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Friday Night Blowout: Old Guy Style

“Snow-mageddon“, the snowstorm of the year, has come and gone as promised. Mother Nature behaved quite civilly, for an old lady throwing a meterological shit fit. ‘Round these parts (he said, hitching his overalls up by the straps with both thumbs) the storm began at a reasonable hour – sometime around 7 or 8 o’clock […]

Now THAT’S a Minibus

Spouse and I went for some lunch to a little burger and sub shop in St. George yesterday. I took a picture of the sign out front (depicted in the photograph below):

I’m not sure what utility there is in a mass transit vehicle that is twelve inches in length; but you […]

Leading by Trailing

Oh, I really have been a bad blogger, and a bad Internet friend. Looking at the two previous posts, it occurs to me that I’ve posted exactly once in something like 45 days. That’s not good. No, that just won’t do.

You know the excuse is coming. I will try to make it brief. If […]

Founders’ Day Recap

As previously mentioned, Founders’ Day took place on Saturday August 29th. The little Nation of Juniorvania hosted 15 visitors for a truly Wendelous complement of 17 festivicators, celebrants and partakers. The afternoon had been designed and conceived as an ongoing free-form exhibition of various Feats of Skill and Athleticism: badminton racquets and shuttlecocks procured, volley- […]

I declare…

…the First Annual Founder’s Day Celebration and National Holiday, including Festivals of Sport and Competition (a la Jacques Rogge) “a most remarkable success.”

Details to follow, but the winner of the inaugural Juniorvanian Open Championship of Par 3 Golf – with a score of 34 (+7) – is my father in law Harold. The rest […]

Ew.

It’s been a busy few days; Spouse and I are readying the Nation for the First Annual Founder’s Day Celebration and National Holiday, including Festivals of Sport and Competition and particularly the Juniorvanian Open Championship of Par 3 Golf, which takes place this weekend. We are expecting the whole family to gather to partake in […]

A Room of My Own

Sunday was largely dedicated to some heavy slogging in Mission Control. The electronic nerve centre of Juniorvania has a sleek new look and – it is hoped – the technical capacity to produce some music. Now if we could only manage to reduce the temperatures therein to something less than “white hot blazing heat of […]

Flashes of Inspiration

A new experience: Spouse and I finished watching Spiderman for the umpteenth time earlier tonight. I got up to let Popeye in the house; more accurately, I got up to persuade Popeye to please vacate his now habitual spot in the garden just outside the back door and to come at least temporarily into the […]

Mission: Accomplished. No, Not THAT One.

I am sorry to keep you in suspense about the maiden voyage of the JMV* Eradicator and the fate of its brave pilot. You will understand that this has been an important epoch in Juniorvanian history, a matter of utmost importance to National Security, and that radio silence has, accordingly, been the order of the […]

Stout Hearted and Enthusiastic

“With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory.”

– Viscount Montgomery, to his troops on the eve of the D-Day invasion, which was not delayed by rain.

First there was this:

Then there was this:

Now, there is this:

A lesser man might […]