Home Page Partially Updated: March 17, 2011 Welcome to WyomingWoman.net! I was driving to church on Christmas morning when I spotted a shadow on a fencepost about 1/8 mile from my driveway. My ailing Samsung point-and-shoot camera was in the passenger seat, so I slowed down, opened my Jeep window, and stopped to take pictures. Since I didn't know what I had seen, I sent the pictures to a relative in Montana who is a "birder," to a church member who works for the Wyoming Department of Game and Fish, and to a church member who helps with annual bird counts for the Audubon Society. Turns out I'd photographed an immature bald eagle that's about two years old. I later checked a little booklet titled Talons: North American Birds of Prey and learned that it takes four to five years and five different plumages for a bald eagle to mature. In Old English, "balde" means white. I'm considering this sighting to be a good omen for 2011!  And I need some good luck! The latter part of 2010 was filled with misadventures, including a painful fall during a Senior Citizens exercise class at Sheridan College! One day we were playing an old folks' version of kickball on the basketball court. While I was running from third base to home, the kickball rolled up behind me and continued its path through my running feet, tripping me before I knew what was happening. I made a dramatic slide into "Home," which won the approval of my classmates until it became obvious a few minutes later that I'd done some damage to myself. The bruised hip and knee are now healed, but I'm still recovering from two broken fingers and an injured rotator cuff and shoulder bursitis. The younger staff at Sheridan Orthopaedic Associates found it most amusing to have a female Senior Citizen patient whose injuries came from playing kickball! And the exercise class instructor said we'll never be playing kickball in class again! I was saddened to read that fitness guru Jack LaLanne died at his home in Morro Bay, California, on January 23, 2011. He was 96. The cause of death was respiratory failure due to pneumonia. Back in the late 1970s, Jack and Erwin "Win" Paris showed up together at the office where I was working in Redondo Beach, California. Both were exuberant, but what I most remember about their visit is what they were wearing: Jack had on a full-length purple velvet bathrobe and Win was wearing (only) orange Speedos, which was often his attire as he was chauffeured around town to business meetings. The next time I saw Jack was sometime around 1990, when I was working as an "extra" during the taping of an infomercial. Jack and his lovely wife Elaine were demonstrating the juicer that Jack had made so famous. Taping infomercials is often a long day's work, and we "extras" (who served as members of the studio audience) were well entertained by the antics of the lively and enthusiastic Jack LaLanne, who then would have been in his 70s. He even did some effortless chin-ups. Click here to see Jack LaLanne's obituary as it appears in the Los Angeles Times. Victor "The Historian" Kromka of Apollo, Pennsylvania, sent me this picture taken during last year's Arnold Expo in Columbus, Ohio. Victor says it is a huge event, growing each year. I've added a couple more articles to the BODYBUILDING section of Wyoming Woman. They are interviews I did with Andreas Cahling: "Mr. International on Women's Bodybuilding" (1983) and "Success is the Journey!" (1984). Andreas, a native of Sweden, won the IFBB Mr. International Contest in 1980. Ric Drasin sent me a couple pictures which I've included because I think they are cute! (Can a retired professional wrestler be "cute," you wonder?) In the picture to the right, Ric is showing off his new dog, Bogart. In the other picture, he's dressed for the unusually chilly weather that Southern California experienced this winter. For those of you who have been regular readers of Wyoming Woman, you'll know that since the Fall of 2005, I have been following an ongoing environmental issue that
is literally across the fence from my house and two acres of land. Just click
on the ENVIRONMENT button (above) to read about the controversial Indian
Paintbrush Estates subdivision project on the new Indian
Paintbrush Road, just off Swaim Road (County Road 56) here in Sheridan, Wyoming. The subdivision is a 51-acre, 22-lot real estate venture that was headed by
David Scott Bliss of Bliss Enterprises, Inc. / DSB Investments, Inc. Bliss was arrested at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint near Amado, Arizona, on December 5, 2009. According to court documents, the vehicle he was driving was carrying 24 grams of marijuana, 4.8 grams of methamphetamine, two pipes for smoking methamphetamine, and one pipe for smoking marijuana. Also found in his vehicle was an Armalite, Model M15, 5.56mm caliber semiautomatic rife with an attached, unregistered, homemade silencer. After numerous delays and legal maneuvers, Bliss was found guilty of violating Title 26, U.S.C. §§5841, 5861(D) and 5871, Possession of Unregistered Firearm, a Class C Felony offense, as charged in Count 2 of the Indictment. He was sentenced on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, by U. S. District Judge Raner C. Collins in the U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (Tucson division). Bliss was placed on supervised probation for five years, fined $5,000, and required to pay a special assessment of $100. Read more at SheridanMedia.com. That's it, Wyoming Woman visitors, for this Home Page update. Irene L. Hause Web design c 2006 by RIC DRASIN (Webmaster Emeritus) |
