NEW LAWN MOWER!!
It's been a long summer of detours to get around between all the different towns where Les likes to travel and most notably nearby Milton, Wisconsin USA!! Where long detours have been necessary to get in and out of that town!
Well, it was the particularly long detour which was the result of County Highway "N" being closed between Highway 59 and Whitewater which wound Les up on a detour to the north beginning at the Stage Coach restaurant when one day Les seen a lawn mower for sale along that stretch and immediatley stopped to get a few pictures! Although he admittedly was also giving some thought to buying it!
Next thing that happened was Les was taking a nap on a long summer day on the porch swing out front and when he awoke he'd decided he really wanted to buy it so he immediately called, and drove over to the County Highway "N" Detour past the Stage Coach Inn, and bought it!! Nice "Rear Engine" riding lawn mower to replace his now really old one which didn't like to start, and tires didn't like to hold air, either! In addition to belts always falling off mostly due to the advanced age of his old "Montgomery Wards Lawn Mower" if anybody wants his old mower please feel free to ask!
Now Les can't wait for the next opportunity to mow the lawn!!!
Les Goes To Comedy Show!!
Lately one of Lesses new fav shows on TV has been on "TruTV" and it is
the series titled "Worlds Dumbest" featuring motorheads, partiers,
record attempts, and etc. with a regular bunch of commentators! Most
notably Danny Bonaduce also known as Danny Partridge from the old
TV-Series "The Partridge Family" and famous ice skater Tonya Harding,
along with several other comedians and entertainers such as Frank
Stallone laughing it up at guys trying to steal ATM's, cash registers,
smokes, and cash here and there.
Well, of course Les has to find
out who all these other guys are so he checks their IMDB, Wikipedia
Pages, Facebook Pages, Twitter/X Pages, and websites. Frequently seeing
lot of them doing comedy tours and appearing at various places across
the country.
At least one of these guys is an actor who's had
some small parts, many are your basic comedians, and lot of them do
tours! The one we're talking about today just so happened to have a
show coming up at a Comedy Club in Waukesha, Wisconsin USA!!
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As soon as Les seen Waukesha he instantly knew he would be going to
that show!! That was in November so Les first spent a day touring the
Milwaukee Region including some of his old fav jobsites like the Power
Plant in Germantown, and when the 8 O'clock hour rolled around the show
in Waukesha began!
Great Show! And Les actually got to meet a big time celebrity albeit from a show called "Worlds Dumbest" on TruTV!!!
Les Celebrated Thanksgiving Day At Home Of His Cousins, And Uncle!! (No Pic due to issues with the publishers, sorry!)
As I'm writing this tonight, me and mom just got home from probably one of the all time biggest family get togethers of recent memory at the home of Lesses Uncle and Cousins.
Initially watching the Green Bay Packers game, when no more than did he hear some- one say "Eat" and Les was piling turkey on his plate situated at the table with all his favorite cousins, mom, sister, long lost cousin Dale, and many others, there! Sorry if everyone was not mentioned specifically in this writing due to it being rushed to press!
Yes, turkey, ham, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, biscuits, butter, and a great meal that day! And it didn't take Les long to clear his plate and onto some apple pie! Great Thanksgiving Dinner, there!!
Very extra special great day as the Packers game played in the living room and the Green Bay Packers actually WON, too, on the already Great Day!!
Shout-Out to Lesses Uncle who took his dinner right in front of the TV, but still had time to talk about the grand old days of construction work and spent much of his own life at the same power plants as Les, and taught him a lot about the biz!
Update: Lesses Tee-Pee In The Backyard Story!
As Les now cruises into the next year of enjoying lots of time throughout the cold winter months in his backyard Tee-Pee. . . he's giving some thought to an expansion! Les says the diameter of the base sort of needs to be more like ten or twelve feet across where it's currently something more like five to six or eight feet across and barely tall enough for Les to stand up in although still something like ten feet at the center and can easily stand up at the center.
Reason he was never able to make the Tee-Pee much taller and as a result bigger round was connected to the fact that it is or was necessary to rig the devices above what he calls the top of the christmas tree and he is currently barely able to reach the top for the purpose of connecting all the timbers at the point, there, let alone reach above that point to pull the logs up. Presently at fifteen feet on the length of each logs, Les would need bout twenty footers, or taller, in order for the timbers to join at the top making the height of the tip of the christmas tree something in the range of fifteen feet or a really tall ladder and with the rigging even much higher than that or potentially at eighteen feet more or less prohibiting such work to be done by Les alone and hs 6 foot latter not being enough help to make it happen!!
So, for now Les says he has plenty of them long timbers, chain, saws, and rigging and is ready to upgrade the Tee-Pee at any time. . .just pulling up the timbers with the rigging leaves Les without the needed reach to stand them all up together. Then, there's the potential issue with having sides that reach up to fifteen feet where the present ones are ten feet at the tallest and around five to eight feet at the base the walls would then need some more material from Delaneys Surplus! Maybe something to do like next summer or some day in the future!
LES HITS RETIREMENT!!!
The economy finally drove Les to the point of looking at other
alternatives to Dee-Jaying, and blogging, both not producing too much
income for Les! If not for the regular updates he's been getting from
Social Security, Les might never have known he had a very generous
amount of money coming from them, so hen his hours got cut one day, he
immediately thought he maybe should apply for retirement and hardly took
them a day to write and tell him he'd been approved!
Now, as of
June, Les is happily retired and as of this writing only working on his
earthquake projects and some Dee-Jaying with his next show coming on
March 11, 2024. He calls his radio show, "Les Lusters RockShow" and has
lately been enjoying a new feature he calls his "Top-10 List" with all
his usual favorite songs he's been playing through his first 10 years as
a Dee-Jay on local community radio in Madison, Wisconsin!!
Although film production has picked up as a result of the Screen Actors
Guild strike being settled, so he may soon again be seen on TV's big
medical show where he's worked in the past!
Best part of it all
Les makes as much money as ever with his retirement especially due to
all those long hours on gas turbines, at the steel mills especially
Bethlehem Steel in Gary, Indiana, and a lot of power plants through the
years! Good money and hard work equals big retirement dollars for
Les!!!
Les Gets New Gas-Powered Chain Saw!!
Les happened into a big time supply store where they carried what's widely known as the very best in Chain Saws although the very best was priced at $550!! Even the one he became most interested in with the 18 inch blade was $350, there!
So, again Les turned to the internet and typed in a search for "Gas Chain Saw With 18 Inch Blade" and you would not believe what came up! The search results said "Craftsman Chain Saw at Farm and Fleet: $200" and at his earliest convenience Les rushed right over to the local Farm & Fleet store in Madison, Wisconsin USA on his way to work one day and got his new gas powered Chain Saw, there!
Immediately after reading lot of instructions, Les filled it with gas/oil mix, got it started and made quick work of a large branch fallen in the Back-40, and one or two other previously tough projects now all done with the help of his new Gas Powered Chain Saw!
Long been a major concern of Les in an emergency he has to rely on hundred or more feet of extension cord to reach a branch or tree that might fall such as one actually did at one time and blocked the road out in front of his moms house, but he got that one with the electric chain saw. Now, no worries especially in the event of a power outage, simply pour some gas/oil mix in the new Gas Powered Chain Saw and problem solved, Les says!!
10 Year Anniversary At Community Radio!
Lesses very first day working at local community radio was now officially ten years ago and Les had a chance to celebrate that with his "10 Year Anniversary Show"!!! His best feature that night was his list of the Top-10 Songs he's enjoyed playing over the years on all of his various shows, there! Since the show has already played you may now see what some of his favorite songs were specifically from that period of time!! "Smokin' In The Boys Room" was really high on Lesses list!! If he needs some more space to fill for this years Christmas Newsletter, you may see more song names, until then looks like Brownsville Station is No. 1
Les Climbed Those Big Towers!!
One day Les saw one of those big fire towers, this particular one at McKenzie Center also known as the Poynette Game Farm where the tower was ultimately counted out to be about 65 steps in all at the top. One of the really big reasons this story is being found in the anuual edition is due to the fact that he managed to climb it once, thinking this would be a fairly easy job climbing. When he was all through Les had a very different opinion of the tower climb!
After the climb which itself just took maybe five minutes, but in the moments afterwards Les all of the sudden realized he had two very sore legs!! So, Les started limping from those sore legs back to his car when he realized he really should STRETCH those tired legs and a couple of the usual stretches made the trip back to the parking lot much easier!
As the week passed Les realized he would have to climb that tower again, only the next time he took some advice from his good old friend Arnold Schwarzenegger who always says to eat a bunch of your favorite food before such a workout. So, Les stopped at the local truck stop and picked up a couple cans of spaghetti and meatballs and a couple pop-tarts, and ate them before the next climb and climbed that same tower twice!!
Worried that climbing might need some additional practice, Les then proceded to climb the tower at Kettle Moraine, and both towers at Blue Mound State Park. . . . . twice!! Now no towers worry Les like that first time at Poynette! Additionally he's attempted the famous stairs at Devils Lake, still making it only half way to the top of the "Potholes Trail" but Les vows he will in the not so distant future climb it to the top and has a new pair of Hiking Boots to help him with the next climb because the last attempt he also fell, of course due to having been wearing athletic shoes leaving his hiking boots at home that day!
Finished Brand-New "Chapter 10" Of His Book!!
So much stuff about earthquakes has been happening with earthquakes especially since the beginning of the “Earthquake Minute” Show on local community radio that it came time for Les to write up a whole lot of exciting new chapter all about the whole “Earthquake Minute” Experience and all the people who have helped make it happen. So, near the end of the year 2023 Les set out to write it all up and has now published Chapter 10 as his very own brand-new edition of The Book, “Earthquake Minute” in and of itself!!!
Great Time on the day Les released it to all his friends all around the Radio Station at local community radio as he went around to all his best friends, especially all his great friends the Dee-Jays who helped make it happen!!!!! Thank-You Everybody!!! And sorry if you have not yet received your copy, please let Les know and one will be gifted to you for being Lesses great friend all through those years!!!
Now, Lesses All Time Number One Song!!!
Of course for those of you who have taken the time to get to my all time Number One Song from the Dee-Jay Les Lusters 10 Year Anniversary Show: "Lonesome Loser" By Little River Band!!! And Little River Band just so happened to be doing a show week or two later again at Crystal Grand Theater in Wisconsin Dells, but since Les had just been there for The Turtles earlier, he decided too far to drive and try to drive home so late at night and was again on a Friday night so it'd be after a long day of work there at Community Radio!!
Some of the other songs space here permitting, include “Rich Girl“ By Hall And Oates, “Aint Too Proud To Beg“ By Rolling Stones, “Life Is A Rock” By Reunion, “Never Been To Spain” By Three Dog Night, “I Do, I Do, I Do” By ABBA, and “Summer In The City” By The Loving Spoon Full.
Tune-In to Lesses next show “Les Lusters RockShow” will be on-the-air at local Community Radio 89/9FM for folks around Lesses hometown in Wisconsin!! Everybody else can simply listen online at wortfm.org click “Listen Live” and Les certainly Thanks-You in advance for tuning in, too!!!
***********************************Happy Holidays!! LES
