More Puzzlement from Evanston

So near the condition of starvation I decided to take some of the plundering's from last night, oh didn’t tell you, about 22:30 hours Highway Hooker Toewing got from a auto club its first call. So after making $2,500.00 it was celebration time this evening, except no place to celebrate. First thought, Legal Tender, a Steak, brew and spuds. Guess what? Legal has no top sirloin, drank one beer, thought the old log lodge might be open, nope, they’re closed. So bought some groceries from Wal-Mart, and came home. But hey the fun is not done yet, went to the soda machine here at the Wentworth, no COKE, it’s empty again. Didn’t they just fill that a week ago? If so they didn’t stock much. Must think the LDS bunch here at the Wentworth don’t drink COKE, they smoke and sniff enuff of it, but no drinky.

But did learn something on the way to the Log Lodge, a shop, near where Nate and I opened our first is open. Now think, if the crew of all things wyld Hazzard, were to open Hazzard County Kustoms here, along with Highway Hooker Toewing where we could house all our trucks, including our heavies, I can nearly tell you this, first my fixing my rides would be done much faster, two; we’d put virtually every damn shop including Nate’ current one out of business so fast that it would be greased lightning. Don’t worry Nate I ain’t aiming at coming after you, but if we open with our equipment and techs, with the lowest labor rates in three states, can you say virtual take over?

What I can tell you is this, the village of Evanston best be kissing our butts, and sucking us off on a regular basis, as we might just be the only economic force to save its broken down town. Can’t get a steak and brew, can’t find anyone to get off their ass to fix my car, and still I can’t get even a few of the so called interested parties on the radio station to get on the damn phone to call me back. I’m not pissed I’m bewildered , I can see ones resistance, but hey, we are the only ones in this town with venture capital, and we’d just assoon spend it on ourselves. Maybe we open a brothel(that’s still legal here by the way) Those that did not want to work for us or were hesitant to, might want to rethink, of course the application interview is going to be a bit more shall we say physical?

I just wonder how long it’ll be before we change the towns name from Evanston to Dixie?

Stay tuned

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You know a town is in bad shape when you can’t find a stamp machine at the post office

So yesterday went with some reservation to Church yesterday. So the end of a short sacrament meeting thought I could go and mail off my gas bill. But what did I find at the Post Office? No stamp machine. Maybe its fear of vandals or something but even Hazzard Idaho’s mini Post Office has a stamp machine, even the one in Bliss Idaho a town 8 miles north of Hazzard of a population of 204.

Of course then wanted to get something special to eat to help ease the pain of a solo Mothers Day, but what did I find only fast food, McDonalds but nothing in between. Oh sure JB’s, but that place makes me sick, didn’t think of the Legal Inn, but so I bagged a meal at McDonalds.

Now today thought of going out, but with mucho production under way to get some things bagged and put together for on air, at least to the syndicators, I never made it out of the Eagles Nest, but ya’ll know that it’s a real sad town when even the Post Office doesn’t even have a self serve stamp machine.

Maybe moving isn’t such a bad idea.

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Your life may be changing overnight

If your like me a disabled veteran from any branch of military service, and you think you VA, and Social Security benefits will remain as they are after the next elections, Think again. The wagons are already getting into a circle, to reduce those benefits, just about if not every Republican in the running is preaching reductions in entitlement funding. Your benefits will get reduced at least $100.00 to $150.00 a month, if not more. You might be able to pay a rent for a shabby residence, but you wont have much if anything left over. Oh sure the Mexicali’s especially the female near pregnant Mexicali’s will be okay, but if you’re a reassigned Marine (Marines never retire, just get reassigned) thinking what you get now is going to be what you get come 2017, think again. Even the grand old Hillary is aiming to lower entitlements, and scrub many health plans. For me its self protection as well as self preservation that I’m looking at finding ways to take what few abilities I have left to be able to make a reasonable living. Oh sure there are those that are comfortable right now, who will not get off their butts and even try to engage in an enterprise or some kind of off record income generation, they think they can live in the low income apartments get aid for utilities, and only the women of our population have an edge, they can hustle some guy, get pregnant and he’ll be paying through the nose for the rest of his life. Some call em Cougars, I call em Pariahs , the eat at the bottom, only going to the surface when they find fresh meat, take their fill, and then dumping the guy, only to knowing that his child support money will be that extra money. Trust me guys they’re out there. Last November I was pushed just shy of a boot on my butt out of a nice facility in Woods Cross. Its not the people who owned the joint, as I was dumb to trust in them, as well as a shyster in Ogden that rented me a run down duplex style apartment there in Ogden. The reason I rented the office? Get on air talent especially of the female gender. It wasn’t a he & She thing, but what worked for Stern and Robin Quivers I thought would work for us. But hey little Red Ryding Hood, didn’t want to enter the domicile of this Big bawd Wolf, so an inexpensive office/studio was needed. So I rented it. Thinking that I had the support of a roommate, to help pay bills, and all I felt safe in doing so. But while they had money to pay for $6.00 a cup coffee, everyday, I was going to the area Bishop to get help with rent and utilities. After I got rid of one, I got another who did the same thing. To the point I ended up living in that office/studio. The owners of the Office/studio or at least the complex it was in , said no to overnight residence there although I couldn’t see any difference between my living there and being on air 24/7, the female on air talent help still never came, guess I was shopping in an area, that was not ready or willing to make that kind of a jump, but they will try out for being a Dallas cowboy Cheerleader. Or working at a strip bar. Why? Any way I got pushed out of the office. The smart thing would have been to rent a room in Tooele, and commute from there to Woods Cross everyday and keep things together there. But nope, I got wind of a failing if not completely defunct AM radio station that went under, and the two signals for FM out of Woodruff,. So I moved to Evanston Wyoming. I got here, got conned into what was advertised as an apartment with all things paid, only to find it was a trailer, coupled with another trailer out in the middle of bum screwed Wyoming. After freezing to death nearly twice, I got what I thought was help out of a wireless Internet company here. But hey never say that their front counter girl is cute enough to be on a fashion magazine, or that she had poise and all to be Miss America, shit they get all pissed off, cut you off at the end of December even though you paid for the service, and all and wont even come to the talking table. Strike one. Now I had all intents of going back to Utah then, but hey the 30 plus below zero, froze up LiL Wolf, so had to get that thawed out and went and fetched General JaxSon. Only to find the repairs I had paid dearly for were not done in fact made worse. Law suit pending. So I was stuck. So had a great lady here at the Wentworth that fought for me to get me in here. I’m okay now and only by the help of my local LDS Ward have I been able to partly recover. But that help is over I have to start looking at just who is really going to get behind me and join in, or how many are just giving lip service and just dancing around. Face it, many yap about how bad this town and immediate area needs a good hometown radio station, yet the few that say they’ll help or support it, are no where to be found when the time comes to roll up their sleeves. As far as the Knytes, their opinion is cut tail and get out of here, which I’m seriously working at. But here’s why. The mere $1,100.00 a month between my Marine pension and SSI, will not cut it, if entitlement and other things are reduced. More over the verse in 1st Timothy that says those who do not work should not eat. Applies. I do not have a last name like Welling, or Hutchinson, or some old money deep pocket family creed under me here. So I have to carve out what few scraps I can get. I’m way too wyld and all for here. Now sure , I’m used to small town cliquishness, and clannish attitudes. I have lived really lived in all kinds of small rural towns in Idaho, yet none of them equal this this one in a push to arms length, feelings that I get here. That said I hate just dumping this, and my fight for the underdog which is Evanston is usual, but my patience and affection is wearing thin. Why? Because I know that come 2017, my income will be nearly cut in half, by forces beyond my control, that $1,100.00 will be cut to just about $733.00 or less. I want to be where I’m towing and building Harley’s again, and at least able to go buy a cup of Coffee at the Depot Grill again. Plus of course making good money on the radio, more over fighting for the preservation of the core value of the Knytes, the restoration as well as preservation of our Dixie way of life.

TTYLY

 

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Where Is Hazzard Idaho?

So much to tell so little time. Hazzard Idaho is a mythical place located between Hagerman and West Point Idaho, just off of U.S.-30. Hazzard became Hazzard in the spring of 1982, shortly after a few enterprising youth then as a crew of the REAL , Hazzard County Garage in the real Hazzard Idaho, decided to create a small rural gear heads old nostalgia based hot rod club, in 1980.

Hazzard became a real small town of then 125 people as part of a referendum that passed the Idaho Legislature, in the fall of 1981 and city hall was located at 3006 National Fish Hatchery Road. The road became Deere Creek road several years later. Hazzard Idaho, is home to Shady Grove Dairy Farms, Sandy Farms, Rangen Trout Farm and that’s a short list. The town boasts 250 people today.

That’s the story of Hazzard Idaho.

Mysteries we may never know the answers to

There are things that will remain mysteries, unless acted on by an opposite force, even then may remain obscure forces.

Examples; What Penny of the Big Bang Theory’ last name is. We all know Bernadette and Amy’s last name, yet Penny’ remains a hidden name. Unless she marries Leonard we may never know.

Like why it is that somebody you pitch a job to, to run a radio station one he or she was removed from and never did get his or her just rewards from, does not just jump in and at least go to coffee or whatever beverage with you to discuss. From an old entry, Time nor opportunity waits on no one . KDXC will be here no matter what, but a $50k a year career offering wont last forever.

Like why it is that there is no Artic Circle or at least a Chuck O Rama is not in Evanston, yet bustling like an artesian well in Twin Falls, Idaho. Not really a mystery there since Twin Falls has grown like the Mary Jane plants near that city has.  Which is why our Buhl station remains on air, yet no one ever has filed to gain those 3 frequency allocations there. Amazing ain’t it?

Like really why women failed to take the British fashion cue to start wearing nylons, but love to wear Yoga pants, showing off their inner most private parts. Many of those should wear a girdle as well. Why even the most introverted people, especially female, will not be a pin up poster girl for an aviation publication, produced by a Vintage warbird aircraft enthusiasts organization, yet will wear shorter and do more of a tease at church? Or worse at a local bar.

These are the Mysteries we may never know the answers to.

TTYLY

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NO AC AND MOM

So there I was having a great dream about my younger days in Hazzard, skipping rocks across Hazzard Creek, and catching frogs by the bank thereof, and I remembered the days of at Mothers Day I’d take my farm hand money and take mom to eat. Now Mom knew that I didn’t make much then maybe netting $40.00 to $75.00 so she’d choose going to the Artic Circle(AC) drive inn over in the neighboring town of Buhl. So I got a hankering for a burger and fries at AC. When I realized I was in Evanston Wyoming, and as usual here, no AC, here. Granted I can understand that there is no Olive Garden, no Outback Steak House, or even a Red Robin , here but no AC? For those from back east and those who love fry sauce, that is mostly mustard, ketchup and mayo whipped together, was invented by Artic Circle along with the great confection from Utah, Green Jello, and with Evanston being 80% LDS you’d think there’d be an AC here, but no. No AC in Evanston. That really bytes, when you can’t even go to an AC, to renew memories on Mothers Day.

When it comes to my mom, there is no finer example of the greatest of Mom’s anywhere. Many say so, and while others are nice well and good, my mom took on the status, of the Mom most would like to be. Very self educated, read most everything that was written as far as any book, magazine, newspaper and oh the medical books. Guess that comes from being an Navy Nurse, but the farm was where Mom was most at peace. My mom would feed the chickens, ducks and just about every form of wild avian bird on the continent . We had em all, even those damn peacocks that would keep me awake all night with their squawking. I mean these damn things would squawk at any movement in or around the house. My mom sanded , Varathained and sanded again every single door in the big house we built there, and there were 18 of them. Which made me sad the last time, I visited there a few years ago. The new people had used them in the old Garage. To many of you that Garage was where the first prototype of the famed General Lee was built, back then the car was based on a 69 Chevy Caprice, that we painted John Deere Orange/Yellow since that was all we had. The car ran the number 69, which is still registered with NASCAR for DIXIE/DEERE Racing, for us and the Knytes, but I’m getting off course.

During her professional career, mom designed the swept back wings for the F-111-A Fighter, that USAF flew and still use on two of its aircraft along with the Navy and USMC aircraft. Mom was on the design crew in fact team leader on the landing gear on the C5-A Galaxy. But Mom’s heart belonged to the farm, and of course the Confederacy. Being Born in Gilmer Texas, in 1921. Mom did her part as a Navy Nurse and before that as a WASP. I don’t know how many of my kin folk, and even the entire community of the Magic and Hazzard Valley of Idaho, was financially provided for and large mega thousands of dollars enhanced by Mom, Mom had a heart, which in my view all too many took advantage of. But her focus was on me. Between Mom and Dad I don’t think I missed anything or wanted for one damn thing. Don’t get me wrong, mom was a severe discipline Mom. If I did something deserving a swat on the butt , I got it, and at times so bad I couldn’t sit for weeks, but I got the message. As I grew older and did not want to get out of bed to go to school or do chores, Mom discovered those electric cattle prodders. I’d say I’m not getting up, under the bed clothes I’d feel that probe and to say it quick I WAS out of bed pronto.

I’m very sure that both the Trustee’s of the Montgomery Foundation are being punished by my Mom for forcing me out of that house on the hill in Hazzard, a condition that should never have happened. Granted it was out in the middle of nowhere, and yes Internet amongst other things would be a challenge there. But I loved that place, where all you heard at night was the whine from those big rig tires on the big road on US 30 across the Snake River, and the cooing of morning doves, and of course those damn quails. Mom loved those damn birds. She’d no more allow someone to hunt on our place and I remember that sawed off shotgun, being put on two hunters that tried to hunt those quail, Mom just stood there looking like Dirty Harry(Clint Eastwood) thinking, go ahead make my day.

I’m getting weepy eyed here so I’ll close, but there will be no mom and hardly any Mom in the Mountain West, that upheld the standards, of Mom like mine, and even fewer that could uphold the standard of being Mrs. Montgomery, like my mom.

Now if Evanston could just get an Artic Circle here.

TTYLY

 

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No Ticky no Laundry, don’t spit in the face of the Knytes of Anarchy

There’s an old song from that went you don’t take the mask off the Lone Ranger, You don’t take the cape away from Superman and in this case you never ever spit in the face of the Knytes-of-Anarchy. With 100,000 members coast to coast 500 right here in Wyoming, spitting in the face of the club, might put your town on the blacklist of the club, and the money we generate for that community. Yet I see where that has happened twice here, and there are many now regretting that action, but wont admit it just yet. The heart of Wyoming’ charter is not in Evanston but 50 miles east of here, however that being said the 250 members in this area are growing very impatient on the slow progress of the projects we had in mind here, mainly the radio station concept project. You’d think that the town and many that say they are all for it would put up some green or at least stand up for the club doing its best against many odds to get us there. Who knows what the AM side of the radio project will do, we are waiting for some very stubborn people with primary interest in the AM here to get off the commode and say yes, if all it is , is some minor legalities and licensing bullstuff of which the club will pay for. Then what’s the hold up? We are proposing to remove from all responsibility all prior events and legal problems that the old AM here endured, and bring back Evanston’ and This community called I-80 a serious radio station, that would create a few jobs, but also be the main if not only station currently licensed to the city of Evanston. Additionally the TV station would create more jobs in broadcasting here, and at least Evanston could be known for more than being a hub for Union Pacific and a Chinese tourists center. More over be known more as a progressive community, that other major firms decide they should be here, rather than the community that drowned due to its own conceit and greed. Sure the oil fields here broke the back of this town, but rather than be arrogant and ignorant if some body or a group is throwing you a life line, you don’t just toss it asside. At least people with common sense. The Knytes have plans for this town to lift it up. Look at just one of them, The Hazzard Nationals a week long celebration of everything Dukes-of-Hazzard and southern culture, here would increase this towns to about 200,000 plus put the town on the map, this would get the attention of company executives looking for a place to invest money in. The owners of the old Lotty’s that was aimed to be the next Reapers Club, have their heads in the clouds if they think they would bring in anybody who would rent that place for $4,000.00 a month, plus have to go in and do a bit over $700k worth of remodeling and reconstruction only to find they can’t get a liquor license for the place, it just wont happen. Add to that the fact that we’re trying to assist this town. Sure some jackass came here long before we did and soured the milk so to speak, but we ain’t he. Can ya dig that? Looked in on the old Sonic location as a maybe spot for our nostalgia style drive inn . $600k, talk about greedy. Guess the City council member here that wants this place to be another Park City is getting his wish. Problem is the state of this town wont support that. 80% of Evanston is on a fixed income, or working for really crappy wages. The cable TV system needs an overhaul, but they too are to arrogant to admit it, and its take it or leave it. I’m just about to the point of leave it. But I’m waiting on my rides to be brought to over the road condition and see what happens with this last run at the AM to go with our FM. If that goes sour, so do I, and this sub charter of the Knytes will go with. And that will mean another black mark on Evanston.

TTYLY