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This just made me LOL

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:25:00 +0000

It's a real ad.

What's up with the summer like weather??

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:19:00 +0000

Chicago got pounded with strong winds and rain. So, Dave is wondering how long his latest addition to the Winsor Family Farm will remain standing today? It's already blown over once before....hmmm.

In Dave's backyard, you'll find these...

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:05:00 +0000

two mini ponies....Opie and Houli...waiting for a snack...It's really kinda cute.

Dave

Michelle's wintertime hands

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:33:00 +0000

Here is the vivid proof of how my partner, Michelle is falling apart. The winter dryness is really having an impact.

Thanks to everyone who called with therapeutic advice.

Dave

Wreaths at Arlington

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:13:00 +0000

Here is a photo of the wreaths from the Worcester Wreath Company at Arlington National.

Rest In Peace.

Making fun of Tiger Woods at an NFL game

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:07:00 +0000

Hehe....look at this!

The Jacksonville Jaguars are poking fun at Tiger Woods!

Bubba, Dave's dog strikes again...

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Bubba broke down a gate to the kitchen. While he was there, he ate 12 biscotti's, a half of a huge jar of peanut butter (that had just been purchased and not open.) that he pulled down off the counter. He actually ate the seal inside the cap. The then rummaged through the trash container for some stale french fries.

Ugh. Did he SMELL for the next couple of days. You know the joke, "the dog did it!"? Well. in this case it was true. I had to give him Pepcid for cryin' out loud.

He made it through. Now we'll have to buy a door for the kitchen.

Dave

Men, you are running out of time

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:09:00 +0000

...To buy the best toaster you can. Try shopping early this year, like this week. If you wait until the 23rd, you'll surely disappoint someone you love.

Remember....shop early, shop online and be AMAZING!

Your brother in arms....

Dave

Sick as a dog...but glad to be back

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:41:00 +0000

Howdy,

It took a couple of weeks and a few days off, but I've finally recovered from whatever that thing I had was?! Sore throat like I've never had before. Lost my voice, lethargic....ugh. First day back on the WOLF was today and I still have a voice left....YAY.

I hope you don't catch this viral stuff.

Best,

Dave

Umm...don't quite know what to say!?

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:00 +0000

Found this at the Cumberland Fair in the Farm Museum....I assume it's real.

Times sure have changed!

Disaster averted!

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:28:00 +0000

Howdy,

I was working online when my wife Janice let out a loud scream. It was the type of scream that "I'm scared and WTF!!!" I was upstairs in the computer room and she was downstairs. I immediately did what any husband would do, I yelled downstairs, "Are you alright?" No immediate answer. I ran downstairs...

Bubba was staring intently at the door while my wife said haltingly, "There's a skunk in the basement!" I replied like any good husband would, testing her to see if she was fooling, "Yeah, right". I turned to walk away and Bubba was still at the door and the two bengal cats we have were now joining him.

"What if there IS a skunk" I thought to myself.

Well, if there is, then it's not going to like Bubba and two cats fishing around under the door. I cleared the area.

My wife got on the phone with a friend, the conversation went something like this: "Hi, do you have a trap for a skunk? Uh-huh, a skunk in our basement, I just opened the door and there it was!"

Now, I'm no expert, but you only get one chance of getting it right, and if you don't then you're not going to be in the house for a month. She said to her friend, "Great, can you bring it right over? We'll put some tuna in it, and when we trap it, we'll just take it out of the basement."

Now, I'm thinking it's going to be like carrying a bomb, one wrong move and POW...you're out of the house for a month. I said something like this to her, "What are you CRAZY? What if the thing goes off and sprays me and the house?"

I ran back upstairs and did the only thing any sane man would do, I called an expert, Dave Sparks. You see, Dave understands skunks. He's taken over 100 of them out of houses and he's only been sprayed 7 times. That's a pretty good average when playing with Mother Nature's C-4.

He came right over and pulled into the driveway. I was never so happy to see someone:

Dave got out of the truck and explained what he was going to do. "I'll go down into the cellar, find the skunk and sedate him." WHAT?! How?!

He went into the cellar and I followed his light as it faded into the darkness. Nothing...but I was waiting for him to mutter "Sh*t"....out of the house for 30 days. But that didn't happen.

Dave came up and asked for a trash barrel so the skunk would have a place to run and hide and THEN he could administer the anesthesia. Back down he went. I could see the flashlight fade into the darkness again, but this time, he laid it down. WTF? No noise, no falling objects, no man running toward the door. Only eerie silence. Then the light was picked up and started coming towards me....RUN....no wait.

Dave climbed out of the cellar and in his hand was this:

Thank you DAVE!!!

The cold got to Dave

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:19:00 +0000

Finally....it's cold enough in our studio for Dave to wear a hoodie. Just took this picture this morning......

The latest invention

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Here it is! What is it?

We talked about it this morning.

Dave

ps. It's the new FAN from Dyson. The same people who brought us the vacuum that rolls around on a ball. Pretty cool, huh?

This has gone too far!

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:08:00 +0000

It is cute however.

This whole Shania Twain video is weird!

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:03:00 +0000

You know that Shania and her husband Mutt divorced because Mutt was involved with the maid. Now Shania is leaning on the maid's former husband for support. THAT is too close for comfort for me. She's also posted a video of her life and what she's been doing lately....all filmed by the maid's former husband. They seem to really hit it off.

Go here for the video...

http://www.shaniatwain.com/

Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Dave

Being a farmer isn't easy...

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Here's the hay elevator. Who knew such a thing existed?!

when you have to feed animals hay all year round. Now some of you "REAL" farmers will snicker at this, but it's hard work! If you're not a farmer, you'll never know the beauty of throwing 300 "idiot bricks" around. Here's a photo of the trailer loaded with idiot bricks!

It's SO COLD in our studio this morning

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:35:00 +0000

...that Michelle is wearing TWO sweatshirts, and both are not on top.

Skirting Table with Fleece on it.

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:37:00 +0000

The table is 4' X 8' and is collapsible. It opens up and sets upon two sets of saw horses.

By the way, that is ONE fleece on that table. My wife is cleaning up the fleece and it will be sent to be processed into roving.

Back from Vacation!

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Wow. I need to be back at the station to avoid doing more hard labor. Don't get me wrong, we work here, but not with shovels and hammers. It was hot and humid. I built a "skirting table" for my wife. I'll take some pictures. OH, almost forgot, I saw this too:

Blue Sky! Amazing. Then, in a instant it was gone.

Dave

One year later...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:27:00 +0000

Sunday, July 12th, 2009 marked one year of marriage to my husband, Dana. Time flies when you're having fun!! It wasn't necessarily the most romantic of days for us. We have been expecting company from Texas and had a major project of remodeling our master bedroom, and the deadline in getting ourselves out of the guest bedroom and finishing our room in time for guests and new bedroom furniture was quickly approaching. Our anniversary saw us wearing old t-shirts and raggedy shorts while we finished sanding and painting our room. But, we did it together and actually had some fun working on a project by ourselves and playing while we did it.

We also managed to take a break at the end of the day to pull our wedding cake out of the fridge to share a traditional moment of eating a piece of your wedding cake on the one year anniversary of your wedding. My girlfriend had packed it up quite nicely last year, and my sister had it stored in her freezer all this time. We let it thaw in our fridge over the weekend, and carefully unpacked it to see what we would be encountering. It certainly didn't have the beautiful look it had on my wedding day, and despite looking a little messy, it smelled good. We cut into it, and it didn't look bad at all. We sliced a couple of pieces and placed them onto a couple of plates, stuck our forks into our pieces and fed them to each other...Phew! Besides being slightly dry, the cake tasted fine...Yay! Success!

One year down...life to go...and looking forward to every minute of it!!

I wish I could sleep like this!

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:22:00 +0000

This is Mowgli, one of our cats. That is my recliner. He seems to like sleeping in it. I do too, but I don't look as comfortable as he does.

5 things to get you uncluttered!

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:15:00 +0000

1. Define your vision

In her new book When Organizing Isn't Enough, SHED your Stuff, Change Your Life, Morgenstern advises people looking to declutter to come up with a theme. "No one lets go without reaching for something else," she says. "You need to come up with a theme for the next phase of your life. Giving a name to what you want to do or feel or express will help dislodge you from your current state of stagnancy." Some common themes are creating a nurturing home, striving for career excellence, and focusing on self-expression and enrichment. Walsh agrees. "If you focus on the stuff, you will never ever get organized," says Walsh, author of the bestselling It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff. "The starting point has to be, 'What is the vision you have for the life you want?,'" he says. "Then you're in a position to ask, 'What do I need for this space?"

2. Define the clutter

Once you have your vision or theme, separating the treasures from trash should be a little easier. Ask yourself: does this item help me get there? What doesn't fit gets purged. Morgenstern emphasizes that clutter doesn't have to be messy. "A perfectly organized closet or drawer is clutter if it is filled with clothes that you haven't worn for years," she says. And clutter doesn't have to be made of stuff. "It can be any obsolete object, space, commitment or behavior that weighs you down or distracts you or saps your energy," she says. "It can be bad habits that take up too much time."

3. Start small

Purging can be very emotional. "It's a big mistake to dismiss clutter as junk," says Morgenstern. "These piles are things that were once important to you, to who you once were or who you wanted to be." To help ease you into the process, she suggests starting in the room you are least attached to. If books are your great love—and clutter weakness—don't start your purging project by the bookcases. Move to a less emotional area, like the kitchen or hall closet. Once you are successful in those parts of the house, it may be easier to tackle the rest. "And be ready for the panic," she warns. Every once in a while you will be overcome with thoughts of "what if I really need that later?" If that happens, just take a deep breath, remember your goal and keep going. "Keep in mind that if you aren't careful, what you own will end up owning you," says Walsh.

4. Let your good riddance help others

It might not be as difficult to say goodbye to your belongings if you're giving them to organizations that can really use them. For instance, those books that are gathering dust in your home could be page-turners at a library, school or senior-citizen center. And those skinny clothes that you'll probably never fit into again could be doing a whole lot more than making you feel bad; take them to a charity shop or shelter.

5. Examine all aspects of your life for clutter

Morgenstern points out that poor uses of time, outdated commitments and bad habits can all be defined as clutter and are worthy of purging. Walsh makes the case for a strong mind-home-body connection in his latest bestseller, Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? "If you think about it, the reasons why a lot of people buy stuff are exactly the same reasons why a lot of people run out and eat inappropriate food—to make themselves feel better," he says. "The parallels are amazing. Our homes, heads and hips are connected." At the end of the day, experts agree that there are many different types of clutter, and they all rob us of peace and harmony. So look at the vision that you have for your life and then ask does keeping this item — whether it be a chair, vase or eclair — help me get there.

I feel like I shouldn't be surprised, but yet, I am still shocked...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Regardless, of what many people may think of Michael Jackson and the strange, eccentric life he lead that was definitely filled with much controversy and scandal, I can't deny that he was a huge part of my childhood who influenced my taste in music as I was growing up in the 80's. I remember fondly, how I asked my parents for the "Thriller" album for my 11th birthday in February of 1983. My sister and I used to listen to it religiously on our turntable stereo in the living room and sing and dance to all of the songs...We had them all memorized!! The first full-size poster I ever had was of Michael wearing white pants, a white shirt and a light yellow vest, and he had his hands in his pockets. My sister and I shared a room, and the poster was hung on the wall between our 2 dressers and right over our TV. We even wore one white glove to school occasionally with whatever outfit we were wearing that day. Our dad was a police officer, and he had given us each of pair of white gloves that he would use to direct traffic. I even had the Michael Jackson doll...the one in which he is wearing the "Beat It" outfit. I am a product of the MTV generation and used to love watching his videos...in fact, it was an event, when the "Thriller" video made its premiere. A whole group of us gathered at a friend's house to watch it for the first time...I thought it was scary. And, I also will never forget when we had our 6th grade dance, and one of the highlights of that evening was when we had the moonwalking contest...I did not win, by the way.

It did seem that as his look and lifestyle changed in the post "Thriller" days, he seemed to lead a sad and troubled life, and no doubt, had an incredibly dysfunctional childhood, but I will always remember him for what he was to me in my growing years...which was the King of Pop. I now understand what it was like for my parents when it was announced that Elvis Presley died. I do feel strangely sad today, and I think I will go dust off my "Thriller" album now and give her a spin.

RIP, Michael Jackson.

I had no idea!

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:01:00 +0000

I didn't even know this business existed, until I drove to Boothbay Harbor yesterday. When did I open this?

Recipe for Viagra

noreply@blogger.com (Dave) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:52:00 +0000

Howdy,

Found this on the internet. Must be true, right?

3% Vitamin E
2% Aspirin
2% Ibuprofen
1% Vitamin C
5% Spray Starch
87% Fix-A-Flat

See, you can make it too!