Good for me

I just saved the world in 14 hours and 27 minutes...You're welcome Princess Zelda!

Yes I am a Geek!

The Fescue, the Fescue, the Fescue on Fi-ya!

So most of you know I live and work in a plot of land that was purchased by the county with plans to turn it into a park in the next few years. Now, this area has a lot of prairie land some of which we have plans to return to native prairie. Here is a picture from another one of our parks that is a few years ahead of us. Since most of this land had been farmed for so many years this process can take up to 5 years before you really start to see results. The second step in this process (after step number one which is let it sit for a few years to let herbacides disapate) is to burn and seed the area. Now in other park settings we do most of the burning ourselves but with the current shortage of staff and mostly shortage of equipment, we recruited the local fire department to lend a hand. They actually came to us with the idea since they like to do a couple burns a year for practice. I don't think Edgerton fire dept sees too many fires. So yesterday they came out and we lit some things on fire. I took a few pictures and a video for you all to look at. They're not the greatest pictures but it's always more fun to look at pictures instead of words.




Ok, now how the heck do I get a video on here?

Someone who knows how to post a video talk to me. Is there a way you can do it without adding it to another web site first? I just want to download it off my computer onto here? Help me Obe-whan-someone, you're my only hope.

Spelunking??? Spe-whos-idea-was-this???

So we had quite an adventure at work today. After many months of procrastination, I finally couldn't stand it any more and shored up the foundation on the house. I don't think that it was ever really bad until the last month. But I'm sure most of you have heard me complaining ...and dreading having to do anything about it for quite a while. What really convinced me that it was time to do something about it was two nights ago I was sitting in the living room and Lucy trotted through the room and I could feel the couch bounce up and down. So I figured that I had probably procrastinated enough.

So I got the supplies together, came up with a plan and crawled in. Of coarse I suited up from head to toe first, it's quite dirty under there.

Let me tell you, if you've ever thought, you know I think I would like to dig some holes in the crawl space of my house...I'm here to tell you, it's really not as fun as it sounds. First of all, as you will see from the pictures, there was very little wiggle room. It was one way in, one way out and a whole lot of belly crawling in between.

So since this space was so incredibly small, and we needed to dig some footings for the floor jacks to go into...we had to utilize some rather small tools to dig with.

Since this could get to be a rather long story...and since im so dang tired...I'll spare you all the details and just show you the pictures. Now the halogen lights are still in there because we'll need them tomorrow so ignore them. No we just let the concrete set over night and then crank it up a few good inches in the morning and we should be all good to go...no more bouncy bouncy.

One thing is for sure...Im glad it's not spider season yet!

First attempt...Unsuccessful.

It is my unfortunate duty to inform you all know that my first attempt at becoming a gooseographer has failed. And by Gooseographer I mean, video taping me running around the park like a fool shooting noise makers at stubborn geese. I imagine that once I do get some good footage of this it will be quite entertaining to watch. My coworker seemed to get a kick out of it anyways. I just need to work on my "stealth mode". The geese apparently have the ability to recognize certain vehicles and bright orange guns as something they would prefer to avoid.

Keep watching. I will capture this on video, and I will share it with all of you.


Also, new link over there on the left. The Eldest older brother has decided to test his skills. Nothin wrong with a little skill honing.

Things I've learned in Kansas

I was just having a discussion with a friend in "minnesotan" and it made me start to think about some of the things I have learned about since I moved to Kansas. The way I see it, nothin left to do but make a list:

1. This is Food-





















2. This is a Pin

















And this is a Pin...









Yeah I don't get it either.


3. This is fun.
















4. They have no idea what this is:











5. I'm supposed to know what this is???:












6. We all scream for one of these:












Cept for these guys...