Peace and quiet

The funny thing is that once you get up into the valleys of the Rocky Mountains there is is no cell phone service.  One might say that over 50% of Colorado and most of New Mexico is one massive dead zone for mobile electronic devices.
I can still remember the very first time I saw someone talking on a mobile phone, it was a big and bulky walky talky or a grey brick.   Around about that time someone mentioned to me that they were thinking of either getting a car phone ( Not a cordless phone) or a cell phone.  " You would be able to talk on a phone in your car?  Wow, what a concept!"  Back then it was a toy and the only thing you could do was actually make phone calls.  All this was around 1996!  In less than 20 years look where we have come.  One can only guess what those pesky little cordless mobile devices will be like in another 20 years.
Below are a couple of other takes on excessive cell phone use.

This blog kinda sorta pays homage to that plastic fish in the movie Rango.  There is no hidden messages here and not one hidden political agenda.  Just a silly idea that popped into my head the other day.  

As far as the Monsters from A to Z goes I am waiting for my wife to write some more silly poems about bedtime monsters. 

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Today we Americans celebrate a holiday with lots of food, parades and parties of Mexico's independence from the French.  Mean while down in Mexico, it is just a minor national foot note.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/118001/Cinco-de-Mayo

Confusion with Mexican Independence Day

Many people outside Mexico mistakenly believe that Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Mexican independence, which was declared more than 50 years before the Battle of Puebla. That event is commemorated on September 16, the anniversary of the revolutionary priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla’s famous “Grito de Dolores” (“Cry of Dolores”), a call to arms that amounted to a declaration of war against the Spanish colonial government in 1810.
 Today we American celebrate a Mexican-American "Kwanza" Holiday, as yet another excuse to get have parades, eat lots of spicy foods and get rip roaring drunk. 

More monsters and adventures in Fly fishing

 D stands for Danny Deanated...I will be happy when my wife has the time to write these poems as I am not a poet by a long shot.  Not as easy as it may seem.

TGIF

Inspiration sometimes comes from the weather.  The fly fishing cartoon was done the other day when we got yet another spring snow storm.  Up in the mountains the weather can some times move in really fast and has in fact stranded many hikers under tons of new snow they had no idea was coming.

Adventures in Fly Fishing

The fly fisher I am featuring in my cartoons is based on a former class mate from my childhood, he is a real person by the name of John Turner.  After high school he went into the Army and I went into the Marine Corps and both served in South Vietnam.  He is a fly fisherman and those guys have always intrigued me in the way they look at their sport of catching fish with a hand made "fly".
Fly Fishing is a pseudo religion of sorts.  They do not go to any organized ceremony or pay any money to any organization but the devotion to their passion is far more than most devout church goer.  Fly fishing is done all around the globe and strangely enough most of the fish that they catch never get cook but is tossed back into the river.
Most fly fishermen or women probably feel as close to God standing out there in some ice cold white water river or creek all by them selves as other people going to a church, temple or mosque.  There is something very restful sitting on the bank of  fast running white water river such as the Salmon River up in Idaho or the Cache La Poudre River in Colorado.  For the foreseeable future I will be doing cartoons of John's adventures in fly fishing all with no captions.
That along with a daily page of the kid's book my wife and I are putting together.

Bedtime Monsters A to Z

Today I am posting parts of a kids book my wife and I are putting together called: " Bedtime Monster A to Z Book, or something along that line.  The monsters will be silly looking in hopes that little kids will not be afraid of those creatures that come out of their closets and out from under their beds at bed time.
Along with this project I will continue to draw up a daily cartoons to hopefully tickle your funny bone.