Antique Tractor Display, Wyoming State Fair

Antique tractor display at the 2012 Wyoming State Fair.

John Deere Powered Ice Cream Maker

Small John Deere engine powering an ice cream maker at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas, Wyoming.

I don't know what the original purpose of this small engine was, but I'm sure this wasn't it.

Society of the Military Horse • View topic - Ft. Robinson, Nebraska

Society of the Military Horse • View topic - Ft. Robinson, Nebraska

And the word of the season is. . . . "double down".

Every political season, it seems, there's a hot new word or phrase.

Last election, it was "vet", as in "So and so didn't vet their running mate X".  You'd hear it everywhere.

This election, it's "double down".  All last week the politicians were using the phrase "double down". Today a reporter used it.

I'm not sure how this happens.  I remember "que", the British phrase for a line of people, or to form a line, being popular in such a way.  I hated the overuse of "vet" last go around, and I'm already starting really dislike double down.  I frankly don't think it makes all that much sense in most lines of speech in which it is used, but apparently people like the way it sounds.  It is, I think, a term from gambling.  I'm not much of a gambler, so I'm not sure, but I think it means to double a bet.  Anyhow, enough is a enough, and I hope not to hear it again this season.

Scottsbluff, Nebraska

Scottsbluff Nebraska Zoo, 2012 Slideshow

Desk Job

Yet another wild fire

Yet another 2012 wild fire. This one in the Laramie Range on August 11, 2012.  Photographed by MKTH from the highway.