Rev. Deadeye

Another story to tell, this is a true story that I wanted to share in case I start signing off as " Rev. Deadeye "

Years ago I would take a week's vacation with 3 buddies and play golf in Myrtle Beach, SC during the last week in January.  It was enjoyable, we would play like 27 to 36 holes per day, and come back with a tan and have fun.  Well, one year as we drove to the golf course we saw the name of a local band on the marque sign out front of a bar/restaurant.  The name of the band appearing was  " Hootie and the Blowfish" , we had such a laugh at what a stupid name that was, and even took a picture of the sign.  One of my buds and I would continue calling each other "Hootie" for a number of years.  Like, "Nice shot, Hootie" ,  " Hey Hootie, want to play this Saturday? "  Things like that.

Obviously, if we had known the future we would have run into that bar and offered $$$$ money to help sponser " Hootie and the Blowfish" as they became big stars.

Well, on the Fishing trip to Florida I picked up one of those local free newspapers and happened to catch the local entertainment page and was reading the names of the bands performing at local venues.  One band name was  Laurie and " Rocketman the Pirate"  another was "  Molly Jean and Rev. Deadeye ".  It just hit me as funny, unusual, goofy and weird.   Just like me, so I announced to my fishing buddies that I wanted to change my code name to "  Rev. Deadeye " for the rest of the trip.

My nephew must have lost his hearing ( and at such a young age )  he kept calling me Rev. Browneye.  Don't know why and I kept correcting him, Rev. Deadeye.  I feel bad for him, such a long life ahead, and having trouble with his hearing.

Well, 24 hours from now, I may be in recovery.  Thanks for your emails, phone calls, texts, I feel your presence today and tomorrow in my life, and I know God will be there with me.  See you later.

God Bless you all, luv, Rev. Deadeye

Less than 48 hours

This is me now, getting ready for surgery

Taking a shower and getting cleaned up before heading for the Hospital on Thursday morning.

This will be me as they take me down the hall for surgery...lol









Just kidding, trying to turn it over to God and forget about it, Take one day at a time.

Love to all, God Bless, Captain

The Time is Here

About 72 hours til surgery and then recovery begins.  Thursday at 7:30 is the operation and yes it's in my mind about every minute.  Trying to just get by and let it arrive.  This is the best chance for a total healing that man can give me.  But I know God is still there holding my hand on this journey.

I was thinking the other day, for all you doubters, I think a lot.  In 2 weeks I will be 65 and have been healthy my whole life.  God created my body and in the last year man has been tinkering with it.  I have to believe that God gave them the knowledge and the ability to perform some maintenance procedures and improve it for the next 60 years.  My goal is 110, that's what I told my family Doctor in 2009.

So let's take out the bad parts, and adjust the air pressure so I'm not howling and whining all the time. 

I know that's probably a bad analogy but it's the best I can come up.  Just so you know, I will go from surgery to the recovery room and then to ICU for up to 24 hours.  The move to ICU is not predictive of any problems from the surgery, but a precautionary step.  Sometimes the liver continues to bleed after surgery and they want to watch it and me closely for any problems so's to be right on top of them.

My wife and or daughter will be updating the blog on a somewhat continuous basis on Thursday and Friday, until I can focus and be back with you.

I sincerely thank you for your prayers and positive thoughts through out the last year, and thank you for future prayers for the surgery and recovery.

God Bless you all, Captain

Get ready for the Pics

 Sunrise, leaving the harbor on day 1

 Yellow Snapper, must be over 12" to keep, good eating fish.  The hat protected me from sunburn. Yes a long sleeve shirt, same reason.  Get over it...............











 Brother's son Jason with a Cow Fish, threw it back.

 My brother caught the big one, can't remember the name.

 Sea Turtle came to visit the boat stern, or maybe it was the Florida Fish & game in disguise....lol

 Jason caught a Nassau grouper, fairly unusual, out of season but good eating.

 My son caught a Remora, a parasite fish that lives on and around sharks.  Thrown back in the water.

 2 Bonito's caught by Jason and my brother at the same time.  Thrown back in the water

Jason holding ( we think ) a Ballyhoo or a family member.  Thrown back in the water

Parrot fish video









I must send a bigger than big Thank You to Jason and Mike our Fishing guides and planners of this trip.  They arranged the boat, the fishing gear, the bait, the gas for the boat, the motel rooms.  They thought of taking care of the old men as guests not workers.  It was a great week end to relax and make memories.  Already thinking of a return trip in May of 2013, fishing for Dolphin ( not Flipper, back off with the backlash of comments )   THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

Thanks to all my friends for prayers, God Bless you all, Captain

More Fishing Details

I can't believe I got no emails or phone calls or comments on the boat wreck and my blog of yesterday.  Either you all know me, or you didn't care, or you were in too much shock to do anything.

Most of yesterday's blog I made up just to toy with you.  My brother and I were walking around the crushed boat early in the am b4 we went out fishing, and while our fishing someone mentioned we should get together on shore for a photo.  I said " How about in front of the wrecked boat to keep you all on edge. "  And not one of you readers said anything, you're no fun.  The only thing accurate in yesterday's blog, was that the radio really did not work.

So now you have to view all my fishy pictures and I'm going to try to post a video or two.  Remember when you went to someone's house and they pulled out their Vacation  pictures from Europe so you could see each one, well get ready.

Here is the last joke picture, these are my trophy fishes caught on a bamboo pole with just a line and a earthworm on the hook, caught from the marina dock.

This next picture is of the actual boat we fished from, and it was taken in the dark at about 6:30 am, cause we had to get out in the water and claim our spot.  This was Sat. morning after landing in Ft. Myers @ 8 pm, then driving to the motel and arriving at 12:30 am, so not lot's of sleep

This is the sunrise and the boat ride out to the fishing area and gives you an idea of the bouncing we had to absorb to fish, and this was a really calm day. It should be a video, last a little over 2 minutes.

OK that's enough for today. got a week to annoy you leading up to March 1st.

Thanks for your prayers and positive thoughts,  God Bless, Captain

Home Again, Home Again

It is so nice to have a real keyboard to type on, now I can tell some real stories.  I will get to the fish, but first I blogged about our boat situation so I wanted to tell that story.

We finished the second day of fishing and were coming into the Marina, passing under a bridge when a Tsunami like wave hit us unexpectedly.  The radio in our boat didn't work so we were not prepared and obviously received no warnings.  As we went under the bridge that carried Route 1 traffic to and from the Keys.  This gigantic wave hit the boat from the side and turned us over, on our side.

It smashed the top of the boat into the bridge support, pushed the side into the same supports and smashed the 1 engine.  This is our Captain of the boat, not me, talking to his insurance agent.

After that we could only rent the following boat for the rest of our Fish Attack.

Now none of us were injured or hurt in anyway.  So don't even worry about us.  We tried not to let it dampen our spirits.  But it was a little nerve wracking.

Tomorrow I will start posting some fish pictures.  In a nutshell we caught quite a few fish, some yellow snappers were too small to keep ( had to be over 12 inches long ),  other fish were just not good eating fish, also groupers were out of season.    Wait till you see my Trophy fish, I thought I would never get them in the boat.

God Bless all you who have prayed for me, cause you now know I need it. 

Captain

Finished another day

No sunburn very light pink on my wrist next to my watchband, but feeling ffffiiiiinnnnneeee. All of us came thru the boat situation in fine shape. Too long a story for this hunt and peck typing on a tablet, pictures on Tuesday.

Went out about 9 am, returned around 3 pm. Only 1 keeper fish. My son caught a relative to the shark family, about 30 inches long, it put up a good fight. My brother and his son each caught the same type of fish within a minute of each other. The fishes really fought hard, I have it on a 3 minute video to b posted after I return home on Tuesday. None of these fish were good eating so they were tossed back in the ocean. And so the day went, all fish were either not eatable or out of season.

Having a great time, sunny both days, around 82 degrees.

Thanks for all your prayers, God Bless, Captain