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I have made the ultimate trash score!

Recently, we were talking on the show about finding stuff on people’s curbs on garbage day!

Not junk, but stuff that ends up in your home….forever!

I was not ashamed, but rather proud to say I found a wooden patio set that was being tossed by some neighbours a few doors down, they bought a new one so they no longer needed it. Score!

But man, I topped that yesterday!

I was doing some yard work last night while the kids rode their bikes when a neighbour dropped by with some news!He told me the folks next door to him had moved and there was a ton of stuff getting ready to be moved to the curb for the garbage man to pick the next morning!

Amongst the ‘stuff’, were two garbage bags, one with some mesh netting in it, the other with some canvas material, some metal pipe, and foam tubing. Looks like junk but it was far from it!

It was an unassembled TRAMPOLINE!!!!!!

SCORE!

It was only a few years old, and the former owners didn’t have room for it.

So now, we own a trampoline and summers in the backyard are going to rock even more!

Unless of course I’m missing a piece!!!!

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Yes, I’m a Patriots fan, BIG Pats fan, but even if somebody on the Jets made a catch like this I’d post it and praise it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RitRBTAT9Qc&feature=player_embedded

Sweet! All hail Randy Moss!

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How smart are kids? Smarter than we think!

We were hitting a mall last weekend, and my youngest mistook a Smart car for a Volkswagen ‘Bug’ in the mall parking lot. After hitting her sister with ‘Blue punchbuggy no punch back’, she was told that that wasn’t a ‘Buggy’ but rather a Smart car.

‘Why is it called a Smart car?’ she asked her older sister.

Her response?

‘It’s called a Smart car because you can’t fit two kids in the back!’

I’m going to get my kids to start writing my material!

Are you ready for some football?

Damn straight I am!!!!!

While it’s always sad to see summer go, knowing the Fall brings hockey and football makes the change less depressing and much more exciting.

Living in this part of Ontario, and being so close to Buffalo, it’s not easy being a New England Patriots fan since more people see me more as an ‘enemy’ than an ‘ally’….of course when WE go to the Super Bowl we actually win it!!!!

That’s not going to help me win over any Bill fans is it?

Any football fan will gladly tell you tales of their favourite moments, stories of screaming your face off after an amazing catch, or high fiving a stranger in a bar after a game winning field goal, but one of my favourite moments didn’t involve a high five, or any hootin’ and hollerin’.

My youngest daughter was just a few weeks old when the New England Patriots took on the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 38.

With my wife in no condition to have a house full of hooligans screaming at the TV, and knowing going out to watch the game would give me permanent residency in the doghouse, I stayed home and cheered on Tom Brady and the boys solo.

My oldest daughter just turned 2 and by the time the game hit the 4th quarter, both she and Mommy were fast asleep but as most newborns do, the newest member of the family doesn’t live by the clock so the feeding, burping, and rocking all took place with the game tied at 29-29! Stressed? Oh yeah!

So when Adam Vinatieri kicked that three pointer to claim the Lombardi Trophy for the Pats, every instinct in me wanted to fly through the roof and scream my head off with my fist pumping in the air!

But of course I couldn’t, I was 6 inches away from the TV screen, whispering as loud as I could ‘Yes! YES! YES!!!!!’ all while cradleing an infant! Sure I could’ve gotten carried away and acidentially spiked her like a football but I didn’t! Instead, with tears in my eyes I sat back down watching the Pats celebrate, while my new daughter slept through one of the greatest sports moments of my life.

It was our first ‘real’ Daddy-daughter moment!

Plus, it kept the streak alive, every time I fathered a child, the Patriots won a Super Bowl.

Should’ve had more kids!

By the way, my heart says it will be the Patriots and Vikings in Super Bowl, and no my wife is not pregnant, at least I don’t think she is!!!

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Clint Eastwood has opened up about the huge Hollywood roles he’s turned down – he was asked to star as James Bond and Superman.

The Dirty Harry actor was approached to play 007 after Sir Sean Connery left the franchise in 1967 – but he refused to play the superspy because it “didn’t feel right” to steal the Scot’s role.

Eastwood recalls, “I was offered pretty good money to do James Bond if I would take on the role. But to me, well, that was somebody else’s gig. That’s Sean’s deal. It didn’t feel right for me to be doing it.”

The actor also didn’t want to be the Man of Steel in the 1978 blockbuster Superman – and so the superhero role went to Christopher Reeve instead.

He adds: “This was when they first started to think about making it. I was like, ‘Superman? Nah, nah, that’s not for me.’ Not that there’s anything wrong with it. It’s a great part for somebody but not for me. Thank God I didn’t have to do that. I’ve always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.”

Clint as 007? Sorry, can’t see it!

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At the Kitchener Rangers Charity BBQ, I told my daughter to hurry up because the dinosaurs were coming, she didn’t listen!

Wow, Summer is DONE!!!!

And the kids are back to school!

Remember how exciting it was to organize your freshly bought school supplies on your bed the night before, knowing everything was going to remain neat and tidy for the entire school year?

How did that work out for ya’?

After 4 weeks, my scribblers became ‘doodle albums’, erasers evolved into classroom weapons, pens got lost, rulers snapped in half, and bookbags become the source of bad smells emanating throughout the house. (yeah, never leave food in those things!)

I’d always get school supplies with hockey stuff on them, logos, pictures of players, that kind of stuff.

Today it’s Pokemon, Hannah Montana, & Transformers.

My two daughters went to school today with Hannah, and Wizards of Waverley Place backpacks and while I don’t expect that to shock anyone, this will.

My 6 year old picked out a pink lunch set, sandwich bag, thermos that sort of thing and pink is what you would expect a 6 year old girl to bring to class.

How about an 8 year old with a fondness for vampires?

She’s off on her first day with an all black lunch set, which again isn’t shocking until this sweet little girl pulls out her thermos. A nice little stainless steel item, covered in black skulls!!!!!

Just waiting for the phone to ring, it’s going to be a fun year!

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Have you rolled your eyes in a ‘Oh God, whatever’ fashion yet today?

Nokia is the world’s largest cellphone manufacturer, but when it comes to smartphones, it’s losing ground to the iPhone and Android-based devices. Thus, the expectations for its next high-end device, the Nokia N8, are through the roof.

Nokia N8 is coming soon — September 30, and one of its biggest claims to fame is a 12-megapixel camera capable of recording full HD video.

The camera is a big selling point for the N8, and Nokia plans to draw attention to it in a big way by hiring Pamela Anderson and Ed Westwick (of Gossip Girl fame) to star in a short movie shot entirely with the Nokia N8’s camera.

It gets better: Two lucky fans will have a chance to play the main roles in the movie, dubbed The Commuter. Although the details about the script are scarce, one fan will partake in a bedroom scene with Pamela, while another will be in an elevator with Ed Westwick.

Filming The Commuter begins in London on September 20. To enter the contest, you must be 18 or over, and sadly (or luckily), a UK resident.

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Check out this pic!

It’s a shot of 14-year-old named Koral Wira and her Dad who just returned from a fishing trip with the rest of the family after reeling in that 4 foot barracuda.

So why does Koral look so ‘glum’?

Well, when dad hooked the vicious fish it didn’t run. It jumps into the boat and latches onto the first body it can find – Koral’s.

It chomps her between the forearm and bicep and proceeds to chew on her arm. Koral’s father eventually kills it with a knife, but before she can be taken to hospital, her sweetheart of a dad makes her pose with him on the dock, while he holds up his trophy.

Hospital? Exactly how bad was her barracuda chomp? 

Her arm needed 51 stitches!!!!!! 51 FREAKIN’ STITCHES!!!!!!

Her stitches are out now, and she said her arm is healing, but Dad is out of the running for ‘Father of the Year’!