Crawdads, crawfish, or crayfish?

Last night we took some of our friends fishing for crawdads. This is not your typical fishing expedition with fishing poles and lures. We did take our poles but did not use them the same way as regular fishing. We walked off the boat ramp dock at Strawberry Reservoir, put a chunk of elk meet tied to a rope and threw it in the water. We wait for five minutes and then slowly pull the rope up and net the little crustaceans. We also put a piece of meet on a large hook and cast our lines in the water and waited for one to latch on and then we would pull them up. We caught 10 to 20 lbs of crawdads! Since I do not eat "sea food" we gave them to our Thai friend and her husband who went with us.  

I have to tell you a short story. When I was a kid we lived in Houston and thought catching and eating crawdads was such a blast. One night our neighbors took us (my friends and I) to the driving range close to our house to eat crawdads. This place would sell them by the bucket full. We would order two or three 5-gallon buckets of these things and chow down. Back in the day, we thought it was fun to pop the eyes out of the head and suck the juice out. Now I will not even touch the disgusting little creatures.

Pay Freeze=Pay Raise

Obama does it again. He keeps saying his people have not had a pay raise in the 2.5 years he has been in office but the numbers do not add up. Here is an article from PR Daily that suggests otherwise. Here are the names of the Obama communication department that received raises.

• Kevin Lewis, director of African-American media, went from $42,000 to $78,000.

• Elizabeth Olsen, special assistant to the president and director of presidential correspondence, saw her $76,500 salary boosted to $110,000.

• Thomas Vietor, senior director and national security staff spokesman, is now raking in $105,000 per year—up from $78,000.

• Johanna Maska, deputy director of advance and director of press advance, was making $56,100 a year; she’s now earning $80,000 annually.

• Semonti Stephens, deputy communications director, is now making $75,000—a $21,000 boost from what she had been making.

• Andrea Turk, director of information services, now makes $70,000—up from her previous salary of $50,000.

What a hypocrite! Another thing to add to my list.

Here is a link to the top 20 White House Raises: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obamas-white-house-staffers-salary-freeze-lie-2/