Captain Awesomes Man Spa

Ragged Old Flag

2009-03-03T10:54:00.000-08:00

I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench, an old man was sittin there.
I said, "Your court house is kinda run down,
He said, "No, it will do for our little town".
I said "your old flag pole kinda leaned a little bit,
And that’s a ragged old flag you got hanging on it".
He said "have a seat", so I sat down,
He said, "is this your first time you been to our little town"
I said, "I think it is"
He said "I don’t like to brag, but we’re kinda proud of
"That Ragged Old Flag"

"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there,
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
It got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it, writing
"Oh Say Can You See"
It got a bad rip in New Orleans, with Packingham & Jackson tugging at its seams.
It almost fell at the Alamo beside the Texas flag,
But she waved on tho.
It got cut with a sword in Chancellorsville,
Got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee and Beauregard and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on
"That Ragged Old Flag"

On Flanders Field in World War I,
She took a big hole from a Bertha Gun,
She turned blood red in World War II
She hung limp and low a time or two.
She was in Korea, Vietnam, She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.

She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,

And now they've about quit waving her back here at home.
And here in her own good land,
She’s been abused, burned, dishonored, denied and refused,
And the very government for which she stands
Has been scandalized throughout out the land.
And she’s getting thread bare, and she’s wearing thin,
But she’s in pretty good shape, for the shape she’s in.
Cause she’s been through the fire before
and I know, she can take a whole lot more.

So we raise her up every morning
And we bring her down every night,
We don’t let her touch the ground,
And we fold her up right.
On second thoughtI do like to brag
Cause I’m mighty proud of
"That Ragged Old Flag"

Johnny Cash

Gag me with a spoon

2009-02-18T08:42:00.000-08:00

Their coming! Buy all the gunz you can and more importantly ammo. remember that the nazi's called their political party The National Socialist Party of Germany. The so called dem's of our era Are unwilling to give a quick fix to our economy. They are in time trying to make the public depend greatly on government. They have the time to do this with 4/8 years. Nationalizing banks, civil pet projects, computerized health records and a governing bureaucracy spawns this movement which will keep the people needing more. Next up universal healthcare. Why do they want a more stream lined heath system? because it the corner stone for Universal healthcare. This same healthcare program the governing bodies wont be taking part in, they have their own health plan. The stimulus which was signed yesterday shows of this dependence by the massive spending on infrastructure and civil work. Most of these projects are union operations or ran by state and federal workers. When the work is done they will need more and the democratic government will have a list for these now dependant workers.

We need it now or there will be an all out catastrophe on our hands. This was the attitude to set this stimulus into motion. Monday Feb 9th it was a dyer Friday 13th it passed and Tuesday the President got around to signing it. Now the party says it could get worse before it gets better, that this bill will take time to make a real difference. What was the hurry? You can't brew a stew without having it boil, the plot thickens my friends. The democrats put the largest spending bill in the history of the world into play without have a single body of government read it. This was the urgency the people were not told of. What do bank robbers do when they commit there crime? They get it and they get out. QUICK! Does this sound familiar? They have taken from us, they've taken from me and my children. The stimulus was for an economic turn around not for the start up of a political machine fueled by the desperate and downtrodden in our society. keep in mind these officials are not the same as the people they are pledging to help. They are the wealthy elite just the same in a world different from the poeple they are governing.

4OJ party 2008

2009-01-23T11:43:00.000-08:00

Sight of the famous Edward 40 hands challenge and just general weekend of awesomeness. This year the record for fastest finish was shattered. The new time to beat is 14min held by myself. Down form the previous 2007 time of 20 min. Which was set by B-wack who also had biked out to Lance & Laura's from my crib just before the game began, talk about thirsty. We also had our first female challenger my wife who did finish between the 3 contestants of 2008. Ryno was also a contender however he came up with a handmade 40oz beer bong which only pushed me to a 14min finish. Justin who is pictured being handed a beer managed to get himself the " U Got Served" award for the third year running. The trophy is an old 40 bottle from the first year we came up with this event. The Old English bottle is missing parts of its label with a half a swallow left at the bottom, a bottle cap in it and a couple of smokes were put out in it as well. He and I were contenders for the prize this year. Late the first evening we spilled our dinner so to speak. It was a toss up (Pun intended) for the award and it was decided the next day when Phee was in much worst shape than I the next morning. I made it up with the first wave of folks form the tent city down by the lake. My fathers recipe for Bloody Mary's even went down with no trouble at all that morning.
The next day was spent as most are that weekend. Lance and I made it out on the lake in "The domestic dispute" which is the name of Lance's sunfish sailboat. I was wondering why he named his boat this knowing that our group does come up with some good ones? Once we made it back to shore another couple came aboard for a try. Since it was their first time in a sailboat Lance and I said we would accompany them in Lance's vintage fiberglass kayak. What a Classic!!! we tow them out away from the dock and with in minutes the Dispute had a very good grasp on it's victims and the couples voices got louder and soon turned to yelling. names where called and another domestic at sea was had. The odd thing about it is Lance and I were about 30 feet away from the may lay, Award. All I said to Lance was "jeez" and he replies with "see what I mean".
The typical conversations flowed thou the rest of the weekend. Either in the shop, on the lake or around the fire. We had a poll one night over who would win this years Presidential election with 21 people voting a few didn't place the baled and we had one person who burned theirs. Our group is much like your average block on any street in America. Our friends have polarizing differences about each other and that doesn't change when we are talking politics. The poll was a indicator over the 2008 election and Obama had a 1 vote victory between all who participated.
The group always has a time at the 4OJ party and I know we all thank Lance & Laura for the opportunity and hospitality. Next year will more than likely be a shadow of it's former self with more and more children being added to the weekend none the let it will be a different kind of enjoyment.

"U Got Served"

Fireside

Ode to the Mustache

2009-01-19T12:59:00.000-08:00

I have decided for entertainment value I will be periodically posting pictures at will of mustache excellence. Here is my first of many to come.

"Just add 1 part bleach to 5 parts ammonia"

2009-01-16T13:25:00.000-08:00

Was a quote from the A.T.F. officer when I asked him how to clean up the spa and get it running again. I guess lack of use will make some pretty ugly water to cleanse yourself in. So I had a run in with the ATF after my February Post/Poll on the featured 50. cal. I think buying 3 guns last year may have had something to do with it to. Any who back up and running again still have all my gunz and the water flows clear in the man spa. Below are some newer old posts I've been meaning to get out there but with the Legalities thing I had to wait until my exoneration..... Enjoy

B-Dub Memorial 2008 posted 2009

2009-01-16T12:18:00.000-08:00

Entry point #16 Moose River. We are making tracks for Agnes to stay at what Meredith and I call the cabin. Meredith and I haven't been to this lake since we named our youngest daughter (Isabelle Agnes Meyer) after this personal treasure which has many memories for us. It will be good to get back to the cabin again.
Panama Red is seen unleashing Lance and Laura's canoe whom is not in attendance this year on a count of their 6 month old Emmett born on 12-06-2007.

After a clear skied day we hit the shores of our cabin at 2:00PM to begin setting up camp for the long weekend.

Fishing at the rapids north of Agnes
Is that a nomb in that canoe?
I've said it before about the B-Dub you can be walking along in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden you take a look around and you could just swear that a nomb lives around there. This one happens to be Coders best impression I have seen to date.

Tinny walleye

Upper mouth of the rapids flowing into boulder bay from Agnes

Dinner for 8.

Lookout over Agnes on top of hikers rock.

Bit of a storm front moving in

Halfdome 2 in the midst of white pine dowel.

Erich, Amber, Me, Mere, FNG, Ryno, Coder and Ne Ne

See ya next year!

Captain Awesome strikes again

2008-04-04T19:27:00.000-07:00

Like I was saying about my Mazatlan trip with Meredith and the Rohrbach's and how we were going to catch some fish. Well we went and we did catch fish. Last Monday the group caught a van from the hotel down the Marina at 6:00am. Paid the man and hopped on one of the Aries Fleet charter boats the Aries 1. Senior Rohrbach and were barring gifts for the Captain and Chirs the deck hand. Ryan works for Rapala which owns a company called Williamson Lures which is the top deep water fishing lure out in the water today. We both had a bag full of them. 30 + at leased. The Deck hand seemed very happy when we handed it all over. It was our hope that the gifts would bring us luck on the water or put us in a favored spot out at sea. The boat motored outa da haba and it wasn't long before the 18 miles had been closed going at 25 knot clip. At we traveled out to the fishing grounds Chris was readying the bait and lures. We drop it well behind the wake of an ocean liner. The bait was in the water for about 45 minutes when the bail started to Zing. Fish on..... I jumped in the chair making no haste. This fish was in the boat in my mind. The Captain and Chris were jawing back and forth and all I could make out was Darado. AWESOME!!!!! Get this thing in the boat. With about 15 minutes of a fight we pulled it in. That was one of the biggest rushes I have ever had. I can compare it with shooting my two largest deer after it was over. That is a feeling I will crave for the rest of my life. I wont hesitate at the chance to fulfill such a rush.

Now we have three other members of our fishing party that need to provide. The 45minute wait seemed like 10 min. and the reel was singing again. This time it was Senior Rohrbach's turn. his fish was also a darado. You could tell this because the thing was jumping all over the place. That was great fun to watch. We got it up to the boat and I snapped a few shots of the fish with a Willaimson Lure in its mouth. Ryan was able to catch his fish of one of the lures we brought down. Thank you Rapala...

Two in the boat. Now we are hitting 50% the ladies need a turn. An hour goes by and we had cracked into some Mexican equivalent to a 40oz. Shannan was sitting in the chair and the reel goes off. Darado. This one was a jumper too. She battled it in after a good fight. Chris gaffed it and I got one of the best fresh colored shots of all the fish. Seconds from the water. The alien like features with the coloring is beautiful.

The day went on and the party started to slumber already rich with memories playing in our heads. The thought of all of us bringing one in was on the top of my mind for quite some time. The next thing you now the boat is alive and Meredith is in the seat being handed a rod with fish in tow. The thought comes to my mind what is it. In a short time the fish jumped and it was what do you know Darado. All of us caught a Darado. Sweet!! I got some great action shots of Meredith pulling in her catch.

The lines were set in the water right away. we trolled past a group of whales hanging out in the warm waters. The boat engines slowed slight and Chris points out to the port side and says look Sword fish. I jump to my feet and I see two fins sticking out of the water. We slowly were circling the boat to position the bait in front of him and as we were turning to his front he then turned toward the bait letting the bait pass well in front of him. We made several triangles around the area but no luck. The boat began trolling east back in the direction of the Marina and I new our fishing trip was coming an end we sat back in our chairs already talking of what fun we all had and the line goes taunt again. I take the chair and began reeling and I'd pump the Line and it seemed so easy to began just reeling and reeling I brought the fish right in gaffed it in the boat and the fifth Darado was caught. truly an AWESOME experience to have had the pleasure of experiencing with my bride and friends. All in all 5 fish in the boat, 100% hook ups no lost fish, 3 fish were caught on williamson lures provided by our friends at Rapala and everyone got to bring one in. And after the pictures on shore we had them cut up Shannans fish to be cooked at the restaurant at the hotel. Mahi mahi is one of my favorite ocean fish and I can say that this one was the best I've ever had. What a trip out to sea.

Gunz

2008-02-21T18:52:00.000-08:00

Did I ever tell you I Luv Gunz! Yeah..... I do and these clips all feature the 500 50 cal. Lady Smith.
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUHeYCM5WuQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GDBh7mKw94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxLmiYiwvus

Deep sea in 100 degrees

2008-02-21T18:15:00.000-08:00

I and my bride are planning to go down to sunny Mazatlan for a short week in the end of March. I'm hoping to have hot weather for this winter has been exceptionally poor numbers in the Fahrenheit scale. The sun and the time away will do much good. We have planned this trip with another couple back in Janruary and last week we added one more of Mere's co-workers and her husband to make it 6 total. We plan to do some deep sea fishing while we are down there for a day. The bill fish (Marlin and Sail Fish) will be running strong in their season so I plan to do well. I wouldn't be opposed to catching a Dorado or Tuna either. They are all on my list to catch. One of the people going down with us works for Rapala and will be bringing down some gifts for the Capt. and this crew. I'm hoping that should send our boat to rich waters in the prime local from these great catches. Pictures will be uploaded at the earliest chance. If we don't have fish I will at least get some hot chicks pool side to post.
I can say that The Spa has not been putting out the heat as much as I would like. I just don't have anything cookin right now. There's nothing in season to kill for now, I haven't been ice fishing much so this trip is going to have to bring home the posts until fishing opener in May. we'll have a few posts here and there but it's the dog days of late winter, all you can do is sit it out unfortunately with the cold season it has to be inside.

For now Captain Awesome is giving you all a salute.

Mille Lacs lake SUCKS DONKEY!!

2008-01-28T19:48:00.000-08:00

I hate that lake! I have now gone on an annual ice fishing trip to that lake for 9 years with 6 or 7 dudes and 1 year we have had good fishing. If I had any decent pics to show you I would but there's nothing good about a nine 9" perch and countless 4"ers. We stay for an entire weekend 48hrs in a 10 x 24 house. Over the last 2 years I've just taken to getting drunk. I don't even like to drink that much.

I can't think of one good thing about that lake all the way down to the Hi how are ya's that scoop 250,000 lbs give or take very year. If you beg to differ you can smoke my pole and I don't mean the ones with a reel on it.

The BIG deal in December

2008-01-14T19:29:00.000-08:00

Holy Christ on rubber crutches, I can't believe I didn't post anything in December. Don't get me wrong some Awesome things did happen in December. I will say that the best thing over the holiday month personally was getting my Braces off. I 'm going to have to put a scar on my face like Cheech in the movie Still Smokin! Of course to make myself less beautiful as he did. That's a bit of my narcissistic quality I have in me.
The next awesomest thing would have to be playing the Santa thing all up for the month with the kids. " You know Santa's watching." He sure is and he's right n front of you so don't even think of throwing that ball at your sisters face. Other personal favorites regarding the Santa thing was, Writing Santa a letter and mailing it, Calling Santa (Lance) to make sure he got the letter. Making cookies for Santa, eating Santa's cookies after the kids went to bed. All of it great stuff.

Dear, I shot another deer.

2007-11-20T11:43:00.000-08:00

Once again early morning second weekend Friday in the stand. Still making it every deer I've ever shot being on that day. You just can't keep me out of the stand Friday second weekend. I was in my stand of Maples that McPhee and I built a week before the 06 season. I didn't have time this year to hang my new portable so I brought it out with me that morning and was going to go walking to find another spot to hang it later that day. I had been sitting for about an hour and as usual I hear a stick break from behind me then leaves. Taking a chance I peeked around the tree I was in. I saw a rack and big body about 50 yards back. I say to myself "that's a shooter" quickly turn and stop for a 1/2 second. Ok, he's still moving grab the 300 and go live. He now stops for what seemed to be about 5 minutes then I hear him start walking again. The wait had given me enough time to catch my breath, calm the heart and think a bit. The gun barrel was on the left but he was facing like he was going right. I needed to get the gun on the right side and make a left handed shot. My feet were stretched out in front of me and I could not take the chance of moving them. He was to close. The deer was still at my back when I made this correction and got set up on my shooting rail well he was still moving. Looking down my scope ahead of him through my left eye I pick out my shot as he is still coming around. He gets about parallel to me 50 yards out with his body behind 2 Maples growing close to one another. With his head sticking out he looks at me. Shit! I'm thinking don't you bolt. He takes a second looking at me looks the other way and then back at me. The deer then takes 2 steps turns 180 degrees. NO! Then 180 again back the way he was headed, OK. Now he is right in my shooting lane but quartering away. This is it! Any more and All I get is an ass shot and more yards between him and I. I take it! BANG! Off my left bicep where my gun is resting. The deer hopped when he was hit and does a couple of bronco kicks trots down a small hill on his way up the other side I see him get dizzy and tip over. AWESOME! It was a good shot. I didn't even load another round. He went down about 80 yards from my stand and I could see him, perfect. With in an hour I had him gutted out and I was on the phone passing the word to whom ever would pick up the phone while in my stand waiting for the next one. I saw a doe about 115 yards out just after gutting this guy and let that one go. The next day (Saturday) at 8:20 I had a good looking 6 point come in from behind me again at 30 yards, I grunted to get him to stop at 60 yards so I could take a good look at him. He'll make for a nice buck next year. I let him go. What a great 07 hunt.

Captain Awesome!

The 300 barked on Friday morning at 7:45am. A left handed shot. He weighed 162lbs, 16inch inside spread and has a 7/8inch sticker on his right beam. A cunt hair shy but I'm still calling him a 9 point.

Right before this picture was taken Maddie asked me "Daddy, why that deer go like this?" I replied "Because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, Honey."

B-Dub Memorial 2007

2007-10-02T08:26:00.000-07:00

Headed up the Echo Trail to Little Indian Sioux entry point 14.

The red boats are coming! The red boats are coming!

Erich & Amber laying into lunch.

Captain Awesome cooking lunch. Big Tom Wurst you may recognize this spot for I am siting in the same spot of the first bee stinging which would eventually total 4 on the 06 Labor Day trip.
I would also like to point out that the total of 4 stings and the story behind them all is my favorite part of that trip.

halfdome 2 and hubba hubba in the for ground and canoe town in back.

Hey Corbs, You building a rock dock?
Yep.

Standard undie kite after lake bath.

Captain Awesome
The trip this year was a bitter cold one, some party members even made comments that they had all the cloths they brought on. I even made a last minute addition of the fleece featured in the above pic which came in mighty handy. If it wasn't overcast it was raining or misting. The winds didn't let up until 3 hrs the night before we left that Monday. To add more of an insult to this injury of moral, the Forest Service enacted a fire ban for northern Minnesota. LAME! The fishing provided all northerns and just 2 walleye caught by myself. however one of those made a successful attempt for freedom off the bottom of the canoe, off my leg, off the side of the canoe then swam away. Sh!t. All and all an excellent trip once again. I'm looking forward to next years trip already.

Going down to Florida to get some sand in my shoes.

2007-09-20T12:27:00.000-07:00

In Feb. of 2007 Meredith the kids and I where down getting sand in our shoes. I found some extra time away with the father n law & Brother n law, Bill and Adam. We set up a charter through Tin City Boats in Naples to take us out one after noon.

the 32 ft DALIS dockside.

Motoring into the haba.

Cross Catching 18"Grouper off the list.

The take home included Red Snapper, Pogies and Mackerel

Captain Scott Commanding Captain Awesome, Bill And Adam in. The seas were rough we all shared heights of 6 to 9ft rollers about 10 to 25 miles out to sea. The first spot only yielded small mackerel and White fish so after an hour we busted out to the Grouper grounds to have our self a time.

L.O.W. in June

2007-09-20T05:47:00.000-07:00

Lake of the Wood May 30th to June 3rd
The began with a sense of urgency. With Meredith and I just getting back home from the B-Dub one day prior to Bill ( father n law), Adam ( Brother n law) and myself leaving for the LOW I had to be packed for both trips before leaving for the first. We left after work on Wednesday for the boarder town of Baudette MN Staying at the Walleye Inn. The next morning we crossed into Canada with a full mini van of fishing gear, food for the 3 of us, our clothing, my boat in tow, and a legal limit of beers which is 24 per person minus the 6 or 8 we had the night before. After an always intimidating encounter with the boarder mounties we were given the green light to make the final leg to the marina called Ontario Wilderness Houseboats in Morson about 60 miles north from the crossing. We took a look at the map and it seemed to us like the best wrought north was to go east and take the road with the straighter shot bringing us right to the town to pick up any last minute essentials and our Canadian fishing licenses. This was a BAD idea for about a mile down the road of choice we hit gravel slowing us down to about 45 mpr at times. I couldn't help but to think we should turn around but that would have killed to much time. After the gravel road came to our first westerly turn off we took that and found the correct wrought north. Talk about "The Road Not Taken." Once at the Canadian equivalent to a Wal-Mart condensed into about 5000 sqr ft to get the licenses and some impulse buys(one more case of beer) we were on our way out the door. Just then a man was walking in and asked "You guys got a blue van?" I quickly reply NO. GUOOoo we do have a blue van. Knowing that the question meant you have a problem I quickly scan the 2 tires on the boat trailer, ok good there. Now I give the 4 on the van a glance. Shit.... The rear drivers side had sprung a leak. After changing the tire out and tossing it in the boat for transit we were down the road on a doughnut complements of Diamler Chysler.
Once arriving we quickly loaded our home for the next 3 nights which we called luck #7. The bait(10 dozen) was bagged, Florida Bound (my fishing boat) was tied on for the tow and the destination was chosen we disembarked form the bay of Morson.

The chosen was a beach on the supple waters in Miles Bay where the walleye are hanging after spawn. Arriving in a calm large bay facing east we secured the houseboat and readied our gear for our first outing. I had asked the Marina owner Terry what was the favored color for jigs? He replied "5/8oz all white or john deere green." I thought to myself that it sounds like the last minute trip to Cabela's would pay off. Oddly enough those were two colors out of 4 that I purchased a 25 packs of. The boat fully loaded with gear and personnel we set out for our first hole trolling in 11ft. This brought us poor results. Most of the fish to small were to get their mouths around the bait so after giving this spot a good while we decided if we want to make the bait last we should move out of this spot. Later Bill had landed 1 of the smallies about 15 inches. By this time Adam had caught one of his first walleyes and seeing him ponder on how to get the toothy muscle off his line was a bit of humor. I could only think how I was once there a long time ago. With a how to glance from him. I said "you just do it, quick. Grabbing him at the gills so the dorsal fin can't get up and stick you... Oh and watch out for the gill plates." After a few womanly freak outs and a number of seconds go by he grabs hold. I say "see Bill a boy becomes a man." Fishing the last half of the day until dusk we had a stinger for dinner caught by Bill and Adam of walleye, sauger, last years tenderloins of venison and a dinner salad. The meal was of restaurant quality. Early that morning I was awoken by my bladder(2:00 or 3:00AM). I opened the sliding glass door only to hear a death cry sound from something in the dark woods out from our landing. I stood there for a while wishing I could see the event only to confirm the may lay of a racket. This was no bird, no beaver, no overly anxious and well hated red squirrel nor a Miller induced illusion. Something was dieing out there. I thought of waking the others but that would have given them less sleep so I crawled into my sleeping bag and went fast asleep.

Day 2 we set out past the group of islands for the open waters of Miles bay. I kept marking fish stacked in 40 to 50 feet. The bottom was like large moguls rippling out into the open water. I shut the motor off and the jigs went over board. After fishing until about 12:00 we had another stringer of walleyes, sauger and a fat belly perch all caught by Bill that morning. I made comment on Bills skills by saying " All you needed was a theme song and this could be called the The Bill Fuchs Show." Nice work Bill, thanks for lunch. A mid day break in the action with a map deliberation and we set out between the 2:00 to 5:00 hours. This turned out to be a not so good time for fishing. The youngster in the boat was getting a little cranky. We all were a bit beat so Florida Bound and its fearless crew made way for the houseboat. Adam slept until 8:00pm. Bill and I had drank Bloody's, some beers and made a pyramid. The fish had been steady all week for what I understood. Awakening the anchor boy with some loud music and foot pounding the last hour of day light was ours. I laid into a couple of eaters and once again dinner was on a rope.

Day 3 the last day of fishing, crunch time. I rallied the troops that morning again with some very loud music all the while explaining that "we were going to battle that day. Many must fall victims to our lines. This is crunch time. We need like 10 fish. 8 of which are our take home that day and some for lunch." I had kept 1 fish the day before so I was sure to make my total of 4 to bring home. The crew gathered what would be our weapons and ammo that early morning of beers, snacks, fishing gear. Then we here an Oh No! This was from Bill who was grabbing the bait before we set out. Bill had found our final 3 dozen minnows belly up. The odds for our take home had just gotten worse. I said "Well bring'em, they're biting so well I don't think that it's going to matter. Lets get in the boat." Fishing could not have been better that day. By noon we had lunch in our stomachs and the take home in the freezer. later that evening we went out for some catch and release and we did catch and did release. I was being pressured into going up the spot where we had caught the take home fish which was not far away but we were LOW on gas. With some reluctance I made the call to go. We motored the 20 horse up there. We fished until the skeets became unbearable and I called it a night. Brrrrrrrrr........Brrrrr......Brrr....B. It was over. We had run out of gas. Hoping for a boat to come by for a tow. We began trolling back about a mile to the houseboat. The boat never came. I can say that I was not happy about not trusting my instincts but after a while I found that it was a quiet, peaceful end to the weekend.

The next morning it was time to make way for the Marina. Once we arrived we found that in a effort to patch our leak the side wall of the tire had blown out. With it being Sunday there was nowhere for us to pick up a replacement. Bill had to catch a flight out that evening of business so time became a factor as well. The van had to make the entire 350 mile journey home on the doughnut. We all made it and Bill did make his flight out that evening.

The fishing this trip was top notch. We caught all walleye,sauger that weekend 2 smallies and 1 monster perch. The weather could not have been better with 70-80 degree days and light winds. I would not have changed a thing other than going up the gravel road and picking up a chain link in the tire. I'm looking forward to enjoy the lake of the Woods by houseboat again soon.

lucky #7

This one's a 20"

One of only 2 smallies caught the whole weekend by Bill.

Our take home stringer.

The last night under a beautiful cloud covered evening sky.

What a view to end our trip.

Here's Captain Awesome

2007-09-18T20:15:00.000-07:00

Sweetest log I've ever caught.
Largest Deer for me in 2006.
Hottest wife award recipient.
The use of most square footage in a canoe cabin.
Interior.

Captain Awesome!!!!
In Deed.

Here's some awesome stuff from last year and it's got me in it a lot so I called the blog CAMS (Captain Awesome's Man Spa) which are my initials without the S. We're gonna keep the S cause it works and it's my site.