Manasota Key Paradise

I'm headed on my annual trip to Manasota Key and Lemon Bay in Florida. On top of my to do list is a little fishing and some other exciting activities. I will be posting while at Manasota Bay so check back. 

Manasota Bay is one of my Treasured Paradise Area's so I painted a map of this beautiful water last year. I liked painting maps so well, I started painting other Treasured Paradise map of Lakes, Rivers, and Bays and have over 150. Check out my web site at www.LeoLakes.com A 10"x20" Decor Map of Manasota Key/Lemon bay is only $44.99. 

Here's a few of the locals that I will be hanging out with. They're a routy bunch.

Here's a picture looking to the left of the bay.

Looking across the bay.

This is looking to the right of lemon bay.

  

Mmmmm. Looks like this one is late for the free, all you can eat buffet at the fishing dock.

Get away from the big screen and get on a big stream!

Spring has sprung in the ten acre woods!

To all the gardeners out there here's one of my cartoon's celebrating the start of spring! 

Get away from the big screen and get on a big stream!

Mr. Ed drops by.

Living in the ten acre woods, you just don't know who will drop by. Not long ago Mr. Ed and his buddies dropped in for a deck party. Actually these horses escaped from their pasture and came to our home for a visit. 

We worried that they may head for the road so we needed to keep them near the house until we figured out where they came from. Now, how do you keep horses around for a while? Oats, of course. As we fed the horses, wife got on the phone and called all the neighbors in search of their owners. 

Finally, their owners were identified and they were on their way to nab the grazers.

Here they are checking out the patio.

An appetizer before the main course.

More please!

After 3lbs of my breakfast oats, the horses headed back to their home field. Today wasn't a bad day in the ten acre woods.  

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John Wayne Drops In, Really!

Not long ago while sleeping, I heard a voice saying "John Wayne, John Wayne". I looked at the clock and it was 12:38 am. At first, I thought dang I must be dreaming and I'm in the movie Rooster Cogburn. Then reality set in and I considered hearing voices means that I must be going crazy. So like any man I woke my wife and said "do you hear that" and she said "no, go back to sleep you are dreaming." All of a sudden there it was again "John Wayne, John Wayne." I said to my wife "if this is a dream, you're in it too but I don't normally dream about you in a John Wayne movie." 

We quickly realized the voice was coming from the outside near our bedroom. The wife believes in ghosts and was obviously thinking she may get to see her second aberration, scary. We both jumped from the bed. I grabbed Dirty Harry. Oh yeah, Dirty Harry is my 38. Being the Head of Security here at the ten acre woods, I was prepared. You won't believe what we found.

We discovered the lady from down the road, in our backyard, dressed in her pink moo moo, looking up at a tree, yelling "John Wayne, John Wayne." I thought What the.... But was happy to find out that I wasn't crazy but this women may be. Dang what a sight. 

Apparently, John Wayne is the name of her CAT. She found him in our tree about sixty feet up and was trying to get him down. I thought to myself, I bet Dirty Harry can get that cat down (JUST KIDDING, I WOULD NOT DO THAT. LOVE CATS, WE HAVE FOUR, JUST ADDED FOR HUMOR).

Anyway, after about 15 minutes, John Wayne manned up and took a leap of faith. I guess you could say John Wayne dropped in. Whack, Smack,Thump, John Wayne hit the ground, slowly got up, shook his head and trotted off in true John Wayne fashion. Believe it or not this was a true story!

One thing we have learned after living in the ten acre woods.... you never know who or what may drop by. 

Just wait when you hear about the story of Mr. Ed and his buddy's who dropped by for a patio party.

What's in your woods, river, lake or bay? My woods have John Wayne!

Gerty the green snake

Gertrude the green snake was getting ready to party. As she was primping in the mirror, Gertrude noticed she had the dreaded rat top from eating one too many meals at the Rat Hole.

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No more BaitRageous Cartoons!

Yep, no more Baitrageous on the OFS site. Baitrageous has moved to its own site: www.Baitrageous.com. This will give Baitraegous more room and a dedicated site for even more bait humor. The OFS site will continue on with the same content and may have an occasional cartoon. So go over to www.Baitrageous.com and sign up. I have a flood of  new bait cartoons that I will be placing on the site in the near future. Here's the last bait cartoon on OFS for a while.

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A walk around a Lake.

I am starting to think green. A few weeks ago I walked around a lake that I often fish and took a few photos. There's not much green in the winter. But...........
There are a few places that have Rhododendron over looking the lake.

And I found green lichen growing on an old tree. 

A little close-up.

Here's a little green grass around this old tree. Looks like a beaver had a major construction project going on at one time. No construction cones here. For some reason, the beaver just stopped. I wonder why?

I have seen sandy beaches, and rocky beaches, but never green moss beaches.   

This morning the temperature was 18 degrees here in Nashville Tn. I can't wait for a green spring!