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From: "ace1125" <>
Subject: [TNDICKSO] Sunday Rockin'
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 07:50:26 -0400


***Jan is at it again!! Went fishin... enjoy her tale.


Morning!
Well I have arrived back home in the wee hours from a fruitless fishintrip.
Now it is true that most of the time I do not get bent out of shapeover not
catching anything, and very true my philosophy is that it is more about
fishing than about catching fish....but the fact is that after a whileit
gets a wee bit old...and we have gone through a drought season and thefish
have not been friendly for too long a time. Lest you think this sobstory
has nothing to do with genealogy, let me assure you it most definitelyDOES.
I tell you they were hitting NOTHING, not artificial bait, notworms, not
livers, not gizzards, not catfish bait, NOTHING. Nothing was drawingthem
to our boat, not lights, not canned corn, NOTHING. Since I tore up our
trolling motor (never mind THAT story...trust me), we did not have the
luxury of that tool. I told my husband when we got home he needed toget
down on his back and wiggle under that boat and look up and see hadsomeone
painted a sign saying, "Hey Fish!!! Warning!!! Eddie is after you!!!!"
cause I tell you those fish know these days when we are coming and theymake
sure they are not home.
Goes that way in genealogy too....long dry spells and you make noooo
contacts, not using queries, or lists, or surname postings or much of
anything. And you get to wondering if all your grandpas at some pointin
reality were mutations from the trees or descended from a UFO. We'vetalked
about that from time to time, and told each other stories about our
"miracles" that occurred out of the blue to encourage each other. Mostof
us who have been doing this long, have also learned that it seems tocome
and go in cycles... suddenly there is manna from heaven and we seem tobe
getting more information than we can possibly log in...and then just as
suddenly dries up. So that line of conversation we have followed...
But what I am thinking on now are the words my husband was spoutingwhile
I was getting frustrated tonight...now see if this doesn't sound like a"lin
e" LOL!!! (and pun intended) to you.... "well whether we catch anythingor
not, I am just going to enjoy this lovely peaceful night with my lovely
wife!" LOL!!!! (I tell ya that man will say anything to stay out onthe
boat another hour or so...he also said "they tell me, they don't startbitin
till about midnight!" LOL!!!!) Anyway, when you really think on itthough,
(and he really did mean a lot of it! He loves being out on thepeaceful
water)..... if you get your mind off the fact you have not reeled in afish
for months, the night WAS lovely. The trees on the mountains around usdark
and velvety, and the tops of them a faint lacy dark edge bordering thedeep
blue of the sky...the moon a big shiny dinner plate hung over all and
sending glimmering light to dance on a still water...the sound of the
crickets and the whipporwills and out so far not a sound of a passing
car...yes, it really WAS lovely, and worth the experience, fish or nofish.
Well, maybe that is what a list can be too.... not the same kind oflovely
perhaps, but whether you are reeling in any fish or not, still awonderful
experience. Many of us enjoy the company of the list, the good humor,the
stories told, and the memories shared, the collective grouping of
descendents of the settlers of Stewart Co. or Dickson or middle Tenn.in
general....and maybe, just maybe....that is really a whole lot of whatit is
about. Maybe on the list too, it isn't so much about catchinganything...it
is about the pleasure of the company...and fishing!
Have a great day!
jan

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