Something Cool to Show You gys

This is the weekly program on PBS that our state wildlife department produces. My old friend Mallard Fillmore is the guy with the ZZTop beard. He's the Water Commissioner in our hometown and they are working with the town that bult this lake on some water quality issues they are having. The scientist they are working with, Steve Patterson, is my old high school girlfriend's brother. Smart guy and a good guy too.
I just thought it was cool as hell that they were both featured in this episode.

I was back home this weekend visiting my parents and dropped in on Mallard and his wife last night. Of course the whiskey flowed like honeydew vine water , the talk flowed like a river, and somewhere about three am somebody said something about 'drunker than a peach orchard boar' and we called it a night. A good visit with one of those lifetime friends where you sit down after a year and it seems like the conversation just picks up where you last left it. And his wife is beautiful and another lifelong friend and that don't hurt.

bkb

http://youtu.be/My_tFh1f__A

That IS cool! I'd like to drink with Mr. Fillmore too! He looks like a good story teller. He's quite the guitar slinger, too, ain't he?

Man-o-man, I'm sitting here trying to determine who the winner would be if you and Mallard entered a fugly contest! ;)

Cool video btw, good friends are priceless and it's neat that you guys stay in touch. I made some of my closest friends in the military and 4-5 of us have kept in touch almost daily for almost 45 years now. I'm in regular contact with my old h/s buddy and college dorm roommate and stopped at his place for a couple days when I drove my truck. Lynn and I even spent Thanksgiving at his place (Tennessee) a couple years ago. I have three buddies that I grew up with and we've known each other since we were 7 years old ... in fact, one of them is the dufe who hits the estate sales with me every weekend. That's 57 years and counting!

He a vocalist of the most excellent kind, but only plunks around on the piano a little bit far as I know. Hos band is called Still Kickin'.

Bkb
https://www.gigmasters.com/oldies-band/still-kickin

Just watched it from the deer stand. Pretty cool, especially getting those kids involved!
You need to load up old Mallard and a couple of them sneak boat and head out there this spring. That boy would think he was in heaven on these bream lakes I got.
I've never see. A little boat like they had and really like it. That would be cool to have.

Now that's cool. I have an old H/S buddy who had the best band in town (IMHO) when we were kids. Typical Mississippi, he has three first names! (John Howard Dennis) He stuck with it and has had a band all his adult life! His current band is called "Chill".

http://www.chillband.com/index.html

In H/S his band was called "Mystic Knights" and they did a killer rendition of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze". The crowd would go absolutely nuts whenever they played it. (it was a new song at that time .. '67-'68)

Personally, I have as much musical talent as I do artistic talent ... NADA! Man, I was always jealous of what a chick magnet those rock band dudes were back in the day! ;)

John Howard has done this all his life. Here's an old newspaper clipping of him playing the guitar as a young kid. ;)

http://www.chillband.com/images/jhd.jpg


And today (that's him with the hat):


http://www.chillband.com/chillborder.jpg

Now that is pretty neat stuff!