18 hours....

What a busy 18 hours I had. I went to Epcot for their Wine and Dive event with wifey on her birthday, and in the evening we Scuba Dived in their 5.8 million gallon aquarium with the sharks! The dive was awesome to say the least. Their aquarium is loaded with EVERYTHING you could imagine.
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Then I went night fishing with the Shumeister early in the AM this morning for some Crappie action. We got some good ones too!
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Sorry we didn't get you in on this one John, it was a last minute thing, Shu got to feeling better after minor illness and just had to get out and fish. Believe me, with as much as wifey ran me around, I was dead tired. But we had a good trip. Both trips were good, with the sharks, and with the crappie...lol

This is going to keep me buy for a few days.:bash

That sounds like a good day!


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I'm back.....Next week looks good for a trip...It'll take you that long to re-coop:Rofl

To add to todays excitement, my Mom comes over this evening. We're going to brim fish off the sea wall. We've been having alligator issues lately. There are two that are always around, one is overly aggressive, just comes in and hangs out way too close, like a few feet off the sea wall while we fish, and it's at the very least an 8 footer, the other is at least 10 ft long. So we decide to leave the dogs inside the house. We don't need to have four footed snacks (Boston Terriers) running around enticing them any more than we have to.

But,the old one, Ringo, has to pee more than I do! Must have similar issues! lol So I let him out just to take care of that issue. He runs toward Sharon, who's already at the sea wall, and you can guess what happens next. Splash.

Sharon screams, and my reflex is to jump in behind the old dog. I grab him, and toss him on top the sea wall.

OK, so everything is cool. Well, maybe not! I'm still in the water. Wifey screams again, alligator, alligator, get out, get out!!!!! WAIT, WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!

Now mind you, the alligator I spoke of earlier often comes rather quickly to my sea wall when there is any sort commotion. I clean the weeds up off my sea wall up by throwing out a light anchor and dragging it back in, to keep casting paths open. The weeds grow fast this time of the year, you have to do this or you can't cast. That darn alligator comes right up to me standing on my sea wall all the time. It don't care (I'm guessing someone in the neighborhood is feeding it, that's a big no no). Heck I've even inadvertently hit it while throwing my anchor out. It just don't care.

What wifey seen was bubbles coming up in the canal, heading right towards me. As many of you know, with a muck/sand bottom, that does mean something big is on it's way in! Naturally I freak out, trying to get onto my sea wall, and I can't get up onto it. doh

ButI eventually do get onto the sea wall, and as it turns out it was a large turtle kicking up the bubbles. Turtles too come to my sea wall when they see us. Stuff here is just too friendly!

The sad part was, I had my phone in my pocket when I jumped in the canal. It's sitting in a baggie with dried rice right now! Wish me luck.

One heck of a day you couldn't do back in Illinois....everything sounded great til' that cell phone issue...You can also soak phone in 99% isopropyl alcohol to dry it out if you can find the 99% type, have to look on-line to see amounts to use....ect.

Glad it was only that and all the dogs and their owner is OK. Never heard about this when I was a kid. Guess more folks had em on the table back then.

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To add to todays excitement, my Mom comes over this evening. We're going to brim fish off the sea wall. We've been having alligator issues lately. There are two that are always around, one is overly aggressive, just comes in and hangs out way too close, like a few feet off the sea wall while we fish, and it's at the very least an 8 footer, the other is at least 10 ft long. So we decide to leave the dogs inside the house. We don't need to have four footed snacks (Boston Terriers) running around enticing them any more than we have to.

But,the old one, Ringo, has to pee more than I do! Must have similar issues! lol So I let him out just to take care of that issue. He runs toward Sharon, who's already at the sea wall, and you can guess what happens next. Splash.

Sharon screams, and my reflex is to jump in behind the old dog. I grab him, and toss him on top the sea wall.

OK, so everything is cool. Well, maybe not! I'm still in the water. Wifey screams again, alligator, alligator, get out, get out!!!!! WAIT, WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!

Now mind you, the alligator I spoke of earlier often comes rather quickly to my sea wall when there is any sort commotion. I clean the weeds up off my sea wall up by throwing out a light anchor and dragging it back in, to keep casting paths open. The weeds grow fast this time of the year, you have to do this or you can't cast. That darn alligator comes right up to me standing on my sea wall all the time. It don't care (I'm guessing someone in the neighborhood is feeding it, that's a big no no). Heck I've even inadvertently hit it while throwing my anchor out. It just don't care.

What wifey seen was bubbles coming up in the canal, heading right towards me. As many of you know, with a muck/sand bottom, that does mean something big is on it's way in! Naturally I freak out, trying to get onto my sea wall, and I can't get up onto it. doh

ButI eventually do get onto the sea wall, and as it turns out it was a large turtle kicking up the bubbles. Turtles too come to my sea wall when they see us. Stuff here is just too friendly!

The sad part was, I had my phone in my pocket when I jumped in the canal. It's sitting in a baggie with dried rice right now! Wish me luck.

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Update: phone don't work this morning (grrrr), and neighbor says those gators I talked about are more like 11 feet long and 12 feet long. They look smaller when they are in the water, but these two gators are big'uns.

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I'm back.....Next week looks good for a trip...It'll take you that long to re-coop:Rofl

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I'll call you. Well, maybe I won't, don't have a phone at this point. doh

too cool

Sounds like something out of the "Enquirer"
Good story though! Be safe out there boss!
Tight Lines - Dave

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WHAT, too cool that my phone don't work, now I can't text you all the time to bother you. LOL, just kidding, I know what you mean. Cool fishing and scuba diving. And maybe it's cool too that I did not get eaten by a gator.

You might want to install a ladder over your wall. Call the FWC about gators.

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more fattening, bad for cholesterol, clogs them veins right up

WOW! That must have been scary?? Glad everything turned out GOOD!:ThumbsUp

Glad everything worked out. The dive in the aquarium sounds cool!!

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This is going to keep me buy for a few days.:bash

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Taking food out of my mouth...... I am the Warranty/Repairs manager for a paver company in St. Cloud. I know what you have in front of you, Would take one of our crews about a day to lay what you have there.

I would be calling FWC on the gators or if there are any gator hunt permits for Lake Griffin put up a thread on Florida Sportsman forum asking whoever has permit to send you a pm and give him info. Either way them 2 gators been fed and some point it will go downhill in a bad way. Hate to see a family rent a canoe from.park and go bad.

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Taking food out of my mouth...... I am the Warranty/Repairs manager for a paver company in St. Cloud. I know what you have in front of you, Would take one of our crews about a day to lay what you have there.

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I have to determine where the coax cables are, they seem to place them at or near the property line and just under the sod.
Placing the 12X12 pavers down and putting the garden wall block on top, three or four courses high.
Now IF I farmed this project out, what would I do for entertainment??:fish It is to hot to fish. :Rofl

Call sunshinestateonecall and they will locate for you. Free service.

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It is to hot to fish. :Rofl

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"too" = There, fixed it for you ......

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"too" = There, fixed it for you ......

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It don't make any difference how you spell it, 2, two, to or too, it still is [2,two,to,too] hot to fish.:Rofl:Rofl

Oh no, I smell a Speckanator post coming soon telling us all how not to spell anything! :yikes


And it'll probably be done via a pic!

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It don't make any difference how you spell it, 2, two, to or too, it still is [2,two,to,too] hot to fish.:Rofl:Rofl

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Well sir ! ! ! !
It "CERTAINLY" does matter ! ! ! ! !
It proves you graduated from HS english ! ! ! !
Or, er, did you ???????
No matter = I got spellchecker anyway ......
Just tryin to help, cheeeeeeeze ........

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Well sir ! ! ! !
It "CERTAINLY" does matter ! ! ! ! !
It proves you graduated from HS english ! ! ! !
Or, er, did you ???????
No matter = I got spellchecker anyway ......
Just tryin to help, cheeeeeeeze ........

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I got my high school diploma, which was chiseled in stone, before papyrus was invented, hanging on my stone wall. :Rofl:Rofl

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I think the heat may getting to you Ed.

First the wifey is swimming with sharks & then your out alligator rastling.

Sorry about the phone but I think they are easier to replace than your left leg.
Glad to see Shu took you fishin & got ya back on track.:cheers2

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When the heck does it get cooler around here? I think the water temp is around 100 degrees!

I posted a photo of a pile of blocks,now I have photos of what the blocks were for and completed project. No outsourced work.
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378 garden wall blocks, 110 concrete patio blocks 12X12, Delivered Sept 19, 2016
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and finally 5 cubic yards of garden soil. Delivered October 14, 2016
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Finished project looking at north wall Completed October 16, 2016
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east wall looking south
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cleaned up front lawn.
Now it is time for some serious action. FISHIN :fish:fish

Very nice job, John...You should be "Good To Go" with the honey do's till next summer....Lets go fishin':fish

THANKS.
I am ready, willing and able.
Got all of the muscles warmed up and stretched.

My back hurts just looking at the pics of all that dirt and stones. Good job John.

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My back hurts just looking at the pics of all that dirt and stones. Good job John.

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Thanks Ed. Did the job over a month, so did not try to over extend myself. Now just got to try to do some planting of flowers and eatables.
TIME TO GO FISHING.

Yes flycaster i'd like a little stone work done maybe in the spring

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