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Peewees in Adventureland
Random Road Ramblings
We are currently in the Thousand Trails park outside LaConner, WA., which probably everybody but me knew already is on Puget Sound. I never seem to pay attention to things like where I am, where I am going or what I’m doing and it’s a wonder I get anywhere or do anything and yet here [...]
Recently I was sitting half-cheeked on a bench at the pickleball courts, fidgeting uncomfortably because the wrought-iron bench presses (no matter which way I turn) directly on my blown hamstring muscle up under my butt, when Gart and Ralph came up, sat down and began badgering me as usual. I admit I usually am comfortable [...]
Conventional “wisdom” discusses, among many, many other things of course, how the longest journey begins with but a single step, yes? Well, yes, but then it doesn’t go on to discuss how long that journey may be, does it? And well it shouldn’t as every journey has a different number of steps. Every fly-fishing season, for [...]
October 7, 2009 in Flyfishing, Meaning of Life, People We've Met, Pickleball, Places We've Been, Thoughts
We have traveled through the Upper Michigan Peninsula, where we stayed in the self-proclaimed moose capital of the U.S., albeit a place where the owner of the RV park admitted she had never seen a moose in the 17 years she had been there, “although we have seen EVIDENCE of moose, if you know what [...]
August 18, 2009 in Flyfishing, People We've Met, Pickleball, Places We've Been, RVing and Motorhomes
Today I tried to answer two intriguing emails from friends. Both men are…after unplanned layoffs….working, although in Mitch’s case he is nearing retirement and in Raoul’s case he is not yet 30. I consider both guys good friends. Otherwise I suspect Mitch and Raoul don’t have much in common, except that they both admit to [...]
Do you remember Froggie, in Wind in the Willows? Adopting every fad that came by as the final answer to a question that he probably would never even ask himself? Discarding it just as quickly? Vroooom, vroom, racing around from bikes to boats to cars and back again.
I get that frog, and I suppose I [...]
Compared to these guys, I have no work ethic at all.
In fact, I’m sitting pretty today, typing away in an amazingly tasteful and even more comfortable customer lounge, (and, hey, you wanna look? Check it ooouuutttt….), Irene and I just waiting (and OH how we love waiting!) for six things to simultaneously get done on [...]
June 10, 2009 in Eating, People We've Met, Pickleball, Places We've Been, Poker, RVing and Motorhomes
Pickleball has been around for more than 30 years, but most people, when asked if they’ve heard about it, look at you like you’re pulling their leg or worse. That may change; pickleball is said to be one of the fastest-growing sports in America and is most probably THE fastest-growing game among geezer-jocks, those of [...]
May 4, 2009 in Pickleball