No Smooshing!

Written by Gary E. Anderson


No Smooshing! (Fromrepparttar book No Smooshing!) Gary E. Anderson www.abciowa.com

High school football is in full swing, and it’s fun to sit inrepparttar 133186 stands on a crisp autumn night and watch our kids play. It can also berepparttar 133187 source of some pretty funny comments byrepparttar 133188 fans, especially mothers who may be watchingrepparttar 133189 only football games they’ll ever witness—or care to witness, for that matter.

For instance, during one recent game, our cheerleaders were standing with their backs torepparttar 133190 field, leading a cheer of “hold ‘em, hold ‘em!” when one ofrepparttar 133191 fathers inrepparttar 133192 stands yelled out, “Girls! I think that’s illegal!”

He was right, of course, since our team happened to be on offense atrepparttar 133193 time.

Butrepparttar 133194 real gem of that night was an observation made byrepparttar 133195 halfback’s mother. After watching her son trying to run off-tackle twice in a row, only to get caught up in a tangled pile of bodies atrepparttar 133196 line of scrimmage, she said, “You know, it seems to me they’d do a lot better if they wouldn’t all just smoosh together like that.”

Although her comment brought gales of laughter from everyone around her, andrepparttar 133197 rest ofrepparttar 133198 night was punctuated by various people yelling “no smooshing!” towardrepparttar 133199 players onrepparttar 133200 field, I had to admit—the lady was right. Our plays would have gone better if everyone just stopped smooshing.

Allrepparttar 133201 next week, that “no smooshing” comment kept playing through my mind, andrepparttar 133202 more I thought about it,repparttar 133203 more I realized that life itself is like that football game. The key to success often lies in our ability to avoid getting caught up inrepparttar 133204 tangle of everyday problems and to break intorepparttar 133205 open field—in other words, to avoid smooshing.

FISHING WITH VELCRO

Written by NLCATFISH


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FISHING WITH VELCRO

Overrepparttar 133185 years I have made improvements in my fishing boat with repparttar 133186 help of Velcro. I have a portable fish-finder so to mount it and be able to remove it easily this was my fix. I glued down a number of one type of Velcro strips to my boats bench seat. The other type of Velcro strips torepparttar 133187 bottom ofrepparttar 133188 mounting bar on repparttar 133189 fish-finder. This arrangement holdsrepparttar 133190 finder firmly, yet just lift up and it is moved around so I can seerepparttar 133191 screen when I am sitting in my fishing seat. Allows easy removal to pack away atrepparttar 133192 end ofrepparttar 133193 fishing day.

The second use I found was onrepparttar 133194 form rubber seat I use while controlling my outboard motor. The same manner of strips onrepparttar 133195 bench seat ofrepparttar 133196 boat andrepparttar 133197 bottom ofrepparttar 133198 foam seat. Holds firm while in use yet easy to remove and store atrepparttar 133199 end ofrepparttar 133200 day.

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