Thinking Things Through.....

Hey - Ho Silverhorner's Welcome back to Silverhorn Lodge, high atop Silverhorn Mountain, overlooking the shimmering waters of Silverhorn Lake...well, actually it's more like shimmering ice these days, although the ice is finally starting to weaken, as winter finally starts to slip away behind us and Spring is just around the corner...I am working from my laptop, sitting on the lake, enjoying the last of the winter ice, I pulled my adirondack chair out here so I could work in peace, enjoying the sun and the day and watch the ice finally melt away beneath me, a sure sign of spring...it's quite comfortable, the sun is shining and the view of the lodge from here is wonderful....

I was reading the news today and thinking that folks really don't think things through anymore...a plan isn't a plan unless you think it through all the way to the end. It's not good to get an idea and run with it unless you first figure out what is going to happen...that is called thinking things through....for example...

Did you hear about the guy from Yorktown New York who went through a Dunkin' Donuts drive thru without his pants on? Yup, 46 year old John Greco ordered a coffee and when he pulled up to the window, workers noted he wasn't wearing pants....he got his coffee and they got his licence plate...the police charged him with misdeamenor public lewdness....oh-oh...Ya know people gotta start thinking these things through all the way...

In Liberty Pennsylvania a man tried to rob the Citizens and Northern Bank...he waited in his car for 20 minutes outside the bank before heading for the bank entrance shortly after noon lugging a rifle and wearing a ski mask.

Trouble is the door was locked...the Citizens and Northern Bank closes at noon on Thursdays....employees inside the bank got his licence plate number too....he's now in jail....think these things through folks.....c'mon...

And in Corpus Christi, Texas, a woman found a hand grenade in some old belongings of a relative and promptly did the right thing with it, she marched it straight to the local police station and showed it to them....they evacuated the station as the bomb squad was called and someone carried it outside where it was detonated....thinking things through...

Ever wonder what happened to the cute and sexy Mary Ann after she got off Gilligan's Island? Well, apparently the actress who played Mary Ann, Dawn Wells, is alive and well and living...um...high in Driggs, Idaho where she is now serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car.

Dawn was sentenced to five days in jail, fined $410.50 and given probation after pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving. The drug charges were dropped. She blamed three hitchhikers for the marijuana smell in her car at the time she was stopped for erratic driving. She also blamed them for the half-smoked joints and marijuana paraphenalia that police discovered in her vehicle. Now that is thinking things through....

The charming and innocent Mary Ann who tittillated all us teenage watchers of Gilligan's Island back in the day, is now 69, and the founder of the Idaho Film and Television Institute, she is also the founder of the "Spud Fest".....the Idaho potatoe celebration....yup...

Officials in Tallahassee, Florida are cracking down on crack...um..butt crack that is...The Florida Senate, obviously some folks with a little time on their hands wants public schools to make students pull up their socks...no wait, that's pants...yup, they are calling for suspensions for droopy drawers..

Apparently they are not alone as several other southern U.S. towns and cities have passed similar legislation that prohibits students from wearing those saggy pants that hang below their bums...usually exposing plaid underwear...or worse...now get this...Riviera Beach in Florida already has a droopy drawers law that can net the wearer of saggy pants up to 60 days in jail if they are repeat offenders....so they are putting kids in jail for not pulling their pants up in a state that has topless beaches and nude resorts...and where thongs are on display on every beach? Gotta wonder about that...

Ever wonder who is your best friend? We've all heard the saying that a dog is man's best friend, but what about your wife or girlfriend, aren't they really your best friend? Well, if you are wondering, try this little experiment, lock them both in the trunk of your car for one hour, not a minute more or less...then open the trunk and see who is happy to see you.....

Well I guess I better get going...I am on thin ice here....my chair is starting to sink into the lake...I guess I didn't think this one through....

See ya!