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After a nice round of golf, my buddy Imprelis and I stopped and picked up 20 pounds of fresh picked straight from the field strawberries. This one was in the 2nd box. I love my berries and obviously the berries love me.
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Friday night is traditionally have a fast meal after work & Implrelis & I load the boat up to hit the river for some fishing. This Friday was no exception. Launched out and he reached over to start the boat & not key in the ignition. Why was there no key in the iginition? Well someone cleaned the boat the weekend before & let himself be talked into not leaving the key in the boat. *Disclaimer, again not me.Here we are being carried away by the current & no way to get the damn Johnson kicked over. I'm freaking out!!! There are paddles but I am glued to my seat & in that current I don't think we could have paddled enough to get back upstream to the ramp. Thank goodness there was another boater tied up. He towed us to the gravel bar and we tied off so someone *disclaimer NOT ME, could make the 2 miles to the house to retrieve the key. Key arrives up river we go. New fluke anchor for the boat that someone again, not me had no clue how to get it to grab. Finally figured it out, baited up and cast out. After numerous missed fish and chewed up baits we decided to call it a night. Now again the anchor comes into play, seems you have to get above the anchor for it to uncatch....go figure. Down river we go and make the bend the whole while wondering why someone was standing on one bank shining a spot on the opposite bank. Holy crap they're jockeying barges and that is the tugs beacon light we've been seeing. Can you say night blinded? Imprelis can't see so its up to me to block the beacon light from my eyes to watch the channel & the tug's movements until they see us. They do have the right away at all times this is a navigational channel. Once ww get the go ahead to come on off to the ramp we go. Load up get home. Fast forward to Saturday. No plans to fish at all after the errand day from hell that lasted from 7:45 that morning till 4pm. Wild hair kicks in at 5:30- lets load up & go throw the boat in and see if we can't catch some catfish. Get to our hidy hole and get anchored in. Within 30 minutes Imprelis has a need the large net cat- not as big as his last one, but I wouldn't throw it out of my kitchen. Pop him into the well and resume regular programming. Less than 15 minutes later its my turn. Not as big as his but a nice keeper. Boom we're done. In this state one per person over 24 inches. Plenty of daylight left to make it problem free back to the ramp. Wrong. Someone *insert disclaimer* catches the anchor rope in the blades. After enough time to where its now pushing dark we get untangled, hand pulled above the anchor and headed to the ramp. Another interesting thing about this state, liquor stores close Saturday night at 10pm. We hit the gravel next to the ramp at 9:48 & there is a boat launching out, tick tock. We got our turn drove the boat up on the trailer, strapped up and hit the package store at exactly 9:59. Sunday yielded another white drum for me but we release those. Still a few problems with the unanchoring but we'll get there. The lighter colored fish is mine. 25 long 15 1/2 around, the other 29 long & 19 3/4 around. 8.6 and 11.3 respectively. No fishing tonight, but did have some of the fish for dinner. Btw those are my size 10 feeties as a reference.
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36" long, a scrunch over 20 lbs. Caught about 5 miles from home on the Minnisoda River. Many dinners to be had.I didn't get this bad boy, Imprelis got him, I just instructed him on how to clean his first catfish.

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Messing around a couple of hours on the river to blow off so steam. Only caught the one. This is what I call a drum but the Norther Plains folk tell me they call it a sheep's head. Pffft, its a drum. Catch and release.
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Think it's funny, think it's okay? Think again.

http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_27814477/st-paul-man-shared-revenge-porn-defamed-ex

You laughed, you know you did
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I often wonder on Valentine's day why. Why do some of us that don't have or can't be with the one that gets our motors running feel like they are less because they aren't a couple? Doesn't mean someone or several someones don't love us in their own ways. Our friends love us, our pets love us, if we've done it right our kids & siblings love us.
Did I get flowers & sweets today delivered to the door? Nope, but I got some hugs via PM here & was awakened by my best friend with a text of a Valentine cookie. I had an extra long phone call last night with the man that makes my tummy flutter. I had some laughs with family today, a lot of them in early morning status here.
Its a great blessing to have that certain someone, but it's no less grand to have that group of someones as well. So the next time you wonder why on a day like this, wonder why you don't feel like the luckiest person on earth because you do have love from those that really care. Shoot I love ya & I think you're a goober most of the time. (Like I was gonna be all mushy & serious for the entire blog).
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'll surprise myself with a gooey chocolate chip cookie & some milk. I loves me some me