My name is Connie and we are from France.

The Wayco Crimpas family ham is right on schedule.

Lots of fun playing around here.

Some get it, some don't . We love all.

Cheers and Merry Crimpas,
Us Slackers

Longing for Long Point
 

Here I am now in this 4th. day of winter and I'm pretty sure I have cabin fever. Once again the temperature is expected to drop way down over this long winter night. The only fishing I can look forward to is through a 6" diameter hole drilled through the ice after we drag a small shed out on the lake to hold the heat in from a small kerosene heater. I heard the fish they throw back in Sebastian where Long Point is, wouldn't even fit through a 6" hole.....! I looked at the weather channel at noon and they said it was 72 degrees at Long Point and had shot of a young lady in one of them two piece bathing suits. Here I am dressed in long underwear, a flannel shirt, coveralls, a fleece jacket and gloves, huddled next to the fireplace, inside my house, freezin' and they show me this on TV. I come real close the git'in the model 12 out and git'in even with that TV. May can't get here soon enough to suit me!
I hope GFS or Commander Pooh Bah don't issue any confirming weather reports.

Yes, it helps.

When ice fishing in Vt, Ziggy uses a little red wagon with a fishfinder and battery. He walks around until he marks fish, and then he starts the auger.

BH, very close on the translation there.

Pooh Bah, not so much...

Longing for Long Point
 

"When ice fishing in Vt, Ziggy uses a little red wagon with a fishfinder and battery. He walks around until he marks fish, and then he starts the auger."


Now those Vermont-ers are always on the cutt'in edge of technology! Here in NH we just git Bert Swenson to walk around with his divin'in rods 'till he gets a "sensation". Then we hitch Olie Gustafson's 6 oxen to the Red Berncroft's Cincinnati steam drill, stoke up the fire box and start drillin'. Usually we hit the water in only four or five feet, now that this Global Warming has set in.

Well Terry, looks like the weather is going to break long enough to get out and shoot red grouper and mangos before the water gets below 70. Here is the forecast for Saturday off Cedar Key:

Saturday: Northeast winds 10 to 15 knots diminishing to 5 to 10 knots in the afternoon. Seas 2 feet. Bay and inland waters a moderate chop.

Good luck with that ice fishing.... :D

Dang Ken....that's kinda rough on him!! But I liked it!! :) This 75 degree weather is really tough.

No kidding. I was at the Eagles/Detroit Game in Philly a few weeks ago when it snowed 9 inches in 3 hours. How do people even consider living where you have to hide indoors and put your boat away for 5 months out of the year?

I thought Bert was from Maine??? 8 below in Caribou now. 80 here today. Fishing tomorrow.

I see genetic engineering is making progress as the Vt. state flower is much smaller now.

I remember tv dishes the size of a Winnebago on every lawn.

Longing for Long Point
 

Kmoose : Cedar Key - If I remember right, those Rebs cut off our pencil shipments in '63 (1863)....! We had to write with charcoal up here. Used a lot of paper and they had all the pulpwood too.....! Our darn water here hasn't ever been 70 degrees. In the dog days of summer the best we can hope for up here is 50 degrees. Somebody told me those Crackers eat the tops out of the palm trees there in Cedar Key - very strange.

Don V : You are painfully correct, Froom what I can see, I don't think Florida is even a Southern State - it's a dang Caribbean State. I'm hooking the Hudson up to the 21' Moesly and heading south in May. Bert said "Not only do the gals not wear flannel bathing suits but in South Florida sometimes the forget half of 'em....!"

GFS : Was the Wayco Crimas Puerco de Jour Ok or did you have to turn to a Spiral Cut Publix???? Standing by.

And all this time I thought FL was a Yankee state, what wit all the bleu hairs at the Fontainebleau and all... and all the NY and NJ plates...

And again my delusion of being hip, and draggin' my Moesly 21 to Mag Bay with a '68 Jeep M715 has been topped by some fan of pommie cloth with a south bound Hudson... weak, shallow thoughts have I:o

I'm over it. I'm gonna go top some bum at Classicmako or pick a fight at tht
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