Icewind's Ramblings

Adventures with Johnny (A remembrance of good times and adventures with Johnny Kytle) Johnny Kytle and I were best friends in high school and over several of those school years had many adventures together.  We learned scuba diving, sky diving (after I got out of the Army), rode motorcycles and drove fast cars.  It was pretty typical for us “buddies” to share and do many things together, like join the U.S. Army on the “buddy plan” but as fate would have it Johnny ended up with a deferment since he had crashed his motorcycle several years earlier and had knee surgery.  We were going to fly helicopters together but after our physicals at the A.F.E.E.S. induction station I was left alone to do my enlistment. Johnny married my first cousin, Debbie whom he met on one of our many scuba diving adventures in Florida where we would stop by to see my aunt and cousins in Pensacola when we were in the north Florida area cave and sinkhole diving.  I wanted to w...

Life Observation # 197 One day two frogs were hopping in and out of a watering hole and accidentally hopped in an extremely deep hole. They tried to leap out, but to no avail had any success, so they began to yell and croak until other frogs heard them and came to help. The other frogs looked over into the hole and said the hole was too deep for them to help, but both frogs kept leaping up the sides of the hole. The other frogs, leaning over the hole and waving their front legs, began to yell to the frogs to just give up and die and that there was no hope of them getting out of the hole, but both frogs kept leaping and trying to get out of the hole. They leaped for hours and one of the frogs just gave up he was so exhausted and died. The other frog in the hole kept leaping, but the other frogs, leaning over the hole, kept yelling and waving their front legs for him to stop and give up, but the frog kept leaping trying to get out of the hole. Finally the frog leaped so high tha...