I should be cutting my grass right now instead of sitting in
front of my computer, but I have a valid excuse: It is raining. This Sunday is
Father’s Day and the kids are coming over for a BBQ, so I want the property to
look nice with groomed grass. I started cutting this morning and managed to cut
about 2/3rd of the grass. It was sprinkling a bit the whole time I was cutting,
but I didn’t give up until the temperature dropped and I was getting chilly in
my shirt. Besides, I was also getting a bit wet. It was lunchtime anyway.
Some people might wonder why I didn’t cut the grass
yesterday since the weatherman predicted rain for today, but I had to go
fishing. That is more important than cutting grass. We fished for Walleye and
we managed to be successful—again, but it was more work this time and it took
longer to get our limit. The fish were smaller than the ones we’ve caught
previously. The weeds are beginning to grow at the bottom of the lake and you get
hung up quite often.
I was using new walleye rig. The salesman told me it was a
‘killer’ bait. The guy who developed it used it to win fishing tournaments. It
is called the ‘Deathroll’. The hook is twisted like a corkscrew and twists
erratically on the bottom when you troll. It triggers even lazy fish in warmer
water to strike. That is the theory. I bought a couple of them.
I caught two walleye with it, so I can’t vouch for its
effectiveness. Actually, I was the first one from our party to catch a fish,
but it took a long time to catch another one after that. A Pike decided he
wanted it more than anything and bit the whole thing off. Good thing I paid
only two bucks for it.
I just realized I used the words ‘salesman’ and
‘weatherman’. Apparently, nobody uses those words anymore, because it is
politically incorrect. Crap on that. I am not politically correct.
‘Salesperson’ and ‘Weatherperson’ sounds stupid to me. I know, these days it is
mostly women who forecast the weather on TV. Perhaps I should have written
‘Weatherwoman’ and ‘Saleslady’. So anyone who is offended by the words I use,
change it mentally to the word that is supposed to be correct. No offense
intended.
The world is going crazy anyway, with people getting overly
sensitive to all kinds of things and putting everything that is said and
printed under a microscope, hoping to find something they can criticise so they
can stir up trouble. A few weeks ago we had a game in Winnipeg and one of the players didn’t
perform. I wasn’t there, so I only know what I heard. The fans were calling him
‘Kathy Perry’. I guess that means he performed like a girl, whatever that
means. Guys talk like that with no ill feelings toward girls. Some female
Professor at the University found it disturbing and said if was offensive to
women. Come on, Lady! What is your problem? I call people like that
‘Sh.t-disturbers’. They should be sent to a deserted island alone. Perhaps then
they can put all their efforts into surviving instead of wasting it on looking
to make trouble.
Terrible news from the USA. Yesterday, some disturbed
young man shot nine people to death inside a church because they were black.
One wonders what prompted him to do that. His father gave him a Colt 45 for his
birthday. Why? I also wonder about his father. What kind of a person is he? Was
he possibly the one who put all this nonsense into his head about black people
raping women and taking over the world? What is this obsession Americans have
with guns? I am a hunter and I have rifles, but I am not obsessed with them. I
firmly believe that handguns and automatic weapons do not belong into the hands
of civilians, registered or not. There is too much evidence that most people
cannot handle the responsibility the possession of a deadly weapon carries with
it.
So much violence all over the world. Even here in Winnipeg we have plenty
of violence. It seems not a day goes by without hearing in the news that
somebody was shot or a person was stabbed with a knife Many times it is women
who do the stabbing. I ask myself this: Why would a woman or anyone carry a
knife? Why does anyone carry a gun? When I carry my rifle I am out hunting.
That’s it. The rest of the time my rifle is locked away. As is the ammunition.
I don’t carry a knife. The only time I have a knife either on my belt or in my
backpack is when I’m in the bush hunting or in my tackle box so I can fillet my
fish.
Yes, the world is going crazy. The genes of the Killer Ape
are still in humankind. We haven’t evolved at all. Perhaps some day we will go
the way of the dinosaur and some other species will rule the world. How about
insects? Intelligent insects. Will they be different? Will they have more
respect for the environment, for the plants, and for other life forms sharing
this planet? We’ll never know, because we will be gone and forgotten. All the
problems we have now will mean nothing anymore. Nobody will worry if somebody
says ‘Salesman’ instead of ‘Salesperson’.
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