Tweet This week’s “20 Q’s with…” feature is with the official wife of Off The Crossbar, Molly Painter. Molly and I were married on August 14, 2004 and have 2 kids, Clarissa and Kimberly. Molly runs a day care from our home, which has benefited our family in many ways. She was brought up with
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Tweet Yesterday one of the people I follow on Twitter said that she will have some dogs available for adoption this Thursday (May 26). Amongst them is a 2 year old male Yorkie. Adopting a dog is one of the most fulfilling experiences I’ve had in life. I can happily say that the dog has
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Tweet This week’s “20 Q’s with…” feature is on the Official Daughters of Off The Crossbar, Clarissa and Kimberly. Clarissa was born on May 24, 2005 (yes today is her birthday) and Kimberly was born on April 16, 2007. Clarissa is finishing up Kindergarten and will be starting 1st grade next fall. Kimberly is very
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Tweet Today’s “20 Q’2 with…” feature is Blake DeRouchey, a.k.a. the Des Moines Sports Freak. Blake started his blog in April 2009 and brought his friend Joseph Earp on board in May 2010; together they formed the Des Moines Sports Freaks, LLC. Over the past year Blake and Joe hosted a weekly webcast and a
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Tweet Today I posted my first entry as an author on the Des Moines Sports Freaks blog (you can read the post here). An open invitation for new authors was sent out last week and I jumped at the chance. While this isn’t an arrival to a big-time blog it is a way for me
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Tweet On March 26 I wrote about the Iowa Barnstormers win over the Spokane Shock. During that game Iowa’s kicker missed 6 of his 7 extra point attempts. I remember sending a tweet that Kyle Schlicher, a former Iowa Hawkeye kicker, was available. Sure enough the Barnstormers cut the first kicker and tried a couple
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Tweet Today’s trip to Twelve Mile Lake was much better than the last trip. The water temperature was warmer (63 degrees vs 48) and the weather was much nicer. Between 2 of us a total of 26 largemouth bass, ranging in size from half pound to 1 1/2 pound, were caught (our goal was 30
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Tweet In an effort to post more regularly I have decided to start a series called “20 Q’s With” that will be posted every Tuesday (this week’s is early since I will be on a fishing trip on Tuesday). I will select some of my friends and aquaintences to profile on the blog. This will
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Tweet I have decided to try blogging during a NASCAR Sprint Cup race as it goes on. It will be tough since the TV coverage doesn’t cover all of the cars on the track all of the time but I’m going to give it a go. Check back through the night for my thoughts! I
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Tweet I’m quite excited that my wife and I have decided to end our time without cable or satellite television this week. Last summer we decided to cut our expenses and that the DirecTV wasn’t needed. I built a high definition DVR out of our secondary computer and hooked that into our over-the-air antenna. That
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