FB: American Rivers Conference

[sportsknight]

Happy Father's Day to all the proud papas.

[warthog]

SportsKnight:

Sister Peacock called to tell me her branch of the family went to Breitbach's today.  It is very nicely decorated and food is still excellent.  It was busy, but she felt your Wartburg math skills may have been lacking when you posted earlier about reservations.  Her UIU elementary education degree put the customer count well below your 5,000 number.  I explained communication majors at the 'Burg didn't need many math courses to graduate and numerical accuracy is not always a high priority in journalism in the first place. 

Mike did run out of pie however which really torqued off my Cyclone brother-in-law.  Those meat and potato ISU ag majors like their pie.

[doolittledog]

So, a few weeks ago there were some kind posters on here who gave me a skunk odor cure for my dog that got into a fight with a skunk. 

That would bring me to my next question.  Does anyone on here know how to break a dog of getting into fights with skunks???  Because tonight would be round 2 that Millie the wonder dog has lost to said skunk!!!

If it happens a third time, I would suggest getting "Millie the slow learner" either a nose test or an IQ test!

[But in defense of Millie, have you checked with the skunk to see if she really lost? ]

Until I find a skunk carcass I will go with the assumption that Mr/Mrs skunk is ahead on points and on the verge of a tko!!!

To get in the mood for football my kids and I watched futbol today.  Turkey came back from 2 goals down to win 3-2 over the Czech Republic.  And afterwards the USA was up 3-0 over Barbados at halftime in early round World Cup qualifying.  At that point I became Mr. BBQ man and began cooking steaks for the family. 

Happy fathers day to all!!!

[Walston Hoover]

I confess to watching Turkey today as well, but I was with the 2 brothers of the family that support communism, so I was outnumbered. I will admit I was a little excited to see them come back like that.

[doolittledog]

I confess to watching Turkey today as well, but I was with the 2 brothers of the family that support communism, so I was outnumbered. I will admit I was a little excited to see them come back like that.

Good to see you are finally seeing the light WH!!!

So with all those brothers.  Are any of them joining the family business your parents have going???

[Mr. Ypsi]

In case any futbol haters here care, USA eventually won 8-0.  They looked really good today, but it WAS Barbados, afterall (population slightly smaller than metropolitan DM).

I saw some of CR-Turkey, but had to miss the last 30 minutes (which my soccer-coach older son said was the most intense half hour of soccer he had ever seen: 3 Turk goals, 3-5 near-goals by each team, 4 yellow cards, and a red on the Turk goalkeeper).  I would dearly love to see those minutes!

[sportsknight]

SportsKnight:

Sister Peacock called to tell me her branch of the family went to Breitbach's today.  It is very nicely decorated and food is still excellent.  It was busy, but she felt your Wartburg math skills may have been lacking when you posted earlier about reservations.  Her UIU elementary education degree put the customer count well below your 5,000 number.  I explained communication majors at the 'Burg didn't need many math courses to graduate and numerical accuracy is not always a high priority in journalism in the first place. 

Mike did run out of pie however which really torqued off my Cyclone brother-in-law.  Those meat and potato ISU ag majors like their pie.

Even with the remodel, I don't know that they could fit five grand in there at one time anyway.  What I had heard was that many people had called for a reservation for any given time over the weekend, not one specific timeframe.

Our clan didn't make it up there this weekend while I was home for Father's Day.  Old Man SportsKnight isn't a real fan of big crowds, so he decided we'd stay away this weekend, but will get up there eventually.

[Klopenhiemer]

I just got back from a weekend in DM.  The detour was pretty interesting.  I spent most of the day on Friday helping Mrs. Klops family sand bag the family business.  They are right down by Principal Park, and they were affraid the levee was going to fail and flood them out again.  Good news for them was that it did not, bad news is the levee by DM North failed.  What a disaster.  Many devistated folks. 

I think someone mentioned that CR might be without power for a month.  Mrs. Klops dad got a phone call from Alliant Energy to haul a transformer from Boone to CR.  I guess they were in the process of doing that, so I hope that speeds up the process.  The transformer weighs 250,000 lbs.  I had no idea that a transformer could weigh that much. 

Happy Fathers day to all, and I hope everyone being affected by the floods is doing as well as they can. 

[coocooforcoekohawk]

Went over to Coe today and watched them pump out Physical Plant.  I can't believe the water made it up that high.  There were hundreds of railroad ties in the road where the waters edge had made it.  I don't think they will have that much to cleanup at Coe, but it did make it into a Coe building.  Unbelievable!

[D O.C.]

Keep your heads up everybody.

May luck get better for you all.

I cannot imagine what you have to go through.

[Klopenhiemer]

Went over to Coe today and watched them pump out Physical Plant.  I can't believe the water made it up that high.  There were hundreds of railroad ties in the road where the waters edge had made it.  I don't think they will have that much to cleanup at Coe, but it did make it into a Coe building.  Unbelievable!

I do believe it.  I think almost everyone stopped using the 100 year flood plane word and moved towards the 500 year flood plane. 

How are the people in Waverly doing.  Has the water went down and clean up begun, or is water still standing. 

[Klompen]

I'm fairly certain Klompen is German for, "My blood is orange."

I'm fairly certain it is Dutch for "my feet are killing me".   

[Klompen]

So, a few weeks ago there were some kind posters on here who gave me a skunk odor cure for my dog that got into a fight with a skunk. 

That would bring me to my next question.  Does anyone on here know how to break a dog of getting into fights with skunks???  Because tonight would be round 2 that Millie the wonder dog has lost to said skunk!!!

The solution would be a skunk free fence in your back yard. 

[TheOne89.1]

So, a few weeks ago there were some kind posters on here who gave me a skunk odor cure for my dog that got into a fight with a skunk. 

That would bring me to my next question.  Does anyone on here know how to break a dog of getting into fights with skunks???  Because tonight would be round 2 that Millie the wonder dog has lost to said skunk!!!

If it happens a third time, I would suggest getting "Millie the slow learner" either a nose test or an IQ test!

[But in defense of Millie, have you checked with the skunk to see if she really lost? ]

Is Millie a Luther grad?

[TheOne89.1]

SportsKnight:

Sister Peacock called to tell me her branch of the family went to Breitbach's today.  It is very nicely decorated and food is still excellent.  It was busy, but she felt your Wartburg math skills may have been lacking when you posted earlier about reservations.  Her UIU elementary education degree put the customer count well below your 5,000 number.  I explained communication majors at the 'Burg didn't need many math courses to graduate and numerical accuracy is not always a high priority in journalism in the first place. 

Mike did run out of pie however which really torqued off my Cyclone brother-in-law.  Those meat and potato ISU ag majors like their pie.

That is incorrect we did have to have at least ONE math class.  Of course "Teaching Elementary Math" was good enough...unfortunately, that class did not transfer to the local tech school when I signed up for classes this fall.