Beating the Winter Blues...

My sis recently wrote about winter doldrums and escaping them.

One immediate suggestion: Younger brothers basketball game.


Necessities:

- Cardboard cut-outs of younger siblings face
- Camera...apparently for taking group shots of the sisters
- Nephews
- Other siblings to make sure nephews don't eat skittles and M&M's found under the bleachers
- Sticky wire to fasten to cardboard cut-out

Free Tip Friday: Fatherly Hugs.

Hey guys, want to know how to get a hug from your father?? Give him fresh pork cracklins. Hugs are usually accompanied with phrases such as:

"Don't tell your mother."
or
"Good thing my cholesterol report was tip top last week."
 

Tale of two fishes...

I didn't use to like fishing. 

Now I do. 

Probably the best thing about fishing is you're never quite sure what's coming up out of the water.

July '11 i caught a 34" pike on vacation in Michigan. 

January '12 i caught a sailfish off coast of Ft. Lauderdale. 

Amazingly enough, we got both on video.

Some pics too.

Pike

 

Sailfish