Tis The Season...

After Friday night, win or lose, Griz season will be over. Until then, I really am having a hard time thinking about anything else! So, while you're waiting for NCAA FCS (I-AA) Championship game Friday night, enjoy the last 4 minutes of last Saturday's win against the Appalachian State University Mountaineers!



So, Go Griz! Beat the Wildcats!

Griz/Cat Hit of the Week

Sure, most of the time, the Hit of the Week goes to a defensive back, or maybe a defensive lineman. How often does a running back get included in the Hit of the Week? Well, when he isn't the victim, anyway...

Check out the hit that TBF lays on a Bobcat in this little video! (It's the 5th & last hit on the video)

Be Back Soon!

I haven't forgotten that I have a blog. I do have plans to return to a more regular blogging schedule soon. Keep checking back!


It was real fun to meet Craig and Heather and their family last week. To everybody else, do let me know if you're passing through Western Montana. We'd love to be able to say, "Hi!" and have a cup of coffee or a piece of pie or something.

My Other Religion...

Montana Grizzly Football begins Saturday! I've got season tickets! That's the good news. The bad news is that I work Saturdays :o(

Yes, the game will be on the radio in the taxi, you can bet on that!

I have worked it out so that I can go to homecoming in October, and the final home game in November. I've also got lots of friends vying for my seat for the other home games...

So, Go, Griz!

UPDATE
Final Score:
Montana Grizzlies: 38
Western State Mountaineers: 0

The Squirrel's Nut Cache - 8/28/09

The Nut Cache - a collection of recent things I found interesting, or amusing, or nutworthy.

(H.T. Tom Ascol) This is actually pretty clever, but I would advise you to save your money. Sure, the Tribulation will be tough on your pets, but it'll be tough on your pets even with atheist animal lovers trying to care for them, because it's going to be really, really tough on those atheists, too. So tough, in fact, that taking care of Fido is going to end up pretty low on their priority list, anyway.

We've all be annoyed (well, at least I have) when you find that a parade or something has obstructed your chosen route to wherever you are trying to go. You either have to wait for the road to re-open, or find a way around. What you should never do is what this guy did. Really poor choice.

I really don't like government interfering in parents raising of their kids. I also think that Western society has delayed giving our children responsibility much too long. In Biblical times, this young lady would be getting close to getting married and having kids of her own. While it is true that sailing solo around the world is sort of a bit of frivolity and danger at the same time, but the girl undeniable has the skills, and her parents support her in trying, so...

(H.T. Phil Johnson) In a perfect world, these are the people that the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would go after! This has got to be some of the weirdest pictures I've ever seen! Those poor doggies! I do agree with Phil, that the Bison Poodle is pretty neat...

I've always enjoyed watching Cops on TV. One thing that is clear after watching just a few episodes is that most criminals are not very smart at all. This just proves that point. I read once that you cannot cheat an honest man, because your target must want to get something for nothing, or at least something for much less then it's true worth, in order for them to buy into the scam. An honest man will always want to pay a fair price, and is therefore hard to cheat. These folks weren't hard to cheat, and are not heading for jail.

Last but not least, this is pretty cool. The founder of Papa John's pizza wanted to get his old Camaro back, so he began a hunt, and offered a reward of $250,000! Now he's got his old car back. I wonder if that's the most a Camaro has ever sold for? It's a 1971 Camaro, brand new it sold for less than $4,000! (Which works out to $21,260 in today's money, which is surprisingly right on target, considering that Chevy's new Camaro starts at $22,245)

That's the Nut Cache for this week! Sweep up the shells, will you?

Auto-echtomy

The Automobile has been removed from the back wall of the garage, and the repairs of the garage have begun. All in all, it looks like everything is headed for a happy ending.

Here's a good picture showing the bracing to keep the roof from collapsing. The wall that the car drove through is a bearing wall that supports the garage roof, so this was important to do.

Here you can see the cables from the tow truck to the car. We are ready for extraction.

Here is the tank commander with her tank. She got the car back from the shop today, no major damage, just some dents and scrapes! The cracked windshield will be replaced on Friday.

Here is a picture of the hole after the car has been removed. Mom and I discussed that this would actually be a real nice place for a picture window...

The contractors (Greg McCue, McCue Construction, Missoula MT) quickly got the new wall framed in and sheeted. The electrician will be here Thursday to replace the outside light and the wall outlet.

And here's the outside, ready for the installation of siding.

When Brakes Fail...

I was just getting ready for bed, was in bed, actually, when I felt the whole house shake. Then my Mom yelled down the stairs to our basement bedroom that my daughter had driven though the back wall of the garage. Mrs Squirrel and I threw on some clothes and ran outside to see the nose of Mandy's car sticking through the back wall of the garage and a very shaken Mandy sitting in the driver's seat with an amusingly stunned look on her face.


The driveway is steeply sloped downhill from the street to the garage, and her brakes failed on the hill. As it would happen, she had already hit the button to open the garage door (although I imagine replacing the door would have been less expensive then rebuilding the back wall.) It's also a good thing that Mandy parks in the end slot, as the other two parking places back up on the laundry room, and if she'd driven through that wall, she'd have been parking her car inside the house.



There were no injuries, and the damage could have been a lot worse. We have to wait until we get a contractor to shore up the wall before we can tow the car out. Then we'll have to assess the damage to both. But God is good, and, ultimately, this is a minor incident and easily reparable. This is why we pay those insurance premiums each month, right?

The Squirrel's Nut Cache - 8/20/09

The Nut Cache - a collection of recent things I found interesting, or amusing, or nutworthy. (Note: This blog has not changed it's name to The Squirrel's Nut Cache! I will be posting other stuff soon. Really. I've just been busy, is all. Really.)

I can't tell you how many people sent me this story. The first was my sister-in-law, so she gets the hat tip, but thanks mucho much to the rest of you. And y'all weren't surprised to find out that squirrels like to be the center of attention, were you? Nah, I didn't think so!

Excepting once in a while, just around the house, when I might just possibly whistle at Mrs. Squirrel, I'm not in favor of men whistling at women. (Guy Tip - whistling at a woman on the street is really not a good way to meet them. Just saying.) Rude though it may be, the guy who does whistle really doesn't deserve to be assaulted. But, if you really feel that a physical confrontation is required (not an opinion I share!) at least make sure you beat up the right guy! Note: "All three women admitted to being drunk at the time of the incident." Yeah, I saw that coming, too.

I don't know how many times I've seen this in a movie or television show, but I never really believed it. It's just too cliche! But, maybe it's cliche because it actually works. It sure worked in this case! I guess bars on jail windows is a good idea, even when the windows are 50 feet up.

There's just a whole bunch of really bad "big drug bust" jokes here. I'm resisting making any. I really am. I'm trying really hard not to say anything about this story. Mrs. Squirrel has already slapped me in the back of the head for making jokes about this story, so I'm sure not going to type any. Make up your own joke, it's really easy... too easy.

Was he bold or just stupid? Only his psychologist knows for sure. One thing is for sure, he wasn't very smart. All criminals, repeat after me: "Do not rob the police station. Do not rob the police station. Do not rob the police station." Okay, everybody got that? Good.

If you work at a bank, and if the bank were to be robbed, it would be nice if the robber said that he was sorry on the way out, wouldn't it? I mean, that makes it all better, right? Well, maybe not; but at least all bank robbers are not rude and uncaring.

That's the Nut Cache for this week! Happy nuttiness!

The Squirrel's Nut Cache - 8/13/09

The Nut Cache - a collection of recent things I found interesting, or amusing, or nutworthy.

In St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, you might want to think twice before taking you alligator for a ride on your bike. Especially if you're also packing drugs and stuff. And, whatever you do, do not abandon your alligator! That's also a crime in Louisiana. Who knew?

Well, if a 3-foot gator is fun to play with, how about a 10-foot one? Some kid's in Florida decided to go fishing for gators. Although everything turned out well, know that THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. I remember canoe camping in the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia when I was a kid, and all the warnings I received about gators. These kids really are lucky, as gators are not something to be messed with.

Stories like this one anger, amuse and astound me all at the same time. It angers me to see people ripped off and taken advantage off. It amuses me, while saddening me at the same time, because I can't believe that people fall for this stuff, and it astounds me because I can't believe that people fall for this stuff. I'm often bowled over by peoples gullibility!

We should have seen this coming. It was only a mater of time. Could this be the beginning of a wave of da Vinci hate crimes? Ever since Dan Brown enmeshed Leonardo da Vinci in his conspiracy theories, it shouldn't surprise us that Leonardo's paintings and artwork would come under attack. Or it could be totally unrelated. But it sure is nutty, either way.

Well, that's it for this week! Not a lot of nuts, but I hope the quality is acceptable. Stay nutty!

Squirrel and Schedules

As I said last week, the new job is really interfering with my blogging. But Mrs Squirrel says I have to just learn to deal with that, so...

Here's some upcoming stuff for you to look forward to --

The Defending Dordt series will continue, with Unconditional Election currently slated for this Friday morning, in place of The Squirrel Can Cook (which will be returning soon, but probably not as a weekly feature.)

The Squirrel's Nut Cache will continue as a weekly feature, so keep sending in nuttiness for review!

Next Sunday, I will be starting an exposition of Daniel at church, so Monday's post will consist of some sort of sermon notes/outlines/summaries. I'm also planning on podcasting the sermons, if I can get all the technical details resolved (nothing major, it's looking good.)

I'll also be passing on fun and frivolity from the taxi, as things happen. I'll also be tweeting from the taxi (between fares, while safely parked!), so follow me on twitter.

I hope that's wet your whistle! See you soon!