Entries Tagged as 'sports'

Speaking of big fish

This has to be the cutest story I have heard about in a long time when it comes to fish stories but this one is totally true.  It seems a man had taken his granddaughter fishing in the pond behind his house.  She had her 30″ pink Babri fishing pole and had caught 3 or 4 blue gills.  She asked her grandpa to hold her fishing pole while she went to the ‘little girls room’.

Just as any good grandpa would have done, there he stood holding his granddaughters little pink Barbi fishing pole when all of a sudden, the cork went under and he saw the water around it boil.  It took him 25 minutes to land the fish and when he did, it was a North Carolina State Channel Catfish record fish.  The fish weighed 21 pounds and 1 ounce and was 32 inches long.  That’s 2 inches longer than the pink Barbi fishing pole it was caught on.  It measured 22 1/2 around the girth too.  What a fishing story.

School’s back in

Well it’s the first Saturday since schools started and you would think the kids had been held captive all week long.  They’re everywhere more than I have seen them in the past three weeks before school started back.  I guess they were getting bored and staying inside until they had to go back to school.  Now they’re at every basketball court, playground and fast food restaurant around.

I think it might have something to do with they’re like the rest of us and realizing that the weather will be changing pretty soon and we’ll be stuck inside for sure once old man winter shows his ugly head.  Oh well, they better enjoy it while they can I guess.  I know I did when I was in school.  I sure wish I was back in high school, not really!!!

Olympics

Have you been keeping up with the Olympics.  I haven’t watched as much this year as I normally do.  I am just having a hard time supporting China as the host country but I do support our athletes.  In the medals so far, China has a total of 13 medals with 8 of them Gold.  The US has a total of 12 medals with just 3 of them Gold.  Korea, Italy, and Russia all are tied for third place and have a total of 6 medals each.  It’s still very early in the games so we shall see who comes out the overall medal winner later.