Monthly Archives: September 2009

Cigars & My Uncle

Posted on September 3, 2009 by JMarsden| Leave a comment

For years I have watched my uncle L smoke cigars.  He seems to enjoy smoking cigars, and I have never been able to understand the whole cigar thing.  You don’t inhale… You just puff.  Well, I just read about cigars that are called acid cigars.  These are cigars made out of tobacco that has herbs, and oils to produce a unique smell.

I will have to mention these to my uncle, and see what he says about them.  He has been to many places, and maybe he has had one of these already.  You can never tell.  This is the same man that goes fishing on an island for a week every couple of years.  He is a very funny guy, but he does some unique things that I wouldn’t do.

Has anyone else ever tried one of these cigars?  What is the difference, as I am not a cigar smoker?

Hats off to you Big L.

Coyote…Not Faster Than A Nascar

Posted on September 1, 2009 by JMarsden| Leave a comment

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Brad Coleman was testing a Gibbs NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car at Toyota Arizona Proving Grounds earlier this week and came onto the radio and told his crew something rather unusual.

“Guys, I hit a coyote,” Coleman said.

Coleman was running close to 200 mph around the 10-mile test track when he saw the animal wander under the outside guardrail.

“I’m in the middle of the corner, and I’m doing like 190,” Coleman said Friday at Nashville Superspeedway before practicing his Nationwide Series car. “I’m just cruising. You run the high line there, because that’s where the most banking is. It’s the high-speed lane. There’s just a guardrail there like on the freeway.

“I see this thing, it must’ve been 100 feet in front of me, just jump out. Right when I saw it come out from under the guardrail, I was like, ‘That’s a coyote.’”

“It just started smoking like crazy,” Coleman said. “And it smelled terrible. I didn’t see anything in the mirror, so I was like, ‘I wonder where it went?’ I said, ‘Guys, I hit a coyote. I’m going to come in because I think it screwed up the radiator. I think it clogged up the grille a little bit.’”

There are photos of this incident available on the internet.  Graphic content has been omitted due to possible traumatic reactions.