"Please allow me to introduce myself....."

So........... Here I am and there you are!

I am Kerry, from San Diego, and I'm a girl who loves to fish and tell fish stories!!

My cousin, Mickey, inadvertantly may have gotten me hooked on blogging. We'll see how this goes and maybe we'll have the whole G. & J. Thomas family blogging and we'll finally have found a way to keep up with each other!

In the meantime I'll introduce myself and as time goes on I will have to introduce my "Family".

I don't have any immediate family left and frankly, that really sucks! But I do have the best uncles and cousins in the world and nobody could compare to the friends I have! True friends I must say! Not everyone has that blessing to have people who are there for you even when they don't really have to be!! I have been orphanned, but I have been blessed, this I can't deny!

So, as my name implies and as I have pointed out, I am a girl who loves to fish!! This first picture here is my very first shark! I have only caught three and the first two were caught on consecutive days. My third was about six months later after I got a boat. That's right! My first two were just surf fishing at the bay here in Beautiful San Diego!! I've always been intrigued by sharks and have for as long as I can remember wanted to catch one. But if his teeth are bigger than mine, I'm cutting the line! If he's as pretty as this one I want a picture. I mostly catch, picture and release. Every once in awhile someone will want us to bring fish home for them. So, we keep the BIGGUNS!! We always try to take at least one camera with us so we don't miss anything extraordinary!! Except the one! Holy cow! That sucker was as big as the boat as I remember it and by the time I realized how big he was I was slow in getting him to the net, and Leslie, (you'll meet her later) was slow in getting her camera! Sorry folks! The big one got away and we didn't even get a picture!! But I'm telling you, the teeth on that sucker must have been neglected for a long time cuz they were UGLY!!! Now that I think about it.... We probably should have cut the line anyway! He was too big for that little boat and his teeth were bigger than all of ours!!

So......... These are my cousins!! Ha ha ha!!

I'd like to thank them for not cutting the line when I showed up!! They are good people!

I'm pretty sure these aren't ALL my cousins!

Back row from the left is Aunt Chips, everyone loves Aunt Chips!! Then we have my cousin, Norman and two kids I couldn't swear to as to who they are, but I'm sure we knew them at the time! Then on the end is my little bro Danny.

Front row from the left is a little girl (??) then my cousin who we can all hold responsible for getting me on here, Mickey, and next to her in that stylish blue jacket is Suzy, (Scull Breaker), and next to her on the end is, ahh hhemmm, your's truly, The Scull!!

So............ That's it for family family. I do have two uncles left and they happen to be my mother's twin brother, Uncle Scotty, he is Mickey, Suzy, and Norman's Daddy. And dear ol' Uncle Skip, the youngest of their clan.

I promise that as soon as you get a little familiar with me I will make this a lot more interesting!! I just think you may enjoy my antics a little more if you know a little about me first!

I invite you to introduce yourself to me as well, I'd like to know who's peeping around in my blog gloset ('closet' get it!) . Yup! I'm a little odd at times but that's why you're gonna learn to like me and you're gonna get addicted to reading kerrbears Fish stories!

So! Are you ready to meet my other family?! Now let me warn you, THEY are Nuts!! After all

look who they choose to hang out with!!

Next I'd like to introduce my girlfriend Lori. She likes to fish as well, and I'll be throwing out some fun fish stories of her in good time!! This picture was taken on our cruise to the Carribean. They wouldn't let me bring my fishing pole or I'm sure I would have been trolling!!

I used to work at a local Indian casino and that's where I met Lori. That was about 5 or 6 years ago. We would just talk and get in trouble for just loitering at work! Well, let me correct myself! I would get in trouble because Lori wasn't getting her work done!! She still thinks that's funny!!

I'm still confused!!

Anyway........... she's a beautiful girl inside and out! She isn't happy on the inside, but that's what I'm here for! One of these days I'll find a way to make her happy!!

Now, I'd like you to meet Buddy!! He's quite the brave sole!

Buddy is a 10 year old Manchester Terrier. He is the best little guy a girl could ask for!

Buddy was first rescued from an abusive environment and then I took him home with me and did some training and helped him to trust people again and then gave him to my mom and Aunt Mabel as a companion. He was the best thing since ice cream for them! He is such an independent little rascal and entertaining in many ways!! He brought so much joy to these two women it was a blessing to see!! Now since losing my mother, he and I have bonded in a way that I didn't think was possible! We understand each other and we grieve together and he entertains me and keeps Moms joy alive!

My baby boy Rocky was the light of my life before Buddy came to live with us and I believe he was Buddy's best bud as well!!

Meet Rocky!

Rest in Peace

Rocky lived to be 14 years old. He was a Shepard mix, I found at the animal shelter one day.

It was funny how that happened. I was just kidding around when I said, "I'm going to the pound to pick up a new best friend!" I couldn't believe it when I found him! All these dogs were barking and jumping on the fences and I walked by this kennel and noticed this guy! He was about 6 months old I figured and he was just laying there by the fence. I rattled his cage and said something to him and he sat up and moved closer and propped himself against the wall as if to say, "I thought You'd never come!" I fell in love right then and there and that was that!!

He went home with me that day and I took him to work with me that night and the girls I was working with at the time got to stay up a little later that night and they came up with his name.

Rocky was a special boy with a wonderful understanding of the human language, both spoken and unspoken! One day someone said, "Rocky can't jump this high. We shouldn't have to put the fence up this high." Right then as if on command, Rocky looked up at us and jumped that wall just like he had to prove he understood and YES HE COULD JUMP THAT HIGH!

Another time I took a friend to the lake with Rocky and me and she was trying to get him to go in the water. I said, "Nah, don't bother, I don't think he swims, he won't go in." And this was the first time he did something like this. He watched my friend throw a rock in the water and he took off after it!! That was the day he fell in love with the water!! He couldn't get enough! That boy loved to swim and play in the water!! Yup! That's my Rocky!!

Next, I want to introduce my Bestest Friend in the whole world.............. Kardi JonZ!! Her real name is Crenda, but one of her clients called her Kardi JonZ and it stuck!! I will never understand how I could take this young girl who had never even held a fishing pole and turn her into a better angler than myself!! How could that happen?!!

I met Crenda in 1991 at ARC San Diego. We didn't really become friends until a year or two later. As our friendship grew and our lives changed we ended up as companions. I taught her how to fish on a lake that is primarily a Trout lake and that first trip she out fished me!! Not only did she catch one more than me but for every fish she caught it was bigger than every fish I caught!! And she has been fishing that way ever since!! I moved her out of trout fishing and into Bass fishing. She out did me! I moved her from Lake fishing to Bay fishing.......... She out did me there. And as you can see in this picture.... She catches the bigguns on the big water too!! It's MY BOAT!!!! Can't she show a little respect?!!!

I am proud!! She has really come a long way!!

This is my best friend Marshall James Jofess Jingleheimerschmidt and that's his mom Shawnie!

Shawnie and I go back a few years!! I was 24 and she was 20 if I remember right! We worked together at another facility for DD. Shawnie doesn't do much fishing, actually I don't think she has ever gone fishing with me!! Marshall has! He's quite the angler I must say!! That boy took a long time to finally put on the tall pants and now he's trying to grow out of them!! Shawnie and I tell a different kind of fish story! I'm sure if I hang around here long enough......... I'll share one or two with you!!! Another trouble maker that I couldn't live without!! We love each other but we pretend that love isn't in our vocabulary!! I was touched last year when she told me that she was pregnant again and they wanted to name her lynn after me!! Well, it's more than just lynn, but that doesn't matter! All that matters is that what ever you want to call her you get to put lynn on the end of it and it's MY namesake!! How cool is that?!! Not only that but she asked me to marry her!! Well.......... let me put it another way.... She asked if I would officiate her wedding when she married her man Denny!! Now THAT means I'm special to someone!!

I really did!! I got to marry my friends!! That was a great experience!!

That's my boy!! That was taken after our fishing trip with Joe, Shawnie's dad. One of those halibut is Marsh's and one is mine! We did ok that day!

This is Leslie!! She is my other first mate! When our Friday crew goes out on the water, Leslie is the best first mate!!

She has learned how to back the trailer into the water to launch and retrieve the boat. She has also learned how to get behind the wheel of the boat and launch and retrieve!!

I think it's pretty cool to see a bunch of girls go out on the water and get in and out before a bunch of guys!! Leslie is ALL GIRL too!! How about that!!! I'm pretty proud of my Friday crew!! I am confident that if anything was to happen out on the water, nobody would panic and everything would be ok! Way to go team!!

Leslie used to be my supervisor, and I don't really reacall doing much of anything with her outside of work!! We would talk occasionally at work and we may have run into each other at the beach a time or two, and we may have done some crazy stuff at Walmart and accidentally run into each other while we were doing the same crazy stuff, but our friendship and personal lives have only just recently crossed since I've left the casino!! REALLY!!!!