Well this weekend is opening weekend for duck hunting. This doesn't mean much to me....but it does mean that I will not see much of my boyfriend for the next 3 months. Hunting is Matt's life...I don't really get it I guess and I don't like to eat Duck, or Deer, or goose for that matter. My mom and I always say..
"Don't Kill the geese...they mate for life!"
then Matt says...
"That's why I kill them in pairs!!!"
We want to make T-shirts with these sayings on it.
;)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tapping of the Golden Keg...
Every year my crazy family has the tradition of attending the annual tapping of the Golden Keg event Friday morning at Oktoberfest. We all meet at Sloopy's at 7:00 am bright and early on Friday. My Uncle Rick...aka "Dr. Rock" plays live at Sloopy's on the radio and the bar is so packed that you can't even move. There are old people, young people, crazy people...it's a blast. We really aren't big boozers but we have such a good time at this yearly event. As you can see in the picture...we always bring our crows. My Dad and his brothers have always had a thing with crows...and they have a crow caww to go with it. I don't really get it, but they are pretty funny. Two years ago my Uncle Paul brough a plastic crow on a stick to the fest and attatched a clothes pin to the beak. He stuck dollar pills in it and would put it over the crowd when we went to Del's, after Sloopy's, to pay the bar tenders. This year, they let us be in the little parade on the way to tap the Golden Keg at the South Side Fest Grounds. He even made a huge banner that said "Polish people going to drink beer". It was pretty funny...the only bad thing was one of our crows was stolen!!!! If anyone sees a crow on a stick with an Aaron Rodgers jersey on...he belongs to me!!
Monday, September 14, 2009
VMA's...
So last night I was watching the MTV Video Music Awards, and the first award presented of the night was best female video. The nominees were Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Pink, Lady Ga Ga, and someone else but I just can't remember. Anyways, Taylor Swift won, which was a big shock, and she was so happy and was giving her award speech and Kayne West jumped up on stage, interrupting Taylor, and screamed out that Beyonce had the best video of all time. Taylor stood of stage by herself, white as a ghost. It was unreal!!!! Kayne probably just ruined his career. Yikes.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
kidnapped girl...
I cannot believe that this even happened. If the step dad saw the car and took a bike...and called the police and they never found this poor girl...after all this time...especially when no body ever turned up....I just think this is unreal...
Police: California Girl Kidnapped 18 Years Ago Kept as Sex Slave in Couple's Backyard
Thursday, August 27, 2009
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Jaycee Lee Dugard, shown in this family photo, was kidnapped at age 11 and allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years until her release this week.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, shown in this family photo, was kidnapped at age 11 and allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years until her release this week.
An 11-year-old California girl kidnapped in 1991 while waiting for a school bus has been found alive, and a convicted sex offender is accused of raping and fathering two children with her while he and his wife held her captive in their backyard.
Despite the shocking revelations, the discovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard brought sudden relief to her family 18 years after their young girl disappeared.
Dugard had been kept with the two girls, ages 11 and 15, in a series of tents and sheds hidden behind the Antioch, Calif., home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday at a news conference. The couple has been arrested on several charges stemming from the discovery.
Dugard and her two daughters are "in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Undersheriff Fred Kollar said.
Now 29, Dugard was reunited Thursday with her mother, who was overjoyed to learn the ordeal was over and the daughter she feared dead was actually alive and well.
Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn — the last person to see her in 1991 and a longtime suspect in the case — said he was overwhelmed after doing everything he could to help find her. He said the news that she was found was like winning the lottery.
"To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win," Probyn, 60, told The Sacramento Bee.
The Garridos were arrested Wednesday after Phillip Garrido raised suspisions of campus police at the University of California, Berkeley. Garrido was spotted there with two young girls trying to gain access to the campus library, Kollar said.
Campus police then notified Garrido's parole officer who arranged an interview. Garrido, who was on parole from a 1971 conviction for rape and kidnapping, arrived for the meeting accompanied by the two girls, as well as wife and another woman, named Allissa.
Allissa later was identified as Jaycee Dugard, the blond, pony-tailed 11-year-old who was taken from the school bus stop minutes after she left her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991.
"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."
The Garridos are being held in the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez on potential charges of kidnapping and conspiracy on Wednesday, police said. Phillip Garrido also could face charges of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration.
Click here for more on this story from FOX40.com.
At the Garrido's house, barriers were constructed to "inhibit outside viewing and prevent the victims from contact with the outside world," Kollar said.
Garrido was on lifetime parole and his arrest raises questions about how closely parolees are monitored. But Kollar said a parole officer who had visited Garrido's house previously had not noticed anything amiss — the compound was well concealed by shrubs, garbage cans and a tarp.
The neighborhood is described as a residential area, with the Garridos home raising no suspicion from the outside world as to the horrific compound concealed in the backyard.
Neighbor Helen Boyer, 78, described the Garridos as nice and friendly and said they cared for Phillip Garrido's elderly mother.
"If I needed something, they would be the first I would call on," Boyer said.
Dugard left for school the morning of June 10, 1991, dressed all in pink and stood at the bus stop two blocks from her house. As her stepfather watched from the driveway, a gray car with two people inside pulled up, grabbed the child and sped away, according to witnesses.
In media reports at the time, the girl's stepfather said he heard Jaycee scream then jumped on a bicycle and frantically pedaled after the car in a failed effort to follow it up a hill. He then turned around and shouted at neighbors to call the police.
The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.
Click here for more on this story from KTVU.com.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
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Jaycee Lee Dugard, shown in this family photo, was kidnapped at age 11 and allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years until her release this week.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, shown in this family photo, was kidnapped at age 11 and allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years until her release this week.
An 11-year-old California girl kidnapped in 1991 while waiting for a school bus has been found alive, and a convicted sex offender is accused of raping and fathering two children with her while he and his wife held her captive in their backyard.
Despite the shocking revelations, the discovery of Jaycee Lee Dugard brought sudden relief to her family 18 years after their young girl disappeared.
Dugard had been kept with the two girls, ages 11 and 15, in a series of tents and sheds hidden behind the Antioch, Calif., home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday at a news conference. The couple has been arrested on several charges stemming from the discovery.
Dugard and her two daughters are "in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Undersheriff Fred Kollar said.
Now 29, Dugard was reunited Thursday with her mother, who was overjoyed to learn the ordeal was over and the daughter she feared dead was actually alive and well.
Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn — the last person to see her in 1991 and a longtime suspect in the case — said he was overwhelmed after doing everything he could to help find her. He said the news that she was found was like winning the lottery.
"To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win," Probyn, 60, told The Sacramento Bee.
The Garridos were arrested Wednesday after Phillip Garrido raised suspisions of campus police at the University of California, Berkeley. Garrido was spotted there with two young girls trying to gain access to the campus library, Kollar said.
Campus police then notified Garrido's parole officer who arranged an interview. Garrido, who was on parole from a 1971 conviction for rape and kidnapping, arrived for the meeting accompanied by the two girls, as well as wife and another woman, named Allissa.
Allissa later was identified as Jaycee Dugard, the blond, pony-tailed 11-year-old who was taken from the school bus stop minutes after she left her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991.
"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."
The Garridos are being held in the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez on potential charges of kidnapping and conspiracy on Wednesday, police said. Phillip Garrido also could face charges of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration.
Click here for more on this story from FOX40.com.
At the Garrido's house, barriers were constructed to "inhibit outside viewing and prevent the victims from contact with the outside world," Kollar said.
Garrido was on lifetime parole and his arrest raises questions about how closely parolees are monitored. But Kollar said a parole officer who had visited Garrido's house previously had not noticed anything amiss — the compound was well concealed by shrubs, garbage cans and a tarp.
The neighborhood is described as a residential area, with the Garridos home raising no suspicion from the outside world as to the horrific compound concealed in the backyard.
Neighbor Helen Boyer, 78, described the Garridos as nice and friendly and said they cared for Phillip Garrido's elderly mother.
"If I needed something, they would be the first I would call on," Boyer said.
Dugard left for school the morning of June 10, 1991, dressed all in pink and stood at the bus stop two blocks from her house. As her stepfather watched from the driveway, a gray car with two people inside pulled up, grabbed the child and sped away, according to witnesses.
In media reports at the time, the girl's stepfather said he heard Jaycee scream then jumped on a bicycle and frantically pedaled after the car in a failed effort to follow it up a hill. He then turned around and shouted at neighbors to call the police.
The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.
Click here for more on this story from KTVU.com.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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