Check out this machine!  Could it replace the ATV?  The Mud Motor Boat?

http://www.thewilcraft.com/index.php

Something is happening to this site that isn’t good.  My computer GURU is looking into it.  I did an update the other day and it messed things up.  Hang in there.

I’m sorry you can’t see the picture of the iPad that is so popular these days.  It is really good and I sure hope things get straightened up before Christmas so you can all pick up a few of them…CHEAP is not the word for them!

Merry Christmas to our troops!

http://www.allproudamericans.com/Marine-Sings-Merry-Christmas-from-Afghanistan-ii.html

From our Granddaughter, Addilyn:

I’m working on a pretty comprehensive story about the Willow Creek Free Trappers from the beginning to present.  It takes time and a lot of people to get the story straight.  Plus, there are pictures to find and scan etc.  Bear with me it will be an enlightening story for everyone to read and actually a pretty good History Lesson (of sorts).

I have not forgotten about posting things daily, but because of the holidays shopping etc. I have not posted anything for a couple of days.  Hang in there and check back daily!

Bears Butt

Dec. 2011

WOW!  What a wind we had last night!  Willard only had a gust that pushed 38 mph but according to the news the Bountiful/Farmington area had winds exceeding 100!  Tipped over semi trucks on the freeway, blew trees down, powerlines etc. etc.  They have shut down the Interstate 15 traffic until they can get the trucks all up righted and or the messes cleaned up.  Centerville Mayor has called an emergency for the city!  All schools are shut down.

A walk about here at the house produced these miniscule inconveniences:  Blown over garbage can and all the contents scattered.  A couple of smallish tree branches blown down.  My tire cover on the RV was in the neighbors yard across the street from the old house.  Broken window on the North side of the wood shed.  Torn Tyvek on the skinning shed.  Two wind chimes that probably won’t be chiming anymore.  The Nativity scene in the front yard is scattered about.  It looks like Mary and Joseph have a big job of cleaning up after the camel and donkey.

At the old house the cover on the chimney was blown out and jammed into the water controls of the irrigation pipe.  The swing set slide is toast and the rocking/swinging bench seat blew apart (no damage, just came apart).  And the cover that was tied on the air conditioner is nowhere to be seen.

I have yet to locate the “blind” that Frank gave me last week.  It was on the trailer in the parking lot.

Across the street the neighbor lost their rain gutter on the front of the house.

We have not ventured out away from our warm abode, but will be heading to town for groceries soon.  We understand the East winds are all around us still causing quite a “stir”.

Bears Butt

Dec. 1

I guess I’ll vent.  There are service providers all over the world just itching to get my money.  Yours too.  Just once, just once, I would like to think those service providers that I do employe for one thing or another would be looking to keep me as a subscriber by giving me some real incentive to stay with them and not bail out and pick up some other company that does the same thing.

Does this not make sense, especially in todays economy?

I won’t say who this company is, but I am convinced I could drop their services and pick up another company that does the exact same thing and maybe even at a lower price.  I just renewed my subscription and I emailed them to find out about a “loyal customer” discount…their response was that they offer discounts through various tv/radio show hosts and if I would put in the “code” when I renewed my subscription that they would honor it and give me the discount.

I have already re-signed up!  It’s too late for me to go search for a discount code!  Why can’t they just credit me with the discount and make me feel good?

I’m sorry, but if you are a service provider and are reading this, I don’t think I am the only one in the world that feels the way I do.  So, do you and your company a big favor and give up a few discounts to those customers of yours that have been sticking with you for a few years buying your product/service.

Bears Butt

Nov. 2011

For all you faithful bearsbutt.com viewers, there will not be any postings until after my return from Dry Dogs Dream Hunt.  If I had an automatic way for postings to be made daily I would turn it on, but there isn’t.

Until then!  Happy Shopping!  Happy Days!  Happy everything you do!

Bears Butt

Nov. 25, 2011

CRAWFORDS YEEEEHHHHAAAAAAA!

BUT…now is your chance to catch up on all the other stories and such on this site!

Enjoy!

AHHH!  My first Thanksgiving moment on bearsbutt.com! There are a lot of cool reasons for my having this website, but the one that is most dear to me is the fact that I can write whatever I want, say whatever I believe, make up things and the bottom line is….nobody can dispute it.  You can write comments and rebute etc., but who has the last say on whether it gets posted or not?  ME!  HA! HA!

I do try to accept the comments that are applicable and you know who you are that have sent ugly things my way that nobody else has gotten to see.  I love it!  Thanks Weasel for setting this up that way!

Back to the message.  I am indeed dearly blessed.  A regular on the Utah Wildlife Network forum wrote a really good thread about his past and it brought back many good memories from my own past.  I reckon when you grow up in a small town of just over 1,000 people, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and in a time when money truly was scarce, you grow to appreciate the little things more.

We had a car, which was a luxury back in the 50’s.  We had a black and white TV and a radio too.  Both were considered high class stuff.  We also heated the house with wood and coal and with that came the chores of stocking up the wood and coal bins and taking out the clinkers and ashes…EVERYDAY!

Mother cooked on a Monarch stove, top of the line back then.  She knew exactly how much heat she needed to cook the food on the top and still be able to bake in the oven and not under or over bake whatever it was she was preparing.  Again, wood and coal was used for that and again a bucket of ashes and clinkers needed to be taken outside and tossed…EVERYDAY!

Chickens needed to be fed.  Pigs too.  Horses and cows?  Yes, them too.  I was fortunate enough to be too young to milk the cows and my Uncle did that.  I was just old enough to get to sit on the barn wall with the cats and when it was my turn, Uncle Lou would squirt a blast of warm milk right from the teet at my face.  Most of which went on my face and not in my mouth.  I must say the cats knew a lot about getting the milk in their mouths…more practice I guess.  Besides, if the milk hit their face they would still get the benefit of it, because it stayed in their fur until they could lick it out.  I, on the other hand, ended up with a wet shirt.  It was a very good thing…what a memory.

I didn’t get to play football on the school team, nor wrestle or any of the other sports, even though my mind said I should and I would be the very best at whatever it was (except basketball…too short).  We did not have an activity bus to bring us home late.  But, looking back, that was probably a good thing.  It did not seem like it at the time.  Ride the bus back to town, walk home, drop the books and homework on the table.  Change clothes and head out to do the chores.  When the chores were done, come in, wash up and get after the homework.

Usually, about half way through the homework, Bones and mother would have the dinner ready.  When dad got home we would eat and then it was back to the homework and then get ready for bed and another day awaited when we woke up.

Blessed is all I can say, truly blessed!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

Bears Butt

Nov. 2011