smiles and blues

Smiles and Blues

How quickly peace, love, and fishing became smiles and blues!

We had the best fun ever fishing,
But had rough seas, lost the winning fish, and oh well,
Has the worst dumb luck we have ever had in 48 hours fishing,
No REALLY!
The best and the worst!

We awoke day two to:
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
That really means, small craft stay home,
Big craft fall hard, many times!
But rule #78 prevailed,
No quitters,
Play like a champion!
And ARG
We did!

The sweet sound of thunder and rain cockadoodle-doing in harmony with the westin rooster at 4 am meant nothing but ahhhhhh, its gonna be right today!

All that in thought,
We still tried to go as far as we needed, till we found that lucky fish from yesterday,
That shattered our dreams of victory in the quick slice of a snap swivel-
We would find him despite any conditions!
ARG

Well we cruised like a missile through the back lakes of the gulf, skirting the seas, and watching the lightening show as we bolted through the water and past other boats like a cloud to ground strike, only black, and faster!
It was awesome!

Then we hit the ocean,
Reality set in
In the form of 6 footers coming from every direction,
The boat propelled by soon to be 900 hp,
I gotta go faster folks,
Could barely walk, and certainly not run,
We slowed and took wave after wave,
Up one 4 feet,
Down the other side 6 feet,
Then sideways,
Then over the top,
The sunroof we created the day before provided us all for a nice saltwalter shower at 7 am!
To add insult to injury, the Sirius satellite radio encompassing the cd player also,
Broke earlier in day one,
I, we, all tried to fix it with no avail,
I couldn’t fish another day in silence,
I know I had the wind and the crashing waves blocking most of my hearing,
But I needed more,
So jimmy, gary, and I sang the entire day.
Our fave tune was
‘michael row the boat ashore, halleiyeiya!’

What else can you do? You all who have heard me sing, know the pain I put on my crew,
Of course, it was easy to dance, as the boat tossed me from one side to the next, so I just kept shakin’ my hips to that,
Bruises where there should not be bruises folks!
We made up songs as we went along,
Fishing songs,
Songs about really whatever mike or one of the other 4 boats radio’d to us,
We would make up a song or the words to a song,
It was ugly and so much fun!

By high noon, we had one more hour till that fat lady sang,
So jimmy and I got into the costa Rican rum he brought,
Kinda made the sea legs a little less wobbly!~~~~~

Went in and cleaned up,
Now the wind was crossing the water like a knife through butter,
It was the low pressure front itself, a mini hurricane, passing over our heads,
For over an hour we felt the extreme force of nature
In wind and water………..
It was awesomely horrible!

Ended the day with, well,
Shopping for me, naps for boys, and then dinner was some super cool people,
My giant david van lent, his crew who are very fun,
And newfound friends, to me anyway, bobby on lured away and his group,
We ate and drank at pepe’s and as we were leaving got called into
Irish Kevin’s to pick up chico, bobby’s little elfin’ magic man,
And well,
The day/night went south from there~!
Tequila, dancin’, and jello shooters, and OH HEY,
Hook m dano and reno phil aka cobia cowboy showed up,
I had already been missing my bean bag buddy,
Who got to hang with me while I snored and snuggled on the bean bag we shared for the first few days,
I sleep so well on the boat………
Anyway,
They neglected to fight the seas and fought happy hour instead, not sure who won that battle yet, but……
Big fun ahead!

Night ended at capt tony’s with our good buddy gary,
Did anyone know he and gary on our team were twins by different mothers,
That’s why they are both named gary!

Red bull and vodka ruled from there, and the super fun vamoose boys and oh I forgot,
Ty cobb Showed, yep, alive and partying on duval street,
I love baseball, and I love even more being almost taller than someone,
and the evening got worser (sp?)

I finally pulled the plug, as there was a girl making the major moves on me,
And my crew only egged her on,
Shame on them-it was ugly,
Really, it was UGLY!
And it was the 3rd event of such that day,
Gotta learn how to turn off the charm-ha ha!

Love to all,
Off to vegas now for shoe show and to de-tox,
Has anyone ever actually gone TO vegas to de-tox and sleep!!!!!
Maybe get a massage, try and hold your arms above your head holding on to something for ,well, almost two days, I feel like I just battled greg maddux, randy Johnson, and john shmoltz! And then did 1000 squats!

Peace out cub scouts!


sk

Get the Monkey off my Back!

Go Fishing!
Well, rough day, the seas were 4 foot to 6 foot,
we ran 80 miles or so,
took one over the top,
ripped the t top canvas in half,
about floated me and my bean bag out the boat,
first hour, bait gets crushed,
i was on the bow taking water in the face,
the fish was flying, I have never heard the reel get into third gear the way it did,
then it went dead,
a shark came up and ate my big fish,
the head weighed over 30 pounds,
this went on all day, we had a tail cut,
a missed hook, and then we had a fish over 60 pounds,
eat the short bait right at the boat and it hit it so hard,
it swallowed the 5 pound bait fish, which is like an 18 inch long swimming bait fish,
swallowed it whole and bent out the swivel, breaking it and swimming off right in front of us,
it was the biggest fish I have ever seen,
we ended the day with a brutal run back to the dock that took over 3 hours,
but we did enjoy goofin on our buddy mark, with our monkey suits and more to come on that later,
poor guy was so embarrassed he left after today and drove home!
never try and trick a stecki,
they are craftier than anyone,
so GAME ON for the pranks,
tomorrow is supposed to be rougher, windier,
and yes,
thunderstorms,
oh boy!
off to sleep now for a few hours,
more tomorrow folks!

team lucy
lucy, a bear, and two monkeys signing out......

PEACE, LOVE, AND FISHING

Go Fishing!
or is it,
STINK EYE PINK EYE !
Yep, guess i gotta little key west funk in my eye,
thanks missy!

so yes,
last night was cool!
First, paella at the cuban restaurant for 18 people-
WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH ALL THIS PAELLA????????
seinfield.....

food was amazing,
cold, windy and rainey all day, kept us at sloppy joes
where a new guy was playing,
oh hey it was gary!
he said he moonlights there but is it still
moonlighting if its an afternoon gig?

got to capt tony's to find gary after dinner,
and lo and behold,
capt tony showed up,
a day early....

we are getting married on saturday after i catch the winning fish,
you know he opened the bar in 1933,
and he is now 91,
and quicker than ever to grope and grab,
fortunatly the oxygen tank only reaches so far!!!

ska founders jack and dionna showed up as well as the
that's my dog team, ian, and we all danced the night away.

I made the call to pass the Jaeger shots that were being bought,
and glad of it,
woke up and went to pepe's for bfast/lunch
and went to sign up,

three cd's for fishing,
are
peace (simple songs of peace)
love (beatles love soundtrack)
and fishing,
a D J Suzie K mix,

more later,
tomorrow we win,

missy,
thanks for the material!

miss you all!

s

cobia cowboy

Go Fishing!
big phil, now carrying this years version of the stink eye, aka: black eye,
poor countertop didn't stand a chance the other night/morning!
fished hard for bait yesterday, laughed and had a great time,
nevada phil, now also known as 'cobia cowboy' hosted us at his condo with the hook 'm's and prepared and incredible meal of stuffed filet mignon, potato's, and satauued squash,
fished hard today,
13 hours on the water, went about 80miles south (east/west-who really knows here!)
caught a few monster kingfish,had one eaten at the boat by a giant bullshark,

ran into gary again tonight,
oddly enough, at his job!
i told him about the new ugel arrival, and he said,
oh, dylan's family!
he was very excited for phil, kelly, and dylan and the new baby born today,
travis was equally excited talking about his new baby girl, cadon (sp?)
and i bragged about jackson, gary thinks that name rocks!
he played 'ripple' i just danced, and sang on the inside!

I MISS MY FRIENDS!
Jan Chase and Chris were supposed to be here today, but a family ER came up,
so its me, myself, and I-arg!

SO GLAD BOOTSIE CAME HOME MISSY AND BRITT!

hey, why does a bear wear a fur coat?

becuase he looks ridiculous in a denim jacket!

let the bear jokes begin!!!!!

sunrise and sunset photo's-
amazing,
watching the sun skidding across the horizon....

tired, back on the boat in the am. 6 ish

btw-
i walked into capt tony's last night - they knew me,
walked into pepe's tonite,
they knew me,
getting to be a real hassle to disappear in this world!!!

more to come.....
off day on thursday!!!

sk

going where the climate suits my clothes......

Go Fishing!
so we made it,
to key west,
of course, not without incident!
caravaned with hook'm and travis,
they stayed in florida city, we went onto key largo after
hearing boats were getting stolen in florida by our best friend of the law,
catastrohpe!
could hardly park the boat, hotel sucked,
and got pulled over by border patrol thinking we stole the boat
and/or had aliens in it,
i said, no, just bears sir!
anyway, got in to key west next day, yesterday,
sunday,
early,
no check in yet, so we go to the airport,
mike said he is renting me a car so I won't wreck his AGAIN,
ok,
they have no cheap cars, so we do the walk out,
and they give us a ford mustang convertible for the week for less than
200.00,
perfect,
its grey, even better,
so we go to the boat parked at murray marine,
in front of the famous fence of last year,
and we park,
we get out,
parked again, same place along the 'fence',
i now call it the key west bermuda triange,
i get back in the car,
and within 30 seconds,
locked the keys inside,
whoah, the bear was mad,
but all i could do was laugh,
the more he yelled the more i laughed,
anyway,
hours later, the locksmith came and let me in,
travis was cool enough to assist mike with putting the
boat in the water,
got back checked in to a super fabulous room overlooking the harbor
and the sunset,
went to capt tony's and danced played with hook'm and gary and nevada phil till late into the night,
will fish hard tuesday.....
more later
78 degrees and muggy here....
hee hee
xoxoxox
sk
p s
just got the work from hook'm that phil fell down in the kitchen apon arriving home to condo, and travis invented a new geyser called beer, colts, ,and jeagerbombs,
straight up!
wow,
photo's are me in the bermuda triange,
sunset from hotel bar,
view of gary playing from 'our eyes'
and view from my room
more later....