CARPE (CRAPPIE) DIEM! FISHING LAKE WATEREE!

PICS OF THE TRIP: (a fishing pictorial!)

A SECOND HOME!!    NOT  MINE!!!    MUST BE TOUGH! OUR LAUNCHING PAD.

WATER VIEW

ANOTHER "GETAWAY" HOUSE!         WHAT RECESSION?

SILHOUETTE, MY VIEW ALL DAY!

 BEST FRIEND BOB; GUESS WHO'S DRIVING?

BOB WITH FIRST FISH; GUESS WHO'S STILL DRIVING?

MOST PEOPLE THINK WE ARE BROTHERS, IF NOT TWINS!

WILD GOOSE ON DOCK; COMPLETELY TORE UP CARPETING AND MADE NEST! NEVER MOVED! ACTUALLY SITTING ON HER EGGS!

GET "DOWN" CAN YOU SAY PILLOW?

BEAUTIFUL GIANT GREY HERON. BORDERED ON EXTINCTION!

NOW MAKING A GREAT COMEBACK

SAME BIRD

SAME BIRD GOING THE OTHER WAY! :-)  (SWITCH HITTER!)

LOOKING LIKE SUPPER TO ME! FINALLY I CONTRIBUTED! 

ONE OF THREE COVES WHERE WE CAUGHT THEM.

BEAUTIFUL (OLD) DOCK WHERE WE FISHED.

HAD TO PHOTOGRAPH THIS, IT IS KILLER IN SEPIA AND B&W!

CLOSER.

REAL CLOSE! ISN'T IT MAGNIFICENT. REMNANTS OF THE OLD, MIXED WITH THE NEW!

ANOTHER RETRO BOAT HOUSE- SEE THE RAILS INTO THE WATER.

THE WISTERIA WAS BEAUTIFUL!

YAWN.

YOU ARE GETTING SLEEPY!

GOODNIGHT!

THANKS BE TO GOD, WHO CREATED THIS FOR US TO ENJOY!

AND IN THE COMPANY OF A BEST FRIEND.

I SEIZED THE DAY

AND IT WAS GOOD!

AND ON THE NEXT DAY: I RESTED!

JMc

FISHING TRIP AWESOME

FISHING TRIP WAS AWESOME.

TIRED AND SORE, BUT A GREAT, SPECTACULAR, WONDERFUL DAY!

PHLEGM AT 11:00

 CATCH OF THE DAY:

BASS 3 LBS, CRAPPIE: AVG, 1-1 1/2 LBS.

PICTURES AND MEMORIES,

PRICELESS!

CLEANED, FILLED & READY TO FRY!

WILL POST TOMORROW, IF I CAN GET OUT OF BED!!!  LOL!  WHAT AN AWESOME DAY!!!

I GOT AN AWARD!!!!!

THANK YOU JEANNIE

FOR THIS AWESOME HONOR!

Here's what I, and the 3 lucky people whom I choose to bestow this honour upon must do:

1. Get really excited that you got the coolest award EVER.

2. Choose ONE of the following options for accepting the OMB! award:

(a) Get really drunk and blog for 15 minutes straight, stream-of-consciousness style.

b) Write about your most embarrassing moment.

(c) Write a "Soundtrack of Your Childhood" post.

(d) Make your next post a "vlog", or video blog.

(e) Take a picture of yourself first thing in the morning, before you do anything else (makeup, brush hair, pee, etc.) and post it.

3. Pass the award on to at least three amazing bloggers, like yourself.

GONE FISHING

WILL POST 04.08.2010

I MAY DO THE PICTURE THING AT 5:00 WHEN I GET UP- OHHH, IN ABOUT 4 HOURS. BUT US GUYS ARE ALL BUTT UGLY ANYWAY- SO IT REALLY WOULD BE UNFAIR!

I'LL GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT- WHO KNOWS, MAYBE MY MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT WILL HAPPEN WHILE FISHING!

WAIT A MINUTE--I'M SO EXCITED I THINK I FULFILLED #1. CAUSE I JUST DID #2!!!

WE'LL SEE, AND I STILL HAVE TO TAG 3!

MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE MY WIFE FISHING AND TELL HER ABOUT MY AWARD:

THEN I COULD:

HOOKER, LYING, AND SINK HER!

OH THE JOY OF BAD PUNS THAT MAKE PEOPLE GO:

OMG  !!!!!!

HOW COOL IS THIS SPIDER WEB? I GOT SOME KILLER PICS ON TWO DIFFERENT TREKS TODAY.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.....?  I AM HAVING FUN!

THIS MUST CEASE!

CHECK OUT THIS CONSTRUCTION!!!!!!

IT TOOK ME HOURS TO BUILD IT!

MANY OF THESE ARE BEING BUILT IN THE FIELD BEHIND THE HOUSE. SPIDERS ARE USING PRE-EXISTING BUILDINGS TO ADAPT AND EAT. I'M SURE THEY ARE VIOLATING ONE OF NATURES' BUILDING AND TRAPPING CODES, BUT WHO WILL ENFORCE IT?

THE ARACHNID POLICE!

NO-- SPIDER MAN!

YOU ASKED FOR IT!!!!!

THIS WILL HAVE TO DO UNTIL I RETURN!

JMc

CALL A FRIEND!

"THE REMAINS OF THE DAY!" OR, A VERY SLOW SNAKE!

WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME, AND BEFORE WE END UP

LIKE THE BONES ABOVE.

CALL AND OLD FRIEND,

AND TELL THEM YOU APPRECIATE, & ARE STILL THINKING ABOUT THEM!

I am going Fishing with a Great College friend of 30 years tomorrow. I am going fishing for a 3 day weekend off the Georgia Coast with 2 of my best Friends from High School, at the End of the Month!

I have sat and thought, thought and sat, and realized, I may not get many more chances to do this! The Fly-in started it. Now I'm going to make the effort to Live Life to the Fullest EACH DAY!


Hopefully, I will be able to put on my Urn:


NO REGRETS!

JUST A THOUGHT!

JMc

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER--ALREADY!!!!!!!

HOPE

We just returned from the Vet for our 10 year Old labs check-up, and Glory Be, all is well! We even got a Chest X-ray on her because one Lab (HA HA) was slightly elevated. A Creatinine level, that is used to measure Kidney Function and Output (same test in Us is used) was .1,  or 1/10 th  of a point high. Absolutely nothing to worry about, but as responsible pet owners we wanted to make sure.

Her Chest X-ray was Normal, and we'll take her back in 3 months to get the last of her shots. We have to divide them up as she is allergic to one of them, and we're not sure which one--so we do divided doses.

NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION, AND KNOW YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR THE REST OF THE STORY, HERE IT IS!

WHILE THERE I NOTICED HOW CHEAP IT WAS TO NEUTER A DOG OR CAT VERSES SPAYING A FEMALE DOG OR CAT. SINCE SPAYING INVOLVES SURGERY, ANESTHESIA AND MORE PIECY PARTS!

WELL, I THOUGHT--WHY NOT!

I OPTED FOR THE NEUTER SINCE IT IS 200 TIMES CHEAPER THAN A VASECTOMY! TRUE I'M 56 AND WE CAN'T HAVE CHILDREN AS MY WIFE WAS SPAYED WHEN WE GOT MARRIED. (NO OPTION-SHE HAD TO!)

BUT I WANTED TO SHOW HER I WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME- TO LET HER KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVED HER!

THE PROCEDURE WAS PAINLESS, AND TOOK NO TIME AT ALL. I KNOW....YOU THINK I'M NUTS, RIGHT? WELL I HAD A TEST TICKLE BEFORE I LEFT AND ALL WAS WELL.

THE ONLY SIDE EFFECT YOU MAY NOTICE IS A HIGHER PITCH IN MY FONTS FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS! PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH ME, AS I SHOULD RECOVER WITH NO ILL EFFECTS. I CAN'T LICK FOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS, AND THAT WILL BE HARD! and the color blue! does that ring a bell, males????

DESPERATE FOR A POST! duh!!

NEUTERED IN SC,

I AM

AS ALWAYS,

JUST JOHN

ANYONE SEE A BIG FACE? CAROLINA BLUE SKY! (it's more apparent on the thumbnail, but why post that!? Neutering is much more fascinating!)

OK, OK--CAN YOU SEE HIM BETTER NOW? ME EITHER!

CLOSE-UP OF SCAR FROM LIGHTNING STRIKE! PROBABLY AT LEAST A 100 YEAR OLD PINE! WHAT CHARACTER IN THIS BAD BOY.

TREE SCAR- FROM LIGHTNING! TREE STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE! AND THIS IS AT THE BASE! TWO PEOPLE COULD WRAP THEIR ARMS AROUND AND THEY WOULD BARELY TOUCH HANDS!

CLOSE-UP ABOVE THIS ONE- AND I'LL POST SOME LATER OF CLOSE-UPS OF THE SAP THAT LOOKS LIKE THE INSIDE OF A CAVE- WHERE IT ACTUALLY BOILED FROM THE HEAT OF THE LIGHTNING!

THIS IS A VIEW WITH THE CAMERA RIGHT ABOVE THE SCAR LOOKING STRAIGHT UP. THE LOWER BRANCHES ARE ALSO DEAD, BUT RIGHT ABOVE THIS- LIFE BEGINS AGAIN. NOTICE THE NEST ON THE RIGHT?  THERE IS ALSO A GIANT SQUIRRELS NEST ON THE LEFT, BUT IT IS BLOCKED BY THAT ONE LOWER LIMB STICKING OUT!

I LOVED THE SEPIA- THANKS MY FRIEND-WINK!!!!

I WONDER HOW MANY ANIMALS HAVE SOUGHT SHELTER FROM THE STORM, BUILT HOMES AND RAISED FAMILIES IN THIS GIANT OLD MAN?... THIS IS THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD!  

# 1 PINE 
POLLENVILLE USA!!!!!!

I CAN'T EVEN GET A PICTURE OF THE TOP OF IT FROM THE GROUND, TO DO IT JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE WISE. THERE IS SO MUCH LIFE GOING ON IN THE CANOPY 100 FEET UP!

WHICH REMINDS ME OF THE WHOLE POINT OF ALL OF THIS DRONING ON.....

STOP EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, AND LOOK UP!!!

SOMETIMES WE LOOK, & STAY DOWN:  TO MUCH!!!

ACHOO! POLLEN STORM

THIS HAS ACTUALLY BEEN CALLED A POLLEN STORM, JUST LIKE A DUST STORM. THE PILOTS AT THE FLY-IN SAID IT HINDERED VISIBILITY JUST LIKE SMOKE, SMOG, ETC!

WE HAVE NEVER HAD THE POLLEN STORM EXPRESSION USED UNTIL THIS WEEK!!!!

The pics below show the Pine Tree starting from Flower to Just before producing pollen-(the Blue clusters). Believe it or not the Pine Trees have NOT even started dropping their pollen yet. Pine Pollen is actually too large to get into the airway and cause severe allergies. The Nose hairs (Cilia) and lining the Bronchi and Lungs move this up and out! Maybe that's why Snot is yellow!  Eww Gross! 

When it finally rains- the Rivers will be as Solid a yellow Color as the Pond, Which of course catches it all from all the trees around the house. 

Now imaging a Concrete City, all the neighborhoods, everything--being washed into the rivers and out to the Ocean.

Nature is awesome!!!

CAUSE AND EFFECT- these pines have just started dropping pollen...notice the yellow now- instead of the blue clusters shown below!

MAJOR CULPRIT- Early OAK (Water Oak)

WORST CULPRIT-THE PINE & IT HASN'T DROPPED much POLLEN YET!!!!

BIRTH OF POLLEN IN PINE TREE

 STEP TWO!

THE NEXT TO LAST STEP

 THE SAME CORNER OF THE POND ABOUT 2 DAYS AGO!!!

THE END RESULT

UNREAL

THE CAR BEFORE IT GOT BAD! BEFORE THE FLY-IN TODAY I HAD TO HOSE IT OFF AS YOU COULD NOT SEE IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS!!!!!

FLY IN! FAITH & FLOWERS!

AHHHH- MY FRIENDS- REMEMBER THIS PICTURE FROM A FEW POSTS AGO? (MARCH 27TH) I HAD TO EXERCISE MY FAITH BECAUSE I HAD NOT THE BEAUTIFUL PLANT I HAD THE SUMMER BEFORE

WELL BEHOLD THE MIRACLE OF FAITH:

  TAKEN JUST A WEEK LATER- AFTER SEVERAL EXTREMELY HIGH DAYS OF TEMPS IN THE UPPER 80'S

LOOK AT THE REMARKABLE BEGINNINGS OF ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL SEASON WITH MY FRIEND.

SOW MY FRIENDS: AND REAP: WAIT FOR THE HARVEST!

BUT SEW CAREFULLY! FOR THIS SHALL YE REAP! AND WE DON'T WANT IT TO BE A GRIM REAPING!!!!

I HAVE THE PLEASURE TODAY TO GO TO WHAT'S CALLED A FLY-IN. FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR IT IS WHEN A GROUP OF AIRPLANE ENTHUSIASTS FROM AN AREA GET TOGETHER AND ALL FLY IN TO A LOCAL AIRPORT. USUALLY A SMALLER AIRPORT AND NOT A LARGE CITY AIRPORT! I'M FORTUNATE BECAUSE IT IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND ONE OF MY WIFE'S HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND WHO HAS A PLANE INVITED US. WHAT A DAY TO SPEND IN GLORIOUS SUNSHINE WITH HIGH CLOUDS AND A TEMP IN THE UPPER 80'S! NIRVANA!

THERE WILL BE COOKOUTS, PLANE RIDES, AND MOST OF ALL : KNOWLEDGE!!!!

ENTHUSIAST WHO FLY AND RESTORE PLANES WILL BE THERE TO SHARE THEIR PASSION WITH ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN. THERE WILL BE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT, COMPLETE HOME BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP (PUN) AIRCRAFT, AND MY FAVORITE:

RESTORED MILITARY AIRCRAFT BACK TO CLOSE TO THE BEGINNINGS OF AVIATION WARFARE!

I SHARED THIS WITH A GREAT BLOGGER FRIEND WHO PROMPTLY TOLD ME A STOREY, ABOUT A GLIDER CLUB NEAR THEIR HOME AND THE FACT THAT THE DRAG PLANE (THAT PULLS THE GLIDERS' UP): CRASHED. HER BROTHER- WAS SCARFING UP WIRE AND BITS OF SCRAP METAL FROM THE CRASH SITE.

OH- THE PILOT DID SURVIVE SHE TOLD ME! I HAD A GREAT GRIN AT THAT!

I SLEPT WELL THANK YOU MY FRIEND!!

JUST KIDDING. I'M TOTALLY PUTTING MY FAITH IN GOD THIS GLORIOUS EASTER 

WEEKEND, AND I WILL NOT BE CALLED HOME ONE SECOND BEFORE I'M SUPPOSED 
TO GO HOME TO BE WITH MY FATHER!
 

 

Told you it was hot. On inside of screened in porch, not in sun!

ENJOY THE DAY!!!!!!   I WILL!

JOHN

OBITUARY OF A PHENOMIANL FRIEND!

IF YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, AND THE SUM OF YOUR WHOLE- WHO ARE YOU?

A COLLAGE OF MY DAD FROM BABY TO MAN =

THE SUM OF HIS PARTS? WHO HE WAS? IS? BECAME?

CAN HE BE CAPTURED IN MEDIUM AS WE KNOW IT TODAY?

GETTIN BACK TO A PREVIOUS POST, IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT?

OHHHHH HOO  REALLLL HEEEEE! (ACE VENTURA IMPRESSION).

IT HAS ALSO BEEN SAID THAT WE ARE ALSO MADE UP OF WHAT WORDS, PICTURES, TOUGHTS THAT WE HAVE, HOW WE PERCEIVE OURSELVES, ALONG WITH OUR DNA, AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER CRITERIA. HOW MUCH OF WHO WE ARE, OR WHO WE BECOME, IS CHOICE, CHANCE OR CONTROLLED CHAOS?

WE'VE HEARD, GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT: AS FAR AS WHAT WE FEED OUR MINDS AND SPIRITS!

WOULD THAT BE:

WHAT ARE WE WATCHING ON TV, READING IN PRIVATE, THINKING ABOUT OTHERS, USING TO MAKE MORAL DECISIONS,  BEING INFLUENCED NEGATIVELY INUNDATED WITH NEWS STORIES THAT ARE NO LONGER STORIES FOR US TO DECIDE ON, DUMBING AND NUMBING US DOWN. NO LONGER NEWS BUT POINTS OF VIEW SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS?

ARE WE BEING PROGRAMED-BIG BROTHER? DO WE STILL HAVE FREE WILL, AND IF WE DO, DO WE EXCERCISE THAT FREE WILL? DO WE BELIEVE ALL WE READ AND SEE, OR CONFIRM IT FOR OURSELVES, AND THEN BELIEVE IT.

HAVE WE BECOME SO COMPLACENT AND APATHETIC THAT AS LONG AS WE HAVE DIRCT TV, BLOGS, FOOD AND A DOOOR TO LOCK- THAT WE INSULATE AND ISOLATE OURSELVES, AND DON'T EVEN KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS?

I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING A CUTE NEIGHBOR STOREY!

I'M READING SOME POWERFUL WRITING , PROFOUND SELF EXPRESSION ON NUMEROUS BLOGS. GREAT CHUNKS OF INDEPENDENT & CREATIVE THOUGHT.  FROM AGES 15 TO 70!

QUESTION:

IF WE ARE WHAT WE EAT, BECOME WHO WE ARE BY SOCIO-ECONOMIC, SPIRITUAL , MORAL CHOICES, AND INPUT THAT WE RECEIVE,

MIX YOURSELF UP, POUR IN BOWL, WHISK BRISKLY FOR 5 MINUTES.

ADD WATER- (WE ALL NEED WATER)!

POUR CONTENTS OF SELF INTO DEEP BAKING DISH AND PLACE IN OVEN AT 450 DEGREES FOR 30 MINUTES.

YOU COME OUT AND ARE PLACED ON A PLATE AS A MEAL:

1. WHAT ARE YOU CALLED?

2.ARE YOU NUTRITIOUS?

3. WOULD KIDS LIKE YOU?

4. DO YOU PROVIDE ANY NUTRITION VALUE AT ALL?

5. COULD YOU BE A FROZEN FOOD, AND IF SO WHAT?

6. WOULD YOU BE CONSIDERD A MAIN DISH, DESSERT OR A SNACK?

7. WOULD YOU BE CONSIDERED A BALANCED MEAL?

8. OR JUST JUNK FOOD?

9. GARBAGE DISPOSAL OR COMPOST HEAP FOR RECYCLING?

10. CONSIDERING ANY OR ALL OF THE ABOVE--WHAT INGREDIENTS WOULD YOU NEED TO ADD  IF ANY,TO BE HAPPY WITH THE WAY YOU TURNED OUT? AND WHERE WOULD YOU GO TO GET THEM?

JUST THINK ABOUT THE PROCESS OF WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE, WHERE WE ARE GOING, AND HOW MUCH DO WE CONTRIBUTE TO THE NUTRITIONAL PROCESS OF LIFE?

TO SUM IT UP: DESCRIBE YOURSELF ON THE FOOD CHAIN OF LIFE!

SORRY WALKING MAN!I SHOULD HAVE WARNED YA!