No Runny Eggs

To say I’m an “avid” pheasant is a probably an over statement.  I’m probably more in the category of “I really like it” and wished I had more time to pursue the endeavor.  That said, each year for the past several, I truck off to the dead center of South Dakota for a week of chasing “ditch chickens.”  When the weather is bad, it’s a lot of fun.  When the weather is good, like it has been the last couple of years, there is nothing I enjoy doing more….at least not with a group of men!

In the past, I’ve been a tag a long on our trips.  I can’t shoot well, I don’t own a dog, and frankly, I really had no idea how to work the fields properly.  However, over the years, I’ve gotten better at working the fields but still can’t hit the broadside of a barn even though I’ve now got a semi automatic shotgun that allows me to put a lot of lead in the air in the general direction of said “ditch chickens.”

Last year I stepped up my hunting game.  It was probably some form of a mid life crisis but I decided I needed a hunting dog.  After searching some ads and online listings, I found a dog that had some hunting experience, whose owner needed to get him to a new home.  Jake became my hunting partner last fall and after being together only three weeks, one of which included him going to the vet for his “special visit,” we went to South Dakota.

Jake and English Springer and is all nose.  When he gets a scent, nothing can detract him.  That’s a great trait for hunting and he proved it on our first trip.  As an English Springer, Jake is also prone to not having all the synapses firing at the same time.  The net is that Jake is singularly focused and successful in one area; smell and with everything else, he’s just a ditz.  As long as we understand and use Jake’s strengths, we accept his shortcomings.  We refer to Jake as not being very bright, but he’s happy!

On Friday, Vice President Biden was at a Pennsylvania fundraiser where he stated that the economy would soon be generating 500,000 jobs a month!

“Well, I’m here to tell you, some time in the next couple of months, we’re going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month.”

Good ol’ Joe! He’s the same Joe who recently told us that “JOBS” is a three letter word:

Joe’s also the guy who continues to tell people that the loss of 8 millions jobs was actually he and Obama being successful!

Like Jake, Joe has one purpose in life; his ignorant and gaffed filled statements give the media something to focus on other than Obama’s continued inability to execute. As such, Biden serves a useful if not, singular purpose. Also like Jake at our household, I’ve got to believe that each day Biden gets his face in the news, President Obama and other members of the White house say, “He’s not very bright but, he’s happy!”