The Meneses Spot

The Random Question of the Month

What would you do if you were driving and a row of ducks came out to cross the road?

Perhaps??

Getting Ready

This is one of the white pumpkins I've got growing.

This year's carving contest will be in Terra Bella on the 29th.

I caught half of these fish! I promise!

I'm thinking about creating a cooking like fishing show where my signature statement will be, "Nate can fish...AND SOOOO CAN YOU!!!" Oh, Introduction...... Family, Heather! Heather, Fishies!

California Kids

A few of us have recently been going out to the Woodville Park to take batting practice. The action pictures were not very graceful, so for now I'm only posting this one.

Save the Date!

Mother/Daughter luncheon is set for Saturday, December 10th. Festivities will begin around 1pm at Connie's house.. Mark the date on your calendars and we hope to see everyone there!

I just wanted to share a link on here for my dad. This is his page for relay for life, you can check out his story, get information on the event and even make a donation if you would like. This year's event in Visalia will be September 24th.

Music?!

It's been too long since we've had a music post here on the blog. We want to know what you are listening to right now. Is there something out there that people are missing? Or are you back into something old? Either way, post your comments about music and we'll try to share some links so people can check them all out.

Check out a few of the links here.
I had to check this out to see if it was real - Cerebral Ballzy
Get 182! -- fun way to get a free download
This is Fanfarlo
Hee Haw Quartet
Florence and the Machine
For those who can't get along without folk music -- The Avett Brothers
Even Uncle Ron likes Foster the People

to be continued. . . with lots more

Woe Unto Thee That Missed Swimtember

The Koontz family decided to keep plans to go fishing instead of attending Swimtember. So we headed to Balch Park, where the people next to us caught four while we got zero. Everett improved his casting and the kids had a good time. I packed up all the fishing gear and we left around 3 pm.

Down the mountain, we came upon a mass of camping gear and BBQ in the road. A family was trying to repack, so I hopped out of the car to help. They needed a screwdriver, so I ran back unpacked the fishing gear and found one. Then I saw Caroline wrestling with our little idiot dachshund who was wrapped up in fishing line with a hook in his mouth and one in his collar. We tried and tried but could not get the hook out - ever after dosing him up with Kids Tylenol to make him drowsy. Caroline wouldn't let me just rip it out.

Back in Visalia, I took furry catch to the emergency vet and $240 and two hours later the dog was without piercings. I pulled into the driveway in time for him to have a bad reaction to the meds and have diarrhea all the backseat of my car.

So either never miss a Meneses family function or never take a dachshund fishing I'm not really sure what the lesson is.

FOOTBALL IS BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahh soon Sundays will be filled with lounging on couches taking in all day football marathons....and Monday nights and Thursday nights and for college fans Friday and Saturday nights. (Tue and Wed should be cancelled) So check your bbq's and deep fryers make sure your stocked up on chips dips and salsa because this should be a wonderful season. Also time to make our 2011 season predictions. Anyone else taking the browns to win it all??

Here's a link to last year's predictions, for those who want to see how bad we were. I think Greg did the best.