you do here honey! Here we are basking in the glow on the TEAM T PORCH.

And after all this girly romantic cooking stuff I'm off to Walleye/Pike fish tomorrow.....Gotta make sure no one is confused about my manliness.


Oh, I almost forgot. The night was capped off by some Indian Wrestling.

End Of An Era for Team T!

Just as the sun sets each day......One day is gone......


I felt a tear of joy run out the side of my eye today as I saw the TEAM T crib out at the curb.....Our youngest has moved into a toddler bed! This crib housed each of the four TEAM T beauties from the day they were brought home.....A new era and the end of one....7 years in the making.....

(The hillbilly side of me can't wait for the toddler bed to be out of service....That means a new ice fishing sled!)

UNDER SEIGE....BY WOMEN

I LIVE WITH FIVE WOMEN. NOT ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, BUT FFFIIIVVEE...CINCO...

WHAT A FITTING SONG....FOR A DRAINING EXPERIENCE... CAN YOU FEEL THE PAIN OF LOVING TWO WOMEN? TRY WHAT FEELS LIKE LOVING 105 WOMEN.....


Trying to love two women is like a ball and chain.
Sometimes the pleasure ain't worth the strain.
It's a long old grind, and it tires your mind.

Trying to hold two women is tearing me apart.
One's got my money, the other's got my heart.
It's a long old grind, and it tires your mind.


When you try to please two women, you can't please yourself.
At best it's only half good; a man can't stock two shelves.
It's a long old grind, and it tires your mind.

THE OAKRIDGE BOYS, "TRYIN' TO LOVE TWO WOMEN"
My life is full of barbies, pink underpants, flowers, multi-colored frustrating as hell hair ties, buttoning dresses, barbies, makeup, and pink toys.....Good thing I'm secure in being a man....

and p.s., I stand up to pee just to make a point........It's just me and the son vs the ladies.....he's still working on the whole stand up/pee thing.....but I have confidence in him....

I LOVE MY WOMEN!

No Work for One Week!!!!!!!!

I have to share with you this naive fantasy of wonder and excitement I always get. Its a euphoric feeling, and it occurs every time I have extended time off from work.....I feel like now anything is possible.....I can be crazy and build outstandingly crazy stuff.....I can do anything......Well, I'm feeling it now as I don't have to work until next week Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Turning my backyard into grandstands and a monster semi truck rally with thousands of people......

I'm talking some serious fishing on Gun Lake......


















Cooking some gourmet chef meals.....

Finally making my own homeade whiskey still in my backyard......

Building a rocket or glider I can fly in to work with and dodge all the traffic....

I'm dead serious....I was laughing on the way home today in the Commanche Commander.....I laughed about my high expectations of extended time off and how I had to keep the commander under 58 mph or experience a throw ya off the road shake in the front end since the front struts and shocks need to be replaced....I suspect some of my rocket and monster truck time will be spent fixing up the commander....

On a serious note I should hear today about the 39' 1985 SCHOOLBUS I'm trying to wrangle up from a school.....The guy told me I could have it for a song......How much do you think a song is? He never said how much, just that it was a song...I gotta believe its not much.....He said they bought the bus 10 years ago for 1$ from a local school district......Let's all cross our fingers and hope its reaaaaaal cheeeeap.....

Anyway.......I have a week off and the sky is the limit!!!!

And although I'm gone from Thursday thru Saturday for a "work" conference......It ain't drivin' around in circles putting out small grass fires in people's lives.....ITS ALL ABOUT GITTEN-R-DONE!

Maybe I'll thow off the bow lines, set sail, and do somethin' real crazy like order those plans out of the back of Popular Mechanics for the "GLIDER PLANE" and start flying into work.....

I have already committed myself to a "Tuesday Mom/Wife Appreciation Day" where my wife gets pampered by sleeping in, breakfast in bed (made by me and the girls of course), special lunch after I vacate the house of children with me on some shoppin' escapades so that mom can just veg out and not worry about kids putting forks covered in maple syrup in the electric plugs, followed by a HOT TEAM T CHEF DINNER......DESSERT IS A HOT BUBBLE BATH WITH WAY TO MANY SCENTED CANDLES, A CD ME AND THE TEAM T GIRLS ARE GONNA BUY that will be scratched and wrecked withing 2 days, Cherry Wine from Good Harbor Vineyards, a massage.......and......well, then I'm puttin' the kids to bed......uh hum......"wrestling" as we tell the kids were doing when the door is locked.....

How much do you think a song is? Seriously? Weigh in...

• WORD OF CAUTION/NOTE OF INTEREST/DISCLAIMER: According to the law of the United States of America, it is illegal for a private citizen to make whiskey....So I can't and won't ever make it. So before you all try and make money off the tip line.....I AM NOT MAKING WHISKEY.....They only pay you if they find something....Don't waste your or their time.....Just speaking my mind here....

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What do you dream of? What are some tasks you would like to finish?

I've had dreams of fighting bad guys and my gun won't work properly, a re-occurring flying dream where if I just lift my legs up and bend them and I can fly.......ANYWHERE.....Some quite odd dreams I won't share......But here are some of the current things I am dreaming of and goals I have:

Busses to Palace Motor Homes
















Fencing in my yard

Walleye

Bein Johnny Cash

This brings up a topic of discussion......VISION....Do you have vision? I'm talking about seeing the end result? I see my sister is cleaning out the back 40 of her property and digging a pond.....VISION.....I often get wierd looks when I speak of building a motor home out of a bus.......People can only think of sleeping in the bus they rode in to school......VISION>>>>>I'm talking about looking at an old school bus and seeing the possibilities....DO YOU HAVE VISION?

If not, you are missing out on LIFE! TODAY IS LIFE. NOT YESTERDAY....TODAY!

A glint of fall!

Was that crisp air I felt tonight a glimpse of fall?

Perch fishing?

Bambi Killin?

Pumpkin Pie.....The smell of burning leaves....Monday Night Footballl.....Halloween.....School buses......oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I've got so much to do so I'm ready for fall!


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Alarm Clock Grill Nightmares and Deer Hair.....

I must tell you all of my experience on Thursday morn......To appreciate it, have you ever woke up and felt like you were in a panic and were supposed to be somewhere?

STORY BACKGROUND:

Well,I've known for some time now that I was supposed to bring a large grill I had stored for some friends at my house in the TEAM T GARAGE for a very large cookout at an event......I could sense the worry in their voice when they told me 28 times that the grill needed to be at a West Side Hall AT 2PM ON FRIDAY......

I volunteered to remove and store this large grill while my friends moved to a new location.....And I stored it in the TEAM T GARAGE (TTG) all last fall. A unique thing happens in my garage in the fall......I bring DEER that I shoot, field dress, and hang to be butchered in this multipurpose garage......Are you with me? So I cut up a deer and like most other flat elevated spaces in the garage, stuff gets thrown on it.....So about November, after the heat goes away, I have several deer hides hangin in my garage......

and I must say that I've had this plan to utilize the deer hides for years now.....I always end up "caping" the deer out with these illusions of grandeur that I'm going to make some sweet hanging tanned deer hide to put on the wall in my basement like I'm Davey Crockett or something. A museum of dead deer hides of sorts....

A few years back I fell prey to an "OUTDOORS BOOK CLUB" and thought I would make matching Clark Griswold family outfits for my whole family from the patterns in the book "Deer Hides and How to tan Naturally". Don't laugh, you've all done similar things.....Like that 13 book set you bought on "HOW TO SUCCEED AT EBAY" or the "CARLTON SHEETS BUYING REAL ESTATE FOR 50 CENTS" series.....Anyway, so I set the deer hide on the only uncovered flat surface in my garage, MY "FRIENDS" GRILL......

Much to my surprise, when I go out in TTG, I see this deer hide laying rolled up on the grill......But it looks odd. Fatter. More puffy....like maybe it's grown. So I go to examine it and discover that mice have infested the thing......They have chewed the inside to bits, and made four small colonies of DEER HAIR MOUSE CITY inside the damn grill.......And oh friends, is this grill greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasy!

New math equation for ya---->Greasy Grill+The Mouse Municipality of Deer Hair City (population 9)=A BIG PROBLEM. Deer hair sticks to anything but nothing better than a greasy grill!


As always here at TEAM T, I firmly believe in Visual Aids for concept retention......So here we go......Here's the problem:



















Can you feel the anxiety building? It took me about 8 hours of tearing the grill apart (after I got the courage to demolish the deer hair condo's the mice had built in the bottom of the grill) to get all this hair off.....Sigh of relief......Grill is operational.....Ready to go.....

The hairless grill, loaded in the Commanche Commander, ready for service!....Pictured here!















So, after working a good ol' life depleting black under eye circle making 3rd busy shift on Wednesday night, I went to bed......And of course, all I could dream about is getting this grill to the Hall on Friday.......

So I wake up Thursday and roll over non-chalantly to look at the alarm clock. Huh, 3:00 PM it so calmly displays in hot red letters.

I jump out of bed within 3 seconds of seeing the alarm clock......Immediately a fire ignites in my stomach......."YOU LET THEM DOWN! THEY ARE ALL WAITING TO EAT AND YOU LET EM DOWN MAN! HOW COULD YOU OVERSLEEP ON A BIG DAY LIKE THIS?" I jumped out of bed, ran to my dresser, grabbed what I thought was shorts and put it on. I sprint through the house and see the look of wonder on my family's faces as I continue outside....I am now realizing I'm wearing one of my swimsuits.......I open the TTG, whisk the 200 lb grill out, flip down the tailgate on the Commander, and with an adrenaline filled 159 lbs of white trash wonder I hoist the 200 lb grill without any difficulty into the truck bed....slam the tail gate, and start doing millasecond adrenaline fired eye twitching searches for the remaining items of the grill......And suddenly I feel a calm, well intended hand rest on my shoulder.

"Honey. It's O.K. It's THURSDAY. GO BACK TO BED"..........."THATS NOT UNTIL TOMORROW."

I think I have mental problems......G.I. Joe always said that "knowing is half the battle......"

And for all those that ate steaks and chicken off the grill today....and I made it there four hours early by the way today.....The grill was power washed and scrubbed and decontaminated of all mouse and eer remnants.....so RELAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX.

QUOTE TO PONDER

"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis." - Henry Ford -




Come on folks, EMBRACE LIFE! GIT-ER-DONE!

OL JOHNNY AND JUNE

OL JOHNNY AND JUNE...

And I repeat myself.......Great Movie....

Me and the boy's PIKE

Can u see the proud smile on the son's face?

Ol' Johnny "Walk The Line"

What a great movie.....If you haven't seen it, TEAM T gives it 6 walleye stars!


Here's Johnny with the love of his heart....June

Beauty and Inner Struggle

Each day I am overwhelmed by the beauty in my life.

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To my beauties:
Captured.

You captured my heart.
You captured it.
Locked it up.
It’s in a box.
Captured.

*****NEWS RELEASE******

Attention! Attention! Be advised, there is an investigation being completed right now for a bloody crime scene located in a boat named "TEAM TOBIN". Investigators have released a photo of the bloody crime scene:

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Investigators are asking for information about this watercraft and a Jeep "COMMANCHE COMMANDER" commonly seen launching the boat into GUN LAKE. Officials have made a seizure of this boat in what they are calling a "Brutal Walleye Killing."

Officers are also asking for help in identifying the man holding this 'EYE. They believe he is a redneck die hard Walleye Trollin' fisherman by the look of his boat.

This beautiful specimen is believed to have been caught on Gun Lake at 11am this morning. An autopsy showed the fish was 25 inches and 4 LBS 12 OZ'S!

Dental records are currently being compared for possible identification.

Officials hope to use the dental records so that they can notify next of kin THAT THEY ARE IN BIG TROUBLE BECAUSE I'M STARTING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE NEXT OF KIN LIVE AND I'M COMING FOR EM! CLOSE THE WEED WINDOWS AND LOCK THE ROCK DOORS! TEAM TOBIN IS OUT FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HAVE YOU CHECKED THE WALLEYE CHILDREN??????

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Don't make me get him out......

Don't make me get the Rev out again......

And for those who have no clue what this is about, I'm currently receiving my quarterly rebuking about my unperfect wicked life. The source of the rebuking changes, but the good old fashion rebuking message has yet to change..........ITS TIME FOR THE HOUR OF POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU SUCK! JUST ASK AND YOU TOO CAN BE REBUKED!!!!!!!!!

"if this is really it, I am not impressed :(What about your gorgeous faithful wife and 4 beautiful daughters??????????????????????????????????????????????????????"

"God's word would be a great one to remember to include in things you enjoy or even EVER... the one with the baby and the bottle of jacks is sick and wrong, no apologies!"


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And to clarify a couple of things about the picture in the below "what I enjoy post", the bottle of "Jacks" is unopened. I don't feed Jack Daniels to my kids. Sorry I'm not perfect. AND: John 8:7 "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."

What I enjoy...

Hello all......Its time for ME to open the crazy box of my mind again and let it out.....Here is what is currently going on in my mind.


I'm 31 years old and am happy. I look in the mirror and although there are things I would change (teeth,chin, well thats about it) I am happy. I wake up most mornings and am happy. I have so much going on in my head I'll never share....But anyway.....I want you to see and experience the things in life that I enjoy.....The little things sometimes.....They make all the big differences......I want each of you to stop an think a second.....WHAT DO YOU ENJOY? WHAT ARE THE THINGS IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE THAT YOU LOOK FORWARD TO? WHAT DO YOU TREASURE?

I enjoy

MY SON



POKER





Drinking other people's Jack Daniels.......

Ice fishing


















Hog PERCH

Trolling for Hours and not exercising my mind......Just relying on my 10+years of fishing instinct......

Easter Egg Hunts

I REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLY enjoy a new pair (any type) of brand ass spankin' new fishin' glasses!

Softball Games.....

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