O July!

           A jolly good evening to my two readers out there!!  As my birthday continues to creep closer I am meet with an almost dread to turning older once again.  After about ones 12th birthday the whole concept just seems to loose it's thrill.  Until maybe your 21st birthday--the day ones drinking addiction can legally start.  I more than likely will be working on my birthday once again.  Like I have said --this year is extra great because on the same day all three of our kiddos go back to school and it is payday!    Since I started work--and have almost been living there  I have been super slacking at all of my blog posts.  This will change on all three of MY pages.   Thank you all for being patient and please keep checking all of my pages!  
I started as a part timer at work--supposedly. The first day I was bumped up to full time. And now I am working six daze a week.  This is great for the paychecks but not for having any form of a life outside of work.  Or for furthering our Exploring adventures.  Especially since I mostly work the grave yard shit--still.   OK in all fairness it has only been two months--but Dam it seems like much longer.  To everyone involved --especially my co-workers I am sure. 

Blog rundown:
My first page full of posts, Exploring, random rambling and coffee love! www.wyomingjack.blogspot.com
Some of my better pictures and Exploring of Washington state mostly around Bellingham. http://exploreb-ham.blogspot.com/
http://exarizonagobensonbobcats.blogspot.com/ MY newest page all about Exploring amazing Arizona.     Check them all out!!

   **"When did back to school lists become so long, and schools stop buying ANY of the supplies? Thank goodness for the local back to school fair in the park!! Free supplies from backpacks to rulers. But it requires getting up at 5 AM."**

                 **"Coffee makes me awesome!"**------At least something does.  ;)

        **"If brains were used as money YOU would have to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee."**--Cheers

   **In my travels I have meet a ton of people from a ton of back grounds. But I have to admit I HAVE NEVER meet anyone that works in a dildo factory. Have you??**


                                   **"You can't be sad when your holding a cupcake."**


               **"How do people in Mexico run to the boarder to eat at Taco Bell?"**

 This is an impressive map--although it reminds me a lot of a virus---or the spreading of illegals.   Impressive or alarming??

http://www.dailyviralstuff.com/watch-the-spread-of-walmarts-across-the-u-s-in-one-horrifying-gif/

   Speaking of links---this one is beyond DURP!    It is rare--but I really have no comments about how dumb the MANY people protesting this really are.   Please read this one.  After you stop shaking your head in dismay for America you will shrug and start laughing.  Maybe. 

http://q13fox.com/2014/07/12/huh-photo-of-stephen-spielberg-with-dead-dinosaur-sparks-outrage-on-web/

 

Seems legit to me. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the same thought line--kindda---Washington just became the 2nd state to legalize recreational pot.   And the stores can not even come close to keeping up with the demand.  Is this from Washington people or Oregon and such residents taking road trips.  And why are people in these areas not taking use of all of the "street vendors?"  Oregon residents must be beyond ticked ---years ago when I lived in the state---hippies state wide were trying to get weed legal.   And at least ten years later--it still is not.   But just miles away across the boarder in Washington --a state much more addicted to coffee--has just called it legal.  Isn't it "great" were our priorites are?

 

 

 

 

 

And you thought you had a bad job

 

 

 

 

 **"Not only do I take the short bus to work---I drive it!"**

 

 

Today's picture of the day

comes all the way from Sheridan, Wyoming. 

Were the huge rodeo is going on at this very moment. 

I have tons of new Exploring pictures ready to write about and show off.   Again

thank you for being patient.

 

 

This is right on Main Street. 

And a World famous bar.

The same as the rodeo is known all over.

You might not think bars have much to do with rodeos---if you think this,

you have not been to a rodeo in Wyoming or Montana.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My First Post Of July--This Year

 

**"I have been to a lot of firework displays/4th celebrations--but small town shows are always the best by far!"**

 

 

 

        I hope everyone had an amazing and super safe 4th of July.  I also hope that each of you took some time out from drinking and blowing things up to recall what the day is all about. Especially with the huge volume of illegal aliens crossing our boarders every hour.  Our freedoms as we know them are increasing very rapidly.  I will not ramble about this more, right now--because if you do not know what I am even talking about, you are a huge part of the problem.  Get back on your cell phone and Twitter!  And please stop watching Fox "news."  Anyways with July comes my birthday.  I am more than willing to skip the day altogether.  Some time just  after about ones 21st birthday, birthdays really do stop being fun.  That said, each year I manage to bring up my day of birth multiple times before it actually happens.  Maybe so that y'all will have more time to not buy me any presents!  As many years I will probably be at work this year on my birthday.  This is fine with me, mainly because it means that I have a job and more importantly a pay check.  As on Facebook, I do hate all the well wishes from people I don't really know all that well.  This is a new job, and I do not know any of these workers very well yet--so just as online a fake greeting from someone I rarely talk to  but that has just read about my "special day" just isn't all that important to me.  Call me crazy--but I resemble it to a big case of the Mondays.  This year though--the fun almost comes back--with a rare triple good wammie!   All of our kiddos go back to school on that day, and it is payday!!  OK with all that good news  even perfect strangers can wish me a happy birthday and not ruin my day or year!  ;)


   

 

Cheers!

 

 

If you don't think this is funny--you either found no donuts under the box last time you tried this, you are a cop, or--most likely    YOU should find a new page to read.  Just sayin'

 

**"Some rare R& R time. I have another 6 day work week this week. Was crazy over the 4th weeksend but JD is a cure all. I do have a complaint--no one at Wally World told me we had to actually clean out new outdoor pool."**----Pictures up of the pool soon----after it is clean and after I stop lounging in it.  A little green and or glow in the dark water is not going to stop me from getting in the kool water.  Especially so when it is 100+ every day outside.  It is July and the desert and all. 

 

 

I think it's a tie!

 

 

Mmmmm coffee!!

 

 

 

Does it defeat the purpose of this last picture--if I am now craving pizza??

 

 

Whole blog post slowly coming from the Tucson zoo. Check out all our local Exploring at

http://exarizonagobensonbobcats.blogspot.com/

and please share the link if you enjoy what you see here!

 

 

No one EVER likes my ideas--and I have never broken a light bulb.

 

 

Sing it!!

 

 

 

Tomorrow We Welcome July

        **"Coffee is that place where the sun comes up over the horizon and lights the heavens in a burst of vibrant colors."**----Even if you live in Oregon or Washington!

      I am not sure how it is posiable but in mere hours we turn the calander to the July pages.  For betterer or for worse, this year is flying by.   Add working graveyards in a casino --were it is purpously  ill lighted, so one never really knows what time it is, and most of the time I have no concept of time or what day it is if I am at work or at home.  Another thing that does not seem possiable is that our oldest kiddo is not a kiddo anymore.  He is turning 14 in a few daze.  Speaking of people that are not kiddos anymore--I also might have a birthday this month.  Although I can not be to old, because cashiers and bartenders still card me when I buy booze.  It just happened today in fact.   After working almost nine hours on my day off work, I thought maybe I needed an adult beverage or five.  ;)      On this same note, somewhat I noticed just out of town on I-10 there is a big billboard about how expensive drunk driving can easily become.  This important billboard is sandwiched between not one, not two, but four---ads for beer.  I am not sure were my point is in telling this, but I find it amusing.  You might not, but please note--I grew up in Wyoming and am very easily amused. 

                                                      **"Sleep is over rated."**

  **If one is stuck in a parking lot---what I call not moving while on the interstate due to huge congestion----is it still considered driving and text or calling??**---Just curious. 

    **320 daze out of the year--I wear this badge with pride! The rest of the year-My wife gets the badge. Just like today---I must say she wears it well. **---Just sayin'   This badge I made myself  now Wally Worlds seem to lock up the materials to make your own name badges.  In any case  this hangs proudly on our fridge. 

    Our kiddos had a great time at the zoo and all I got was to touch an elephants butt! Do I look like a tourist?? Many more pictures from the Tucson zoo to be posted.   I will have to dig to find the pictures, but I have several pictures of my touching random things  and seeming to really enjoy it.   One was the feet on the large statue in front of the Hoover Dam.   Another is some fake boobs on a casino wall in Viva Las Vegas!

   Lots of updates coming to this page!   Including our whole family's recent journey to the Tucson zoo.  A great day indeed.  Despite the messed up date stamps on the pictures, this was last Monday. 

http://exarizonagobensonbobcats.blogspot.com/

                                     Sign I found while Exploring Billings MT one fine night.

                                                                    Umm   OK....

 

In case you have not gotten the memo--I am NOT in favor of ANY gun control.

 

 

     **"We just felt the tremors from a small earth quake. I didn't think they had those in Arizona."**----Two nights ago at about 10 PM our house began to shake.  I was trying to blame the movement on the near by rail road tracks.  Sometimes if you are sitting on our potty when a train goes past, the potty sways, but this movement seemed like much more.  We got online and found that 50 miles east in New Mexico a 5.2 earthquake had hit.  Soon after I had to drive to work.  I was half expecting to drive into a sinkhole on the way to work.  I still have found no reports of damage---but this is a very rare event.  And my first quake for sure.  Pretty crazy!

    On a similar note.   For years my wife has talked about how on the night our oldest was conseived, she felt an earthquake.  I must note here, I was not involved in this night at all---her ex husband is rather large, and they were in a motel in Arizona at this time.  I and everyone involved of this conversation, had never heard of an earthquake in Arizona, and we always counted up the earth movement to how large her ex husband was, and to what they were doing in that motel room at the time.  After almost nine years of giving my wife crap about this---we experienced this earthquake, and as usual she was right all along.  

 

 

Last for tonight---but not least     I bring back my picture of the day feature!

I try to use this more and I try to use current pictures   but this one caught my eye tonight.

This is during the huge rodeo parade in Sheridan Wyoming.

The sign in the background seems to go perfect with this float  somehow. 

But what do I know??

 

KABOOM!!

1. Fireworks Behind Statue of Liberty --- Image by © Creasource/Corbis © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.

     I hope you and yours or just you and you if you happen to be single, have a great 4th today!  And that you have great fun, but not so much fun blowing things up that your co-workers will start calling you Stubby on the 5th of July.  We have a very busy day planned out.  And with one day to enjoy fireworks here, we are going to blow some stuff up for sure.   Some how while dating my wife for 7 years, her, the  kids, and I have never celebrated this holiday together.  I have had some great July 4th's in my life.  Many of them in the Bellingham area.  Many involving booze and shooting fireworks at others.   Cliff notes:  When a firework of any kind makes contact with the skin, it hurts!   Were is the safety warning that says that??   There will always be fireworks of some kind in Bellingham----if not the ones pictured above, from people with to much free time worried about fireworks annoying dogs, being to loud, and get this, ruining the sunset.  Faaa on you!  Is what I say to these truly un-patriotic "Americans.  Maybe they should dust off there history books.  

       So this is the first year I have done fireworks in several years.  Luckily we have been seeing more rain than heat here --or fireworks might be banned here this year.  One of the huge celebrations back home, in Wyoming--is canceled this year because much of the state and surrounding states are on fire.  In Arizona even mentioning fireworks is against the law!  But it is 120 outside, in the shade.  When I first moved there, I had lived in Washington before.   I had forgot about a trip to the reservations to get "real" fireworks, and that most of these were still in my pickup.   My wife and I were on a trip to Viva Las Vegas, and we would be passing over the Hoover Dam.  Because of 9-11 security is tight in the area, and they do random vehicle inspections.  Or they used to, now traffic does not even go over the dam.   On the way to the dam, I recalled I had many fireworks behind my truck seat.  We quickly decided to ditch them in the middle of the desert for some scorpions and lizards to play with.   With my luck our truck would have been searched and I would be stuck in some jail cell under the dam trying to explain my plot to blow up the dam with sparklers.  

      Last week I shared my thoughts on banning private fireworks.  You can read that at any time.  Cliff notes: I am against it!   My coffee has not fully kicked in, meaning my brain is still warming up.  So I will post more 4th of July stories in my next action void blog!   I will also be updating my other blog sight a ton in the next few weeks.   Please take a look around and let me know what you think so far.   http://exploreb-ham.blogspot.com/

    Several of the future posts for this sight are going to be "published" on another sight.  I put published in quotes, because I am not sure how it counts as being published if it is on web sights.   How ever you count it, I am very happy it is going to happen.  

    Kaboom!   is very fun to yell!   There are lots of words that are fun to yell.  And this is one of them.  To add extra fun on this holiday, yell it while your buddy is perched over a firecracker, trying to light it, but ready to run.   Since 9-11 it is not the best thing to yell in many situations.  Like in the middle of a supermarket or when the border patrol comes up to your car before crossing into Canada, Aye!   Or if you are touring a home land security office.  Or if you are attending a parade today --do not yell Kaboom! as the retired vets march by.   I always try to be helpful in my posts!

    So I posted the other day, that I was having trouble using spell check on here for some reason.  Just a note for all of those worried about spelling!   I have had people with to much free time, e mail me because a word was spelled wrong on one of my Craig's List ads.  And my brother is more than sure that if I use bad grammer on Facebook --- people will laugh at me.  More than they already do that is.  Have you read anything on FB?   The above is written awesome compared to most things on the sight.  

    I have mentioned before that my cooking skillz are almost non existent.  I can BBQ well, will be doing that today in fact.   But my wife see's me heading for the kitchen, and asks me to go sit down and watch TV.   

   Another type of celebration---at least for me, is that as of yesterday this blog hit 9000 views!!   Thank you all!    

            I am not going to enjoy some sunshine, family time, and blow some stuff up!