April 30

Earlier I was successful, so to speak, in my fishing from the dock endeavor. The success part was that I caught around seventy seven inches of crappie in less than twenty minutes. The, so to speak, was added because out of the eleven fish not a one was more than seven inches long. That made them two inches, more or less, too short to be a keep'um. Anyway I finally gave up hope of catching anything longer than the required nine inches and quit.

The thing that bothers me is catching and releasing all these fish out of a nursery school at such a learning age and while they are still learning the difference between reality and fantasy will quickly teach them not to hit a stupid lure after they hit the higher grades and reach the nine inch plus size.

Really, no matter what age, if the teachings are painfully taught yet accepted, you're less likly to forget. This is proven by the human race. Some folks with loads of worry, suffering financially and losing a lot of their freedoms still hang onto their liberal teachings!
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"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." - Count Leo Tolstoy

April 29

I think what Glenda has is a desire that works something like the herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores and fever blisters. When you think of having an infection you usually assume that you were recently exposed to the germ that has caused your problem. With cold sores and fever blisters this is not the case. Cold sores are not a sign of a recently acquired herpes simplex infection but instead a reactivation of herpes virus particles already living in your body.

This sickness with Glenda is more like a desire that has been lying dormant but for some reason becomes reactivated. It just happened to reactivate yesterday which puts us on the road to Boonville today. I can't figure out what causes the reactivation for sure but I have quickly discarded the idea that it could be only a flashing memory of the free 'ha ha' buffet.

I don't have time now to explore the problem but I'm going to watch her close today for any revealing clues.
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"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds." - Samuel Butler

April 26

Did catch five crappie out of the school this morning. They all were so small that I would say they were probably of Asian decent, that or they were preschoolers just in the school visiting. I plan to try later for their larger schooling siblings.

Of course I won't do that till after we make the 128th mile walk around. I'll probably clean the 11 fish that I have in the basket, mow the lawn, trim the bushes and ivy and blow everything off before trying it again too. On the airwaves there is talk of rain for this afternoon so I need to get scooting.

Also saw my first snake of the year using our snake haven this morning. Having all the boulders stacked against the seawall does protect it somewhat from all the wave bashing boats passing aftermath so I guess we'll just accept the use of them by all God's little forked tongue flicking belly crawlers.
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"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.~Unknown

April 24

A warm beginning was 60* at 5:00 and by 10:30 it was up to 77*. Another walk over the hill is in the plan but instead of the road. Glenda is going to join Mikey and I today and we're going to tromp through the woods in hopes of finding a couple mushrooms. Haven't found any at all for the last several days but knowing change could happen hope still abounds. With Obama's change we're just filled with hope that we don't end up living on fish and wild polk greens.

Back from the 126th mile walk around the horn. Glenda looked for mushrooms but didn't find any and I only found one. It should have been found a day or two earlier, it's a little dry, but we'll eat the thing anyway.

Off now to Osage Beach to pick up a few vittles. We'll probably have a 99 cent McDonalds double cheese and a few fries while out and about. Then to round out the walking exercise about five games of bowling. All you can bowl for $5 each and 5 games is about all we can bowl.
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." - Leo Aikman

August 20

A trip to Columbia with mom so she can attend her 'how is it going' check-up appointment with the doctor at 3:00 that took care of some nerves in her back. But we're going early because we have a few other things that we want to accomplish on this trip. You know, like eating a meal out and shopping at Sam's Club. Also need to take my left hearing amplifier to the repair place. It just completely quit working the other day and I'm sick and tired of all the half ass answers I've gotten from everyone ever since.

On my 121st mile around the horn yesterday I found a couple small mushrooms. Large enough that we'll each have a good bite for breakfast. The one we split the other morning left our shares so small they didn't have as much of a chance of leaving a taste as a booger tho it kinda looked like one.

Sunny and clear here with 80 degree temperature on its way and should be here either Thursday or Friday. Fortunately or unfortunately, I carry so much weight that the, till then, won't be a problem. Wait! Old age may have me confused!
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. — Francis de Sales

April 17

Yesterday, while Glenda played bridge with all the old card sharks at the Rocky Mount Lions Club, I decided for me a trip to Eldon was in order. I needed to get the pickup inspected and a haircut was way over due.

As I got into the chair I asked the barber to cut my hair short but leave enough that I can comb it if the desire strikes me. When Glenda got home she jumped my case about fighting with indians. She was also unhappy with me for losing the fight. Said she knew I had lost because I had been scalped! I must admit it did turnout very short and the desire to comb it better not strike me for at least a couple of weeks. Hopefully by then some of it will be grown back.

I don't really mind that the barber leaned so heavily on short but it's hell in the morning when I shave trying to determine where my sideburns end and my face begins. I hate to shave anyway! Three things I've always hated, shaving, putting gas in the car and going to the bathroom. I know a man's got to do what a man's got to do so I do it but only when it becomes absolutely necessary. Yes, shaving in the morning is absolutely necessary.

Glenda was also not too happy that I had to have the windshield, ($135), replaced to enable a passing grade for the old pickup.

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There is no moral precept or chore that does not have something inconvenient about it.~Denis Diderot

April 12

Time, she sure does fly when you're having fun. I don't know, time might not be called a she but I'm positive I've heard it that way. A picture comes to mind called Father Time and he don't look like a she. He doesn't look like he could fly or have fun either as far as that goes. Something must be wrong with the first statement.

I mean here it is Easter again already. Doesn't seem like a year since the last one...........By golly I just checked and it hasn't been a year yet. Ha!

I do remember holidays during our 'had a job era' and they were always over pretty chop chop. During the blessed three day holidays the first day off I was usually able to get work almost out of my system then I had the second day to enjoy. The third day joy started seeping away as I was already back making work plans for the next day. Two day weekends left most of the enjoyment absent. I really did spend a lot of time working and thought I enjoyed it. Zippity do dah!

Different thoughts now about three day holidays as well as weekends. Really don't care too much for them. Mostly because of all those dock bashers off from their jobs screaming around in or on a big motored floating wave making apparatus trying to wrench as much personal enjoyment as possible during their alloted time. Then there are also those on land that are scurrying about at whatever looking for the same thing.

WELL, HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AND A FULL DAY OF ENJOYMENT WISH IS INCLUDED.
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"Our hopes are but memories reversed." - Source Unknown

April 6

Our deal with Charter ran it's course so we stopped by their office in Osage Beach to check on a replacement deal. Glenda did the dealing and GOT ONE! Not quite as good as the one we had but close and it has some HD channels included. The guy is to be here this morning to hook a different box up.

Charter called yesterday and again this morning to verify someone over 18 would be here when he arrives. Glenda gave me a talk with instructions on what to say and do then finished up with, "I know you're way older than 18 physically but because I worry about your underdeveloped mind is the reason for the talk." With that she got into the car heading for her Mahjong game in Rocky Mount leaving the coming installation guy for me to handle. I hope I can do it right!

Cold here with a nasty wind that accentuates that fact. A hard freeze is in the forecast for tonight. That and the fact the temperatures have been going down since 1997 kinda makes me almost doubt Al Gore's rantings about global warming.

Also doubt that Al really believes in global warming. That or he thinks not participating in earth day and turning everything he had on, thereby emitting tons and tons of carbon, might help warm things up.
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"One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on." - Jake Simmons

April 5

I'm telling you I thought it began on April 1 when we decided the lawn needed to be mowed then was later reinforced on the 2nd when we found and harvested a red mushroom.. Now only four days later it sounds like the began is about to falter with some below freezing temperatures slated for the coming week. It may have already started slipping in as it was 58* at 5:00 a.m. and by 8:20 it was down to 55*. Warm weather, warm weather, wherefore art thou warm weather? Dang! This global warming sure seems to keep our weather screwed up.

I have been able to catch a few fish now and then. Only was able to catch two this morning but they were both keepers with one almost 14" long....Now that is a nice crappie. We've not been able to amass many yet so fish giving is slack but for our own eating it is still good.

The Struebbe's are scheduled to be ariving here later today from their Yuma wintering quarters. Glenda is pretty sure they will be worn out from the travel and plans to invite them for supper. Can't feed them fish yet but a roast is defrosting to be cooked.

Another short one which I'm sure you're thankful for.

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"He who knows little quickly tells it." - Italian Proverb

April 2

We have a free program called WinPatrol ( BillP Studios: WinPatrol 2009 ) on both computers and I highly recommend it if you don't. Somewhere along the line we picked up a malware program twext.exe ( twext.exe | ThreatExpert statistics ) and WinPatrol advised us that it wanted to start and asked if we wanted to allow it. I went on Google and found that we absolutely didn't want to start it so clicked no. Since then I've been trying to learn a way to get the damn thing out of the computer. Clicking no every few minutes is quite an aggravation. Hope I can accomplish that today.

Glenda is thinking bridge pretty heavy this morning and to the Lions club pretty soon she will go. Where she, along with others, hope to lighten that heavy thought.

Me staying home with the animals all the time might have you feel sorry for me and thinking poor boy, but I'm not! They call me poor boy, poor boy, poor boy but I ain't lonesome and I ain't blue 'Cause I could never be a poor boy as long as I've got so many likable things to do.

Tho I usually struggle to get some kind of note put together clicking send is a delight. And by george, I don't need to go to route 66 to get my clicks.
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"Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters." - Robert Browning