A beautiful evening in Sparks, NV

Sparks Hometown Farmer’s Market 2009

 

The band, Blue Turtle Seduction

The crowd loved the music at Great Basin Brewery

This little man, full of energy and dance moves..brought a smile to all

Your smile is infectious…

  Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu.  When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

         I passed around the corner, and someone saw my grin…When he smiled I realized, I passed it on to him.

  I thought about that smile, then I realized it’s worth…A single smile, just like mine, could travel around the earth.

    So if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave undetected…Let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected.

The Smile poem was written byKaren McLendon-Laumann, the photos are Kelly Kittell and family.  He’ll never know how much his surprise “jump in the photos” make me laugh when the film is developed.

   smile  for the camera  

Only in Nevada

I have three more post from our last three camping trips.  I feel soooooo fortunate that we’ve camped 6 weekends since May 1 and rented 2 homes away from  home, another two.  This is what enjoying  life is all about!

Only in Nevada…photo by Katrina Olson

see more photos from this last weekend @  http://www.flickr.com/photos/nevadagirlsworld/3648581227/

How long can you hold your breath?

The face of catching the first fish

There is nothing like the face of a child catching their first fish.

Free Fishing Day in Nevada is June 13, 2009. For more information visit
http://www.ndow.org/about/news/archives/061203fishday.shtm

Bob Clark and his son, Jack fishing a special spot in Northern Nevada.

Good Times At Pyramid Lake

photo by Katrina Olson

We took our trailer out for it’s maiden voyage this past weekend.  I asked the men in the photo if they were part of the fishing tournament.  They were out to have a good time, enjoy the weather and fish.  The one on the far left showed a photo of a 13 lb trout he caught the weekend before.   

Afterwards, I wished I had asked their names……today, I found out the catcher of the 13 pounder is a good friend of someone I work with.   I guess that’s why we’re known as the “Biggest Little City” in the world.

PS.  In case they read….the license plate says it all!

Yuri’s Night in Reno

Yuri’s night is celebrated every April throughout the world.  Yuri’s  space parties were held in 46 countries, Reno’s was held at Club Underground. 

Photo’s by Katrina Olson

 

 

Rocky Mountain Oysters, Testicle Tacos, Balls……

….no matter WHAT you call them, the festivals are always fun! 

The first time I attended a Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry, there were visions of pieces of meat that looked like liver but light in color.  Thank goodness I never saw them before they were cooked, because I eat them yearly at the Virginia City Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry.  I’ve had them in stews, tacos, eggrolls, eggs, appetizers……….you name it I’ll try it.    This is an event my husband won’t miss, because supposedly they make you a bit more manly having more testosterone in your body.   I keep checking my chest to make sure there are no hairs popping up and so far my voice is a nonstop female voice.  Anyway, the festival is a fun day and Virninia City also host their St. Patrick’s Day parade at noon.  We’ve gone for the past 7 years watching it grow from hardly anybody to huge numbers.  I’m hopng  my husband enters next year, making his awesome XXXXXX  (secret) out of them. 

These are some of the photos from the day….

   one of the contestant stations  

  It’s all about presentation…

   fried over eggs 

  my favorite, in a California Roll with a shot of red wine.

  the parade route..

 beautiful people along the route

  We found this happy Irishman on the way out of town!

Stew says….see ya after 31 years with the Gaming Control Board

….and in a blink, January dissapeared. 

Eighty two people celebrated my husband’s retirement last weekend, he left the happiest man, knowing everyone had a good time.  He walks around the house this evening with his new retirement badge, flipping it open, “Agent Olson, retired” and then a laugh.  I like others, wonder if it will be a sudden hit and take some time getting use to, he is POSITIVE… it will be great thing right away.   In that case, I know it will be great.

Some of the business cards I designed had a photo of him kissing a fish.  It was a way for his close friends and coworkers to google kissingfish and catch up on what’s going on in his life and family through this blog.  The name “Kissing Fish” says it all, “Life is good,”  congratulations, baby…..

If you brother jumped off the bridge, would you do the same?

The first time I felt like I was in big time trouble was when my brothers tongue got stuck to the metal on the inside of our freezer door.  Our fridge was pink , big in the early 70’s. K2 who always had something new to tell me when it came to science etc, told me that if you stuck your tongue on frozen metal, it would stick to it.    I found this amazing and at the same time did not believe it.

 

photo by Zen at youtube

To make a long story short….

I called my dad confessing K2’s tongue was stuck on the  inside door of the fridge.    First silence and then the question….. what would make  your brother lick the door?  “me?”

He told me to pour water on his tongue and it would take care of the problem, something he learned in the Air Force, working on planes.  I did as I was told and we both looked at each other as if magic had happened. My brother had a soar tongue  and fortunately  forgot I was to follow suit. 

As life went on, there were many more experiments  and dumb things we tried, eventually learning the saying, “if your brother or sister  jumped off the bridge would you do the same?”  Apparently not.