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Things that happen behind the scenes that make our 
world go round...

 


Another Summer has come and gone which means it's time again to prepare the grounds at the store for Winter. Hoolie loads the pickup with display-dummies which will then be hauled off to storage..

Hoolie wonders why this dummies' such a struggle to get into the truck! After realizing it's Skeet, Hoolie apologizes for touching his bum..


Here I am wrestling with wood..
wood that is needed for holding down a tarp which covers one of the displays..


Skeet gives the out-house dummy one last pose and smile before carting him off to storage..


Hoolie directs Cory and Scott while spreading gravel in the back of Da Yoopers Tourist Trap..

Cory tells Hoolie he may have found a hunk of copper, or gold, or a treasure chest, or something. Hollie yells, "DIG MY BOY, DIG!

Hoolie then gets drenched in something stinky and foul, he yells, "MAYBE IT'S OIL?!?... It wasn't..

Hoolie and Cory do some maintenance on Big Ernie...

Hoolie's feeling good, his headache from the night before (fell asleep with the wrong pillow) has finally gone away...

Cory smiles for the camera and inadvertently reintroduces Hoolie's melon throbber...

Hoolie and Norm setting up da dummies with new duds for 2006...

Skeet and General do some body work on the old Marquette County Parade Train ...


Glen, the Mayor of Chief Lake, invites Hoolie out to his place for a Sunday of snowmobiling, ice fishing and fun.
Dis acreage dat Glen lives on goes back to the 1880's when his great grandfather purchased the property for a resort...

Glen takes a pee before he and Hoolie take off on da sled for some ice fishing...

Glen shows Hoolie where to place his bum and tells him to hold on...


On the way there, they flipped da sled over... Hoolie flew off and rolled through da snow laughing, only to find Glen totally motionless on his stomach. Fortunately, Glen was only in mild shock. They spent the next hour digging da sled out, but finally made it to the ice shack.

Glen jacks up da shanty, which is slowly sinking...

Glen promises Hoolie an exciting catch, "da lakes full of plump, tasty fish!" he says...


"See Hoolie, dere's a way to work da rod, a magic touch, see? See?"

Glen shows Hoolie his technique...

Glen's dog alerts da chatting pals to the twitching rod...

Hoolie screams "I win," and thanks Glen for the lesson as he reels in a monster...

After an exciting day, Hoolie sits on Glens lap as they reminisce on there adventure..


Hoolie has Skeets touch up the bands Equipment truck...


Hoolie attempts to show Ashley how to assemble the cardboard CD displays...


Skeet's and Bill-bob get along and work well together, here they are deciding who gets to use the crowbar...


Mosquito's tend to pop up in the spring... Skeet, being the respectable fellow that he is, spots one on the back of Bill-bob's head...


Who says a brother can't drive a snowmobile?


Bill-bob wonders where he left the tools he used in the fall, Skeet's remembers finding them, and then leaving them somewhere...


Here's Richie Lusardi (son of Hoolie's sister Denise) showing Hoolie where to sign da bill for some cables he ran in Da Tourist Trap for high speed internet. Hoolie pulled out a "Lincoln" from his wallet and offered that as payment, dat's when Richie politely gave Hoolie da pen and kindly helped him sign da bill showing amount owed...

 


Dis is dat Ken Brooks and dat Tom Carter from dat Northern Stationers fixin' our copy-cat machine a little bit a lot...dey needed to borrow our saw, drill and hammer to see where it was broke to...

 


Now that summer is just around the corner, let's take a look back to the winter of 2003 so we can remind ourselves of how appreciative we should be 
when it's 90 degrees in the shade and we're sweating our butts off...
above is Lynn putting a shovel to da snow back at da ranch...

Lynn completes shoveling the front and back yard....


While rearranging the rock specimens and signs for each; Hoolie inadvertently plops his hand into some doggy-droppers....

I have to treat my new tattoo very gently and lovingly while it's healing, because I'm a real tough dude and stuff....
Jesse and I decided to place some of the roughage we were raking into a bowl, then we added milk...it tasted like poop....

Here's Hoolie with 
Harry "Coolie" Nault, 
1st cousin of Hoolie's father...
(Coolie's mother was a DeCaire)
Hoolie's Dad and Coolie were good buddies for many years....

 

Here's myself, Lynn and Jesse getting
lots done while Hoolie's on vacation, eh!

 


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Here's a panorama I made of Hoolie in the parking lot of The Trap after 
our first major storm, eh!
Here I am anticipating the cold, crisp tongue tantalizing flavor of a fresh 
"rain gutter rust" Icicle! 

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YOOOUUUCCCHHH!!!
Hoolie's High School Career Councilor 
"Waino Ickaloff" 
told Him in 1963,
"There's two careers you qualify 
for with your brain:
Sitt shoveling and Drumming.
So Hoolie decided to take on both at da same
time, eh....


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Hoolie and bill with the boys from turd street auto who are dropping off Da Tourest Trap's 
newest acquisition...

What da hell is dis ting anyway?


(Hoolie literally tooting his own horn)
Here's Hoolie and I in the studio with 
"Kim Lenten."
Kim sings lead vocal on four of the songs on our new album for 2003;
"Da Yoopers Songs For Fart Lovers"
Kim familiarizes himself with one of our new "fart" songs before being recorded...
Here's Kim in the booth crooning like a bird...
To keep Kim in character, Hoolie would occasionally step into the booth with him 
and rip one of his rancid 
"fresh roasted peanut" farts...
Jamming in Da Yoopers Studio
with "Big Bay, Michigan" boy 
Cajun Squeeze box demon, Jimmy...
Danglin' Dick's digits dance during dynamic double dog durge...
Hoolie  beats out the freak...and stuff...man....
Things that happen behind the scenes that make our 
world go round...


Hoolie with "EDDY THE WOOD-BURNING TRACTOR"
During World War II, in Sweden and Finland, over 200,000 vehicles ran on either wood or charcoal gasifire. In Sweden alone, the number of wood burners went from 1000 in 1939 to 70,000 by 1942. During World War II, almost all of Finland's 
vehicles ran on wood. 
   The Lehtola brothers from Paradise Road near Chassell built "Eddy." It took them four years to build the tractor using Gengas design.
   Eddy the Wood Burner is built on a John Deere frame. It has a 1964 Ford Falcon engine with a Chevrolet transmission and a GM truck rear end with mechanical brakes. The roof is a Kelvinator refrigerator door.
   There are only two working wood-burning tractors in the nation 
and your looking at one of them!

Hoolie with "EDDY THE WOOD-BURNING TRACTOR"

 
Hoolie and I at his camp writing for
the new fart album. 
In the above photo Hoolie grabbed the camera thinking he was getting a shot of me coming up with a great idea. Just after he snapped 
the photo a long, rank wet one 
rasped from my torrid sphincter....

WAIT, I'VE GOT IT!   I'VE GOT IT!
"FFFTSPPP-RRRSPPPT-SPLUGGGT-
FLPHHH-PT-PT-PT!"
Hoolie attempts to top me, and does!
After I snapped the photo, he staggered for the out house screaming; 
"I THINK I SH-T MYSELF!!!

 

Hoolie cooks up some breakfast for us...um...mostly me....

 
01/08/02
NEWS FLASH!

Da Yoopers Tourist Trap billboard crashes down on unsuspecting, 
bulb danglin' employee!
Hoolie warned Bill-bob not to get to crazy with the Christmas lights.
After poking him with a stick a few times, then running in to grab some coffee, then telling me to grab my camera, Hoolie heroically saved Bill

Hoolie and Bill-bob began the dismantling of the twisted, mangled heap

 

Let's take a look back at our friend, "Da Tourist Trap Billboard," when it was in the prime of it's life (a tear runs down my cheek)

05/17/02
The New Tourist Trap Sign!
Bill digs holes for the sign
Dennis is the dude on the left. He and his partner on the right work for "Cook Signs."
Dennis says making signs isn't all it's 
cracked up to be

 
(left)
Hoolie prepares to help lower the sign


Hoolie directs the placement of the sign as I watch in amazement

Here's Billy putting up the other side of the sign.
I came out to give Billy a hand. 
I asked Billy if the sign was supposed to read that way before snapping the photo, he said, "I'm a carpenter, not an artist!"
We both proceeded to scramble to correct ourselves before Hoolie 
returned from Menards

 

Here Bill, let me do some hammering AHHHRRRGGG!

 
Lynn working hard and selling to happy tourists at The Tourist Trap

While preparing for lunch, 
Lynn and Anna almost peed them self's 
when Lynn found Hoolie's bag 
of lettuce schmegma dated 05/14/95 in the frig
Here's a close up of Lynn holding the putrid,
rancid, science project
Always looking for new taste sensations, 
I decide to go where no 
fats has gone before
RJ asks Jesse, 
"How much does this rock cost?"
Da Rock Shop at The Tourist Trap
The Dynamic Dual!
RJ Da Propeller Head 
with Rosie Da Yooper Dog
fighting crime at Da Trap
Here's two of Bill-bob's three kids, little Billy and Miranda playing Yahtzee 
at the lunch table
Hoolie and Bill-bob gettin' da 37 Dodge ready so they can go cruising da back roads for some deer...
...da bus came out of 
Dead Wood, South Dakota
It was used for many years as a tour bus to move tourists around Boot Hill and many other attractions
Dis is Ray-da- Ractor.
We use it to move rock around at Rock Knockers
and load up yard rock we sell to da Tourists
SOMEBODY CALL WEDGE FROM I-TECH!!!
This was the day I (Jim Bellmore) pushed the wrong key and got stuck in the computer
Hoolie's grandson R.J. trying to teach Scooter not to chew the 
Power Ranger guy...
A second before this picture was snapped, I was reaching for the Tabasco while holding an extra large "Missouri Special" cudighi sub from Buck's restaurant. That's Lynn's daughter Maggie licking my fingers clean after hounding my lunch...
Hoolie Blames the guy with the camera for farting... 
Rock Knocker's rock shop
Sharon working hard at 
Da Tourist Trap/Web store

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Hoolie daydreaming about summer after trying out his brand new Christmas
present March 2001,

Hoolie in his back yard with his Christmas present working on the dog path so the dogs can take a seething poop


Spring is here!
This my friends is a picture for all you people who want to move to da U.P.
April 2001 
Dancin' Dave working on our promo video
His eyes are open but he's actually sleeping

Bill-bob after working on da truck...
Scooter debates the customary licking of the leg acknowledgment 
Here I am (Bellmore) working on 
our web site...
Hoolie had just yelled, "Let's order Chinese
for lunch, Lynn's buying!"

People wonder what us Yoopers do up here in the Summer for recreation...
Here's a Yooper hunting for government beef in July....
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