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/  

Close Minded

I have been called close minded this week by one of the interns in my office, but as I sat and thought about it he was wrong.

I think it's funny how if you do not have the same views as someone else you are considered close minded. The intern and I had been talking about abortion and same sex marriage. I strongly disagree with both. I think abortion is killing an innocent child of God and same sex marriage is not of God. I believe in treating everyone fairly and with respect but that does not mean I have to agree with what they are saying.

I am willing to listen but when I do not change my mind, do not be surprised. I know what I believe. I am a child of God and he loves me and loves all of his children. I do not think God loves his children any less because they make different choices.

A friend of mine is pro gay marriage and that is her choice. Am I closed minded because I do not agree? NO!!! I still like her as a person and we are still friends. We just do not talk about politics or religion.

I hate that people with convictions are persecuted. Yes, I find Glenn Beck interesting and I was reading how his family was mocked in New York. He was trying to spend time with his family and the people around him were spilling wine and calling them names because they do not agree with what he says. Liberals only believe in free speech when they are speaking. Who is really close minded?

Here is the account of what happened to Glenn:

Hoping to enjoy some time together, while taking in a showing of Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps with his wife, Tania, and daughter, Glenn and his family instead experienced an unfriendly and borderline violent scene. At one point, an angry moviegoer kicked a glass of wine into Tania’s back, and as she got up to walk away, a man shouted, “We hate conservatives here.”

If they do not like him then do not listen to his show. That is their choice. I choose not to listen to MSNBC because of its bias but I do not hate their news anchors.

In conclusion, I am not close minded but know what I believe and stand for. I am proud to be conservative and to have high moral standards.

20 Month Pictures

I was a little late on having pictures taken of Matthew but here they are.

Love My Job

My firm and I helped plan this event!!!