Here is to the sunny slopes of long ago!

Have you ever reconnected to the care free person you were when you was a kid? It has happen to me two or three times in my forty  one years.  When it does happen it is like doing a "system restore" on your computer. Each time , I was brought back to a long forgotten frame of mind for a short period of time. Today I reconnected with my inner twelve year old boy.

When I wasn't playing summer league baseball, I would spend all day walking barefoot  from fishing hole to fishing hole with an old Zebco 33 and a handful of Humpback Rebels. The days seemed to last forever. My only worry was not going so far that I couldn't make it back home before dark.


Monday the wife took the boys down to Waco to to visit their grandmother, leaving me to fend for myself for a whole week. I have a busy work scheduled, so I didn't mind them making the 6 hr trip without me. At least they would not waste their spring break sitting around the house, waiting for me to get a day off that I may or may not get.

Turkey Roosting 3/18/2011

But I did get an unexpected day off, so I decided to leave the city and go back to where I grew up. I charged up my old boat and traveled up river where I knew the crappie would be making their spring spawning run.

My Crappie

It was great. The world was coming back alive from the unseasonably cold winter. The spring peepers were a peeping, the fish were biting and the barred owls were hooting; just like the did when I was a kid.


And as an added bonus, a group of turkeys went to roost on the river bank, right above me. I haven't heard a turkey gobble in years.

Me conservativeBC

I am ready for the wife and kids to come back home, but today was a special day.


I am glad I grabbed the camera before I took off.