This morning we are heading for the fishing tourney in Wyoming…I hope we make it there.

As usual when I get up this early 3:15, I try my best not to disturb my better half (3/4ths) and I tip toe around the place making sure the lights are not left on, or even turned on at all.  This morning has not been very friendly for her so far.

It started with me attempting to put one of two thermos bottles on the counter….I hit the bottom of one against the edge of the counter top and it flipped forward…the very loose lid came off and bounced forward and hit the small cutting board and Ulu knife that leans against the edge of the wall on the backside of the counter top, the lid then proceeded to fall into the sink, to an awaiting glass pan lid, while on top of the counter, the cutting board and Ulu knife slowly fell toward me and then crashed down hard on top of the counter.

That was a lot of racket and I’m quite surprised I didn’t hear something come yelling at me from the back bedroom.  I thought I would, but she must be in a good mood.

My mind raced as to why that just happened and could not come up with any explanation, except…repeat after me…Imma…dumbshit!

I picked things up and put them back in their relative positions and proceeded to gather more things up to heat my broth…yummy left over corned beef broth saved from the last time we had corned beef.  I filled the pan with the broth and the thermos with hot water.  Then proceeded into my den to begin writing something of entertainment for you to read.

As the computer was booting up the weather channel was hanging up and beginning to P.O. me….I could not get it to close down and let me open up the master playground of Bears Butt Dot Com…suddenly I heard the faint noise of something spilling against a hot cook plate…I rushed into the kitchen to find the broth boiling over the top and all over the stove!!!!!

Yikes!

I turned off the plate, grabbed a hot pad and moved the boiling over pan to a cold plate, of course spilling more contents across the top of the stove as I went.  A big old mess was before me!

My mind thought, what could happen next?

The pouring of the broth into the thermos was no big deal, but we will be short about a cup of broth…a small price to pay for the beating I’ll get when Winemaker turns that hot plate on next.  I did clean up the mess on top of the stove, but didn’t get underneath the hot plate.  My bad, but I have a fishing trip to make and no time to mess with the mess!  Sorry, I do have my priorities!

And besides I was able to make a second pot of coffee without incident!  My good!

As a side note, I received a base layer shirt for Christmas from Weasel and Hot Spark and until this morning I had always worn it on top of my red flannel underwear…not so today, I figure I’m going to need all the warmth I’ll be able to get for that Wyoming weather we are facing and so I put it on and then my red flannels over that…what a remarkable difference in the warmth…It’s too hot in this house right now!

I hope to have a success story of several huge fish caught and measured for today’s contest, but who knows….whatever happens will be reported, with pictures and even if the day turns out to be just another day on the ice with friends and no fish…so be it…it sure beats anything else I can think of doing today!

Wish us luck!

Bears Butt

February 1, 2014 (What happened to January?)