Nice day today....

[ctom]

....and the weather was perfect for a drive. Carole has been bugging me to get down to Waverly and New Hampton for a while now so today I relented. But first we went to Do-It's headquarters so I could pick up a couple things including the tail mold for that new Crappie Fluke I'll be in the garage shortly to play with it. lol

Always a great time to see Ryan and Josh and Kyle and Mark. Brennan I caught a glimpse of as he sailed passed on a mission. Carole got to tee-hee with the girls a little. Its brown down there...a far cry from the white I have in the yard. I go to see Kyle's deer's antlers and I can tell you they are something else. Actually Ryan and I interrupted Kyle's breakfast snack....grilled venison chops. lol What a guy. lol

It was good to see all of the crew for a while and then Ma took control and shopped me to death in thrift stores all the way home. Fun day and always a pleasure to spend time, even though too short, with the crew at Do-It.

[Fishermanbt]

That is awesome. Good to hear the two of you were able to get out to gallivant. I hope to one day visit the grand halls of the Do-It Corp. It is on my list of things to do right up there with going back to Canada to fish and visiting YouTube’s Marty Zoffinger’s Pelican kayak rental in Florida to chase crazy tarpon.

[WALLEYE WACKER]

Sure wish I lived closer to DO-IT’S house of fun.
Glad that you a carol got out for a day of fun.
Fishermanbt it is a trip well worth the time and unless you have a short list of things to get you might want to spend the night and have a second day of fun with the guy’s.

[basscatlildave]

Sounds like a great day. I would love to tour DoIts place some day. They have had a nice booth at the Bassmasters Classic in the past. I hope to make this years so I will see them there.

[Do-it Rep]

Carole must have had a full day planned for you, Tom. You pertineer left without your tallow.

[ctom]

Speaking of which, I have a full kettle ready to render in a little bit. Got it all cleaned up and chopped into chunks. That was a good pile to work with and lots of the hard fat. Birds love the stuff.

Carole hears the word Do-It and Iowa a couple weeks  early and will have a solid travel agenda made up for when Do-Its door closes. This trip it was straight to Waverly and a half dozen shops, then New Hampton at a couple places. She goes ballistic in the shops and I sit in the van, play on the phone some and then nap. Works good for me. 

[ctom]

Carole is off shopping again today so I rendered the suet and added the peanut butter and ground peanuts. After it cooled a bit I poured it into forms to set hard. All cleaned up now. Thanks for saving this for me Kyle.