Blogging Rambles

I been ignoring my blog for some time and it's because I am running around getting my daughter to her soccer tournament, getting my son to his all-star little league games and of course chores around the house.

The Sax Zim Birding Festival is set for February 15-17th 2008 and we are very busy getting to event up and going. So stay tune for more information in the near future.

The other news is that Minnesota has a new birder in town and his name is Dr. Richard Wood. I never met the guy but he has a long history of being booted off several state listservs like MDOsprey and is rumored to be booted off Texas, New York and was moderated on the Utah state listserv.

It seems Doc is hell bent on attacking state record committees, picking on local birding experts, and at times criticizing birders as being unkind. I googled his name and was led to several links where he had some major run ins with several birders from the above states. He is real close as I write this to being moderated on the MOU-Net listserv so he doesn't start threads to promote ugly debates. So Doc, welcome to Minnesota!

I am so glad we got this new air conditioning put in last month. Duluth is getting pounded by constant 90 degree temps and high dew points. Right now the temp in the house is 69 degrees!

As many of you people know I am a part-time janitor at our local Catholic Church and also a stay at home dad. I also guide a lot in the winter months to out state birders and also guide for OBServ Tours. Well I got a new job to bring in more money to our family -- are ya ready for this one? I have a paper route! Damn right I am a PAPER BOY! I get up at 2:45am and get home at 4:30am every day! My route is a car route in the Fond Du Lac area and Wrenshall (Carlton Co.) I see a ton of wildlife (deer, raccoons, skunks, red fox, black bear, rabbits and porcupine) and so far I seen one unidentified owl which might of been a Great Horned Owl. I do not even have ot get out of the car to deliver these papers, all I do is stick a paper in a mailbox out the window. I get paid a whopping $1000 a month for roughly a 1 1/2 hours per day. Not to bad plus I get to do everything else! The last time I had a paper route was when I was in the 5th grade!

I am in the middle of reading the last installment of Harry Potter series. I got addicted to these books when my daughter brought "Prisoner of Azkaban" home and I read it in one week. Since then I became a Harry Potter fan. We saw the movie last Saturday and we loved the movie.

Birds? Hell its late July and ol Mike doesn't pick up his binocs until late August. So there is no chat about birds but the next post will be about our gardens. Man they look damn good!

Well other than that things are rather slow and this blog is just rambles of stuff.

Later