It's Thursday...So It's All About Me

My computer is back up and running.  Woo hoo!  Now, since I have been somewhat out of touch the past week and was out of town today, I'm not going to talk politics.  I'm gonna tell you what happened today.

As some of you know, I'm into retrievers.  I took my 3 month old chocolate puppy, Kelli, up to my uncle's hunting preserve to do some water mark work.  Needless to say, she was awesome.  My uncle starts throwing some pretty long marks (about 40 to 50 yards).  Again, she was great.  Well, he said it.... "we'll do just one more".  Now if I had been on the ball, I'd have said no.  But I didn't and he threw a really long mark that landed just beyond a decoy.  There she goes, beautiful water entry, goes out and flawlessly gets the bumper.  On her way back, Kelli thinks it would be a really cool thing to bring back the decoy with the bumper.   Not good.  She gets tangled in the line running from the decoy to the weight at the bottom of the pond.  Dollar signs start running across my forehead.  So I go in.  I kick off my shoes, pull off my socks and jump in, sinking into about a foot of mud.  My uncles yells to me, "can't you swim"  to which I respond by diving and begin swimming towards Kelli, picking up algae along the way.  About half way across, I notice that the water isn't deep.  I stopped, stood up, algae hanging from my head, and asked, "why the hell didn't you tell me it was only four feet deep?"  Of course at this point, he is laughing too hard to be able to respond.  So I walked the rest of the way, untangled her and brought her back to the bank.  Kelli wanted to go back and get the decoy.  She just couldn't understand why we didn't bring that back too.

Stick a fork in me baby, I'm done.   

On my way home, still soaking wet with dried algae stuck in my hair, I started thinking about the "what ifs".  What if there was a snapping turtle...what if I had been bitten by a cat fish... what if I had stepped on a rusty fishing hook or the carcass of an old dead bird and stuck a bone through my foot...I mean, it's been 30 years since I've had a tetanus shot (yes, I lie when the doctors ask me the last time I've had one...tetanus shots hurt). 

So the first thing I am doing after I finish this post is ordering a pair of those cute shoes at Land's End that you can wear in the water.  Gee, I wonder if they come in camo?

Lisa

Comments

[Steel]

Oh shit that's funny.

Your Uncle has a ... sadistic streak huh?

Ummm ... Lisa?

Catfish don't bite and camo wouldn't fool 'em if they did.

Nice day.