100 Skills Every Man Should Know...

As I was reading through the news on KSL I saw this article from Popular Mechanics and their listing of 100 things a man should know. I thought it was kind of interesting.
Enjoy!
How "manly" is your man?!?!

100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008's Ultimate DIY List Brains and charm are fine, but a real guy needs to know how to do real stuff. After months of debate among PM’s expert editors, here’s our lineup of essential skills, broken down in 10 categories for the competent man—plus 20 tools you need to own. Did we leave anything out—or included a skill you don’t think is worthy? Sound off in our chat, then take PM’s interactive DIY quiz to see how you measure up—and pick up the new issue of Popular Mechanics for the instructions! By The Editors Published on: September 8, 2008

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout

2. Drive in snow

3. Check trouble codes

4. Replace fan belt

5. Wax a car

6. Conquer an off-road obstacle

7. Use a stick welder

8. Hitch up a trailer

9. Jump start a car

Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich

11. Reverse hypothermia

12. Perform hands-only CPR

13. Escape a sinking car

Home
14. Carve a turkey

15. Use a sewing machine

16. Put out a fire

17. Home brew beer

18. Remove bloodstains from fabric

19. Move heavy stuff

20. Grow food

21. Read an electric meter

22. Shovel the right way

23. Solder wire

24. Tape drywall

25. Split firewood

26. Replace a faucet washer

27. Mix concrete

28. Paint a straight line

29. Use a French knife

30. Prune bushes and small trees

31. Iron a shirt

32. Fix a toilet tank flapper

33. Change a single-pole switch

34. Fell a tree

35. Replace a broken windowpane

36. Set up a ladder, safely

37. Fix a faucet cartridge

38. Sweat copper tubing

39. Change a diaper

40. Grill with charcoal

41. Sew a button on a shirt

42. Fold a flag

Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite

44. Treat a burn

45. Help a seizure victim

46. Treat a snakebite

47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes

49. Make a drum-tight bed

50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe

52. Hang food in the wild

53. Skipper a boat

54. Shoot straight

55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike

56. Escape a rip current

Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness

58. Build a shelter

59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods

61. Tornados

62. Cold

63. Heat

64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line

66. Lend a hand

67. Change a tire

68. Throw a spiral

69. Fly a stunt kite

70. Drive a stick shift

71. Parallel park

72. Tie a bowline

73. Tie a necktie

74. Whittle

75. Ride a bike

Technology
76. Install a graphics card

77. Take the perfect portrait

78. Calibrate HDTV settings

79. Shoot a home movie

80. Ditch your hard drive

Master Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver

82. Grease gun

83. Coolant hydrometer

84. Socket wrench

85. Test light

86. Brick trowel

87. Framing hammer

88. Wood chisel

89. Spade bit

90. Circular saw

91. Sledge hammer

92. Hacksaw

93. Torque wrench

94. Air wrench

95. Infrared thermometer

96. Sand blaster

97. Crosscut saw

98. Hand plane

99. Multimeter

100. Feeler gauges

St. George

Yeah for girls weekend!!

Every year the girls in Cole's family gets together around Christmas time for a girls night. This year they decided to bag Christmas and go spend the weekend down in St. George and go to Tuacahn. I love Tuacahn and I've been a few times with my parents.

This weekend we saw Big River and Les Miserables. I liked Big River a lot more than I would have thought and Les Miserables was hard to follow sometimes but was really good. I need to go see it again! And sometime I would like to see Thriller.

The weekend was full of food, shopping and a good time. Thanks Jeannie for everything. And next year we really need to hit up Chippendales or The Thunder Down Under!!! :-)

And of course I never take pictures so I have nothing to show for the weekend. I really need to get into a better habit! If only Cole would share the camera!! haha :-)

Pig Abuse

I like sausage and bacon and all that good stuff but I think I'm turning to an animal activist! I keep hearing about all the abuse that is going on with the pigs used for Hormel and it's disguisting. I won't go into detail because it makes me sick. Ever since we've had dogs I've found this soft spot in my heart for animals. Every time I look on KSL and there's a story on animal abuse I get so sad and upset.

And for a softer place in my heart... I can only imagine how I will be once I have kids of my own. From our discussion at lunch today at work (another discussion that I won't go into details)... if anyone ever touched my kids.......There'll be hell to pay and you better hope that there isn't a weapon within my reach!

If for some reason Cole and I never had kids (which we will in time... don't worry) it will because this is such a horrible place to bring a child into. There is so much evil, all the time. We'll do what we can to provide a home that is safe and has a good environment. And I won't let our kids leave our side when we are on vacation, too many horror stories!

Sorry for such a downer of a post.

Creepy...

Last night around 4 am Elli starts whining which most of the time means she wants to go see and feed her puppies. So I nudge Cole and ask him if he would take her down stairs. As he is doing that I hear this noise coming from behind our house. (First off there are no houses behind ours, just a trail, a bunch of trees and then the river. Can be creepy sometimes.) At first I thought it was some kind of duck that was stuck or something. Then the noise was happening every 30 seconds or so. Cole finally comes back up to bed and I ask him if he heard that noise and of course he says "What noise?" Then it starts back up again. Over and over again. It now sounds really fake, almost like a squeaky dog toy. Then that noise stops and now it sounds like an owl, over and over again!!!

Lisa did you guys hear anything last night?

Any who... so Cole and I being the dorks we are, slowly slide off our bed and crawl to the open windows and lift our heads barely high enough to stare into the trees to see if we can see anything. We don't want whoever is out there to see us!! ha ha. Finally it stops after like 5 or 10 minutes.

Then as I leave for work this morning it seemed like there were a bunch of cops patrolling the neighborhood.

What kind of creep is out in a field of trees at 4 in the morning making bird noises?!?!?!