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The Rhinestone Ropers

I had the great pleasure of meeting Dan, Kimberly, Lucky Joe The Trick Horse and Cody Mink this weekend 100608 at The Dixie Classic Fair. It turns out we have worked for a couple of the same agents. 

In The Tradition of Ed Eldridge as Buffalo Bill,

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 The Minks travel the US showing their multi-talented Cowboy and Cowgirl skills.

You have to catch their show!

The Rhinestone Roper Show

http://www.rrshow.com/

Featuring The Mink Family (Dan, Kimberly, and twelve-year-old Cody) from Jerome, Idaho.  The Minks have thrilled audiences from coast to coast with their award winning trick roping, bullwhip cracking, knife throwing, gun spinning and quick draw shooting  (We do not bring knives or guns to schools unless requested for safety message).  The show also includes amazing tricks by Lucky Joe the Trick Horse.  Some of the Minks notable achievements include:

Dan is the 2007 World Champion Gun Spinner, recipient of the Joe Bowman Showmanship award for Gun Handling and was chosen by the Fox Network to appear on the TV show 30 Seconds to Fame in Hollywood, California

 Kimberly is the seven-time World Championship and current Guinness World Record  (published in the 2008 Guinness World Record Book page 260) in the Women’s Big Loop and featured appearance on Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! spinning a big loop around a record 15 steers all at one time.

Twelve-year-old Cody was named Most Promising Young Roper at the 2003 International Wild West Arts Competition in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the two-time World Champion in the Texas Skip Race and is published in The Guinness Book of World Records for the youngest person to ever win that competition (2008 Guinness World Record Book pg. 260).

The Family has appeared together in many news and t.v. specials and was recently featured in the ABC Family Show "WIFE SWAP". 

More Photos Here:

http://tinyurl.com/rhinestoneropersbyshaneflickr

Several Fox Bloggers linked to the Serial Killer leave clues at the crime scene.  Are My Fox WGHP 8 Bloggers Victims or Suspects?

http://tinyurl.com/myfoxwghpbloggersmurdersuspect

Squeal For Neill or Cluck For Luck!

Do not watch this video mash-up if you don’t like R Rated stuff!

I think it is amazing how both news teams, the morning and evening teams pull these 10 to 12 hour shifts five or six days a week and put on two to five hours of LIVE news all week long. They all have extra-curricular talents after work. The anchors and crew must be dead dog tired but when it is Show Time they shine. Crazy hours must make family life a huge challenge. On top of the pressures to sell the show and always come up with interesting news, there is always some critic that wants to point out every flaw. How do the anchors plow through the scripts without completely laughing crying or getting mad? This last week brought some interesting mash-ups for my funny bone and some huge points for Neill Mcneill and Julie Luck for keeping their cool while people bite off noses, paint Giant Chickens and Squeal like pigs. Sometimes chairs just fall apart! Personally, I may just punch out the touch screen the anchors use that has a mind of it’s own.

I am beginning to believe I know what they are thinking before the story comes out. Before The Giant Chicken Caper, I would bet Julie Luck was thinking, “Please Don’t Make Me Read This Story”! Personally I think the Chicken artist did a good job and they didn’t trash the lighted billboard. When the Pig Calling champion comes on with a title “Squeal Like a Pig Girl,” with a Deliverance closing, my imagination goes wild. I had to add some extra sound-effects to the mix. I love it! So I thought after all that pressure all day, all year, I wonder what the crew does to blow off steam. They may go out to a club and join The Kids in The Hall for some fun! However in this Mash-Up there is no escape for the Fox 8 Team.

Do not watch this video mash-up if you don’t like R Rated stuff!

It is very hard to pick a category here because bar none, Bello Nock is the Greatest Athlete one may ever Watch. However he is also The Greatest Entertainer one may ever see. I may just post in Both Sports and Entertainment.

My friend Bello Nock, http://bellonock.com/, is the most versatile athlete one could ever meet. He is also a very gifted Entertainer and has been voted America’s #1 Clown by Time Magazine. Bello raised the bar for all professional clowns by incorporating his daredevil skills into his act. Even before the demise of James Brown I always said that Bello is the hardest working man in show business.

A photographer from CBS in Dallas catches Bello Nock walking The High Wire 100 feet over the Dallas skyline. Bello was surrounded by top notch talent. When you hear Bello say “Nick, I know you can hear me,” he is talking to another famous wire walker, Nick Wallenda. Nick currently partners with Bello in Bello’s amazing design, The Double Wheel of Death. Nick is also a seventh generation Circus Performer from The Flying Wallendas. Nick’s family has endured various tragedies over the years, including a famous 1962 pyramid crash in Detroit which left two performers dead and one paralyzed. Karl Wallenda died in a 1978 fall from the wire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

As Bello completes his walk he tells his family he loves them. He also thanks Kenneth and Nicole Feld,The American Airlines Center, AT&T Center, Victory Plaza, The American Heart Association and most important to Bello Nock, The one and only Jesus Christ.

Fox Blog Bending the Light

The profile logo from a noobie blogger on Fox 8’s Blog made me think how much I missed my old Album Collection.

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Real Vinyl actually sounds better on the right system. Half inch tape is close, that’s why it’s a good idea to save your VCRs if nothing else but for using the larger tape size for audio. In the old days I used to allow myself twenty to thirty bucks a week to buy albums. The Album Covers seemed more important then. My excuse for losing all my vinyl is that when I hit the road, I stayed gone for 20 years. On one of my pit stops all of my albums got left behind and never returned. Since I’ve bought each album over two or three times as the new media evolves. However I miss the covers. I get a kick out of The Battle of The Bands, a spoof on album covers coming to life. These albums look a lot like my old collection. Because I don’t study the album covers anymore I don’t know the musicians names in the bands I listen to now that have hits since the 80’s.

Here is the original Battle of The Bands.

For adults only.

http://tinyurl.com/albumcoversattack

Coming up next, Fox 8 WGHP TV’s Julie Luck certainly has a nose for the news!

Don’t Blow Away!

I don’t know how the news team can get through as many stories as they do without having to stop. It’s a tragedy when a woman gets stuck on a toilet for two years and has to be surgically removed by firemen but how can you report that with a straight face? When the lesbian couple from Camp Lickalotta gets thrown out of the camp well what can one say? Julie Luck gets to read about a fight over a bicycle that results in a man losing his nose. Getting ones nose bit off has to be humiliating enough, but here comes The crew with a nose for the news. I am sure I am spelling his name wrong but Ozing’s

nose must have been oozing blood! The news crew must have been thinking, You can pick your News but you can’t Pick your Nose!!!!!

It’s certainly a dilemma when you can’t pick your nose because you can’t

find your nose to spite your face to pick it (up off the ground)! You aren’t entirely sure whether your attacker ate your nose or your Dog swallowed your nose!

At the hospital the medics were heard saying:

“Whose nose is that?”

The reply:

“Who knows?”

"Give him a pair of these until we find a replacement."

http://tinyurl.com/camplickalotta

Larry Tilley 90 Degree Board on Fox 8 TV WGHP

The Fox 8 TV WGHP news and Blog team do good for people. They really know how to make viewers become part of the news. The Web Team makes discussing news and current events possible and the TV crew knows how to make a person feel important. I was really impressed 7/29/08 when Van Denton the evening Meteorologist went out of his way to mention Larry Tilley had given him an idea. Van had a subtitle and a new layout for Larry Tilley’s 90 degree board and thanked him for the idea. Then the anchors Neill McNeill and Julie Luck went on to mention they wanted a board named after them. Van Denton had time left to mention his Son’s Birthday. I have no idea if Larry Tilley has access to video or not but thought he might like to save the clip. So I made time to cut this for him. 

Anyone that knows Larry can download the clip from here:

http://tinyurl.com/larrytilley90degreeboardonfox

I cut it in .avi .mpg and .wmv.  There are five videos because I cut three different formats with a subtitle and two extra without a subtitle.  If Larry wants  a DVD so he can play it on his TV have him shoot me an e-mail to the address in my  Fox profile.

Knight's Cycles

If you are having problems getting the video to play, please click on the blue hyper-link title just above the video.

I’ve passed his shop 1,000 times always resisting temptation to just “Browse”. Tex Knight of Knight’s Cycles,

drop.io/knightscycles,

doesn’t play fair! He is always putting one of his creations out on the curb of the road just begging you to come in and look at it. The other day, I had to stop and ask him if I could take some shots of his latest display! He has been building Harley’s for thirty years. If you are a rubber, Rich Urban Biker, you can go to any overpriced shop, but Knight’s Cycles has affordable bike’s custom built to your liking. Tex can keep your current bike running in top form. When you come to his shop you get his personal attention. It’s like having your own private mechanic. If you’re in the market for a re-built bike in the Ten Grand range he can find one of those for you too! Now he has bike’s he refuses to sell and only few can afford but he can get you on a bike when you are ready. I am almost there! I’ll be posting more of his work as I can! It’s almost my turn to own one of his Bikes! In the meantime my wife has been considering a Scooter, especially after watching Scooterman all week on Fox 8.

http://tinyurl.com/scooterman

Brad Jones noticed another brave man on two wheels worthy of a visit from Roy’s Folks!

http://tinyurl.com/ridingwithroy

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Gaining Her Trust

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I spent some time with Cody Aros and Athena this week as a Dog Sitter. Athena is the jet black female already owned by Marty.

Athena came from Kelly’s Shepherds and was featured on The MyFox WGHP Blog.

http://tinyurl.com/5lr5vp

I am telling you this because you will see three different dogs in these videos. It would be best if Cody and Aros were adopted together. These dogs love each other and play well with Athena. Aros the male is a real charmer and doesn’t want to leave your side. Cody needs a very patient special person. Cody is still skittish. I got her to take two pieces of hot dog from my hand which was an accomplishment. When she went for the third, the air conditioning unit kicked in just as she was taking a bite and frightened her. Someone with time could have her eating from their hand in no time.

If you can’t get a quick response from Noble you can leave me a phone message here: My name is Shane.

646-495-9203 x 86697

You can see more photos here:

http://tinyurl.com/5umdqz

Additional Fox links for video of Aros and Cody:

Fox 8 Weather Watchers Need Home

http://tinyurl.com/64s8me

Noble Shepherd Rescue:

http://tinyurl.com/6s4xeu

Fox 8 Storm Watchers Need Home

If you are having problems getting the video to play, please click on the blue hyper-link title just above the video.

Here is the scoop on Aros and Cody:
Aros is about 5 years old and is a purebred German import. He comes from champion lines, but he was turned in because, according to the breeder ... he has no drive. That sounds fishy-so I don't know what the scoop really is, but he does look like a champion import line. He hates cats, was kicked by a horse recently, and has a very large prey drive/not play drive (so he likes to kill squirrels, but not chase a ball) ... but we'll work on that. He can sit ( sitz), down (platz), stay (bliphe), and heel (foos). He does well at the park and in the house and car. He is an excellent deterrent to crime since he looks like a killer ... but he is just a big baby. Now .... He needs a very alpha owner because if he does want something, he will use all his 80 pounds to get it (like the cat and squirrels). With an alpha owner, he is a big baby. He just had mouth surgery to remove a canine and some molars that were broken by the horse kick, he has a few cysts that the vet was going to take care of then (one on his left neck, one on his lower back, and one on one of his sides), but didn't get to because the surgery was so long. Nothing to worry about, they just need to be excised by the vet.

Cody is a Ferrell girl. They don't know much about her except that she looks like a coyote and is about 7 mths old. Animal control wanted to put her down because they thought she could never live with people in a house. Wrong! She is scared of everything and needs Aros around to protect her. She has had accidents in her crate when she is scared, but basically is housebroken. She loves her crate and as long as she has access to it, she is fine.

More Aros and Cody video and photos:

http://tinyurl.com/5c967b

http://tinyurl.com/638o54

Fostered by Marty:
horsedoeuvre . moonfruit . com/
Contact:
nobleshepherdrescue . com/
Video Editing:
shanesflyingdiscshow . com/
Inspired by:
community . myfoxwghp . com/

More Pets of The Week!

We hope Roger found a home!

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Rescued by Marty:
horsedoeuvre.moonfruit.com/
Contact:
nobleshepherdrescue.com/
Video Editing:
shanesflyingdiscshow.com/
Inspired by:
community.myfoxwghp.com/

More Pets of The Week!

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Here is the scoop on Aros and Cody:

From Marty

Aros is about 5 years old and is a purebred German import. He comes from champion lines, but he was turned in because, according to the breeder ... he has no drive. That sounds fishy-so I don't know what the scoop really is, but he does look like a champion import line. He hates cats, was kicked by a horse recently, and has a very large prey drive/not play drive (so he likes to kill squirrels, but not chase a ball) ... but we'll work on that. He can sit ( sitz), down (platz), stay (bliphe), and heel (foos). He does well at the park and in the house and car. He is an excellent deterrent to crime since he looks like a killer ... but he is just a big baby. Now .... He needs a very alpha owner because if he does want something, he will use all his 80 pounds to get it (like the cat and squirrels). With an alpha owner, he is a big baby. He just had mouth surgery to remove a canine and some molars that were broken by the horse kick, he has a few cysts that the vet was going to take care of then (one on his left neck, one on his lower back, and one on one of his sides), but didn't get to because the surgery was so long. Nothing to worry about, they just need to be excised by the vet.

Cody is a Ferrell girl. They don't know much about her except that she looks like a coyote and is about 7 mths old. Animal control wanted to put her down because they thought she could never live with people in a house. Wrong! She is scared of everything and needs Aros around to protect her. She has had accidents in her crate when she is scared, but basically is housebroken. She loves her crate and as long as she has access to it, she is fine.

Marty threw a party at Rosewood Farm for her friends that have a Gluten Intolerance. It’s nice not to have to worry about what to eat, but when you have a problem with Gluten each meal is specially planned. Eating out is almost impossible without calling the restaurant ahead of time. Even eating food at home can be very expensive. One of the people at the party became very excited when they found out that they could have a Ball Park Hot Dog! This person explained they hadn’t had a Hot Dog in years!

Although it seemed to be 100 degrees in the shade, those that attended had a great time. Marty was disappointed however, that a special kid didn’t show up. This kid told Marty that they would like to go to a picnic just like “Regular People”. Personally, I had a great time. I couldn’t tell the difference in the Burgers Hot Dogs and other snacks served. Pony rides were available and Bert the Horse was The Star. A couple of the regulars were seen jumping their Horses. I hope she does it again when the weather cools. 

From Marty:

Celiac disease occurs when a person does not have the enzymes to digest wheat, rye or barley proteins. These proteins literally pack the villi of the small intestine down so the person does not absorb any nutrients. So, a person suffering from this will have many various GI symptoms and vitamin deficiencies until diagnosed. Many Celiac's are misdiagnosed with many other syndromes that explain the symptoms (IBS, migraine, allergies, anemia, B12 deficiency, stress, etc.), but don't fix the problem. Many Celiacs are finally diagnosed when they have so much damage to their system that they have to undergo surgery for GI repair. There is no pill to fix this condition; you must just give up gluten for life.

The problem with a person not being able to eat gluten is that it is in EVERYTHING. Most of the additives and preservatives on the market are gluten based. So, you have to be able to read labels and identify all the ingredients in order to not be exposed. If exposed, the symptoms will come back and actually damage you GI system again.

Our cookout today was for a get together, but was mainly for the kids. Children with Celiac are set apart from their peers. They can eat in school cafeterias, they can go out for pizza after a ball game, and it is difficult. So, we planned an event for the kids to have fun and eat GF too! They had a ball so it was well worth it.

Our group is very helpful for celiac because we get together and have gluten free dinners and try to help other newly diagnosed learn to read labels and figure out what is safe to eat. There is a lot of bad information out there on the internet so it is confusing. I can't remember our initials (NCPTGIG I think), but we are affiliated with the national GIG group. Our consumer guide is VERY helpful to celiacs.  I just convinced to start a website, so that will be coming soon!

More Photos by Shane K Smith here:

http://tinyurl.com/5xjhxj

Ball Girl Catch Hoax or Not!

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http://tinyurl.com/46k8rr

I may have been used. Trying to make a point about the little League All-Stars on Alan H’s “Oh Please” Blog,

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I found out I may have been used. This completely distracts me from the Blog thread so I thought I would get extra opinions here! I googled ball girl catch hoax and got a ton of stuff but haven’t seen the Gatorade commercial yet.

On the better video I can see the ball drop from the top of the video frame into her glove. She then gives the left fielder an underhand throw and sits down. I can see the ball enter her glove on the catch and leave her hand on the toss. I cut video and know that it is very hard to time the sportscaster’s audio with the timing of the catch. If it is not a GREAT CATCH then it is certainly GREAT VIDEO EDITING. I just hate getting used!