Hilarious!!

CRAP!!

NBC pulled that video!!

I'll replace it with Tina Fey for V.P.!

Hey, wait!

I found the video on MySpace!!

Robbie McAtee tackled Eldred King at the 1-yard line as time expired to preserve Kentucky's 20-14 victory over Middle Tennessee State Saturday night.

McAtee's game-saving ankle tackle came after Middle Tennessee quarterback Joe Craddock heaved a desperation pass 61 yards in what appeared to be a last-second victory for the Blue Raiders. Instead, McAtee's tackle kept Kentucky undefeated (3-0) and prevented the Blue Raiders (1-2) from a second straight win over a major conference foe, having beaten Maryland a week earlier.

Mike Hartline threw the first two touchdown passes of his Kentucky career. What was expected to be a timeshare at quarterback for the Wildcats ended up being Hartline's job alone, at least for one week, as freshman speedster Randall Cobb hurt an ankle on a special teams play in the first quarter and didn't return.

There was no immediate word on the extent of Cobb's injury.

Twice Hartline led Kentucky's offense into the end zone after the Blue Raiders (1-2) had gained the lead.

The Wildcats took the lead for good, 17-14, early in the fourth quarter on a 6-yard toss from Hartline to Derrick Locke. The play was set up by three Hartline passes of 10 yards or longer - one preserved by an acrobatic one-handed catch from Dicky Lyons Jr.

Hartline was 28-for-47 with 254 yards and no interceptions.

Kentucky's defense had kept opposing offenses out of the end zone the first two games - a feat previously accomplished 50 years earlier.

The Wildcats' defense made plays when they were most needed, though.

Kentucky's Micah Johnson picked up a fumbled pitch to give the defense new life. Wildcats advanced to the 1 and Hartline used play-action on first down to find tight end Maurine Grinter to tie the game at 7.

Safety Marcus McClinton also had a key interception late in the fourth quarter. The Blue Raiders got the ball back once more but turned it over on downs, allowing Kentucky to run the clock down to 8 seconds.

The Cats don't play again until Sept. 27th when they take on Western Kentucky at Commonwealth Stadium.

So I'll give you guys a break next weekend!

milton flea market fire

Our favorite flea market, in Milton,WV, burned to the ground in little over an hour last Wednesday afternoon.

Built in 1989 I believe, and was the largest in the Tri-state area.

It was unique in it's size, clean and well-organized, with well over 300 friendly, helpfull vendors, loaded with antiques and collectibles, tools, fresh produce, sporting goods, and many other wonderful booths too numerous to mention.

It was a great place to spend a lazy Saturday or Sunday afternoon. There were on average 10 to 11,000 visitors to this flea market on the banks of the Mud River on any given weekend.

It will be sorely missed!

There is nothing left of the areas in red except smoldering ashes and distorted, melted sheet metal. The outside areas marked in blue are intact, but heavily damaged.

The owner says she plans to rebuild, and will install a sprinkler system this time!

Good idea!

This is an update on an earlier post. The link to it is here- LINK!

I finally saw the two fawns again today, but they weren't with the doe that has the broken leg. I saw them crossing the access road in front of the tank wash and head down the bank towards the parking lot, but they didn't reappear. I picked up my camera and slowly walked over to the top edge of the bank, and there they were. Only about 15 feet away!

Grazing on red clover.

They still hadn't seen me so I took one step closer.

Whoops! As soon as I took this one, he bolted and was gone. I say he because he has two shallow dimples on his head where his spikes will appear later.

The other one hadn't seen me either and was walking off the bank and onto the lot when the first one took off.

And this was the last shot I got of either one!

Those little rascals are fast!

I was thinking the mommy doe was probably gone by now because Johnny had seen a pack of dogs chasing her a couple of days ago, but I was wrong.

About a half hour later I caught sight of her up near the top of the hill at the back of the lot. Had to zoom in as much as I could and use my hood as a tripod, but I did manage to get one shot of her. It's pretty poor quality, but you can tell it's her. Her right front leg is still grotesquely bent.

But believe it or not folks, she is getting around really well. She managed to outrun the dogs after all.

She may be around for a long, long time.

Oh and, BTW, this is the Johnny I mentioned.

Say hello to our newest employee, my new tank cleaner, Johnny Moore!

I've never really been a Dr. Suess fan, but I could give a couple of these a read.

And my personal favorite, as all that know me could probably guess,

My sister-in-law sent me these!

A cowboy named Bud

A COWBOY NAMED BUD WAS OVERSEEING HIS HERD IN A REMOTE MOUNTAINOUS
PASTURE IN  CALIFORNIA  WHEN SUDDENLY A BRAND-NEW BMW ADVANCED OUT OF
A DUST CLOUD TOWARDS HIM!

The driver, a young man in a Armani suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan
sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, 'If
I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd,
Will you give me a calf?'
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, 'Sure, Why not?'

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook
computer,connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to
a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get
an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA
satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and
exports it to an image processing facility in  Hamburg, Germany
..

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image
has been processed and t he data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL
database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on
his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-Tech
Miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and
says, 'You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.'

'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says
Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what
your business is, will you give me back my calf?'

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay, why
not?'

'You're a Congressman for the  U.S.  Government', says Bud.
'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that?'


'No guessing required.' answered the cowboy. 'You showed up here even
though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
knew,to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much
smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows...this
is a herd of sheep. .
Now give me back my dog.

Southern Baptist Woman

The lady was a Southern Baptist who attended services and
taught Sunday School every week.  On one Sunday, an out
of town acquaintance, a gentleman, was in the pew right behind her.
He noted what a fine looking woman she was.

While they were taking up the collection, the man leaned forward
and said, "Hey, how about you and I having dinner on Tuesday?"

"Why yes, that would be nice," the lady responded.  Well, the
gentleman couldn't believe his luck.  On Tuesday he picked
the lady up and took her to the finest restaurant in that part
of South Carolina

When they sat down, the gentleman looked over at her and
suggested, "Would you like a cocktail before dinner?"

"Oh, no," said our circumspect fine example of southern
womanhood, "What ever would I tell my Sunday School
class?"

Well, our gentleman was set back a bit, so he didn 't say much
until after dinner, when he pulled out a pack of cigarettes and
asked, "Would you like a smoke?"

"Oh my goodness no," said the woman. "I couldn't face my Sunday
School class if I did?"

Well, our boy felt pretty low after that, so they left, got in his car
and as he was driving the lady home, they passed the local
Holiday Inn. He'd been morally rebuffed twice already,
so he figured he had nothing to lose so he ventured forth with,
"Ahhh .. mmmm how would you like to stop at this motel?"

"Sure, that would be nice," she said in anticipation.

The gentleman couldn't believe his ears, and did a fast u-turn right then
and
there, and drove back to the motel and checked in.

The next morning, after a wild and
passionate night of the most incredible sex and perversions imaginable,
the gentleman awoke first. He looked at the lovely Southern Belle lying
there in the bed and with remorse thought, "What the hell have I done?
He shook her awake and pleaded, "I've got to ask you one thing, what
ever are you going to tell your Sunday School class?"

The lady said, "The same thing I always
tell them, "You don't have to smoke and drink to have a good time."

Shirt number 2

Thanks to everyone that voted!

The tally, if I counted correctly (remember now, I'm from Kentucky, if the count had gone over 20, I would have had to ask Karen to take her shoes off, too) is-

Shirt 1 - 2 votes

Shirt 2 - 7 votes

Buy them both - 2 votes

And some guy named Ed from New Jersey voted for Obama

But the best part is, this silly little post garnered three new friends, MamaInkWench, tvtfln, and another Wildcat fan now living in Detroit, CzarnyEffingKruk, people I would never have known in this life otherwise.

Thanks again to everyone that participated!

I need your help!!

I usually buy a new UK game shirt once a year around the start of the football and basketball seasons, and it is time!

For the past four years I have broke with tradition and kept the same one, my favorite of all time, which, sad to say, has seen better days. Too many nachos, salsa, cold beers, and tears have left their mark! Not to mention the rending and tearing, the pulling and stretching and yes, the gnashing of teeth during moments of extreme stress and duress!

Luckily, the team store still has that same shirt(above), so I am ordering a replacement, and retiring it!

Time to move on! The choice I am trying to make is between the two shirts below. But....I....(for the first time ever)....can't.........decide!

Please help by voting for shirt # 1, or shirt # 2 below.

Please feel free to recommend to your friends! I need all the help I can get!!!

Shirt # 1

(all of you know how much I was looking forward to this game, so it's kind of special.hahaha)

Shirt # 2

(this one smacks Louisville, as they so richly deserve, but also puts our arch rivals in the SEC, the UofT Volunteers, in their place!)

Damn! Can't decide.

Thanks for your help, and for recommending!!

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Freshman Randall Cobb threw for one touchdown and ran for two others in relief of Mike Hartline, and Kentucky dominated Norfolk State 38-3 Saturday in its home opener.

Kentucky (2-0), which had kept rival Louisville's offense off the scoreboard a week earlier, was looking to add some offensive power to the defensive excitement it displayed against the Cardinals. They got an immediate jolt from Cobb, a freshman who led his high school to two straight state titles in Tennessee.

Cobb entered late in the first quarter, generating a loud ovation from the sellout crowd. He immediately rewarded that confidence without even throwing a pass, burning the Spartans (1-1) with his speed.

First, he sprinted 16 yards untouched on a draw play to put Kentucky near the red zone. Then, two plays later, he called his own number again, dodging several defenders and hurdling another for an 18-yard score - the first of Kentucky's four rushing TDs.

Cobb scored again on Kentucky's next possession, pushing away several defenders on the sneak from a yard out. He also displayed the strength of his left arm on the drive, firing a 27-yard strike to his former high school teammate, Kyrus Lanxter, putting the Wildcats in position.

Despite being outplayed by the freshman, Hartline returned in the third quarter to a spattering of boos. Alternating drives with Cobb throughout the second half, Hartline did lead scoring drives culminating in a field goal and touchdown, both starting from prime field position.

As Cobb helped revive Kentucky's passing attack, Derrick Locke did the same from the backfield. Locke broke a 19-yard run, helping to set up Cobb's first TD pass - a 13-yard fade to Dicky Lyons Jr.

Locke topped his previous effort in the fourth quarter when he spun around one defender and sprinted past the rest for 68 yards - the Wildcats' longest play of the season.

Kentucky, which generated only 63 yards on the ground last week against Louisville, had nearly five times that total against an overmatched opponent with 298. Locke led the way with five carries for 96 yards.

Norfolk State, playing just its second game ever against a Football Bowl Subdivision foe, got its lone points of the game shortly before halftime on a 24-yard Justin Castellat field goal, set up by a Cobb fumble.

It was one of few mistakes on the afternoon for the freshman, who completed 6 of 11 passes for 87 yards and one interception

       My wife received this letter Wednesday. It came addressed to Karen A. Ferguson, or current resident, in an envelope with no return address, stamped with a postage meter, and mailed from the neighboring town of Ashland,Ky.

       She had thrown it in the garbage, assuming it to be junk mail, but for some reason, got it back out and opened it Thursday morning. Quite a surprise.

        Strange, but welcome, mail indeed. She says she's putting it in her Christmas gift fund for the grandkids.

        I suggested we go to O'Charley's and pig out on prime rib and beer, which got me the expected dirty look, lol.

       Has anybody heard of anything like this? I sure have not! Until now!

Have a great weekend everybody!