The 23rd day of the fourth month of the year of the Owl Pellett

Sorry EC, had to say it!

Going north either Saturday or Sunday to my favorite fishing hole in New Hampshire.

The question of the day is ------Would you spend five days at a remote fishing camp with these guys and if so ....Why?

The bottom picture might just be one reason why!

The top image was made in 1989 and amazingly all of us are still alive. We have been doing this for over 30 years at last count and we all look forward to it. See past blog entries for more about the trip.

Talked to my 97 year old uncle "Jim" in Myrtle beach and his daughter Gretchen this morning. Just wanted to make sure that the wild fires plaguing that area of the state hadn't made them move out. Both are fine and the fires are north of them, but still quite something.

SKIP'S ALMANAC OF FICTION AND FACT AND OTHER ASSORTED GARBAGE KNOWLEDGE.

Q. Why do Hell's Angels wear leather?

Paul Lynde: "The center square"

A. Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

The 20th day of the fourth month of the year of the OP

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IZZY!

A very happy sixth birth day to my best "Six" year old G-daughter.

Hope you have a very special day and I will see you soon.

Love you.

Grand Dad

The Sixteenth day of the fourth month of the year of the OP

Well, I have found the time to do some scribble this afternoon and am reviewing what really did occur yesterday as we all dunked our tea bags.

Hey cnn and msnbc.................get a life, this was a family affair! And your obnoxious sexual innuendo's were not!

The photo of the sport's jacket is of Senator Jim DeMint and the other is Gov. Sanford, both of South Carolina. A couple more of the lunatic fringe on the right.

Give me a break cnn and msnbc.

At least these guys have principles and live up to them, which puts them in a minority.

Maybe the media needs to get some principles and live by them........never happen!

I spent the afternoon with three thousand of my closest right wing extremists friends......according to the administration. For you in West Virginia, that's friends who won't vote for Dodd, Barney Frank the banking queen, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, your own white haired KKK graduate, or the rest of them!

For those of you in Washington, who live in fear each election, that's three thousand votes you will never get. (Times 600 cities)

Did not see a concealed weapon in the bunch. Even left my own home. But let me tell you, I for one would be honored if any one of those people had my back under any circumstances! Except for the obvious federal observers all dressed in black, with black SUV's, and helicopters. Yeah, a few conspiritor types were lurking.

Thank you, but I will keep my gun and bible and you can have all the change you want. Mostly pocket change after this administration gets done with us. And the previous administration wasn't too swift about controlling spending either. I am an equal opportunity ranter when it comes to DC.

Who was there?

I can tell you as an eye witness!

Normal people. People who care for their country. People who have had enough, and Obama's tax policies haven't even hit! People who are tired of being lied to by every slickster who thinks he/she can be a member of congress. People who think that giving half of their income to government is too much. People who are not represented by their representatives. People who know their being lied to daily by National, local governments, and the media----and can't even get anyone in Washington to pick up a phone and talk to them.

That's who was there yesterday.

And all I can say is ................DO IT AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN.......!

Today's dishonest media..........that consists of nbc, cbs, abc, and cnn (and right I did not use capital letters for a reason) have of course got it all wrong.

Oh did I forget the corrupt New York Times, et al.

This watch-dog of our of political power, the media, is simply in the tank for the left and the current administration.

How can any of you intelligent (and if you're reading this you are intelligent) people sit and listen to all that garbage they feed you every night, knowing that they are simply telling you how it is .................... according to their own agenda.

I don't know what makes me more furious....the media......or the government. Neither one of which has our interests at heart.

And that's the truth!

The 15TH day of the fourth month of the year of the OP

TAX DAY!

I went to my first ever political demonstration today. The Tax day Tea Party in Columbia, South Carolina.

Quite an experience and I will write more about it tomorrow, but today lets just allow the pictures say a thousand words.

Look carefully at the signs and be rest assured that these people are not...........REPEAT........not your right wing extremists! As some in our dishonest main stream media would have you believe. I guess there were about a thousand people there. Not huge but significant and the people were really nice. Just like a bunch of neighbors getting together..........which is was!

The 13TH day of the fourth month of the year of the OP

SCANA fishing tournament last Friday at the Pine Island Club on Lake Murray here in SC.

We had sixty boats go out into the teeth of 15 to 25 mph wind, but at least it wasn't raining. It started out cold around 5:30 AM but warmed up later in the day. All of the boats actually came back in.

The fishing was off from previous years, as a cold front had gone through earlier in the week, but everybody was enthusiastic. It seems we get more boats every year, which is a good thing.

This is not a professional tournament, but a company function at a company club. But the boats and pickups used to trailer them are certainly of professional caliber. Everybody had a great time and the largest bass was 5.7 pounds. The largest catch was five fish totalling 17.7 pounds. Most of the fishermen had the five fish limit and all the fish were returned to the water unharmed. Catch and release!

This coming week will be interesting to say the least. On Wednesday afternoon, I will be attending a Tea Party on the Capital grounds here in Columbia. First time for me doing anything like this and I firmly believe that we the people need to take our government back. Maybe these tea parties will be a first step. Then in the evening we will be going to a Flat Tax meeting to see Mike Huckabee. Hope to get a bunch of pictures at both events. Keep ya posted.

FICTION AND FACT FROM SKIP'S ALMANAC OF GARBAGE KNOWLEDGE

You know those indentations on a carpet that you get from furniture sitting there too long?

Here's how you get rid of them!

Let an ice cube melt in the indented area. After it's all melted take a fork and fluff up the carpet where the cube melted. Let it dry and they say it works. BTW, I am not to be held responsible for any of these tips I give.

The Ninth day of the fourth month of the year of the OP

Check out this month's photo contest at

http://www.ifp3.com/contest_images/contestPage.cfm

The seventh day of the fourth month of the year of the OP

ICE OUT!

In New Hampshire that is. We will be going up there the 28th of this month through the second day of the fifth month of the year of the OP.

So, there will be no blog for that time. Y'all just have to watch TV instead.

Sunday, we went out on Lake Murray here is South Carolina, on a neighbor's boat and landed a two pound largemouth. Lot of fun, the fishing that is. Somewhere I had a breakfast sandwich with just lit me up. I have been fighting what I think was food poisoning for two days. So good luck on the one hand, and bad on the other. Go figure.

Look for the results of the SCANA bass tournament, to be held on Lake Murray on Friday at the Pine Island Club. We do this every year and have about 60 boats going out in the wee small and bringing back some amazing largemouth bass in the afternoon. The past two years have seen 7 and 8 pound fish take the largest for the day. Just amazes me how these guys do it. It ain't easy as it looks on television and while this is not a pro event, they are good fishermen. Course their pickup trucks must be the same color as their bass boat. It's the law.

FICTION AND FACT FROM SKIP'S ALMANAC OF GARBAGE KNOWLEDGE

Q. Do female frogs croak?

Only if you hold their little heads under water long enough.

A. Paul Lynde:

From the center square in the old TV show Hollywood Squares

YOUR AMERICAN HERITAGE

Free Speech and the right to gather.

If there is a T-Party on the 15th of this month, in your area and you belive in the Constitution of the United States, please plan to attend if for only a few minutes.

The Tea Party effort is just a small piece of a much larger movement aimed at restoring the basic free-market principles our country was built on. The Constitution, for the most part, is being ignored by our current government and we intend on working together to correct the problem.
The Tea Party effort is a grassroots, collaborative volunteer organization made up of every day American citizens from across the country. We take pride in the fact that we've built a 50 state network of leaders and activists using nothing more than the internet, a few websites and a burning desire to restore freedom. This is neither a republican nor democrat sponsored program.

http://taxdayteaparty.com/

The fifth day of the fourth month of the year of the OP

No rant today, but getting prepared to travel north to New Hampshire and Lake Winnepasaukee for our annual landlocked salmon fishing trip.

Currently it is forty degrees but feels like 33 with a 12 mph wind. There is still a great amount of ice on the lake, but I suspect that it will be gone this coming week. Lake temperature is only thirty four.

The landlocked salmon that dwell in this lake, along with the bright rainbow trout and the tenacious small mouth bass, are all mostly at deep levels of the lake where they winter over in the relatively warmer water at great depths. The ice gets thick enough to drive vehicles and snow mobiles over all winter long. But, when it starts to warm a phenomena known locally as "Ice out" occurs. Contests are help to guess the date and time the ice finally disappears and it's all a fun thing cause it means spring is coming.

Ice on any body of water becomes porous as it melts, thus forming many tiny holes within itself. No unlike Swiss cheese. When it melts sufficiently, the holes fill with water, and the whole sheet of ice becomes heavier than the surrounding water. At that point, the ice simply sinks to the bottom of the lake. This sinking forces the warmer water at lower depths to be pushed to the surface, thus inverting the whole water column. Small fish and their predators follow the water temperature from the depths to the now warmer top few feet.

The smelt which is the primary bait in Lake Winnepasaukee are on the surface right after ice out, and that is what we will be looking for when we arrive at the lake at the end of the month. In the photo of Wolfeboro you can see the early birds fishing from shore and in small boats just off shore and the remaining ice in the background. We hope for days like in the canoe photo in order to catch the salmon with a tandem fishing fly fished right on the surface.

April Fools day of the fourth month of the year of the OP

OK............... you can tell from the flag that there's a rant coming.


Let's see if you can guess. Which country in the whole wide world is our bestest Ally?

Yeah, I know spell check, there is no such word as bestest...live with it!

Is it Ruanda?

Is it Spain?

Is it North Korea?

Could it be Great Britain?

Betchya!

Also, the other fifty percent of you will have to live with the next comments as well.

Your President took 500 people/staff with him on his little junket to the G20 in London. Five hundred people on our dime. Lord knows what this cost us in hard dollars. And he ain't making many soft dollars with it either.

To wit!

Not one of those 500 super intelects, with the combined common sense of a tree snail, had the smarts to tell him that an I-pod was an inappropriate gift for the Queen. What have we got here. First he insults the whole country of Great Britain with the 25 movie DVDs he gave to the Prime Minister, and now this. I for one am embarrassed by his actions and he does not represent me.

Besides, she already had a perfectly good I-pod.

FICTION AND FACT FROM SKIP'S ALMANAC OF GARBAGE KNOWLEDGE

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.

YOUR AMERICAN HERITAGE


First Amendment – Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause; freedom of speech, of the press, Freedom of Religion, and of assembly; right to petition

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.