Sunday already?
Well son I'll tell you...seems this weekend has flown by...realwork is looming in the near future like bad news. I hate to say how much fun I have in life, because I'm afraid people wil start hanging around trying to get in on it. Take Friday for example: me and NancyO started a fire in the front yard (hey, where I live it's acceptable, even encouraged) to get rid of a pile of limbs from storm damage. Seems simple enough, and everything burned but the limbs...leaves, the ground, small buildings, etc...anyway, what we thought was going to be a 5 minute fire turned into 3 hrs of trying to get the limbs to burn. So we look somewhat like 2 idiots standing in the front yard standing around a fire that won't burn. DiscoDan stopped by with a 12 pack to offer advice and encouragement and quickly became involved in the situation. Now we look like 3 idiots in the front yard drinking beer gathered around a fire that won't burn. A little while later, KlosetKaren shows up and joins the group to help tend the non-fire. So now we look like 4 idiots in the front yard drinking beer gathered around a fire that won't burn. You know, the limbs never really bothered me anyway and Varney will just mow around 'em, so hell with it. We decide enough is enough and head inside...it's dark by now and just before I close the door into the house, out of the corner of my eye I see a flicker...sure enough, the damn fire is starting to burn. To celebrate, KlosetKaren brings over a pizza from Papa Murphys (free ad) and some cookie dough and letmetellyoubrother that was some good stuff. So now, we're 4 stuffed idiots with pizza sauce on our lakelizard shirts, cookie crumbs on our face, and shit-eating grins from ear to ear.
Leaving the blues behind
Saturday...oh yeah...Saturday I was tilling the O'garden (Iknow...what the hell?) and my phone rang right after I broke the tiller and it was the Lizardqueen herself, offering up a day on Li'l Happy.
Well, you'd be a damn fool to turn that offer down. So we hosed off each other and headed off to lakelizardboatdock to meet Cap'n Sonny and Lizard, "in 45 minutes." Two hours later they show up, a little disoriented, with a bottle full of excuses about river gators, cell phones dropped in the river, etcetcetc. By this time NancyO has eaten all of the food we brought and I've drank all the beer, but not to worry, Li'l Happy is a well stocked boat. So we rode the river for who knows how long, had way too much fun, told lots of lies, listened to music and somehow wound up back at lakelizardboatdock, where Li'l Happy tied up for the night. Seemed like a party waiting to happen, so I called BobWeaver, who promptly shows up with what seemed like about 100 people. Probably was actually about 10 or so, but that translates to 100 in a round house. Gets kinda blurry after that...neighborJeff rolled in with crown in hand...DiscoDan showed up with a suitcase...we were dancing, singing, moving to the groovin'...
Cap'n Sonny and his new fancy radar
..and then morning happened. Couldn't find my car, which seemed odd because I hadn't been anywhere...hmmmm....Looked kinda like somebody was starting an aluminum can drive on the back deck. And...wait, Li'l Happy's still here. I better go check on them, cause it's 830 and Cap'nSonny is always up and about by 6am. I bet they got bloody marys. Down the hill I go and they're still asleep...till I get there anyway. Lizard made coffee and breakfast sammiches...and finally, she poured up bloody marys all around. I knew she had some somewhere. We laughed a lot and told a few more stories. Once the bloodys were all gone (about 2 hrs later), I figured I had enough material to write a few new songs, so I bid them farewell...they tootled off toward Spencer Creek and I meandered up to the house...
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NancyO...rollin' on the river
..where my car was sitting in the drive. Could be time for rehab, I don't know. Went in the house and there's NancyO...come to think of it, she wasn't there earlier...who had taken my car home the night before too check on the boy. Now it all makes sense...kindof.
Spook...the gum chewing river dog
So now I'm sitting here on this rainy Sunday, resting, relaxing and thinking about all the wrong I done.
If you're out on the river and see Li'l Happy, tell'em we said 'hey.' Cap'n Sonny will be doing the captaining and Lizard will be on top dancing in her new lakelizardmusic.com t-shirt.
Wouldn't you like to be a lakelizard too?
hbsongs 948 overandout
Leaving the blues behind
Saturday...oh yeah...Saturday I was tilling the O'garden (Iknow...what the hell?) and my phone rang right after I broke the tiller and it was the Lizardqueen herself, offering up a day on Li'l Happy.
Well, you'd be a damn fool to turn that offer down. So we hosed off each other and headed off to lakelizardboatdock to meet Cap'n Sonny and Lizard, "in 45 minutes." Two hours later they show up, a little disoriented, with a bottle full of excuses about river gators, cell phones dropped in the river, etcetcetc. By this time NancyO has eaten all of the food we brought and I've drank all the beer, but not to worry, Li'l Happy is a well stocked boat. So we rode the river for who knows how long, had way too much fun, told lots of lies, listened to music and somehow wound up back at lakelizardboatdock, where Li'l Happy tied up for the night. Seemed like a party waiting to happen, so I called BobWeaver, who promptly shows up with what seemed like about 100 people. Probably was actually about 10 or so, but that translates to 100 in a round house. Gets kinda blurry after that...neighborJeff rolled in with crown in hand...DiscoDan showed up with a suitcase...we were dancing, singing, moving to the groovin'...
Cap'n Sonny and his new fancy radar
..and then morning happened. Couldn't find my car, which seemed odd because I hadn't been anywhere...hmmmm....Looked kinda like somebody was starting an aluminum can drive on the back deck. And...wait, Li'l Happy's still here. I better go check on them, cause it's 830 and Cap'nSonny is always up and about by 6am. I bet they got bloody marys. Down the hill I go and they're still asleep...till I get there anyway. Lizard made coffee and breakfast sammiches...and finally, she poured up bloody marys all around. I knew she had some somewhere. We laughed a lot and told a few more stories. Once the bloodys were all gone (about 2 hrs later), I figured I had enough material to write a few new songs, so I bid them farewell...they tootled off toward Spencer Creek and I meandered up to the house...
.NancyO...rollin' on the river
..where my car was sitting in the drive. Could be time for rehab, I don't know. Went in the house and there's NancyO...come to think of it, she wasn't there earlier...who had taken my car home the night before too check on the boy. Now it all makes sense...kindof.
Spook...the gum chewing river dog
So now I'm sitting here on this rainy Sunday, resting, relaxing and thinking about all the wrong I done.
If you're out on the river and see Li'l Happy, tell'em we said 'hey.' Cap'n Sonny will be doing the captaining and Lizard will be on top dancing in her new lakelizardmusic.com t-shirt.
Wouldn't you like to be a lakelizard too?
hbsongs 948 overandout
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