Blog number 2 - Ready for HS boys hoops season!!!!!!!

Another batch of randomness - thanks to all of yesterday's readers and nice comments 
THE BLOG WILL BE UPDATED ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY!!!!!!

17. huge congratulations to my good friend, Don Mack, the Botkins High School girls basketball coach - his team ran their record to 2-0 on the season - Don is the all-time winningest coach (%) in Ohio High School boys and girls basketball history - his winning percentage is 100 % !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
18. listen to all 6 OHSAA state final football games at this link right here ----> click to listen
19. watching it snow is one of life's little pleasures, snow causing problems on roads is another story
20. Urban Meyer will recruit a lot of athletic players from the southeast to Ohio State
21. the dancing fountains show at the Bellagio in Las Vegas are entertaining  to watch click to watch
22. have you ever saw Dick Vitale and Ken Francis in the same room - they could be the same person
23. small school high school basketball in this part of Ohio is as good as anywhere in the country
24. if he stays healthy - AJ Green is going to be one of the best wide receivers in NFL history
25. I have never talked to anyone who did not like the movie "Shawshank Redemption"
26. Ohio needs more new license plates?  click for more
27. a hood ornament museum is a great idea????? click to view

First trivia question from our blog - all correct responders win a chance to win a $ 10 Cruizers gift certificate - What are the last names of these four sitcom characters from Laverne & Shirley cast?  reply to hood3939@gmail.com by midnight Friday night                Laverne, Shirley, Squiggy, and Carmine 

(you are not allowed using the internet for help!!!!!!!!!)

One correction from yesterday's blog, Forrest Gump was in 1994, not 2004 as I had originally posted!!

Here is a picture of the hoodoos at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah

My First Blog - I hope that you enjoy!!!

Here it goes - Here are some things that I think that I think:

1. the brain of a human being is the most amazing object in this universe.

2. the song "Take the Long Way Home" by Supertramp is one of my top ten songs of all time.Click to listen

3. that Ohio State may become the first undefeated college basketball team since Indiana in 1976.

4. that the theme song from Laverne & Shirley was and still is a very "catchy" theme song

         Sclemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated.  We're gonna do it

5. that the 8th grade class trip to Washington D.C. is a great trip - I learned a lot

6. that LSU and Alabama are the two best college football teams this season.

7. that Missy and I need to get to a movie theater again sometime - our last film together, not counting a drive-in theater was "Forrest Gump" - September, 1994

8. that the speech that Jim Valvano gave at the ESPY's in 1993 was awesome click here to watch

9. that I have some friends (namely Bob and Barney) who know a lot more about the shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26,1881 than I do. more info about OK Corral here

10. our National Anthem could change to America the Beautiful and many people would not complain

11. that Treg and I saw a lot of famous people at the Ohio State - Duke game Tuesday night 
12. that the drop for deer harvest in Ohio was down 39 % on the first day of gun season - wow!!! 
13. that the UD Flyers followed up their impressive tournament championship this past weekend with a rather lethargic 29 point loss at home to the hands of the University of Buffalo Bulls 

14. that Marion Local and Coldwater are both going to win state titles in high school football this weekend - Best of Luck to the Flyers and the Cavaliers!!!!
15. one of my favorite pictures-our daughter, Corrina, age 5, at the YMCA basketball league - taken in 2002

16. if you wish to bookmark it, the web address for this page is http://hoodornaments.blogspot.com
here is a picture of a nice hood ornament