the thread and post to tie my great friend ZOOKER

[bamabassman]

ok gang, i know i have not been posting as much as usual lately.


there are a few reasons (yes, i have had concerns) for not doing this TIEING post. i, as ya'll know have started a new job and that is taking up a LOT of my time, 10 hr days doesn't leave much time to do "home chores". AND...we are still fighting the cancer with my sister in law GINGER SANDERS.

having lost ZOOKER to cancer, then having my wifes sister going through it now i have come to some VERY sobering and ENLIGHTENING things. life is not fair folks, it owes you NOTHING. so don't sweat the small things if oyu can. take a step back, review, and give pause. and i mean PAUSE and THINK about what is bothering oyu. i know this is extremily hard to do a lot of times. trust me i know. but is it REALLY worth oyu losing oyur cool over? i may not be making sense to some of you, but others understand me. somehow...they do.

now i ain't gonna be this serious, brooding faced fella. i am jsut asking for each and every one of you to TRULY think aobut where you are in life and where you want to be when it is over with. we will never do ALL the things we wanted to do gang. it'll never happen, i'm sorry to have to tell oyu that,lol.

but TRY to do the SMALL things. the things that matter are often the small things. like...for no reason at all....out of the blue....these types of things. a little THANK you to your wife, brother, sister, anyone in oyur family. say thank you for spending time with me today, if only for 5 mins. you never know that those 5 mins may very well be the last time you will ever see them again.

now to talk about ginger, or GIN as we call her. she has her final chemo treatment, then radiation comes next. she is still upbeat and is fighting it all the way gang. i admire her so much as i did ZOOKER. never give up, never say die. she is truly an inspiration. her and lisa are closer now than any 2 sisters could ever be. even if they are 2 1/2 hrs part by car. and i am doing everthing i can so that they can continue to fight this together. GIN says ot "be sure to thank oyur friends for me john." "the prayers help me on my bad days, jsut knowing someone i never laid eyes on are with me in praer...helps." her words gang. and i can't thank ya'll enough myself.

i have tried to remember every word ol zooker said to me when he came all the way down here to see lisa and i. and maybe i have blocked it out for some reason gang. i remember us going to guntersville lake. he loved it. couldn't believe all the milfoil and grass there was. loved it alot. i do remember him saying he wished he had came sooner. he didnt' get a nibble on the lake. but i blamed it on his host,lol. he said "no, i just ain't ever fished THIS much grass before." then the next day we hit weiss lake. zooker ties on a crankbait right off the bat. looks over to the bank and says,"mmmmm structure." makes a cast, cranks it maybe 3 times and WHAM. catches a 3 pounder. lipsit and looks at me and says, "no fish huh?" then he laughs as he is shaking his head. yes i laughed too. i never got a bite that day. he got hit a few more times but didn't land anymore. i think it ws he was feeling so bd as the heat of the day got to him.

i miss that big ol bull gang. i really do. thining of kentucky lake, all the phone calls and me laughing my arse off after having a bad day at work. zooekr's calls and lisa and this site has truly helped me over the last 6 yrs while i was at the JOB FROM HE77!

so i'll close this out asking for each of you to give a moment of thought and prayer not only for zooker and ginger.......but also for everyone else who has fought and is still fighting cancer in one form or another.

and think aobut calling someone oyu haven't talked ot in a while and jsut say "hey, i was thiniing aobut oyu and wanted to see how oyu are. let's visit soon." and follow through. kiss oyur family tonight gang, EVERY MEMBER. tell them oyu love them.

i ain't skeered to say it either, I LOVE OYU NUTTY FOLKS. ALL OF YOU. thank oyu for making my life easier to go through and please continue to do so.

GOD BLESS ALL OF OYU.