Its Friday again!

When I was a small child going to school I always loved Fridays. It meant that I didn't have to go to school the next TWO days. To me Friday's were never here fast enough and they always dragged on especially through math class. Today everytime I turn around its Friday....again. It is not just Fridays that seem to speed past like the second hand on a watch, its everything. Birthdays seem to fly past, Christmas is barely put away before its back, Summers seem to speed by at the rate of light and even the winters don't seem so long. I'll have to admit that February does seem to slow things down a bit. Its a short month and it was designed to slow down so that we can all catch up. Anyway, its Friday, today and for most of us it is the beginning of TWO days off that we can......attempt to cram every second of doing anything else except what we get paid to do, up early to mow the grass, take the kids to practice, paint the house, go grocery shopping, fix dinner for the neighbors, drink way to many adult beverages, wash the car, clean the garage, clean the house, do laundry, go to the dry cleaners, bandage knees, elbows, foreheads and ankles. We build dog houses, plant flowers, weed gardens, take dogs to the vet, return movies, pick up new movies, wash the other car, put up shelves, quilt, knit, and of course get ready to go back to work. We go to Church, visit with family, play in the back yard, put up bird houses and look for the cat. By the time Sunday night rolls around we have to have five days at work just to recooperate.

Any way today is Friday and on some Friday's we take off for the lake. Here at Schooner Creek the lake will get busy, its a favorite destination for a lot of folks in the summer. They are going to find the lake level is still at 916 +/-, the surface tempereature was 82 degrees and the water was pretty clear. The US Army Corp of Engineers is drawing down Bever Lake which is west of Tablerock and Tablerock will be rising slightly. I got out last night a fished for awhile. My fishing buddy Doug and used buzz baits, plastic worms, chug bugs and poppers with no effect on the bass. We caught several nice "war-mouths" ( green sunfish). According to the weather man we are going to have weather all weekend, some of it may be dry and some of it may be wet, it will just be weather.

Judy and I will not be here this weekend, we are invited to our nephews wedding in Sullivan, Mo. The really nice thing about going away from the lake on a weekend is that there is no traffic going our way. Sunday when we come home the same will apply. All the traffic will be going the other direction. I like living on the Lake.

Oh yeah, for those of you that don't know what the second hand on a watch does......it counts seconds.