By: Bears Butt

My wife went down to Smith and Edwards and bought two packs of Micro Fiber Cleaning Towels, put out by Pit Lane company.  She brought them home, opened up the package and left them on the counter.

Two days later she went back in to Smith and Edwards and complained to the person who sold her on them.  The lady asked her what the problem was.

She said, I opened up the package, laid them on the counter and there they sat for two days.  They didn’t do a thing!  Just laid there.

Bears Butt

Aug. 2011

Written on August 16th, 2011 , Jokes I like!
By: Bears Butt

People have asked me in the past, “Why are you so positive all the time?”  or “Why do you seem so happy all the time?”  Or they will say, “You are always ‘up’ with your attitude.”  My usual response to these questions or statements is usually, “I don’t know.”

But perhaps I do know.  I was just thinking about this and it dawned on me that although my life is not always a bed of roses and that debt doesn’t surround me, but that life lives!  We each have our life and we each need to live it and live it to the fullest.  I have always told my kids and others who want (or don’t want) to listen, “You can do anything you want, when you want to do it!”  And I firmly believe that.  You CAN do anything you put your mind in to doing.  It’s not always easy, but if you really truely WANT whatever it is, then you can get it, or have it or achieve it.  And the older I get the more I realize, that, YA it might take longer than when I was younger, but I can still get there.

Last Fall I invited myself to go on a pretty long hike with my youngest son.  The hike is in Perry canyon and a man (who I have not met) made this trail, all by himself.  I picture an older man, maybe even older than me, with a shovel, pick, chainsaw and a jug of water, chunking away at the ground creating this wonderful trail.  It starts our pretty level and as it goes it gets steeper and winds its way up and up and up the hillside.  In fact this particular trail is nine miles long!  And goes to the top of Grizzly Peak!

It’s obvious that this man had a dream to create a very nice walking, bikeing path up the side of the canyon and to the top of that hill, where the view is magnificent!  Did he let something come between that dream and reality?  Not in the least!  And he did it all by himself!  Not only did he create that trail, he made another on the other side of the canyon and it too goes on and on and on.  Where to, I don’t know, but he did it and it goes somewhere that he wanted it to go.

Well on this particular hike that I invited myself on, I made it to mile marker 6.  Then I told my son, that was enough for me.  I told him, I know I can make it to the top, but I’m afraid I might not make it back down.  My shoes aren’t the best.  My health is not the best, but I made it to mile marker 6 and that wasn’t a cake walk.  He went on to the top, as I started my decent.

As I picked my way back down the trail, what to my amazement did I see coming up the trail towards me?  A man, about 40 or so, riding up that steep trail on a mountain bike!  I stepped to the side, greeted him and he greeted me back, and thanked me for allowing him to proceed so he did not have to stop pumping that bike up the trail!  Another man, showing himself that “he can do it”!  Later that same biker, passed me going down the hill.  My son did not see him, so he must have turned around somewhere between where I saw him first and the top.  I guess he too turned around at mile marker 6.

My son, caught up with me about where I would guess mile marker 3 would be if it were there and the two of us continued down to the vehicle.  He had literally ran up the last 3 miles to the top, and then ran back down to catch up with me.  Silly guy.

Do yourself a favor and go for a hike up that trail.  Take a snack and lots of water!

So there you have a story about 4 people who did what they wanted to do when they wanted to do it.  Me, 12 of 18 miles was plenty.  My son, who needed some alone time to think and because of me only got 9 of 18 miles of it.  The biker guy who I’m guessing only wanted to do 12 miles and did it.  And the man who made the trail in the first place.

And so, you have to keep a positive attitude about everything.  My father had had his first heart problem and was laying in intensive care with a “new at the time” artificial valve working to keep him alive.  We were all sitting in the waiting room thinking we had the worst thing in the whole world to deal with.  All of us feeling sorry for ourselves and for mom and dad and the world looked like doom and gloom.  About 2 a.m. in came a young family, a mom and a couple of kids I’d say 4 and 6 years old.  They were all scraped up and had some dirt in their hair.  They had been travelling and the dad fell asleep at the wheel and they rolled the car.  He was not expected to live.  The rest of them got out with barely any scrapes, no broken bones and only the wait to find out the fate of the dad.

After that day, my entire attitude changed to a positive one.  Sure we all have our times when we have a bad day, but once in awhile is not an every day thing.

So, the next time you think you have the worst of the worst looking down on you, open your eyes and look at the guy next to you.  I’ll bet he has it a lot worse than you.

Bears Butt

2011

Written on August 15th, 2011 , Uncategorized
By: Bears Butt

I recently read about “Fire Lapping” your rifle or pistol in order to make it more accurate.  It seems that during the manufacturing of the riflings inside the barrel there are slight constrictions produced and according to what I read, these constrictions are nearly impossible for the gun makers to omit.  Every gun made has them.  Sometimes three or more in the barrel.

So, some smart guy, came up with a way to get the constrictions out, but shooting the gun with a special bullet coated with an abrasive substance called lapping compound.  Ever hear of such a thing?

The article said that the military guys who are the specialists at long range snipping, get really involved with the weapon that is issued to them.  They literally live with that weapon and they all “fire lap” their weapon to make it the most accurate of all the weapons out there.  They do other things to their weapons as well, but this is one of the things they do to accurasize them.

You can do it to a muzzleloader as well.  Special “harder than lead” bullets must be used, but it can be done.  Perhaps we should look into this and get our rifles better tuned for the upcoming rendezvous!  A kit I found on line, comes with the compound, two metal plates and 20 rounds of the special bullets for $45!  It takes 20 rounds to properly firelap a gun, according to this article.

Firelapping just might make you the winner of all the beers!

Bears Butt

Aug. 2011

Written on August 15th, 2011 , Hunting/Fishing/Trapping Stories
By: Bears Butt

Well, well well.  There was a smallish article in the Ogden Standard Examiner a few weeks ago asking people with facial hair to submit a photo of themselves.  So, being the unselfish person I am, I sent them in a picture.  Today part of the picture showed up in the paper….The famous people just keep on getting more famous…..

Yesterday, however I was just cruising around on the internet and looked up the standards website.  You never know what interesting things you might find on there and here was what I found.  Copy and paste it and you will see what I saw.

http://www.standard.net/slideshows/2011/08/12/reader-submitted-photos-facial-hair

Bears Butt

Written on August 14th, 2011 , Uncategorized
By: Bears Butt

Somethings we just take for granted, like toilet paper.  I got to thinking about it and went of course to the internet to find out more about it and to my surprise found out that rolled toilet paper was not invented until 1871.  Our pioneer ancestors came to Utah in 1847!

What was used before the invention of toilet paper?

The internet says, corn cobs!  Coconut husks!  Sea shells!  OUCH!!!!  Some used moss (a bit less ouchie, but what about bugs?) in the summer time and snow in the winter….OOOOO!  Others used leaves, some used a natural sponge hooked to the end of a stick…Ever thought about the phrase, “Got the wrong end of the stick”?  And even today, some still use the ancient traditional method of cleaning up after a good….well, you know…by using their left hand!  Could this explain all of the 111’s on the bathroom wall?

So hand shaking with the right hand does make sense now.

We have certainly got to thank our lucky stars we were born after toilet paper was invented.  I can not imagine wiping up with a corn cob.  Of course my fictitious mountain man character chewed pine cones to clean his teeth and I suppose he didn’t even think twice about grabbing up a handful of thistle leaves to wipe with.

One interenet site said the Northern company advertised their toilet paper as “Splinter Free”, in 1935….That should have signaled the end of the depression!

Bears Butt

Aug. 2011

Written on August 13th, 2011 , Uncategorized
By: Bears Butt

Discovered this one last night.  A big package of chicken wings.  1 cup of ketchup, 1/2 cup soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder, 1/2 teaspoon Onion powder and 4 tablespoons honey.  If you like “spicy”, you can add either a dash of tobasco or 1/4 teaspoon red pepper.

Mix the ingredients up in a zip lock type plastic bag and then drop in the chicken.  Mix it all around and let it sit for a couple of hours.  I doubt longer would be a problem, but you want it to marinade for a bit.

Then BBQ them bad boys up.  Turn them often and of course, don’t forget to have a few cold brews while you are cooking.  It is always a good thing when the cook is happy.

Enjoy!

Bears Butt

Aug. 2011

Written on August 12th, 2011 , Recipes
By: Bears Butt

We all have some sort of quirky little thing we do when fishing or hunting and in my circle we have what we call “quarter games”, when fishing.

Usually, we bet a quarter for each fish that is caught.  Sometimes we will qualify the fish, for instance, carp don’t count, or some other fish won’t count.  But usually every fish counts.  Sometimes it has to be a “keeper” fish to count.  So if you caught a really small fish it would not count.

There are other times when the fishing is really fast, like ice fishing for perch, when every time you drop in your line you get a bite, we will play a game we call “Lead Dog”.  In that game you have to catch two fish in a row to get a quarter from the others.  That game can get very intense!  Mostly because when I have caught the last fish and am Lead Dog, all I have to do is catch one more before You catch one.  Suddenly, you catch one…that makes you Lead Dog and I have to hurry and catch the next one before you and then I take the lead over again…get it?

When you have 4 or 5 fishermen playing that game it can really get to be a blast.  Once someone catches the two fish, everyone else gives them a quarter and then the game begins again.  Fun!

Today will be another one of the quarter days!

Bears Butt

Written on August 12th, 2011 , Hunting/Fishing/Trapping Stories
By: Bears Butt

Brother Bob, Brandon and I are headed for Hyrum Dam for some early day fishing today.  Got the cooler loaded with water, a soda each and a bologna sandwich each.  That should do it.

Bob is bringing the worms, Brandon is bringing the quarters.

Speaking of quarters:  We usually bet a quarter for each fish that is caught.  My tackle box runneth over.  If someone does not have a quarter than they can pay with a “swivel”, or an I.O.U…..I love both of those things.  They dangle and hang and never get used.

Bears Butt

Well, the fish gods were smiling on me today.  I caught two!  One largemouth bass and one nice trout.  Two quarters went in  my tackle box from the others in the boat!  Happy day for me!Bears Butt fisherman extraordinaire!!!

Written on August 12th, 2011 , Hunting/Fishing/Trapping Stories
By: Bears Butt

This is a pretty good web site to show you how to tie knots.  It’s like one of my nephews said, “If you can’t tie a knot, tie alot!”  He is right on.  Everyone should know how to tie a square knot, but this site shows a ton of knots and what the most useful use is for them.  Check it out.  Pretty cool.

http://www.animatedknots.com/index.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.com

Bears Butt

 

Written on August 10th, 2011 , Uncategorized
By: Bears Butt

Until yesterday I had only had a few pairs of sun glasses and most of them were the clip on your regular glasses type.  I have noticed over the past several years that a ton of folks wear them and the lens’ are not the type you can see through.  I like to make eye contact with people and when they are wearing sun glasses I can not see their eyes.

Yesterday I was given a pair of real nice sunglasses for my birthday and I notice I can not see my own eyes when viewing through them and into a mirror.  I have decided that in order to not violate my own feelings toward not being able to see others eyes when they are wearing sunglasses, I will remove mine when talking to someone.

This will not be an easy thing to remember to do, as I plan on wearing these glasses a lot.  When out fishing or outside in the sunlight it will be the hardest thing to remember to do.

I think it only appropriate etiquette to remove them when carrying on a converstation with someone else, especially an extended conversation.

Bears Butt

Written on August 8th, 2011 , Uncategorized

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