The Sky is Falling!

The DOW is way way way down....


Gas is in short supply and the price will skyrocket again....




Pensions at risk.....

Wages are falling....





I can't afford cable.....



Listen, LIFE IS 10 PERCENT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU AND 90 PERCENT HOW YOU RESPOND!

The perch are biting



The deer are almost in rut


Icefishing is coming

The leaves are changing.....



Pull up your bootstraps and get LIVING! BE A ROCKET MAN!

Global Snowstormwarming?

Global Warming? I'm not buying it!


They are still digging out from a MAJOR snowstorm across the northern Rockies. 62″ of new snow was reported at Albro Lake, Montana (that’s over five feet!) 49″ of new snow was reported near Red Mountain Lodge and also Sweet Grass, Montana. Up to 33″ of snow fell in the mountains of Wyoming and heavy snow was reported in the Unita Mts. of Utah and in the Colorado Rockies. It was the earliest significant snow ever in Boise, Idaho, and Burley, Idaho reported 25″ of new snow. Snow pushed out into the western sections of North and South Dakota. Record cold followed the snow. Elk Park, Montana reported a low temperature of -11 Monday morning!

Autumnal Exuberance

Today I come to you with high spirits and a happy heart. For the time is upon us..The time of year that warms my soul and makes my inner spirit hum with delight.......FALL!!!!

Of what do I speak? Let me visually walk you through the images stored and etched into my mind forever:

The farmer's harvest of corn

Apple trees laden with bounty

Deer camp and all the smells: a woodburning stove, fresh coffee, fried fresh fish, pipe tobacco..

Being in the brisk woods as the sun rises on a bed of freshly fallen fire color soaked leaves....

Deer hunting!~

Pumpkins, both in color and the sweet taste of pumpkin pie, make me happy.......

There is so much out of doors to enjoy this fall season....Enjoy one of life's simple cheap pleasures and EMBRACE FALL! It can be as simple as stepping outside, devoid of a cellphone, watch, and all those things tying you down.....Go out and roll in the leaves just like when you were a kid!

And don't forget that ice fishing is right around the corner!!!

The Beginning

It all makes sense now where my Johnny Cash obsession started......WITH THE MUPPETS!

Barry County Nomad

Why is it that my life is turning into a Willie Nelson song??????Oh well



Today was the kickoff off of the Fall "Cornucopia of Indulgence" as Michigan offers up such pristine deer hunting, fishing......etc....In the midst of my enjoyment of the outdoors......I GOT SOME GAS FOR THE BOAT AND RAN INTO AN OLD FRIEND.......Good to see you.....Smile on.......



Here is the PRIMETIME VAN hauling the remnants of the shipwreck from the bottom of the sea......



And the precious mattress of the hide-a-bed (if you have ever slept on it, you will know it rocks!) blew off the van causing a major traffic tie-up....here I am pickin' her up.....



Just enjoy the serenade of Willie....and know that although the waves are over the deck, I am sailing toward the port......It looks like a ways away.....