Good Friends

In the Kadizzle world good friends are people who will get up off the couch and do something.  Everyone has friends who always find an excuse to do nothing.  On the other hand there are the people who say OK when you say let's walk up to the top of the mountain, go down the river, or parachute.  Life is too short to sit in front of the television.  When we look back on life do we remember watching a game show? No, we remember our adventures.  We remember looking out over a vast landscape, seeing a mountain lion, or making an excellent pheasant shot. 

Our best friends have been sailors, hikers, bikers,  and doers.  Of course we know a lot of couch potatoes, but how much fun is a card game or baking a potato? If you want to live a boring life get with some boring friends.  If you want an interesting life meet some challenging people.

Winky and Kadizzle have been fortunate, we have met so many good people.  We have hiked with them, sailed with them, and sometimes we have to cry with them.  We have lost some good people.  Ray went on to the big house in the sky.  Once Ray asked us to go help him run a small lumber mill.  Instantly we said sure.  The next thing we knew Winky was running a skid steer loader moving logs, Ray was stacking the lumber, and Kadizzle was disposing of the slabs.  Ray could do anything, and loved doing public projects.  Ray was a genius in many areas.  Ray was a modern Davinci. 

The first time Kadizzle ever saw Ray, Kadizzle never dreamed we would become such good friends. The first sight of Ray was when he escorted his dying wife hooked to oxygen into the city hall in Hazen.  Ray looked like a strange white haired tall man.  Understandably he did not look like the energetic man he is.  Kadizzle learned the old lesson, don't judge a book by it's cover. 

As time went on Kadizzle got to know Ray through a tourism project we were involved in.  Ray turned out to be one of the most interesting people Kadizzle ever met, also the most talented. 

Now the moral of the story.  Both Winky, and sister Patty have recently criticized Kadizzle for being to forthright with people.  They don't call it that.  They call it prying into people's lives. Too bad, it has worked for Kadizzle.  Meet someone, ask them what they do, who they are, and before you know it you will have a new friend or you will have some one tell you none of your f**king business.  Always remember when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.  If you gain a friend it is of infinite value, if you gain an enemy it is no big deal you probably already have all you need.