Travis Howard and the Moore’s Family chariot team won todays race!  Watch the action below!  March 21, 2015!!!  Way to go Travis and the Team!

Bears Butt
March 21, 2015

Went to the Weber County Fairgrounds today for a little chariot racing fun.  Kenzie and Addie had never been and so we bet quarters on which team would win.  It was a fun day!  Here is how young girls cheer on their team!

Bears Butt

March 21, 2015

Lots of people are on board with what I’m about to tell you, but today is a special day.  For one thing I purposely purchased a lottery ticket with the numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 14 and 15 for tonights drawing.  Well, I purchased it thinking about tonights drawing but actually I bought the ticket for 10 consecutive draws, which will include tonights drawing.  What is so significant about these numbers?  Have you ever heard of Pie?  Have you ever heard the statement “Time for pie”?

Out lottery luck has not been very good, ever, and I decided to spend some of my hard earned cash on a chance that just maybe it is “time for pie” and turned to the computer for those numbers.

Before I go much farther I have to tell you a short story….Tracker, No Grimace and I were hunting deer once and stopped for a hot dog cooked over a fire.  I placed two hotdogs on a forked stick parallel to one another and one across the forked stick and on top of the other two.  Sort of like the symbol in this picture:

With the video rolling, I looked up at Tracker and said “Time for Pi”!  And went on to roast the hotdogs.  No Grimace made up the buns and we ate heartily.  Now back to my story.

Pi does a lot for us in our every day lives and we don’t even know it is happening.  Pi is a mathematical thing that when employed can help us determine “stuff”.  The stuff that is determined is very much undeniable and impossible to counter in an argument.  So, Pi has been determined to be scientific in nature and not just a “theory”.  Pi has been around for millions of years.

The lady in this old rock carving is holding up two pi symbols and is most likely saying….Hey Bears Butt, make me six hot dogs while you’re at it!!!

Today is March 14th, 2015….Think about it….March is the 3rd month….3/14/2015….Pi is an infinite number that nobody has every reached the last digit in it, because there is no last digit in the number pi…it is truly infinite in nature.  The following number, beginning with 3. was taken from a website where these people worked pi out to one million numbers.  I copied but a fraction of those numbers so you can see how the numbers play out.

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362440656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127145263560827785771342757789609173637178721468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923542019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998372978049951059731732816096318595…..etc. etc. etc.

3.1415…..that is today…3/14/15!  And some say at 9:26 this morning and again this evening….luck will fall upon you if you believe…..I believe!  The lottery Gods should wait until 9:26 this evening to draw the numbers, but we all know they won’t, they will draw at 9 p.m. like they always have, but my faith is really in the 26 seconds that they just might delay the drawing tonight.  There is someone on the lottery drawing team that is thinking about this pi thing and I’m counting on him/her to do the right thing!

My numbers are 1,4,5,14 and 15 with the lucky number being 3.  Watch for it and if you are very quick and send or give me a dollar before the drawing happens, you too can enjoy the benefits of winning!

Bears Butt

March 14, 2015 (Happy Pi Day)

Tracker and I watched the Orbiter Rocket Motor test yesterday out at ATK…here is my youtube.com video of it.

Enjoy!

Bears Butt
March 12, 2015

It has always been a bucket list kind of deal for me to go to Cape Canaveral, Kennedy or whatever it’s called now days to see an actual launch of a manned space craft.  But since that will probably not happen, the next best thing is to watch, up close and personal, the testing of the rocket motor that actually launches that beast into space.  Today is one such day.

Tracker and I are going to make sure we are in the right place at the right time to watch the test firing of the 5 stage rocket motor that is made to take the space ship Orbital towards Mars.  This is going to be a big deal and yesterday on the trap line I got to see some of the action….from afar.

As I was checking traps, I was being checked out from the road.  About 15 security trucks were parked end to end and the men in them were out looking my direction.  I’m sure I was under close scrutiny with binoculars and spotting scopes….perhaps I should have mooned them….but I didn’t.

They watched me for about 15 minutes and then decided I was just doing my thing and not setting up some sort of counter intelligence stuff to offset the days activities of today.

They must be planning on a few thousand visitors to this rocket motor testing as they have two parking lots set up with lots of porta potties, tents, tables, banners, flags etc.  Security, like I said, were everywhere yesterday and I’ll just bet they are everywhere as I am typing this.

The blast itself should be spectacular and noisy.  We will be filming.

I had the opportunity to speak to a local land owner about the test firing and he is not really happy about it.  He said that most every time they do a test like this, it creates a huge dust cloud that rains down on them and creates a big old mess.  He said that something in the dirt that rains down makes copper shine like it was new when it lands on it.  Can something like that be good to breath in?  I think not.  Do the ATK people care?  I think not.

Well, we will report more on this later.

Bears Butt

March 11, 2015

Today is a day away from the norm.  Winemaker and I are headed to the BIG CITY of Salt Lake to attend a conference on locating our ancestors.  Most of our ancestors are out of reach via email, phone, text etc. and so there must be another way to reach them and this convention is supposed to help us do that.

The game plan is to get up early, (we almost did that as it is 6:30 a.m. right now), drive to Ogden, get on the Trax train and ride it to SLC.  From there we will pick up one of the three internal trax trains that goes through out the city and hopefully we will get off the right stop to attend the convention.  Once finished with the convention we will reverse our course to come home.

It will be a very different day for us.  The rats will have to wait!

Bears Butt

February 13, 2014 (Friday the 13th…..hmmmm)

We could have used this system a few years back:

Check this map out!

http://www.wideopenspaces.com/see-map-shows-odds-deer-car-collisions-state/

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Everyone can use a little pick me up:

I know it isn’t the time of year most of us hook up our RV’s and head off to do some camping, but it does sound like a good idea anyway.  Well, for all of us RV types who have used our RV’s a time or two during the year, we have all heard about using ice cubes to help clean out our black water tanks.  I have done it a couple of times and felt really good about doing it.  Did it help clean it out?  Well, I didn’t put my head down inside the tank and look, but I felt pretty good about it after I dumped the tank.  I guess in that respect, it did clean it….at least in my mind.

So, I just ran across this video and I feel the obligation to share it with you.  Keep an open mind and you just might come up with the same conclusion I did.