skitching

That's quite a display of equipment and what a woodpile.  Now I wonder if fb is going to be peddling me heavy equipment and wood in the next few days.  After that display of gun porn a week or two ago it was trying to sell me all kinds of shooting arms.

There was one time when our family vacation was in a cottage by a lake in I believe Michigan.  My grandparents on my mother's side came by for a few days and apparently they were fishermen.  They set us up with sticks and string and probably a safety pin and a little piece of bologna and were they ever biting.  I seem to remember hearing the term blue gill.  They bit as soon as the safety pin hit the water and they didn't even seem to mind if the kid had not bothered to put a new piece of bologna on it.  It was like fish lemmings.  Later I watched my grandfather scale them.  Not for long.  I never became a fisherman.

Or a chopper of wood.  The closest to that I came was when I had to take a wood shop class at Tilden Tech.  One of the first things they did was give us a block of wood and told us to plane it down so that it was a perfect rectangular solid, nothing but flat and right angles.  I planed it down to the size of a toothpick without ever having reached that perfection.  Likewise the second piece of wood.  Finally I paid a guy to borrow his rectangular solid. 

So I guess I was cut out to be a city boy.


I guess it's too late for me and Old Dog to get out our baggies and our water skis and skitch a ride to Cheboygan for the seminar at Club 27.  I wonder if they have iced mugs.  Iced mugs might make yellow beer palatable.  Maybe next year.

I hesitated to use the word skitch, because, well, I haven't used it in like fifty years.  I'm pretty sure it was a common young man word back in the day, probably still is today.  As we used it, it was when you grabbed unto a bus, mainly because they couldn't see behind, on an icy day and then just slid along behind it when it took off.  I recall talking about it, but not doing it, which in retrospect was probably a smart thing on my part.


Dems open in Philly tonight.  Cubs and Sox will be playing over the next four days so I won't be watching much of it.  Maybe tune in between innings, but i know it will be just a bunch of blah blah blah propaganda.  I'm voting for her and all, but the big girl's voice is like chalk on the proverbial blackboard.