Robert Forto

Christmas Story

NaBloPoMo: What do you still make-believe?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Today’s topic is: What do you still make-believe?

While I don’t play make-believe I do believe that in this world of hard realties and second-hand gossip there just has to be something to believe in. I think that the spirit of Christmas allows us to believe in what is inside…

As a child you believe that the magic is in opening Santa’s presents. What you don’t learn till your a parent is that the magic starts long before Santa comes. It starts when your childrens eyes light up with whatever traditions your family follows. Mine is when my children used to help put out the cookies and carrots and a Coke for Santa, and when they help me make our special reindeer food and spread it out on the walk for the reindeer to eat when they stopped by. It’s also when you realize that you never stopped hearing the bells you just needed your children to remind you to listen.

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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NaBloPoMo: Did you have an imaginary friend?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Today’s topic is: Did you have an imaginary friend?

No I didn’t but one thing that is sure to creep anyone out is this video of the top five imaginary friends in the movies including Danny Torrance in the The Shining.

Check it out:

 

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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NaBloPoMo: Are you a better sport as an adult or more competitive than you were as a child?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Todays topic is: Are you a better sport as an adult or more competitive than you were as a child?

I have spoken a great deal on this topic in my posts this past month so I thought I would just offer my favorite quote to tie it all together:

“In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more than that too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline and self sacrifice. And finally it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how can you lose?”

~Jesse Owens

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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NaBloPoMo: What piece do you have to be in Monopoly and why?

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I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play.

Today’s topic is: What piece do you have to be in Monopoly and why?

You’re killing me smalls!

I just said yesterday that the game of Monopoly has got to be the worst game in the world to play and toady’s topic is what is the piece I just HAVE to be.

Are you kidding me?

If you are going to twist my arm, I would have to say the dog in the classic game. But this game just like just about everything else has sold out to “the man”.

There are more versions of Monopoly than there are flavors at Baskin Robbins.

Some of my favorites are:

Grateful Deadopoly

Klingon Monopoly

Cocktailopoly

And everybody’s favorites: 

Strippopoly

XXXopoly

Then there’s: 

Fishin-opoly

Foreclosure Opoly

White-tail-opoly

and then:

Fairy-opoly

DIY-opoly

Dance-opoly

But as in everything in life (well, mine anyway) can be attributed to the movie:

A Christmas Story, you have

A Christmas Story Monopoly game.

America’s favorite board game is getting all decked out for the holidays with A Christmas Story Collector’s Edition of Monopoly Game.  Relive the funniest and most memorable scenes from this classic holiday film as you buy, sell, and trade treasured mementos like the BB Gun, Hubcap Full of Nuts and Randy’s Snowsuit.  So take off your Pink Bunny Suit, try to repair your shattered Leg Lamp, and be sure to have your Secret Society Decoder Pin handy as you advande to GO!

Includes six collectible pewter tokens:  Fragile Crate, Ralphie’s Bunny Suit, Leg Lamp, Bar of Soap, Broken  Glasses, and Old Man’s Car.

 It’s a Major Award!

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Robert Forto is mushin’ down a dream in the wilds of Alaska. He and is wife are raising two teenagers at Forto’s Fort.

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Too Cold for Al’s in Alaska

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Its been a cold winter in Alaska. I may still be a cheechako because to me -30 out in the dog yard is might cold on the ole’ fingers. In Anchorage they are saying that it has been the coldest January on record. So cold that they are not letting the kids out to play at school recess.

That’s right folks, I have said it before and I will say it again–we do things different in Alaska. We raise our kids to be a wee bit heartier than you folks do down in the Lower 48. We let them outside to play, at school no doubt, for recess when it is well below zero. They may all be dressed like “Randy” from the movie A Christmas Story, but at least they are outside.

But it was even colder Saturday at Jim’s River, Alaska where an amateur weather station measured a temperature of -79 F, one degree above the all-time U.S. low temperature record of -80.

Wait. There is more to this story. As soon as the station hit -79 degrees it stopped transmitting. Meaning it is entirely possible it went below that. Al Gore’s (well not Al, personally) band of Global Warming nut jobs wondered if the data outage was some sort of government conspiracy, especially after the NOAA’s National Weather Service said that the data was inadmissible anyway because it was “amateur.”

Read more about this supposed conspiracy on the Watt’s Up Blog.

I guess if the National Weather Service really wanted to do their job they could have sent someone out there to Jim’s with one of those fancy-dancy old school thermometers and taken a reading themselves. Heck, maybe they could have even sent Al Roper.

What am I saying. It was too dang cold. Even for Alaska. But at least for now -80 F will stand and probably will for a while because today most of us are just too lazy, sitting around in our Snuggies watching American Idol on the tube while history is being made right in front of our eyes.

Isn’t that an inconvenient truth? 

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