SPAM!

Pearl Harbor Day

My only picture of the four wheelers!

Matt took pictures of our day riding with his camera, so I need to get them from him so I can post those!

More pictures

My Steak!!!!! And our buffet table.

Our Cabin while four wheeling in Wayne.

Hocking Hills State Park

Hatfield-McCoy Trails

The Hatfield-McCoy trail system is also changing their fees. They will no longer offer the one day permits for $19 or the 7 day passes for $37, but will strictly be a season pass only deal. People who live in West Virginia will pay $26.50 and us out of staters will pay $47. No matter when you buy it, it expires December 31 of the year you buy it in. So if you live out of West Virgina and can only ride one time, you will pay $47. I love to ride and would love to go there, but $47 is getting a bit steep for me for one day of riding. But I suppose that I would go anyway, and at least try to make it a weekend of riding.

Click here for more info.

Click here for the Hatfield-McCoy main website.

Perry State Forest

Perry State Forest's ATV area. It is a great place to ride, kinda wide open riding, but with trails. It is also free, but you do have to buy the 3 year ATV registration for Ohio, which I think is around $8.50 for the three years. I have been there many times. It is very good for when you only have a day to ride. I usually go down there on a Sunday and ride for 6 or 7 hours.

There are a few pictures in past posts of it here.

Also Perry's website is HERE.

Wayne National Forest ATV Trails

Since this blog was made to talk mostly about ATV riding, I will talk about it.

Wayne National Forest is raising the fees on many of the recreation activities at the forest, including ATV riding. Currently it is $5.00 a day to ride and a season pass costs $25.oo, a bargain I think. The new fee, starting Jan 1, 2008, will be $12.oo a day, $45.oo for a season pass and $24.00 for a three day pass. It is currently $10.00 for a two day pass, and it will be no longer available. So I guess if you will be riding for two days, you will buy the three day pass, which will be like getting one day "free" which I imagine a lot of people won't be able to use the 3rd day anyway.

Overall, I am fine with paying to ride, as long as the money is used for upkeep of the trails and stays in the Wayne. But raising the day rate from $5 to $12? I know that it hasn't been raised for 10 years, but it probably would have been better to raise it $1 or so every other year.

Anyway, I will probably still go, since I only make it once or so a year anyway. I just hope that they use this money wisely. Last time I was there, the trails were pretty good, but a few years ago they were nothing but deep ruts full of muddy water, with some of the trails impassable even with a 4X4.

Click here for the Wayne's website for the details.

T-Bone steaks....It's what's for dinner

Where I want to be.

After the Storm

Storm

It's not a great picture, but this is how dark the sky was this afternoon. There were tornado warnings all around us and the siren was going off here. If there was one, it was north of us by a few miles.

Happy Birthday Isaiah!

Our "little" boy is 2!

Tyler's drawing of Mommy.

Looks just like her.

Zay says:

SPAM: It's What's for Dinner!

SPAM!

For Amanda

Ingredients for Bologna:
MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, PORK, WATER, CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, SODIUM LACTATE, FLAVOR, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, AUTOLYZED YEAST, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE (MADE FROM SUGAR), SODIUM NITRITE, DEXTROSE, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, SUGAR, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE.

Ingredients for SPAM:
Pork with Ham, Salt, Water, Modified Potato Starch, Sugar, Sodium Nitrite.


HELLO???? Mechanically separated chicken?
Mechanically separated meat (MSM) is a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing beef, pork or chicken bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue.

YUM!

SPAM!

A Tribute to SPAM

SPAM, SPAM, you wonderful treat,
Baked, fried or grilled,
You are "crazy tasty" to eat

Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner,
You are the clear winner.
There really is no compare,
As your aroma fills the air.

SPAM in the morning,
Diced with scrambled eggs.
Or maybe in an omelet,
smothered with cheese.
Whatever the way,
You're sure to please.

Then there's lunch
With SPAM on a bun,
Fried up slightly brown
Until it is done.

Oh SPAM, Oh SPAM,
You are sure to thrill,
Whether cooked over a fire,
or on the grill.

SPAM, SPAM,
Oh, what's in that can?
A little pork shoulder
and a whole lotta ham!!

70 years and still going strong,
Did you think you'd be around that long?
1937 must have been a great year,
Mr Hormel turned the world on it's ear!

When I'm at the store,
it can be an awful bore,
but then i see that little blue tin,
and think of all the deliciousness within!

Some people give you grief,
but I just shake my head in disbelief,
because i know how you make me feel,
and that yummy taste is for real!

So next time you're looking at a can,
Go ahead, pick it up and fry it in a pan.
Take my advice, you'd better buy two,
Because leaving someone out will make them blue.

SPAM! Gotta Love It!

The Winner

58% of the vote went to:

Woodchucks are tasty with a little salt and pepper.

Wow, who knew.

Oh, and the definition of woodchuck is:

wood·chuck (wŏŏd'chŭk') Pronunciation Key
n. A common burrowing rodent (Marmota monax) of northern and eastern North America, having a short-legged, heavy-set body and grizzled brownish fur. Also called groundhog; also called regionally whistle pig.

And the winner is:

A tie between Taco Bell and Arby's!! That would make a great combo restaurant. Order a roast beef sandwich with your nachos! YUM!

Sunset

Zay's day away(at the 4th of July parade with Grandpa and Grandma)

Cedar Point

Sunset Tonight

Happy Independence Day!

If that doesn't work I'll send BIG Z!

BIG Z

To my sister and a certain friend of my wife

This is who is going to come after you.

Memorial Day

This little guy was in my back yard this afternoon!

Camping and the Zoo

We also went "camping" and to the Zoo!

Cabela's

We went to Cabela's in Wheeling Saturday. We enjoyed it, but I had an awful headache.

In between storms

We had two major storms about 1 1/2 hours apart and this is what I saw between them!!

Storms Tuesday Evening

We had a few strong thunderstorms come through here Tuesday. They produced quarter sized hail that I thought for sure was going to shatter the skylights. See pictures above! Several pieces of my barn roof were torn off, so you can see daylight from the inside.

Dandelions

I really like dandelions! It adds color to my yard for a while. I really need to mow, but it really wasn't growing all that fast until now.

Monday Creek at Wayne National Forest

Today is the day that Wayne opens for ATV riding.
Click here for Monday Creek's page.

One for my father in law!

I know it's not a 4 wheeler, but it is still pretty doggone cool.

Countdown for Wayne National Forest

Wayne opens to ATV use on the 15th of April. I like.

Only 3 more days!

CLICK HERE FOR WAYNE NATIONAL FOREST WEBSITE!

Winter is back!

Tuesday it was 79 degrees outside. Today it is 29. Yuck. Here is the view today out of my bedroom.

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy is a great thing! HA! I got this(and more on both arms) cutting wood in my Dad's woods on Monday. ITCHY ITCHY!!!!!

Every year it happens. Scratch scratch.

Perry State Forest Riding Area

The Perry State Forest ATV area is OPEN today......Too bad I can't go. Oh well, it's raining anyway, which I guess never really stopped me before. Hope everyone who does go has a good time!

Flashback Friday

This is me stuck in the mud at Perry State Forest in 1995.

Flashback Friday

Riding in a whole lotta mud.