Christmas was spent with our direct family and a grand time was had by all. We did make occasional forays to the board to check on our family here and we do hope there was not tooo mush okra mixed in with anybody’s sweet taters.
To all we wish a Happy New Year. As we are NOT good at resolutions nor keeping them, we made only one. And that is to fish 3 new places this year. Oh yeah…we’ll add three trips to get kids into fishing.
Oops! That’s two…but we should be able to do them. 
…lee s.
Happy to report … NO OKRA!!!
Much anticipation for the coming year. Many family changes, including Tristyn astonishing all by her determination to walk. She’s going to do it!
Another astonishment here … Cary and I are celebrating our 50th Anniversary today!
Hope and pray each of you have wonderful plans for the New Year. Please make them “happenings”!
I too am looking forward to the new year. With the slight improvement to my health, I hope to get out more than I did in 2018 (or 2017 either).
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Only a complete Philistine would put Okra in Sweet Potatoes. Small marshmallow, raisin, etc., are very acceptable. Okra is for frying, gumbo, Jambalaya, vegetable soup. We would like to thank Ms. Hiner and all those who refrain from enjoying this wonderful vegetable for contributing to the abundance for the rest of us.
Congratulation on the Golden Anniversary. May you have many more and better in the future. I hear the next 50 are the toughest.
Lee, glad you had a good time with the family and hope the kids can catch some fish this summer.
Betty, Let us pray Tristyn can get here walking in. Maybe you could get her a short walking stick.
Clint, I sure hope your health improves enough to get out and do some serious fishing, good luck to you.
Uncle Jesse, I agree about no Okra in sweet potatoes. But think if this, Okra spelled backwards is Arko, sounds like a gas to me.
As for me, I have my health back, as much as it can be, and I will be doing some serious fly fishing on the rivers of eastern WA and western MT.
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
Larry —sagefisher—
Larry, I’m afraid she’s a long way off from walking in on her own. If the area is wheelchair accessible she’s right there! She has taken 10 steps in succession, doubly supported ( a parent on each hand) … her Daddy said she looked like a newborn giraffe taking its’ first steps. Tall, skinny, all legs … each going its’ own way … but upright, and moving. So proud of her, and her incredible parents.
Best of love, health, and happiness for the new year.
I have learned in the last few weeks there is no love like the love for a grandbaby. I loved my wife and children with everything I had at the time, but love used is love expanded and at the ripe age of 72 we were blessed with a granddaughter, Kathryn Mae, to be called Katy Mae. If I have told you this previously, I am not going to apologize, she the best thing this century as far as I am concerned, and you probably need to hear about her. Cannot wait until we can build birdhouses, dig worms, plant tomatoes and go fishing.
Larry, I ran up on a new way to prepare okra, boil it and drain the juice, slime away wrap it in a paper towel overnight and let it dry, drip it in egg, roll it in cornmeal and fried it, the way the good Lord meant okra to be eaten.
Congrats on the recovery of health, good luck with the fishing, that is a high priority for me this year, if not for bronchitis and sinus infection I would have gone today, beautiful here for a January day. But, I also have a rocking Unicorn to design and build over the next couple of years.
Jesse,
For some reason, I missed the announcement of your grand baby. Congratulations!!
Thanks greatest thing to happen in our family in the last 36 years (when her mom was born). Katy Mae is one month old today.