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Yeah, Jax blew through his side of the bracket. I think Davino is that good. It’s been a while since Blaze has lost and Davino completely shut him down. Jax is huge for the weight class. I don’t think we’ll see him there next year. 141 if not 149 next year. He could even redshirt next year and return at 149 for ’28. That will get him beefed up for 65K freestyle. I just don’t see him being able to drop 8 Lbs.to 57K. I knew Davino was pretty good. He a great run at the US Trials last April with wins over Nico Megaludis, Daton Fix, and Austin DeSanto at 61K.
Mesenbrink at the podium was definitely unusual, but in what Ive seen of him this year in interviews, it didn’t surprise me. I don’t know, maybe he was trying to throw a little butter on the Hodge popcorn. He should walk away with it anyway. He and Barr are the top choices and Mesenbrink has many more falls.
Quite the story on Jax. How do you get a guy like that? Just amazing.
Sunny here finally. But cold.
mspart
This morning is foggy here, or maybe that’s a little bit of drizzle. Not sure, but it is cold out there. We burned some yard debris on saturday, it burned down in our burn enclosure, burned all night, was still smoking in the morning and afternoon. It is quite remarkable how fires just destroy everything given the time. So that was pretty cool.
My son bought a storage unit for $300 some time ago, found $1200 in cash, sold a bunch of the stuff. So that worked. He just bought another for $30. It looks like the people were deported. Anyway, piles and piles of clothes were there. He gave all of that to my wife, and she has been going through it and it looks like nice stuff really. We have a lady in our church that sends clothes to Africa (I don’t know where) so that is where all this is going. That which is trash will be trashed. The rest sent on. That’s kind of a nice thing really. Plus there were tools that he sold for $500 or so, so that ended up being a decent deal for him.
I’m waiting for him to find a Gibson Les Paul guitar. And a 4×12 speaker cabinet and Marshall amplifier and I’ll take those ha ha.
mspart
That kind of success could be habit forming. Considering how much it costs to rent a unit, I can’t imagine someone storing all junk in on, so I guess the odds are his favor. It all comes down to the cost to take one over.
One more warm day to the low i80’s before the wind changes and rain moved in for 4-5 days.
Yes, you have to weigh how much the unit costs vs how much crap there is to take to the dump. Those are the costs. So hopefully what you can get from it outweighs those costs. He and his wife run a dog boarding facility that is quite successful and he is semi retired. So he has time to burn and does this to have something to do. He’s done ok with it. I’m guessing that activity will decrease as he moves into the asphalt sealcoating business he has been doing for years. He used to have a crew, but now he subcontracts the work out and his time is only spent getting the contract and collecting the money and paying the subcontractor. Nice gig if you can get it. But he had his crew doing the work for years before his reputation became good. So he dabbles in making money and does substitute shift work at the dog place when an employee doesn’t show up.
mspart
Sounds like he has a lot going on and will take on anything when he can make a buck.
Hit 82F yesterday afternoon. Woke up to 42F. It’ll be back into the 70s tomorrow.
Yeah, that pretty much explains him. Very motivated. Can’t sit around. Has to be doing something. Still cool and wet here. It’s 8:18am and it looks like dusk out there. You can see but it is dark. Typical Seattle.
mspart
I don’t mind dark mornings. I would much rather have more sunshine at the end of the day. I’m on the side of kept daylight savings year round. Having it dark AT 4:30 PM is too depressing. For us, that means the summer sun doesn’t set until 9 PM. since we are on the eastern edge of EST. We were backing Glacier National, it was still sunlit at 10 PM, but it didn’t get light out until 7:30 AM.
I’ve been to Glacier park once. Funny story, my Dads family was going to go. They lived in Idaho Falls, ID. So a significant trip back in the day. My dad got pneumonia the day they were to leave and was in the hospital for 2 weeks. His whole family never went. His sisters blamed him for ruining their vacation and they never went there, except maybe when they got so much older. I think I went there with my brother and my Mom for the first trip to Glacier for my Dad. So it was all our first trip. We saw a mountain goat is what I remember. I think I was 14. I don’t think my Grandparents ever made it there. My Dad caused quite the family disruption.
Worked pretty hard on Saturday. Did a lot of digging and shoveling. My wife wants a slightly larger garden so I am stripping the grass from the end to add 3-4 feet of grass. I did about 10-20 sq ft and I was worn out, it was the last thing I was doing for the day. I think we are going to rent a sod machine that will do an 18 inch wide and up to 2.5 deep swath. That’s just got to be easier.
On another note, we purchased a new lawn tractor mower while we were in Phoenix in Feb. It is newer than what we have and this weekend I changed the fuel pump, fuel filter, spark plugs, and air filter. I have to change the oil and then I’m going to do the valve lash setting. I think that will make it run just great. Figured out the valve lash adjustment on a youtube video. Good thing for youtube. I will do the valve lash stuff sometime this week. I figured it would be a real pain but it doesn’t appear to be such a problem.
mspart
You can find just about any “how to” on YouTube. Been there many times rather than wasting time trying to figure something out.
The goats in Glacier are just crazy. There not afraid of people but if get too close, look out, they’ll ram you. I don’t know how they get out of the ledges they eat off. No fear and incredible balance. We spent 2 weeks out there. 1-6 day trek and 2 -3 day overnights. zone the 3 days was spent backpacking 25 miles to the Hungry Horse Reservoir and then canoeing the length of the lake. We wanted end on the westside near the dam, but the wind wasn’t cooperating and kept blowing us to the middle. We ended up landing on the east side and fished for about 5 hours until the wind died down. We caught a bunch of walleyes.
That sounds like a great trip. I have fished for Walleyes but only brought up a leach. I’ve been wanting to go to Banff which is just north. I’ll make it there at some point. I also want another trip to Yellowstone, again. I love that place. On the other hand we live in a really nice place, deer come through the property almost everyday and eat my wife’s plants. There are some bears (momma and 3 babies) roaming around. Last year they were in our garbage. So far, not doing that. That’s a mess for sure. Raccoons, squirrels, oppossums, and cougars. Don’t see the cougs much but we have had them here.
mspart
If you want to do Banff then go there through Glacier National. It’s the same range just across the border. I’ve been to Glacier, Yellowstone, Snake River Canyon and the Tetons. The wife hasn’t seen any of them so we’ve (I’ve) talked about doing an RV tour. She’s not too keen on the RV.
She needs to see those. Definitely. Everyone should see these. Tetons is a great park. Yes yes yes.
RV or no, she’s gotta go.
mspart
We almost made it there back while I was working. I had a conference to attend at the Big Sky Resort in Montana, and we planned to go and piggyback off the conference. But my daughter recently had her 3rd and her husband had to go to Europe the same week. Wifey opted to help her out with the 2 little ones. Big Sky was close enough for a driving adventure.
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