Well today….What did YOU do?

Gathered up some bank statements for the bookkeeper, took the grandkid to tutoring, went to Kiosko for dinner.

Leg wasn't bothering me too bad when I got home yesterday. Got a few things planted in my garden for the spring/summer.

Doing it in Miami this week.

I went with my buddy to run his new boat today. Nice boat and only a few things he needs to tweek.
My boat was a different story. I had changed oil coolers on it and the lines had push on fittings. I had to shorten the lines and had trouble getting lines on the fittings. We was 7 miles from the road and I looked back and saw oil all over the back deck. I was able to cut the line again and this time with line being hot and plenty lubed it went right on. Put 4 qt of oil in and continued ride. On the way in other line started leaking. New lines are being ordered. Along with a coupe cases of oil.

My friend had been asked if he could look for a ballon a college student had launched. They had a google map of the site and I had installed a gps for returning to good froging sites. We found the ballon, the gps lied, it said it was 5 foot from my boat and it was only 2.

Drinking beer and icing knees and ankles. Bunch of young bucks at work asked me to start a softball team. After 2/3 practices it was evident that my old ass was the best outfielder, SMH. Been running around that OF like a dog shitting tacks. Took me 5 minutes to stand up out of bed this morning. Youth is wasted on the young.

I have seen them out there. Couple of the youngsters onboard occasionally paddle over there to do the same. We netted some shrimp in the channel this week. Nothing to brag about though.

Were you riding the glades with Radtech on Tool Time, or has he not made it down yet?

Ran from Palatka to Austin Cary ( UF's Teaching Forest ) over by Gainesville where the North Florida Prescribed Burn Association had it's Annual Meeting.........and once the meeting was over.....we had a 2 1/2 hour board meeting.

Got back to Fruit Cove at about 4:30......skinned and boned 3 yellowmouth trout for Louann to sauté in olive oil for dinner. While she prepped dinner I worked on the sheepshead and whiting which will go into the ceviche for tomorrow and Monday........

If the yellowmouth is half as good as it smells dinner will be more than good.......

Hit the water w wife sister and bil. Started trolling for macks in the icw and hit a few to about 14 inches. Ran to the inlet and started dragging them lil silver spoons w swivel built in and red bead. Got 30-40.

Never did that before. Lil buggers hit hard.

Tim dropped his boat off at John's for the final tweaking, John is really good with carburetors. Tim  or Radtech as he is known is coming back down the end of this week. There is a event at the airboat association with corned beef and cabbage meal and a poker run. Both are great the guy who does the cooking does a great job and the poker run is a true poker run. Not one of the ones where you buy a hand then run around. They have 4 stops you have to run to and you reach into a bag and pull a chip that has what card it is. 5th card is drawn back at the club. We used to have a board with a couple decks glued to it and you would throw a dart. I won a couple times that way. Everyone is invited and if you don't have a boat Coopertown supplies us with a boat and anyone can do the poker run on that one for free.
  The club is about 8 miles west of Krome on Tamiami trail, or hwy 41. It is open to the public.

I had to look up Kolaches.

Sorry to hear about your friend, very nice obituary.

I would drag my boat down to ride and eat that weekend but I'm working. I'm booked solid until mid April.

Coincidence Ferris. I went to a friends memorial service yesterday as well. I first met him in 9th grade when he was riding his Honda 90 and I helped him with an issue on it. He was a cool guy making his way in life as a welder. He’s the reason some young guys became welders and the reason some decided welding wasn’t for them. His deep faith kept him strong during a losing battle with cancer. It was a fine time with food and seeing friends I hadn’t seen in years.

I had to look them up too. First time I’ve ever heard of them. I guess they are more or less originally from Texas here in the states.

Cut some Scope mounts off a Cabela's 2x7 Scope to mount on my new Smokepole.
Cut a gash in the side of the Scope and all the Nitro leaked out...Garbage can.
Crap..Put up deer fencing around my flower garden rows , Took the lower unit off my Yamaha 25 and rebuild the Water pump..Install tomorrow.
Now it's time for a Fattie and a Cold One...