Sven and Ole's Trivia Night Results

June 17th

1st     Nobody (aka Where's Bob)      85 pts.
2nd   Cosmos                                    83 pts.
3rd    Dawgs                                     82 pts.
4th    Travellers                                70 pts.

June 24th 

1st     Dawgs                                    68 pts.
2nd   Team Buick                            64 pts.
3rd    Thespian Wannabees            63 pts.
4th    SS3                                        60 pts.

Sven and Ole's Trivia Night Point Cup Points for 2010 as of Thursday, July 1, 2010

Teams                                                      Points

Where's Bob                                            1292
Thespian Wannabees                              821
Motley Crew                                             644
Dawgs                                                      638
Team Bri                                                  607
SS3                                                          563
It's the Path, Not the Pizza                       531
Bahama Mommas                                    365
Cosmos                                                    340
Team Hector                                            175
Alpine Stars                                             121
The Italian Stallions                                  89
Sick Chicks                                               83
Gavynators                                                83
Travellers                                                  70
The River                                                  67
Team Buick                                               64
Fish Fear Us                                              54
Eddie Cheeseburger                                 45

Not sure what the deal is with the Dawgs as of late as the usual sleepy team has made a mid-season rally in the past two weeks that is quite impressive as they have have leap-frogged from 7th to 4th place.

Yo, down here! What's the name of Donny and Marie's baby bro? This ones good for an easy 6 pts. Hope to see ya at Sven and Ole's tonight at 8pm.

The latest from Creechville  The other night someone in the suburbs of Grand Marais (aka Creechville) set out a small bag of leftover Sven and Ole's pizza slices. (Leftovers? Not sure how this is possible.) Anyway, after an hour or so they heard rustling outside the door so they peeped out the window to see a naughty little skunk dragging the bag down the driveway and under the shed in the back-yard.

We'll keep you posted as to further developments.

Congrats! to Chris and Terri as the newest home owners in the city of Grand Marais. Wishing you and yours the best in your new digs.

Congrats! to Tim and Joan on the sale of your lovely home and best wishes to you on your continuing adventure.

Get Well  to my elder sister Judy (aka Judd) who took a nasty tumble yesterday and messed up her shoulder real good n' bad. Take it easy and get better soon.

What's the deal?  with the squawking crows at 6am lately? The every morning thing is beginning to tick me off.

Heard at the Gunflint Tavern  "I don't know about you, but I've always thought the graham cracker was the ugly red haired step sister of the S'more family."

BIKE TOWN U.S.A.

This summer Grand Marais has officially changed it's name to Bike Town U.S.A. I don't know if I'm seeing things, but motorcycle fever seems to be running rampant in these parts. Gotta love it.

The latest poop from downtown Grand Marais

This morning Saturday June 26th at 8:37am (during the Grand Marais Lion's Club Pancake Breakfast) there was a seagull stuck on a wire up on the roof of one of the local banks.

Not wasting a precious minute and taking matters into their own hands, as do-gooders usually do, a couple of Lions and one of G.M.F.D.'s finest set forth on ladder to set right natures wrong.

I'm here to tell ya all hell broke loose when the gulls began to cry foul as the two traipsed across the shingles. In unison the seagulls freaked. The more they squawked, the more reinforcements came, and the more reinforcements came, the more white wet silver dollar sized gifts fell from the heavens.

As the surgical like fowl extraction unfolded over the next 20 minutes, on-lookers, police, bank employees, retired teachers, fellow Lions, political figures and a guy on a Harley (see above) began to arrive in force. With this, things began to look, well, not so good for the do-gooders.

After about two and a half minutes of small town drama, name taking and hugs, Grand Marais went back to it's normal beautiful self.

Grand Marais, whether you're a human or a seagull, I can't think of a better place to live.   

My wife and I took a little road trip thru the U.P. of Michigan a couple of weekends ago for a little getaway and to participate in my wife's graduation from her Alma mater, Kettering University (aka GMI or General Motors Institute). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_University  

Check the facts, Chuck was no slacker. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Kettering

Needless to say it was awe inspiring and a little daunting to be in a room full of so many smart people. Honey, I'm super proud of you for finishing the long journey to your Master's Degree in Operations Management. Dad and Momma Z would be so proud.

While in the Detroit area we were lucky enough to be able to stay at Camp Pammy and get together with the "5:05 Girls" and see a Tigers game. By the way Comerica Park is my new favorite ballpark. Even better than Cleveland and the Twinkies new ballpark....and that's saying a lot. Thanks again Pammy for the hospitality. We'll be back.  

Happy Father's Day Dad. I was so lucky to have you as an example of how to be a Dad.