Just such a thing happened to me recently while on vacation in search of mass quantities of bluegill filets. It’s been an October tradition for as long as I can remember and it is the time of year when the freezer gets filled back up with the makings for another year’s worth of fish fries. No one can turn down a crispy bluegill filet, at least no one I care to know anyway. So we were only part way through the “harvest”, as The Queen calls it, when business called me away on a critical mission. Murphy’s 3rd Law says that whatever it is you want to do, there is always something else that needs to be done first. Thanks Murph.

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