06/30/11
Kelly Burk – Ken Reid Death Match!
By Loudoun Insider
With shovels and stuffed cows! Watch out innocent bystanders! (Leesburg Today photo)
Economic Development at it’s finest
Jim Plowman was supposed to attend this event. I guess Jim Fisher wasn’t around to tell him where to go when.
Beats heck out of the ground-breaking we did for the eastern Loudoun Sheriff’s substation, where (I absolutely kid you not) county staff dumped several bags of commercially purchased top-soil onto the grass for us to scoop up and toss at the cameras.
(Someone with a shovel suggested that top-soil has a high manure content, so this represented a rare chance to express our fondness for the press by tossing what we scooped just a little farther than usual, but I swear that wasn’t me.)
Good one, Stevens!
I did one for a portion of Tall Cedars in Stone Ridge, but it was actual dirt from the roadbed. Funny to show up in a dress, stockings and sensible heels and be fitted with a hardhat and handed a shiny new shovel. We have a gilded (with paint) shovel, that my father-in-law used to turn dirt for Metro in Arlington.
During one of last Winter’s snowfalls, our garage was blocked after the plow passed through. The plastic blade of our Home Depot product wasn’t up to it. Only metal option I had was a chrome-plated deal from one of these events. Has a nice little plaque on the stick, even. Took me a minute to decide, but I finally held it in my hand and said aloud, “Yesterday, you were a souvenir. Today, you’re a shovel.”
Worked pretty well, too.
Actually my family and me and my builder buddy and his wife. Well Deb the builders wife actually bought us a beautiful aluminum tub from Napa valley with wine holders on the outside and filled it with beer and wine for the ground breaking for our home. Reminded me of my grandparents parties when they had these tubs filled with beer and other tubs filled with sodas and what magical days when I was a kid on my grandparents farm. Of course as a kid I did not see it that way “”magical”"”
Now I wish I had those days back. 
Anyway we still have the ground breaking tub and still use it. What was funny is my wife Dalyn and builder Mike and Deb do not drink. 
there was a lot of beer and wine just for for me. 
And of course Dalyn drove us home to her mothers home where we were staying until our home got built. And that is another story ha ha ha
Liz and Stevens Miller you two are just a lot of fun these days as well as taking on serious subjects and letting the public know just what the hell is going on. And Miller you did a excellent job in picking Cliff for planning commissioner and backing him for supervisor. Perhaps you two could come to Texas and straighten out their politics. ha ha ha And that would be a huge
job.
Speaking of shoveling manure, you should see the letter that Stevens Miller had published in the Fairfax County Times praising Project Labor Agreements.
Lee – what is the deal with all the smiley faces in your post, good grief. Could you please attempt to post future comment without emoticons?
Back to the picture/subject; I am glad to see another business breaking ground in LoCo.
What’s next, a cow-tapult?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8jGqdE2iw