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Strange things can happen while fishing
By George Rooks
Howdy Folks, On Christmas Eve the services at the Bethel United Methodist Church were at 6 and 11 p.m. we attended the 6 p.m. service and by 11 p.m. there was some snoring at our house! There was a good attendance at these services with communion and candlelight as we sang Silent Night. Christmas morning we went to our daughter Debby’s and Bobby’s for breakfast along with our granddaughters and their husbands and of course the most special one, our great granddaughter Brooklyn. Brooklyn was more interested in presents than in eating breakfast. After breakfast we went to watch the girls and their families open their gifts. Brooklyn was helping her Mom, Dad, Aunt Michelle and Uncle Brad along with opening her own. On Christmas night our daughter Pauline, Ralph and Curtis joined us there at Debby and Bobby’s again for supper and opening our gifts to each other. Everyone got plenty of gifts and attention. Saturday evening our grandson Ralph and his wife Kayla and our great grandson Ralphie came here to have Christmas with us, as they went to her mother’s for Christmas. Our great-grandson really enjoyed playing with Chester the kitten. Ralphie would run through the house and Chester would hide and jump up at him. While I was eating breakfast the other day I saw a pileated woodpecker in a tree in our neighbor’s woods. They are so beautiful and big. You can tell if it is the big one instead of a regular woodpecker by the sound they make pecking. We went to Walmart to get some items Monday and was talking to a young feller that said he was fishing in East Fork Lake last Saturday and had a new experience. He said he had a line out by a limb with a cork on it and a fish came up and got the cork and took it down. He said he lifted the line up jigging the minnow on the jig and the fish swallowed the hook. He was surprised to find that a 12 inch crappie had swallowed this jig and had bit and pulled down the cork. This is unusual to happen but strange things happen to folks. I was talking to Mike at the Boars Head Bait Shop in Afton this morning ( New Year’s Eve). He said this is the last day this year he was working and maybe he would come back to work next year! He said there were several folks that went fishing last Saturday and caught several crappie. But few were big ones, it will be interesting come spring for crappie fishing. We had a bed of late green onions out and the deer ate the tops off. I wonder if the meat would taste like onion. That is the first time they have done this. I have been working in the shop making a tripod of bamboo for lima beans this year. They will be three bamboo six feet long with a top to hold them together. This will make a dandy item for lima beans to grow on and easy to pick, instead of letting them grow and lay on the ground. I have been doing a lot of walking each day, the cardiologist said I needed to do a lot of walking since I had completed rehab so I am doing this. The birds are really feeding at the feeders. It seems we need to fill each one at least twice each week and the suet blocks sure get a lot of attention. When I fill the feeders what is left in the bottom I dump on the ground and the crows have been eating the small seeds I have counted three crows so far. This time of the year the food supply for the birds and squirrels is in short supply so we keep feed out for all of them. We enjoy watching the activity of each of them. Have you noticed the beauty of the cardinals when the snow is on the bushes and ground and how bright the red headed woodpeckers look, the beauty of all birds. Start your week by going to the house of worship of your choice and praise the Good Lord. God Bless All More Later. George Rooks is a retired park ranger. Rooks served for 28 years with the last five as manager of East Fork State Park http://news.cincinnati.com/proart/?a...gerestricted=1 --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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