Staying overnight at Camp.

This will be the last blog from camp for 2009. We are pretty well buttoned up here at camp. The boards are on the windows, lower water system winterized, boats in the shop, sign in, etc and so on. Its been in the 40’sF and rainy here since Saturday – the day when Mike and Billy showed up for a couple days of fall fishing. I was hoping that the good weather would hold but noooooooooo – it turned miserable. We went out fishing in the cold downpour on Sunday and caught a few fish nothing much size-wise and they were biting very tentatively. Several times I was fishing, with no weight with a minnow, detected a bite and put just the lightest pressure on it to make sure it wasn’t a snag and the bas(s)tard or pick(y)erel let go! Son of a bitch! Touchy touchy touchy! But we did get a few fish, drank a few beers, and after a few hours got totally soaked! (from the rain too!) And it was with a due Easterly! Its a testament to the fact that Firth just doesn’t seem to totally shut down even in the worst of weather. The weather the next day of Mike and Billy’s stay turned even colder and the wind rotated to come from the north at about 20  – 30 mph with nasty whitecaps and bone chilling cold. They elected to beat it for home after sleeping in. It was too bad they didn’t get any of the nice weather but they did help us finish off a bunch of beer and count the Beer Caps for the Contest.

We had a great time counting as Janet kept adding new rules – “Every beer beginning with a W give some one a drink, every V cap all drink, every Mikes Hard lemonade you drink” and so on. We added a rule every time we dumped more caps on the table and it took a few “dumps” so we drank a few beers! I am still very confident that the count was accurate (+/- 500 or so caps). Really its probably good to about 5 – 10 caps. But is was a good time and we did finish up before dawn and then we opened the box of guesses and determined who the winner is. Ok everybody, to quote the most annoying of people – Melissa Wertz ” Hey what do you want the number to be???? think about it… are you ready I’m gonna turn over the trump suit… are you ready…” Yeah it just goes on and on till someone yells at her to “Turn over the fucking card already!!!” Then we hear – “There’s no reason to yell at me – do you know what trump suit you want…?” OK, the total count was…..4,899 caps! The closest guess was 4,999.

And The Winner is….. dah tah dah dah dah tadah … Debbie Jackson! (she is pictured in the previous posting) No tie breaker necessary! She was only off by only 100 caps. We then called her and informed her of her good fortune – it was only about 1 Am so we delegated the task to Billy.  She was very happy.

Well that about wraps it up for the year. So now I can start railing against the moneyed interests fucking the working class. Hell, I might even post some pictures from the summer that didn’t make it to the blog over winter.