Sky Watch Friday 6-20

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A Sunrise for from a drive to work, it was a gloomy Sky as I drove East with the Sun trying to work it's magic.
The sun was trying to break through.
As the morning moved on, it was starting to break up.
The day turned out to be a super day after the skies cleared.

The Fields At The Horse Stables

I certainly feel very lucky to see wild animals on my drive to work but Larry's Stables has given me so many wonderful shots from the Shetland Pony, the other small pony and the foals. This is a grazing field I go by each day which always have a great variety of horses. Sometimes they are close to the fence.
Other times they are back into the field.

All the time I get a great show on a slow road and with flashers I can click away to my hearts content.

What Can Go Wrong, Will.

Things do go bad on a 1994 GMC Sierra truck. The truck I use was my Dad's, the Original Fishing Guy, and the reason for my love of fishing. Dad was a sportsman and was good at his passions. He was one of the best fisherman on Lake Arthur in PA. They refer to the lake as the dead lake because people don't catch fish from the lake. People used to follow my Dad to see where his spots were because he caught so many fish. When he died a few years ago he passed the truck he used to tow his boat to me. That is one of the main reasons I want to keep the truck.

I got my truck from the repair shop. I had a broken brake line and had to have all the brakes changed. I guess it's only money when things break down. As you get older you don't like to crawl around on the ground like you did when you were a kid. I used to work on cars when I was younger. It actually was something that is fun. It's not fun anymore so you have to pay to get it repaired. Well it's back on the road and running the best it has in a while.

I will be going on vacation for a week so the posts may be sporadic for a while. I will try to visit my friends when possible and post when I can. I enjoy the visiting and the visit from the blogging world.

Brooks & Dunn Concert At Blossom

This is the first concert of the Mega ticket package I purchased. Brooks and Dunn, the number 1 country duo for the last 12 years, was the headliner. Cowboy Town is the name of their latest album. There was a crowd of 15,000 people with a lot on the lawn.
The opening act was Heidi Newfield, who use to be the lead singer for Trick Pony. she left the group and went solo. She did a nice job on "Johnny and June" which didn't work on my player so here's a You Tube..

The next act was Rodney Atkins. He is a well like singer and has a hit right now with "Cleaning My Gun". I always like "Watching You" which I'm playing on the player.

Here is the crowd under the pavilion as it starts to get dark and the stage is set for the stars.
Brooks and Dunn are the stars of this tour. I saw them as openers for Kenny Chesney last year.

They are one great duo and the stage is lit up.
Kix Brooks does some of the lead vocals.
He is a showman on stage.

The background they use is stupendous.
Ronnie Dunn is the singer I like to hear and his lead songs are great. "Neon Moon" which i have playing is wonderful.

Ronnie really knows how to entertain the crowd.
Rate the Venue Go here to see the rating system.
Rating for "The Blossom Music Center" - Richfield, Ohio A-3 B-4 C-4 D-2 E-3 F-0 G-3 = 19/28
(F-0 rating reason Bottle of $5 water - $10 Beer - $30 T-shirts)

Blossom limits what you can bring in, one bottle of water per person and nothing else to drink. They allow only low beach type seats to sit low.

Weekend Of Fishing

Another cold front moved in this weekend. There was a difference in that the water has warmed into the 60's. It is also getting near the full moon so the Crappie are getting ready to spawn. The day was clear before I got the boat out to the lake but things changed fast and it clouded up and got ready to rain. The fishing was slow but as soon as the rain hit the water the fishing picked up. There was two heavy showers, without lightning, so I put on my Frogg Toggs and kept on fishing. The action stayed strong as long as the rain kept falling. Sometimes I am able to catch some really little fish. Check out this perch that took my minnow. I have my sunglasses and to show you the length of this 4" Perch. Sometimes you wonder how small they get active enough to think they should take on a 2" minnow.
Here is part of the catch on Saturday. The biggest Crappie was 11" and the biggest Perch was 9".
Last week all I caught was Crappie but this weekend I caught 26 Crappie, 16 Perch and one Warmouth Blue Gill.

This catch gave me 2 quarts of fillets.

Now the bad news, I had my brakes go out on the truck as I was towing the boat. Luckily I was able to stop safely and averted a wreck. My Son-In-Law was able to help me get the truck in for repair. I was going to fish from shore on Sunday but left the hip boots in the truck. I just did work around the house and have to have the truck repaired. That's the life of a trailer boater.

Camera Critters 10

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Camera Critters by Misty Dawn, go here to see who's participating.

It's hard to believe we are up to 10 already. I was driving along and next to the 2nd hole at Fox Den golf course near the pond I saw this.
I had to stop and get a better look.
Sure enough it was a large Snapping Turtle thinking about crossing the road.
I parked across from it and shot some pictures then moved on. The portion of skin on the neck that is half elliptical shaped moved in and out as it breathed. This may have been a female heading somewhere to lay eggs.