IKEA is being boycotted by some people in Europe because they are sell reindeer sausage. I guess the thought of eating reindeer shocked the kiddies.

Well, at least they weren’t selling elf burgers.

No, I am not blogging about my co-workers but the term does fit some of them.  I am talking about a real fruit cake.

A man claims to have a fruit cake that is 97 year old.  It was part of an inheritance.  In short, it is a family heirloom.

It was baked for Christmas back in 1911.  The thing is rock hard and has a slight spice smell.

In another 3 years, it will be 100.  Hopefully the man will live long enough to see it.

Blagojevich, the Governor of Illinois was arrested yesterday.  It seems he is accused of trying to sell the Senate seat, being vacated by Obama, to the highest bidder.  He replaced the former Governor who is serving 6 years for extortion and racketeering.

I guess when it comes to Illinois politics there is no limit to the corruption.

The church that we attend has a very large number of college students that attend weekly. And, being young, they wear, well, a different type of attire than the rest of us. And it is not so much what the young men wear, it is more of what the young women wear.

Sunday, there was a young woman wearing a red strapless dress. It was very nice and I am sure that it would be wonderful at a Christmas Ball. However, it looked rather out of place at church.

In the past, I have seen young women in skirts so short that you could see their thong as they were walking up the stairs. And, I am sure that their goal was to get the attention of the young men in attendance.

However, while they are getting the attention of men, I am sure that it is not the kind of attention that they were looking for. Most of us men are appalled at their attire and wonder if our daughters dress that way for church.

Such young women must be living away from home as I am sure that no father would let their daughter be seen like that in public.

When we have long flights, we are dependent on airline food. And, while you can buy snack food in the terminal, it is just that, snack food. So, if we want anything other than snack food, we have to buy it on the flight. And, such was the case on our recent flight to San Francisco.

Now, usually the airlines offer light fairs for lunch such as sandwiches and salads. So, when they announced that they had a turkey pita, I opted for it.

What I got was not what I expected. Instead of a pita, I got two over sized English muffins with a turkey salad spread in between.

The sandwich was good but messy. The veggies that they advertised were sparse and mixed in with the salad dressing.

Along with the pita were chips and salsa. I ate one chip. It was like eating beef jerky. My jaw wasn’t up to the challenge so I passed on the rest.

The food at the airports isn’t much better so eat before you leave.

There was a big hupla here in Grand Rapids.  It seems that some woman stopped at 3 Angel Tree locations and filled here car with the gifts that were underneath the tree.

No one questioned her.  She just picked up the gifts.

Finally, someone called the Salvation Army.  The Salvation Army knew nothing about the pick up.  So, it hit the media.

They had video surveillances of the pick up and the public was put on notice to identify the woman.

Well, the woman was identified alright.  Turns out, she was a Salvation Army volunteer.  She took it upon her self to pick up the gifts without being told to do so.

Its hard to get good help these days.

Here at the state, we play infomercials to all callers who are put on hold. The infomercials usually contain facts about the state or helpful hints.

Well, the other day I was listening to an infomercial and heard “Did you know that the vast majority of all highway injuries involve a driver or a passenger?” No duh!

But I suppose a pedestrian could get hit by someone on a bicycle. In that situation, the accident would involve a biker and a walker not a driver and a passenger.

The state has a knack for stating the obvious.

This is it, my Marshall stack. I always forget to post pictures with my blog. It is really quite quick and easy but I forget to do it.

At a recent checkup, my doctor told me that while my cholesterol was good, my LDLs could be lower. He suggested that I reduce my fat intake so we talked about my diet.

I explained to him that since I am hypoglycemic, I eat a lot of meat. He suggested that I switch from regular sausage to turkey sausage. So, the next time I went to the store, I purchased a package of turkey sausage.

The package said that it contained 50% less fat. When I looked on the back, it said 11 grams of fat per serving. Great! So, I cooked it up.

But, to my surprise, there was a lot of grease in the pan and it seemed to be as much as my pork sausage had. So, when I went back to the store, I checked out a package of pork sausage. It too had 11 grams of fat.

So much for that idea.

Well, the wackmaster came through again on Saturday. I harvested a nice doe.

For those of you who don’t know, a wackmaster is what Ted Nugent refers to as his bow. And “wackem and stackem” is his motto.

I am two for four with my wackmaster; four shots, two deer. Not bad, though Ted could have done better.

It was a perfect “text book” shot. It was right behind the shoulders. The deer never knew what hit her. She just kind of flicked her tail and a few second later, just laid down and went to sleep. The other deer next to her were not even disturbed by the event.

Where I live, the deer population is so great that private land hunters are allowed to take five deer. There are so many deer that they have almost been declared a vermin.

The gun/bow season ended yesterday and the new bow season opens today. It will run until the first of the year.

We like venison. One down, four to go.