Thanks to everyone for their birthday wishes. Had a quiet, uneventful day which i guess all old folks is supposed to have.. my neighbor, who was on the road driving a big rig called wantin me to check out his water. said his wife called and said it was spewing so i went to lowes and got what i needed to fix if for him.. it took longer than i calculated and i decided not to take the beast and look up CK to could see if we could find some action somewhere. then a friend come by yesterday evening with 28 pretty pond crappie hed caught and give to me. even helped me clean em. .kitty made me birthday cake the day before which got smoked pretty fast. its pictured below. the marks on the plate is where ive picked some stray icing with my finger. its my cake so i figgered i could do it . kittys off again tomorrow so looks like well be checking out wylie again