chuckv97 - Posted - 03/13/2014:  08:59:38

I go to bet on the ponies.

Those bird brains 

banjoscotty - Posted - 03/13/2014:  11:41:21

are smarter than me.

Once upon a time ago

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/13/2014:  16:10:23

I plowed the fields and started to hoe

I wish I knew the rest of that

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/13/2014:  16:36:44

farming joak,but my excellent memory is short.

Plowing and hoeing

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/13/2014:  16:57:28

are two farming tasks best left to those most adept at doing them, namely, Georgia mules and country boys.

You don't see many mules

 

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/13/2014:  17:01:24

because Scotty buyes them all up

after answering the question I was asked

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/13/2014:  17:05:31

if I would be more interested in buying some red mules or some blue mules.

I said I preferred blue because

 

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/13/2014:  18:10:18

the Reds stand out in the field too much

I didn't know if I should ride or walk

OM45GE - Posted - 03/14/2014:  04:48:18

but either way I have to get there.

Of course, "there" is

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/14/2014:  07:20:38

whichever direction that happens to strike my fancy on any given day.

The last time my fancy

OM45GE - Posted - 03/14/2014:  07:43:19

struck me, I was so stunned that I dropped my ice cream cone.

To atone, my fancy took me

jistgreg - Posted - 03/14/2014:  10:30:47

to an ostrich farm and let the farmer tickle him-her-it with a feather. 

Now I like plain better than fancy because 

OM45GE - Posted - 03/14/2014:  11:25:05

plain has never struck me the way fancy has.

In fact, I'm beginning to think

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/14/2014:  12:24:43

that being struck by a fancy could shorten my life.

My friend likes going to bancy falls

OM45GE - Posted - 03/14/2014:  12:41:05

and throwing her fancy over the edge.

Somehow it keeps coming

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/14/2014:  15:49:57

back like a bad penny.

One time she threw

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/14/2014:  16:45:05

me out for good never to return

my bronco ran me out of the barn

OM45GE - Posted - 03/14/2014:  17:48:56

and my dog won't come near me.

I'm starting to think

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/14/2014:  18:40:30

my personal hygiene is not up to snuff (or sniff). 

Cologne does replace

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/14/2014:  19:06:55

bourbon, in a pinch, but it takes some getting used to let me tell you.

For both fragrance and drinkability though, it's hard

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/14/2014:  20:27:10

to find and good smelling skunk these days

my guitar buddy says a banjo picker is

OM45GE - Posted - 03/14/2014:  20:50:38

not much use for anything other than music. 

But they are fun

banjoscotty - Posted - 03/15/2014:  05:13:37

to poke jokes at sometimes.

Banjo pickers are a sorry lot because

OM45GE - Posted - 03/15/2014:  05:51:26

they feel one string short compared to guitarists. 

If they only realized that

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/15/2014:  06:10:20

guitars (acoustics)  have big holes where their heads ought to be it would be a big boost to their egos.

Electric guitars are what are really

OM45GE - Posted - 03/15/2014:  07:54:28

freak out banjo players. 

What bothers them is

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/15/2014:  08:07:02

that one loud note they can hold for 2 minutes.

Pete Seeger had an axe

OM45GE - Posted - 03/15/2014:  11:06:42

that he only used nonviolently. 

Sometimes he longed 

jistgreg - Posted - 03/15/2014:  13:06:06

and sometimes he shorted. 

Seriously, though, 

OM45GE - Posted - 03/15/2014:  13:09:41

sometimes I wonder what all the fuss is about  

Just yesterday I was

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/15/2014:  13:24:41

listening to my wife fussing at an old tom cat while another cat was being fussed at by a Mockingbird and three or four  Bluej Jays were just fussing at everything in general within their territory.

None of the fusses appeared to be political or religious

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/15/2014:  14:42:33

so mods didn't have to do any fuss-busting.

The Blue Jays better pitch better

OM45GE - Posted - 03/15/2014:  15:27:19

if they expect to stay out of the cellar. 

 But it may be

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/15/2014:  15:53:58

the Red Sox doomed for the basement.

That green monster

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/15/2014:  16:52:18

truck was in town today for the annual monster showing

I saw Roy Rogers today at the

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/15/2014:  17:01:59

Hollywood dead movie stars reunion.

Old Roy looked

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/15/2014:  18:20:00

like Tex Ridder

My car battery was

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/15/2014:  18:28:06

about as dead as the old duster cowboys of Death Valley.

Good thing I kept the crank

jistgreg - Posted - 03/15/2014:  19:20:45

supplied with rye whiskey -- then he was cranky with everybody except me. 

"A harmless crank" is 

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/15/2014:  19:34:39

like an electric shock of a cattle fence

the woman at the store told me that

banjoscotty - Posted - 03/16/2014:  07:20:56

if I came back at 8:00 this evening,she would sell it to me.

So I'm going back to

BigMonFan - Posted - 03/16/2014:  08:52:34

see if both of us show up.

She didn't impress me as the kind of gal

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/16/2014:  09:11:13

to leave me howling at the moon.

Her last beau

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/16/2014:  14:08:44

was Bill Hickok

took the boat out today and

banjoscotty - Posted - 03/17/2014:  03:00:31

brought it back today.

I dropped a thumb pick off the Skyway Bridge and

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/17/2014:  10:05:44

and a fisherman caught it and used it for a lure.

He ended up with a groupie

Scaggs7 - Posted - 03/17/2014:  14:11:15

from the 60s that was a flower girl

walking down the street today I found a

banjoscotty - Posted - 03/17/2014:  15:11:54

pre war Gibson banjo.

It had no strings so I gave it to

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/17/2014:  15:51:47

a trumpet player.

He blew