Arizona, A Cure for the Common Cold

CAN’T WAIT TO TRY OUT MY NEW "TREE" WOOD ON VACATION.  YEAH, THAT’S ME WITH A BUTT FULL OF PINE NEEDLES.Just in the nick of time, the Lund’s (without a new dog) are scootin’ Southwest for our own little exodus to the Arizona desert.   Linda has been packing and repacking for several days now…

I Want a Dog, Doggonnit

“Honey, what would you say about us getting a dog?”  “I’d say you need to open the garage door if you’re going to run the motorcycle in the wintertime.The fumes seem to have affected your thinking.""No, come on, I’m serious.  Now that we’re retired and home a lot, wouldn’t it be kind of fun to have…

A Band of Brothers

My brother, Denny, and I look an awful lot alike. But that’s pretty much where the similarity ends. He’s always looked for the opportunities and challenges of life. I’ve always been reluctant to take risks. When I started being recognized from television, people would often mistake him for me..which, I would imagine, became rather annoying.…

Till Death Do Us Part

"I, Angelique,Take you, Michael,To be my husbandTo have and to hold,From this day forward,For better, for worse,For richer, for poorer,In sickness and in health,To love and to cherish,’Till death do us part."     Linda and I were among those sitting in church that day, in 1994, when her niece, Angie, said those words as…

Hooray for Harriet

I was always amazed at which stories would get the greatest response from Keloland viewers. I once did a Lund at Large about the little things in life that drive me crazy. One of those frustrations was trying to separate a single filter from the stack of filters so I could brew up my  morning pot…

LET’S PARTY!

“What should we do tonight? I asked Linda. “I don’t know, what do you wanna do?” “It’s New Year’s Eve, I suppose we should celebrate somehow.”   For most of my adult life there was never a question about what I would be doing the last night of December. I’d be playing drums with the…

At The Movies

So I went ahead and shelled out an extra $3.50 a month to Midco Cable in order to get the NFL channel back and be able to see all those important football games at home instead of the bar. Now I find out the NFL has caved-in and will not only allow Saturday’s big game…

The Kings and I

1959 was perhaps the most interesting year of my life. I was 13 and it was a year of discovery..if you know what I mean.   It got off to a rough start when less than two weeks after my birthday, we heard on the radio that Buddy Holly had been killed in a plane…

The 12 Pounds of Christmas

I’m just dreading the next trip to the doctor for my two to five year annual check-up.   It’s not the snap of the latex glove and instructions to bend over that has me worried. It’s the look on his face when he checks my chart and says, “Do you know how much weight you’ve…