Turkey Bowl 2008

Turkey Bowl – A backyard football game on Thanksgiving.

I’ve been playing turkey bowl since, like 2002. It all started when a friend from work asked if I wanted to come play football thanksgiving morning. 7 years later I even live in a different state now, and we still play. I’ve only missed one year of turkey bowl. That year was the first year we owned Mavis Manor, and we didn’t Thanksgiving here. My personal record is 0-5-1. I always say my winning game came the year I missed out.



This year was another fine turn out. 16 people. Which can be tricky when you play backyard football. The detail of who scored what, and who tackled who are always lost. It mostly for fun, and for me and Jason to keep track of out record. Did I tell you I was 0-5-1 which makes me at % .083. A tad bit better then the Detroit Lions. ;).

The rest of thanksgiving was good, Ginny my girlfriend came to my parents house and had thanksgiving, we adventures around Akron, and I showed her some of my favorite places, including the Lock on the Ohio Eric Canal. The weather was so so, but at least we could play outside.

Once I made it back to the Manor, it will be time to decorate for Christmas!

Happy Turkey Day!

- Sir Justyn

SnowStorm 17 Nov

It’s snowing, you all know what that means. Almost Ski Season time!!!



Monday Night / Tuesday Morning we got a lot of snow here in Southern West Virginia. It wasn’t our first snow fall, that was 28 Oct, it was just a dusting and that hardly counts. Here is what that snowfall looked like. You’ll see it wasn’t really a snowfall, just a light coating.



This snowstorm started dropping the good heavy snow early. It was that perfect snow. The kind that is heavy and fun. Almost good enough to make snowpeople, and very good to make snowballs.



The weather make me want to change up the website, which I’m going to guess you’ve seen already. If not, then you most visit it, I’d like some feedback on TV MAVIS?! Do you like it?
www.mavismanor.com

Now that ski season is approaching, rooms book up quickly so PLAN ahead! Booking early saves you some money. Can wait to see some of my winter freinds again this year!

Till I see you!

-Sir Justyn -- Baron --

Xmas Lights

Here is last years xmas light! Any ideas for this year?




Sir Justyn

Hiking @ Peter’s Mountain and the Appalachian Trail

Hiking @ Peter’s Mountain and the Appalachian Trail


Ginny and I wanted to get out and enjoy another lovely fall weekend. This time we wanted to go a little outside of our normal realm. We thought, hey lets head down to Virginia and see what we can find!


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We found Jefferson National Forest, which is a pretty cool place. It’s only about 40 minutes from the Manor, and has lots and lots of cool hiking. I had no idea it was so close - I normally just adventure around the house. This place was a real treat. On our adventure we found this cool stream bed, the water was flowing pretty well.


We drove some more til we found a trailhead. To our surprise, we found the Appalachian Trail! I’ve always wanted to hike the Trail, but thought it was too far away. I had a few friends who spent months hiking the entire thing, Maine to Georgia. Guess I just don’t have that much time on my hands! Just as we started up the trail, I found Teaberries. I’ve been looking for these ever since I moved from NE Ohio. I loved Teaberry gum, so it was so cool to find the berries. We picked a few, and then a few more, and then a few more, until we decided we really needed to head down the trail at least a little bit farther.


The weather was amazing, and the trail was very nice. As we hiked on, the trail got more and more interesting, mostly because of the rocks and the Mountain Laurel. We only walked for about 30 mins on the trail, and Ginny found this little spot in the woods that reminded her of World of Warcraft, so we chilled out there for a bit. It was an awesome spot, a little off the beaten trail.

We played around a little more, and found a grouse! Well, we never found it but we heard it. It’s kinda scary if you don’t know what you're walking up to. We searched for about 20 mins, but never found it, though we did really enjoy the sound and the way the sound felt, kind of like when you stand in front of a bass speaker. Ginny had never heard a grouse before, and she thought it was really neat. Then it was time to adventure on back to the car before it got really dark.

Sound of Grouse

Next time we need to spend the entire day here! I think we'll be going back this spring to play around a little more. On the Baron's Adventure Scale, I will give this a 3.5, because it might get cooler as I find more cool things.



Sir Justyn J M


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Election Day in Flat Top

Election Day in Flat Top

Today was Election Day. Here in Flat Top, we vote in the Post Office / Sunshine Station General Store. This year I (Mavis Manor) supplied the coffee, and Crystal Bowling supplied the snacks(cupcakes, cookies and such).

The morning started off hectic. The people that dropped off the voting machine gave us the wrong one, which meant we were only going to have one machine until the new one could arrive. Normally this isn’t a big deal, since the Flat Top Precinct only has about 500 people, but at 7:30 there was a line, and by 11:30 some people had been waiting for 1 and ½ hours. This in an area where no one waits in line, not even at banks!

By 1 o’clock the other machine was here and from there, things ran smoothly. Parking was a little tricky, but everyone figured out how to make it work, and a few people spilled over into Mavis Manor's parking lot.

By the end of the day 315 people voted in Flat Top, something they had never seen before.

Glad to see so many people got out and voted.


Till next time

- Sir Justyn J Marchese

Here is my prediction for President

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