to chat with an old friend who's a guest. i'm surprising him.
Congratulations to @Junemarie53, @Ted_Prohowich, and @jennybadger2. Your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Tyrus and the Panelists.
@Junemarie53
What was the weirdest Christmas gift you’ve gotten?
@Ted_Prohowich
What was your greatest accomplishment for 2025?
@jennybadger2
If you could solve any unsolved mystery what would you want to solve?
He finally bought the bird camera, and soon I will run a very exclusive owl bath livestream.
“Ice Cream!”
— I’ve not dropped a ‘Story’ in a ‘Coons age’, so here ‘tis —
One if the most Seminal moments of my life…
Please, don’t laugh.
I’ve only been able to relate this story recently with out breaking down in tears.
It scared my little six year old soul that deeply.
It was 1968, we lived in Anchorage Alaska.
I was in the first grade.
We were doing a ‘Unit’ on ‘Native Alaskans’.
1/4 of my class just happened to be ‘Native’.
The Grandmother of an Inuit kid that I played with, in my class, was coming in to demonstrate how to make ‘Eskimo Ice Cream’.
I was so excited, I couldn’t wait for the day to come.
Momma was a waitress, Daddy was an E-5 or E-6, in the USAF. Living off the Alaska economy. The only ice cream I ate with any regularity was ‘snow ice cream’.
Snow
Milk
Sugar
Vanilla
So my big little ass was in Heaven…
ICE CREAM!!!
Then the day arrived…
His lovely grandmother showed up, wearing a ‘Native’ outfit complete with ‘Muk-Luks’.
Hot damn!!
I couldn’t almost ...
