Sign Stealer

A local establishment had a Halloween party last night so I decided to give U-M some needed exposure as they seemed to not be in the press much lately...

A fun party with some great music; about half of the people got my costume, which is about right.

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Golden Bachelor...yeah, no

It brings me great regret that I didn't make the cut for the latest bachelor series....

Yeah right, I want my previous acquaintances to tell the world what went wrong, from their perspective.

I can hear it all now (queue the dream sequence):

- "So, we're at this party with friends and he wanted to leave early and not formally say goodbye to the group. Who does that?"

- "All he eats is chicken."

- "What's with that laugh?"

- "We went on a few dates, things got intimate, I thought things were going well and then he stopped calling. Who does that?"

- "He didn't acknowledge/like my posts so I knew it wouldn't work."

- "He was just a rebound lay."

- "I need to talk about more than the time he ran into Wayne Fontes."

- "He broke things off with me so he must have a fear of commitment."

- "Enough with the 'do you know how great I was in kickball?' talk"

- "His friend's wives just didn't accept me I think."

- "His e-mail address is correct. He literally has a large melon"

- "ghosted"

- "Do we really need to ride our bicycles everywhere?" 

Thankfully there is no comment area for this entry as I'm sure the masses could add a bunch more. 

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Mutt Parade

The 'F' in Frankfort is for festival as we had the beer week festival last week (every week is a beer festival), a fall festival this week and the Garden Theater film festival next week. I give you a glimpse of the fall festival, specifically the Mutt Parade. My first place vote went to spider dog.

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Welcome Farrah

A shout out/thank you to my visitors last week for the housewarming gifts in the form of good downstate pizza, Irish booze and last, but certainly not least. an addition to my garage puberty hall of fame when Raquel welcomed Farrah to the hall.

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Salmon Camp

The down-staters headed north earlier this week for my first experience at hosting salmon camp. With two rivers, the Betsie and Platte, minutes from my home with an abundance of salmon running, the conditions were ideal. We saw many and witnessed others catching their share, however, we have some work to do in pulling in those finicky runners as only a few were brought home.

Besides watching many large fish laugh at us while swimming by, some good hanging (and eats) with friends, which is what it's all about.

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Ironman

This Sunday, the Ironman triathlon comes to town with thousands of competitors flocking to Benzie County to swim 1.2 miles, pedal 56 and run 13. I can do the pedal and run but don't think doggie paddling will cut it on the swim portion. I would need some arm floaties and don't think they'll allow those.

A gold star to the organizers of the event as all local residents received the attached pamphlet in the mail a few weeks back outlining where runners/bikers would be during the race. Locals tell me before Frankfort took over the race a few years back, the larger city to the east attempted to stage it and all hell broke loose with traffic as not enough locals were notified ahead of time. 

Three cheers for the small town and good communication.

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deer vs blue tarp

My neighbor recently laid out a large blue tarp on his additional property in attempting to kill the grass in a general area. The local deer took exception to said tarp. Below is video of it from last night.

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