In my little town of Willard there are no stop lights.  The main highway through town is 45 mph and watch out for one of the two or three police officers who patrol it, they might give you one or two mph over, but then if they haven’t had their coffee they might not.  We have a barber shop in town and a mechanic, a post office and a heating and air conditioning guy.  An antique and curio shop and a few out of the home business’ but lately there has been a new store added.  A quaint little store with loads of things to eat and help you with your cooking.  Apple Creek!

They are located in the old “Blacker Furniture” store, turned “Paradise Furniture” and now “Apple Creek” and soon another business dealing with exercising.

They have a deli with meats and cheeses galore!  And some way different flavors than I have never heard of.  They sell “rolled butter” too and just for your convenience they sell eggs and milk.  But the best is all the spices and different mixes.  If I was a baker this would be my dream store!  This store is filled with so many different things you can’t see it all in one visit.

For those of you who may have never tasted pickled eggs or just want to try something different in the way of pickled eggs, they not only have plain ones, but they also have mustard pickled eggs and jalapeno pickled eggs.  They may have other flavors as well but I didn’t see them.  Also other bottled and pickled things, you will have to go in and see for yourself.

For those cooking with chocolate, I saw these ENORMOUS bars of chocolate that must weigh 5 pounds each…dark chocolate, white chocolate and also some yogurt bars just as big as the chocolate ones.

They also sell ice cream by the scoop!  Bulk salt water taffy!  All sorts of sprinkles for cupcakes and whatever else you sprinkle when you bake, flour, jerky spices and jerky!

I understand they have more to put out for all of us, but for now that is all I saw yesterday in my short visit.  Their prices are very competitive as well.  You have to go visit the place and welcome the owners to town.

WELCOME TO WILLARD APPLE CREEK!

Bears Butt

Oct. 10, 2012

Here is a site you can have a lot of fun with:

http://www.babynames.com/Names/rename.php

Not only does it give you ideas for new baby names, but you can put your own name in and it will give you a new name.  I’m really not so sure it knows what it’s doing but I had fun for a minute or two.

First off you put your real name in the blanks.  Then tell it your gender, you know boy or girl, and then you can pick from about 7 different types of people you think you are, like friendly, curious, philosopher etc.  Then click find your new name.

I entered mine under “Wild” and it came back with Chanteyukan Zundel

“Friendly” = Maconaquea (sounds Native American) and then “Creative”,  I entered that one  twice, the first time it came back with Kan-Tel and the second time “Doug”……..Creative = Doug…..Really?

Have fun with it Shi-Thead.  I think I’ll go have a slice of moldy cheese and a cold brew.

Bears Butt

Oct. 9, 2012

That’s right…MOLDY CHEESE!

And for you to know…It’s National Moldy Cheese Day!  Make yourself a cheese sandwich and enjoy the day!  What better?

I like my cheese with the blue tinted mold on it, I think that is the all time best mold to see growing on my cheese.  The white, like you see above isn’t bad, but the blue is much better.  Looked closely at through a magnifying glass the blue ends of the growing mold actually have a little hook on them.  I suppose to grab your taste buds and give you that extra special “bite” of the molds true flavor!

Enjoy your Moldy Cheese Day!

Bears Butt

Oct. 9, 2012

Always interested in what happened on certain days in history, I looked up October 9 and found quite a lot of interesting things.  Most of which don’t mean anything anymore and not much good for helping anyone out today.  Not even on a history exam because well, it’s history and you can’t go back and change it even if you wanted to.

But some of it is interesting to me.  After all, wouldn’t you think railroads in Europe would have all been in place by about the mid 1800’s?

1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.

When you think about it I guess that is not such a big deal, the US first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.  The men who built the one in Ireland must have learned quite a bit because a lot of Irish men came over and helped build ours.  Thanks fellas.

But, more closely to home happened today on this day (that sounds funny huh?)  A concert that I was SOOO looking forward to but now I can’t go.

http://smithstix.com/events/item/root/seether-oct-9

DANG!

Bears Butt

Oct. 9, 2012

This morning I had to go to Corinne for some business and while that close I decided to venture out to the Bear River Bird Refuge and look things over.  The river is pretty much at full stream since all of the up-stream irrigation is done for the year and the refuge manager has opted to put most of the water through to Unit 2.  It is maxed out and water flowing out into the Great Salt Lake west of the unit.

They are also letting a little water into Unit 1 and 1A and Units 3 and 4.  Nothing going into Unit 5 which is odd to me.

I saw about 1,000 ducks on Unit 1 and about 2,000 on Unit 3 (unhuntable portion).  During the summer there was only water going into 3 with a trickle going into 1 so it’s no surprise to me to see most of the birds on Unit 3, they have something to eat there.

For a Columbus Day holiday there weren’t very many hunters out but then that is understandable when you look and don’t see any birds.

Bears Butt

Oct. 8, 2012

October 7th…National Frappe Day…I’m not much into sweet drinks but I looked up a couple of recipes on line and some of them don’t sound too bad.  One was made with liquor which is interesting.  But most of them are made with instant coffee and vary with ice cream or whipped cream, some with crushed ice and still others with cubed ice.  Chocolate seems to be the main ingredient besides coffee and there are all sorts of different glasses that people pour the mix into.  I guess it takes one to know one, but they call themselves “Frappers”.  There is even a Frapper Society and a website dedicated to Frappe stuff including t-shirts.

I think I will pass on this one, but if you are a frapper, go for it!  Enjoy your frappe and if you put liquor into yours, remember not to drink and drive!

Enjoy!

Bears Butt

Oct. 7, 2012

Here is the scene:

Four of us were riding our horses up the side of a sage brush hill, nearing the edge of a brush filled ravine.  We were hunting deer on this morning and the sun was up but not far.  The air was colder than on any other morning since we arrived for our hunting trip.

As we rode slowly up the side of the hill and approach the edge of the ravine we can see the other side of the brush, which is about 60 or so yards away.

Suddenly, we see two buck deer.  We scramble off our horses and grab our rifles.  It takes awhile to get the guns ready as we have to place a firing cap on the nipples of the rifles.  And in order to get a cap on the nipple, you have to cock the hammer back on the rifle.  One is quicker than the rest to get the cap on his gun and then suddenly knowledge of what to do next escapes him.  Buck fever some call it and almost anything can come from such fever.  He places his finger inside the trigger guard and pulls on the trigger.    BOOOOOMMM!

The two bucks are alerted to our presence by the sound of the rifle discharging and escape unharmed.

Looking amazed, the man who fired his rifle is beside himself as to his act.  His mouth is agape and looks at us without saying any words, but goes about reloading his muzzleloader in anticipation of perhaps getting another chance to shoot a buck on this day.

In the world of mountain men we all have a name that is attributed to some grand act we may have accomplished in our life, or some really unique thing we did or a series of unique acts we may have accomplished over a long period of time.  But more often than not our names come from some really dumb thing we did.

Help name this man.

Bears Butt

Oct. 6, 2012

SAFE FIREARM HANDLING
The rules of safe firearm handling are simple and must be followed at all times.
The following material is a composite from the National Rifle Association, the National
4-H Shooting Sports Development Committee and the Utah Hunter Education staff.
1. Treat each firearm like a loaded firearm.
Consider each firearm to be loaded and treat it accordingly, even if you just
unloaded it.
2. Always control the muzzle of your firearm.
You must decide what the safest available muzzle direction is and keep your
firearm pointed in that direction. Never point your firearm at yourself or
others.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
The natural instinct when picking up a firearm is to put your finger in the
trigger guard. DON’T! This could cause an accidental discharge if the gun is
loaded.
4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond.
Never point your firearm at something you do not intend to shoot.
Make sure you positively identify what you are shooting at and know what
lies in front of and beyond it.

I thought by now this site would have had at least one visitor from each of the 50 states in the USA, but as of just this morning only 37 states have visited the site.

The analytics also show that at least one person from 20 different countries have visited the site.  Of course a ton of visits from the USA.  I thank you all!

With the longest time spent on the site coming from Mongolia…wherever that is.  I suppose I should accommodate by writing something in Mongolese.  But then, perhaps they are conducting a school experiment as to who can come up with the weirdest story, sort of a show and tell deal.

At any rate, thank you to all who come here and see what is going on in the life of me.

Bears Butt

Oct. 3, 2012