LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

It really is the handyman’s secret weapon

About a month ago the back of my watch fell off and disappeared. Knowing that Christmas was coming, and that the state of my watch would give me a perfect answer to the question, “And what can Santa bring YOU, little boy?,” I put off the inevitable replacement. I reached for my roll of duct tape, cut out a quarter-size circle, and stuck it over the watch’s innards.

The shopping frenzy - I don' t get it

I managed to get through Black Friday, Brown Saturday, and Gray Sunday without buying anything but gas and dinner. Does this make me un-American? If there's one thing I'll never understand, it's the willing participation of people in shopping stampedes. Please explain.

How to screw up Thanksgiving dinner; let us count the ways

Ever roast the gizzard and other assorted parts inside the bird?
Come on … you can confess.  We’re all friends here.

Dantonio thanks ushers, one by one

Prior to Saturday’s disappointing game, Spartan football coach Mark Dantonio gave Spartan Stadium ushers a nice surprise.

Johnzilla scores six points

Saturday, 5 p.m. I spot a big-bodied deer threading it’s way through the thick stuff immediately north of my tree stand. I see antlers. The six-point buck trots into a clearing 80-90 yards from me …
Boom! One shot from a .50-caliber muzzleloader. A quick, clean kill.
By 7:30 I’m eating venison tenderloin fried with onions.

Is the “holiday tree” dead, at last?

A direct quote from an ad promoting Lansing’s Silver Bells in the City celebration in the Nov. 20 LSJ: “Lighting of Michigan’s official Christmas Tree in front of the state Capitol.”
Hallelujah.

Bambi’s father: 1; Johnzilla: 0

Nothing in my cross hairs yet but Bambis and Bambettes.  Not to worry. After the regular firearms season, comes  more archery, muzzle-loader season, the late does-only season, harpooning …
Just kidding about that last one.

Bambi’s father versus Johnzilla

After this, I won’t be blogging again until Thursday. In the meantime, I’ll be hoping for an encounter with Bambi’s father.
Are you rooting for him, or me? You can be honest.

Ruining the party, or just doing their job?

While a possibly disabled veteran was enjoying a free meal at the Okemos Applebee’s on Veteran’s Day, a civilian handicapped-parking enforcer wrote him a ticket.

Let’s not get all hysterical over the word "explosives"

Potentially dangerous? Yes.
Illegal? Of course.
Dumb? Absolutely.
But in the same galaxy as a 20-year prison sentence? Please …