Recent Fishin' Pics and More!

Bobby's blacktip shark and bull red:

Leon fighting and landing a ray:

A few jobs:

The YMCA of Abilene needs a swim team coach

Highland Village needs an assistant age group coach

TeamFINS needs an assistant head coach

We have room for four (4) two (2) one (1) more teams in our Fantasy Foosball league.  It's FREE and champion will get a trophy.  Info here

Quote of the Day

When everything is said and done

there is nothing left to do or say.

via The Times-Tribune

Darryl Dawkins

Quote of the Day

A window of opportunity won't open itself.

(via Twitter)

Dave Weinbaum

Quote of the Day

You measure the size of the accomplishment

by the obstacles you had to overcome

to reach your goals.

via biography

Booker Taliaferro Washington

Quote of the Day

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued,

is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you

will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quote of the Day

Forget past mistakes.  Forget failures.

Forget everything except what

you're going to do now and do it.

via Buick Factory History

William Crapo "Billy" Durant

Fantasy Foosball 2015

via digital operative

Our league is FREE and the champion will get a groovy trophy.

Past winners:

2005 - Hill (dirtybuttcrackheads)

2006 - Hill (dirtybuttcrackheads)

2007 - Montoya (The Slum Lords)

2008 - Button, Jr. (YouAllSuck-JustQuit)

2009 - Button, Jr. (YouAllSuck-JustQuit)

2010 - Tonya S. (sugar hiccups)

2011 - Button, Sr. (Mansfield Maulers)

2012 - Katie (Smack&Cheese)

2013 - Katie (Smack&Cheese)

2014 - Button, Sr. (Bait Campers)

Only room for nine (9) more teams in this year's league.  Sign up through your Yahoo! account:

League Name/Link: Texas Swimming

Live Draft: Monday, September 7, 8:00 p.m. (Central)

Quote of the Day

I got hit in the head pretty hard.  My

clock ran backwards for two years.

via NASCAR

Elzie Wylie "Buddy" Baker, Jr.

We're Back!

We hit the summit on July 30.  Got back to Texas on August 5.

Link to the blog (with plenty of pics from the thru-hike) is here.

Links to the journal:

Start (keep clicking on "Next" to read in order)

Finish (keep clicking on "Previous" to read in reverse order)

Links to the "bests" lists:

First Third

Middle Third

Final Third

Doctor visit this a.m. went well.  Lost sixty pounds and blood pressure has dropped a bunch.  Blood work and foot x-rays scheduled for tomorrow.

Quote of the Day

People remember Don being a country bumpkin,

which he wasn't, and Howard being a pain in

the ass, which he was.  I was the law and order.

via newstimes

Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford

Quote of the Day

The most common way people give up their

power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Malsenior Walker