Back to school tomorrow morning.

Wheeeee……

Behind the Scenes.

Up in the mountains above Heber, before we had lunch in Midway, we ran into these guys.

Seems that getting the video from the cameras on the ground to you an me isn’t as easy as I thought.  The cameras send the signal to an airplane circling above the valley, the plane sends it to these guys who send it down to link down at the finish line. 

Their job here?  Set up all the equipment, sit around watching it and then put it all away.  Nothing to do once it’s set up, unless something goes wrong.

We talked to this guy for a half hour or so, nothing too drastic happened, but it was interesting watching the race from there, and hearing about how the whole thing works.

Lunch in Midway.

Eating lunch at the TimpFreeze in Midway, and who rides by?  The Tour of Utah.

Two Men Walk Into A Bar. What Happens Next Is Amazing.

One says to the other: “You didn’t see it either?”

[The Following is a Public Service Announce for the people who got here from their Facebook Account]

Yes folks, here I am making fun of yet another Facebook trend.  This is another way for a website (chock full ‘o advertising) to bump up those hit numbers.

Which wouldn’t be so annoying if you didn’t have to scroll or click through a bunch of crap to get to what is so amazing – which usually isn’t.

There’s a lot of stupid stuff on Facebook.  Usually I just scroll past it until I see something funny or worth looking at.  But, as you probably have noticed, if I see a good chance to poke fun at it, I will.

Bon Voyage, and thanks for upping the hits on my blog.  Not that it does me any financial good, since I don’t have advertising.

The vine is gone.

The apartment complex next to my house has this pervasive vine growing in the corner right by my house.  I made the mistake of letting it get a foothold in that corner of my yard.

So today the temperature got up into the mid 90’s, Fahrenheit.  But I decided it was the day to get rid of that vine.  I got tired of cutting it back from choking my tree, and I wanted to reclaim that part of my property.

The thing had (and to a lesser extent still does) roots everywhere.  I had to use my electric hedge trimmer to chop it up enough to get most of it out.  That meant chopping back and forth, and crisscross about an inch into the dirt.  Fortunately, the hedge trimmer did well, there weren’t many roots too big for it to handle.

Chop, yank, rake.  Chop, yank, rake.  What I pulled out of that area almost fills up my truck-bed trailer, and that doesn’t include already filling up the yard-waste bin.

Grueling work, but I got it back behind the fence.  I sprayed all the roots left with vegetation killer, now I just have to spray by the fence every month or so to keep it from coming back over.  I’ve used Round-Up to keep it from growing up the walls of my house (it still controls the side yard), so I know it really doesn’t like vegetation killer.

Anyway, now I have to figure out what to do with that part of the yard.