Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze

To summarize:  Baby carried a watermelon.  Nobody puts Baby in a corner.  Successful lift.  End scene.

I considered making a comment about swooning, but I'm sure those who would swoon are already well aware.

Rick Fox

Without doing a bit of research, I'm going to say that Rick Fox must've played on Christmas a number of times while with the Lakers.   That's good enough for him to get the holiday weekend post.

A couple of things here:
First, the Rick Fox wikipedia page shows his name as "Ulrich Alexander 'Rick' Fox".
I did not know that.
Second, it says that he is a "Canadian television actor and retired professional basketball player."
That means he is an actor first (and a Canadian one at that!), ball player second.  Again, I did not know that.

Could've went a number of ways here, but I'll go with a highlight reel from his Laker days for now

Rick's Custom Squirrels

I was recently tipped off to this after seeing it linked to elsewhere.  I really don't have a lot to say, but that you should click the link to check this out.  It is worth your while.

(this is an example of what you'll see at Rick's Taxidermy)

Richard Dreyfuss

Remember last time we talked about Richard Dreyfuss?  I do.  And I recall some readers mentioning scenes of him that they liked.  Rick Show loves to share, so why not share these clips with the world?

Flicka, Ricka, Dicka

My mom has a few of these books, and that's where I got the idea.  I'm not sure if people have heard of these.   They're old-school children's books by Maj Lindman about Swedish triplets.  Obviously, Ricka is the best of the three.  Amazingly enough, they have not one, but two Facebook pages (here and here).   

Thanks to the magic of the internet, today's post is a choose your own adventure:

You can either pick a lady telling you how wholesome the books are or you can listen to some dude read a book to a kid (and then he can wonder why his clip has new views). I suppose you could also do both if you're so inclined

Rickardsville, IA

It wasn't until recently that I even knew this place existed.  And for that I am sorry.  And it's IN IOWA!!!

Per Wikipedia, Rickardsville is hovering a bit under 200 people and it's almost a square mile. 

  It is also a tough place to find much out about on the internet.  Apparently they don't believe in publicizing themselves online.

  I managed to find out that it was named for Salmon Rickard (h/t to La Salle Catholic School for putting some church history online to help me out a bit).   It is the proud (I hope) home of Avalon Service Center, so if any of you ever have a need for trailers, give them a ring.

(see?  there is it.)

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I would encourage you to scroll around the satellite map of the area.  The fields look cool.

Anybody know anything about Rickardsville, IA that we should know?