oh man......

The old cap'n was in Kentucky this fall.

Whilst I was there I did some travellin' around.

One of the things I loves is the old southern classic "biscuits and gravy"



You can get B&G just about anywhere in the south. I personally find the B&G at the La Quinta to be the best.

Eat hearty mateys !!!

Headin' down the hiway

The ol' capn's driving out to pick up his new boat in a day or two. I'm goin' piratin'. Avast yee swabs.

It's down in Texas oddly enough.

I'm thinkin' o' namin' her "Shlomo's Revenge"

A young lad

Here's a picture of the ol' cap'n when he was a young lad. A handsome fellow indeed.

Pickles, pickles everywhere

Well, Christmas is over and the New Year is upon us. I have a little tip for folks out there.

Never try to flush a jar of pickles down the toilet. I don't mean bread and butter pickles, I mean the regular dills.

What happens is they bung up the toilet when you try to flush it. Then, you have to stick your hand in the biffy and fish the damn things out.

It doesn't end there, oh no. It turns out the pickles are still able to cause problems. Especially if your wife goes to the can at 2:00 am and the toilet overflows.

Sneaky Snake

Most People think that it was St. Patrick who drove the snakes from Ireland. Well they couldn't be more wrong. It was my great great great, etc. uncle Nikolai O'Berezowski.

This is the real story.

Years ago the people of Ireland were plagued by snakes. St. Patrick agreed to rid the island of snakes but when the time came to do the work he couldn't be found. He was drunked up in a bar somewhere.

The people of Ireland were becoming frantic. Then my great great great, etc. uncle Nicky said he would rid the island of snakes. He would take the snakes and settle in Canada but in return he wanted a pot of gold. The deal was struck.

Uncle Nicky took the snakes and settled in north eastern Saskatchewan. The Irish people gave a pot of gold to some vertically challenged people to carry across the ocean to Uncle Nicky. But as it turned out these guys took the gold and absconded with it. Even today these miscreants are running around Ireland hiding their ill gotten treasure.

Even though Uncle Nicky never received his payment he bore no hard feelings. He did not return the snakes.

Today the snakes still roam free around Pelly Saskatchewan and are a huge tourist attraction http://www.pelly.ca/thesnakepit.html .

As long as an O'Berezowski is alive the snakes will not be allowed to return to Ireland.

Stupid ducks

I dunno what it is, maybe sunspots, could be global warming it just beats me.

I've been having these weird dreams again.

In this one I'm a kid, about 15 or 16, and I am going on a trip to what was then the Soviet Union, what is now Russia. Part of the deal is that I have to take this duck with me, it's a mallard duck. It's the winter time and the duck is under the ice in a pond. This duck seems to be doing fine under the ice with no air. In fact, it's swimming around having a great time
I take a tractor and drive it on the ice. The tractor breaks through the ice and splashes into the pond; somehow I end up with the duck in my arms.

hmmmmmm, I wonder what it could mean

Chainsaw Daze

Ok, I live Whitehorse, Yukon. Apparently that's somewhere up north and out in the bush. When you live in places like this, there's this thing about being a "man" and what you have to do to be a "man". One of a the things a "man" has is a big bloody 4X4. Invariably, these things avtually never get out in the bush. They're only used to drive to Tim Horton's. Another of the other things a "man" has is a chainsaw. Yah live in the bush, yah gotta have a saw !!

Now, all of my friends have these fancy Stihls and Huskys. So with all this cash invested in hardware do you thing there's much logging around here ? No way. People use these things to cut firewood out of old burn areas. These guys cut a couple of cords a year and then yeehaw "I'm a man !!"

I was never into this chainsaw shtick, not me, I've got an el cheapo Poulan. The thing has leaked oil since I got, it's ugly and green. Guess what ? It works !! The one thing it does have is a 20" bar. Up here you're lucky if you can find a tree with more than an 8" diameter. I admit it's overkill. All of my buddies have 16" bars on their saws. These guys laugh at me, ha ha ha ha, 'cause I've got this cheesey green saw.

Like with everything else that makes a "man", size does count. That's right boys yuk it up 'cause the laff's on you boys.