This year, we have a six point buck running around in our back yard. Usually, we only see him at dusk but lately, we see him during the day.

The rut must be on as he is chasing around the does. There is also a four point with him. The four point doesn’t do much. He just watches.

Hopefully, I can get a picture of the 6 point before hunting season opens. He won’t last long around here.

A man on a commuter train in France got his arm stuck in a toilet. It seems he accidentally dropped his cell phone inro the toilet and when he went to retrieve it, his arm go stuck. Authorities were not able to free him so they removed him along with the toilet.

He was last seen being carried off on a stretcher with the toilet on top of him. I’ll bet he will think twice before using the toilet on a train.

Last Friday night as we were driving home from Grand Rapids, I passed a spotted mustang on the expressway.  It was white with black spots all over it, kind of like a leopard.

As I got closer, I noticed that it had a manufacturer’s license plate.  ( Any Michigan plate with an “M” in the middle is licensed to a car manufacturer.)  Plus, it had red door handles.

All in all, I thought it was ugly.  It kind of had that “punk” look to it.  But, to each their own.

As I traveled a ways more down the road, I spotted a second Mustang, just like the first.  As I passed it, I noticed that the white with black spots exterior was really some sort of contact paper.

Ah, a secret car!  I bet I wasn’t even suppose to know that it was a Mustang.  Well, I am sorry but there are just some things you can’t hide.  What is next, a Corvette with Zebra strips?

As I am sure that everyone knows, last Sunday was the end of daylight savings time.  For us, this meant that in theory we got an extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning.

I say “in theory” because while we set our clocks back an hour, the cats were still on daylight savings time.  So, at the appointed time by their clocks, they came in to get us up.

Distraught that we were not up yet, they walked all over us.  Of course, they were not upset because we  were not up yet.  They were upset because they hadn’t been fed yet.

Setting the clocks back an hour is easy.  Setting the kitties back an hour is a challenge

One of the things that the citizens of Michigan will be voting on this year is proposition 1. Proposition 1 will legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

According to the proposition, a doctor can write a prescription for the use of marijuana. This prescription will allow the recipient to grow up to 12 marijuana plants per year.

My mother died of a heart attack after she spent the night violently vomiting from the chemo she had taken earlier that day. Perhaps if she had smoked a joint she would have made it through the treatment.

Back in the 70s, the city of Ann Arbor made marijuana possession a misdemeanor which carried a five dollar fine. People predicted that Ann Arbor would become a safe haven for every pot head in the country. It didn’t.

One of my carpoolers takes methadone several times a day for his back pain. It is a prescription medicine and a whole lot more dangerous than pot and a hundred times stronger.

Now granted, I don’t believe that we need another recreational drug but lets get real. If it will help someone get through their chemo or relieve their glaucoma, then why not?

I wonder if you will be able to buy the seeds from Burpees?

The high school football ratings came out the other day. The Lowell high school football team was rated number 1 in the nation.

This is truly awesome! Occasionally, Michigan will have a number 1 team but usually that team is from a major city. So, the fact that little old Lowell was ranked number 1 has excited the whole town.

Of course, a number 1 ranking doesn’t make them the state champions, but it is quite an honor none the less.

A co-worker and close friend of mine and I went to lunch yesterday at our favorite Thai restaurant.  We go there several time a month and over the years I have found a few menu items that I really like.

My favorites are Pad Thai, Gang Gui and Pad Talay.  Pad Thai has a lot of fresh bean spouts and noodles where as Gang Gui and Pad Talay have a basil coconut curry sauce.  Yum!

Well, yesterday, I ordered chicken satay, which are chicken strips on a wooden stick.  This really surprised the waitress as I have never ordered it before.  My friend, who is Chinese, explained to the waitress that I try to eat low carb foods and she did so in Chinese.

So the conversation between the two of them consisted of a lot of sounds that I couldn’t understand with the  occasional “starch” thrown in.  In the end, the two women concluded that in the future, I needed to order number 4.

The waitress turned to me and said “number 4.  Very good for you.  Lots vegetables.  No starch.  No oil.”

Well, I guess next time, I will have to give number 4 a try.  If I don’t, I am sure that I will get concerned looks from both of them.

We have a county on the shore of Lake Michigan which prohibits the sale of beer and wine on Sundays. So, the residence of the county go over into the next one to dine on Sundays.

Well, there is a ballot proposal lift that ban. The restaurant and bar owners of the county are in favor of it. But the restaurant and bar owners of the neighboring counties are opposed.

It seems that if the ban is lifted, the restaurants and bars in the neighboring counties will loose a substantial amount of business.

It should prove interesting.

A co-worker of mine is running for the Township Clerk in a near by township. He campaigned hard during the primaries and beat out the 22 year incumbent. And since he was running unopposed, as there are no Democrats in the area, he was almost guaranteed the position.

But, in a strange turn of events, the incumbent is running as a write in. Plus, the township boards threatens to cut the pay of the position if the incumbent is not elected.

This puts a strange turn on things as my co-worker was one of the managers in the department. The department was recently reorganized with the idea that he would no longer be a manager. If he fails to get elected and continues as a manager, they will have to reorganize again.

Progress.

MSU beat UM and I am glad that they did. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am a UM fan. The problem is that I work with a bunch of MSU fans and they are very poor sports.

When ever MSU wins, they run around the office “high fiving” each other, slapping each other on the back and then taunting us UM fans. They won and that is fine. They are entitled to there celebration.

However, when UM wins, we have to keep quite. Don’t show too much glee and certainly don’t “high five” anyone lest you face the wrath of the half crazed MSU fans. Just sheepishly smile at one another and say nothing.

Plus, when MSU looses, I must endure weeks of whining about the bad calls and the dirty tactic’s of the UM team. They would never say that their team didn’t play up to standards. And heaven forbid that they admit that UM played a better game.

Well, UM lost. MSU played a better game. And as far as I can tell, MSU did not use any dirty tactic’s and the officiating was far and unbiased.

I would rather endure the taunting than fear for my life.