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where the putz used to live when he was tinney tinny

This is the latest picture of the Putz.

what do i think about change of heart?............................jodi picoult.................................................change of heart.............pretty unrealistic to think a heart in a grown man could fit a child,,,, that a man could keep a secret for eleven years.....that a cop could reall y molest his stepdaughter{maybe that isn.t so unrealistic that],,,,,.................the ghonistic gospes are really interesting...i believe a little of that.....that god is here to guide us till we get to be like him........the rabbi, caTholic priest aclu lawyer[not a joke}WERE INTERESTING characters......................so go ahead and read it.....go ahead..gave it 3 stars out of 10....it is a pretty long book, almost 600 pages...i did read it all

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Usss Patch boat

high seas,as usual traveling on military transport but the food on this boat was as good as you would get on any luxery liner,,most people skipped meals because of the hurricanes and the rocking of the boat and thick sea air so that left scabs and scabs of food to those hardy souls that were left above board and not relegated to their bunks in the cabins below, sick from all the rocking....people like josephine and diane{mother and sister]...i ate crab, lobster, shrimp, cakes, pies, curried rice, roast beast, steak , chocolate eclairs, milkshakes...in fact chocolate of all shapes sizes, and consistantcy....creams drops, eclaires, mints, candies of all varities off the chef's dinner at the captains table....i was at the captain's table because all the royality was sick and only the little scab boy was available...we landed at new york, saw the statute of liberty from our ship and drove a gutless comet chrysler car on the not free ways, but toll ways stopping to eat at howard johnsons all the way home because we would have to pay the toll again if we got off and wanted to get back on.hey EVERYBODY, THIS BOAT THING IS A LIE, DON'T EVER ENCOURAGE PICS FROM PUTZ

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when doug olsen was building his house next to us he said that one of our brown chickens we owned and let run around the yard, layed an egg in his shower stall and he brought it over to karma lee...i don't remember that but i do remember some bummer lambs that we tried to keep outside but when it got cold we brought them out from the cold onto our cold basement floor where they died...i also remember robert young giving me a tankful of fish to take care of including a man of war fish and one day in trying to treat the water with chemicals , i gave them the wrong porportion and the water turned blackis brakish green and they all died too. i remember keeping a bird that died...i rememember i built a maze for a gerbil but it got out from the top and made a home in our dishwasher, we found it and brought it back to the elementarty school where it died....while we had it, we loved it very much and it appreciated the places it could go in our maze....in fact we loved all of our pets very much and this last dog we have who has cancer, congenitile heart disease, eye problems, smells, is over weight, has ear infections and pnemonia...her name is sandy and she has never been house broken, even when karma lee and becky tell her to "go quick' FIFTY MILLION TIMES...WE ARE NOT SURE IF SHE IS STUPID OR SMART HAVING FIGURED OUT HOW TO LIVE WITH US and still do exactly what she wants, but we wouldn't part with her for any amount of money and we will be devistated when she dies, especially the putz....sandy sleeps with several member's of the family and has her own couch and needs a pillow on when she sleeps

10 p's for gail

10 p's for gail{my second me me}piano.,,,plays for easter and christmas.....pleasing people{the very whole reason for my blog.....planning{NOT] i don't do that as gail would say done that been there{see my T shirt} pickky not...presents yea gimmie gimmie gimee....plaace[ I STAY HOME IN PLACE].....pincinic as yogi bear says is my favoritie picinica basket.....playfull[ 66 and still am playful...ask any of my blog girl friends}............placid not plastered and pictureless as you can see from this whole page of blogs thereis only the picture aof the three superbowl contenders

february 10th, 1969

i walked right in off the streets in downtown salt lake city and bought a lowry piano and paid cash for it...sight unseen for my wife who at that time was the only person who could play a piano...delivered to her on a regular tuesday sight unseen....why ???? i am such a cheapskate....a piano takes no energy {that you have to pay for} ....a piano is forever....a piano gives and gives and gives.....joy...and i like piano music,,MOSTLY VAN CLIBURN OR RAG TIME

snow antics and front yard decorations

the community has always been grateful for the barlow front yard antics...one year with tony's help we loaded up four giant balls that were each four feet high and it was a good sixteen feet into the air up above our house, wiring and tv wiring, and he had to do it with ladders...giant rocks for it's eyes, buttens , nose and mouth...it was the last snow in town to disappear that year...and then one year josh and i built a snowman in the middle of our driveway with a giant stop sign in his hand and a hat in the other preventing anyone from going anywhere up the driveway,, daniel finnally plowed into it with his car and it melted quickley then, but for days karma and becky had to park elsewhere so as to not disturb the snowman....bad water leak in walls and gas furnace venting explosive or was it a non battery operated razor...after searching the walls the culpret was discovered....a razor in the bottom of daniel's recently built cabinets, the sound going through the walls of the basement and sounding like rushing water...how could a razor exsist that was not electric have a feature of movement to it?? it was a regular razor moving on it's own up and down banging on the bottom of the drawer all on it's own?need a physazist...we had turned off all the water as well as the furnace for days before the problem was asertained....the putz is green, honest, brave and true awaiting your comments kind and pleantiful

this is for justmylife and my very first mememe on my 400th bog

i honestly don't know how to put pictures on my blog, daniel my boy does that for me, but the meme doese not ask for a picture of the picture only an explanation of the picture and you are right i CAN DO THAT...so her e goes.....rome, plazza di spagna....now here is the story...my wife's brother frome her dad desimone but not from her mom, whose name is also desimone went to rome and the picture in the far front is a fountain and little boys peeing into the fountain made of stone{the boys not the pee}very bleak, as you move up the picture lialac in all their profusedity climb up the plaza as well as steps toward the arch, a telephone kiosk is if you can believe it in the middle of the steps{about 300 of them] on either side of these steps are office or apartment buildings in that old world orange tint brixck,,,then the arch de spain, i guesss you would call it, it isn't the arc de triumph....clock in the tower big palm tree to the right and a view of the city roma through the entrance of the paris like arch...more apartment buildings to the side, this city is plumb full when just the arc would do, no they have congested buildings taking up all the available space,, i am sure so that everyone can look down on the arch from their window and say they have a very posh place in the middle of rome....alll this for bragging purposes...oh and their are bridges just below the arch going to fro between the vegitation...tip toe through the tulips...all this for you justmylife{you are the only one i would do this for} i wish i could put the picture in the blog for you but maybe the purpose of the meme is to not have the picture

a very short note on the morrocan

pssibly my first real bonifede date, but it was a very nice date...a meal that took eight hours to eat, a twenty one course dinner with frog legs eclairs reindeer meat white roe flaming cherries and then a dance that lasted to 2 a.m. and then parties at these government etain, france government houses for a progressive dinner...when we walked through these streets in the complex we were accousted by a black morrocan with a knife....we sweet talked him for a half hour into doing us no harm and got off the street quickley and back into the houses where all the couples had gone into rooms to sleep with weach other...i was embarassed, yes i was, but the candadian girl was not and suggested we just sit thre until it got daylight....diane was so great with margie and acted as her best friend through all this new adventure,,,when back in my house, we slept late in separate beds and spent the day doing things around VERDUN

CAMPOUTS

this story was from 1980 when the putz was assisting dan nance in regional camp outs...there were posters hung up all over the camp with pictures of david holding a knife near his cheek and dressed in stark dark clothing with an old fashion scout brimed hat covering his eyes and his criminal smile squinting a sinister smirk...it would be hard to identify this man by the way the poster portrayed him, on the poster was printed,,,just seen at this location and REWARD, WANTED FOR ROBBERY AT THE LAST NATIONAL BANK..A Desperado wanted for many crimes,,,name..slim 'slick' mcevil...."''reward for information of whereabouts...i was turned in by a little eleven year old kid and his reward was a Jumbo Baby Ruth...i got nothin as i stood there drooling over his candy bar,,,i as a varsity scoutmaster took several of these same boys to a camp at blue lake where very igenious activities were developed for the boys...we had a service project where we completely repaired a road leading to blue lake, we had two reasons to do this; 1...we got stuck getting up to our camp and i didn't want to be stuck going home from camp and 2,,, we wanted to serve other campers who might use this same road...we had a scavenger hunt that was timed which covered two mountains, the lake, the camp, and the cliffs...these were the key words to the adventure....jump swing,,,ouch....rock and roll..monument...relieved place...a place you prefer not...it is a clear winner..spectacular frisbee toss...missed service project...fallen mast....main fire...the boys spent hours on this hunt and gave me time to cook an elaborate dinner of beans....often we had canoe races with pelts being handed off to a scouct in a canoe and they would race these pelts to the other side of the lake...we had a blackpowder shoot where our homemade shot of powder would be hammered down the rifle barrel and shot at rotten turkey eggs....if a person missed the tarket then that person would have to suck the rotten eggfrom the turkey shell...we had order of the arrow dances with the monsen boy doing the dances and doug to cook us a dutch oven dinner

WEED CZAR....1993

THE putz was chosen as 'THE DAMN WEED GUY' in ephraim....he wore a round badge that said damn weed guy, 1993..he went around with a ruler and measured the weeds in peoples yards, and got paid to do it also...if a weed was more than 12 inches long he was supposed to write a letter to them from the weed committee to take care of the problem...megan bateman was to be his assistant and help him administer the cities weed program...most people just ignorned him and when he walked down the street would say ....here comes the damned weed guy, look there he is...most people ignorned the letter they got also.....and so david the putz decided just to not send them letters....barry baker[ city counsilman] wanted a zion's community where everything would be perfect....a model city ready for when the savior came so he AND THE CITZEN'S OF EPHRAIM could be proud...the problem with this idea or concept is that the weeds grow back like a vegengce every year and the savior won't be coming for MANY years and all the citizenS realize that fact....there is a lesson that future generations could learn from this modern parable....i just don't want to tell you, cause i got so sick of the program that i could spit....so barry baker if you are reading this somewhere living in ephraim...nuts to you....p.s. i found one weed four and a half feet long in someone's yard

FIRE OF THE COVENANT..as i see it our story

this story has NEVER generally been told, buried in barlow archives for generations..so it is kind of barlow's work and the glory and it makes a nice true story...william smith, hannah hibbert's brother in law was known to his mother, bill, as a very serious boy living on the outskirts of manchester, a bustling industrial complex of glass blowing and iron works{waterford chyrstal from that area} but his life took a more sedate, rural salford countryside aura taking care of the barley fields pruning and weeding.... she showered her beliefs on young william jr. so when the mormon missionaries arrived in 1840 these two were very ready for the gospel truths and thrilled...bill preceded to be taught by orson pratt. an apostle to joseph smith, his self in salford... and william's mother mary ebiert smith, 1797, wife of william smith sr. was a spiritual woman which was very bad for her since her husband fought hard against her religious tendencies..she showered her beliefs on young william jr., so when the morman missionaries arrived in 1840 these two were very ready for the gospel truths and thrilled..she preceded the arrival of pratt and jonson by 43 years with her testimony and had almost been ready for conversion since her birth...elder pratt the senior was 33 years old and heard the truths directly from the prophet and was intellecually on fire with the principals of the restoration..he was born in 1807, 2 years after the prophet's birth...so young william was ready and prepared to be baptised and start the stone rolling forward for all including barlow the putz...in 1840 at the age of 26 william became one of the first to hear and enthusiastically bring the gospel to the entire hibbert family and eventually to the daltons and lastly to the barlows through marriage.......thank you