Deer and Snow

The last two days have been strange drives to work at lunch.

Yesterday as I was driving back from lunch I saw an unusual sight. I was about two miles from work on a busy road. A six point buck was in the front yard of an apartment complex, along a fairly busy road, waiting to cross the road. The traffic was rather slow on the road at that time. The buck did wait until I passed then went into a small wooden gully. I'm fairly sure he was chasing does and was following a trail that lead him into a busy populated area.

I continued onto work and was about a mile from work on another busy road with a car in front of me and two cars coming toward me. A doe ran across the road between the two cars coming toward me and directly in front of the car in front of me. The doe made a really chancy crossing but it did make it. What are all these deer running in the area on busy streets at 1 PM? Why it's the rut on full bore.

Today the strange thing is after a real mild Fall we are having snow flurries as I went and came back from lunch. It was only two weeks ago that I was going out and power washing my deck. I'm glad that job is complete with this cold weather.

The Ohio State still Number One

Ohio State comes from behind on Saturday and wipes out Wisconsin with their running game. The BCS ratings come out with Ohio State Number One and LSU Number Two. I don't understand LSU at Number Two since they barely won their game. Kansas who is undefeated is being punished for a weak schedule. They scored 76 points against Nebraska. What's up Nebraska?

Number Two has been a bad position with several teams getting knocked off the pedestal once they earned the position. Boston College is the latest Number Two team to lose when Florida State visited. I think Oregon or Kansas could have been Number Two. West Virginia remains in the top 10.

Jimmie Johnson takes NASCAR lead

Jimmie Johnson's NASCAR team takes the lead at Texas Speedway. Jeff Gordon lead has evaporated in the chase. After leading the chase for the first six weeks Gordon loses the lead. After winning three races in a row Jimmie Johnson goes up by 30 points. Jeff Gordon finishes seventh after leading the race for several laps early in the race. If the Lowe's Motor Sports team keeps on this roll they will walk away with the cup. There are only three races left with only about 5 of the 12 racers able to win. I think it's a two car chase and Gordon has to start betting Johnson.
Both the Hendricks cars are running great. Dale Jr, must be really excited to be coming to the Hendricks team next year. He will lose his number 8 car and will go to 88 with the new team. He will be missed on the DEI team.

The Original Fishing Guy

Dad was the one who shared his love of fishing with me. He was a great fisherman. He passed away in December two years ago at the age of 84. He fished almost the whole summer his last year as he was fighting cancer. The doctors never did figure out how to treat the cancer and chemotherapy didn't do much. I think Hospice did a great job for him and they were there until the end.

I had a hard time finding a present he liked. He had all he wanted and in his later years. He enjoyed this Walleye shirt I had picked up on a trip to Wisconsin. He would not wear it fishing because it was too good. I wish he would have been able to have enjoyed it more. He would wear it to the auction that he and my mother went to but never fishing. Mom was never good with the camera so his head is cropped. He had the jet black hair until the last year.

He made a lot of great catches. Here is from a day in the summer about 8 years ago when he caught a big 36" Northern Pike and a 20" Large Mouth Bass. He would make these great catches several times a year.

He caught a 17" crappie one year and never even took a picture. I would fill my camera with pictures of a crappie that big. My biggest was a 16" Crappie.

See the post when I wrote about The Original Fishing Guy.

It's November already!!!

I thought as you got older the time would go slower. I can remember my grandfather and he always seemed relaxed. Maybe it will happen when I retire in another year or so. The time is just passing so quickly. I have to work on the yard and the garden today. Later today and tomorrow I have to clean up the garden beds and the garage.
I also have my daughters grass to do. The frosty nights we have been having should cut down on the grass deciding it should keep growing. I also have the leaves from the trees to work on. Why am I sitting here posting when I should be doing all that work? Does the word procrastinating come to mind. Well I better get going now, or should I check the other posts I read!

The Eagles come flying back

Yes, The Eagles have returned with a new album "Long Road Out of Eden". It is a Wal-Mart exclusive and a two disc set for $11.88. It comes in a brown cardboard case with the two disc and the lyrics in a booklet. I purchased it and was thrilled with the sound of disc one. I enjoyed all but one song on that disc. The first song on the disc starts out acapella and shows that Don Henley and The Eagles can still sing, and sing well. I thought the first disc was a contemporary new country sound but was in the line with one of my favorite country song by The Eagles "Desperado".
You wonder how this sound could be gone country for 28 years since a new studio release was completed. The second disc starts with a "Long Road Out of Eden" which is 10 minutes long. I didn't enjoy the second disc as much because that side is more into a rock sound rather then country. I'm sure the rock enthusiast will love that disc.
The country world will embrace The Eagles just as they have embraced the Garth Brooks in his comeback song.