Die hard Jimmy Buffett fans will no doubt have picked up on the title of my blog post the other day.

It is, of course, from the the hilarious ditty of a song God's Own Drunk, the last track on Living and Dying in 3/4 Time, my most listened-to Buffett CD of all-time...

"I promised my brother-in-law that I'd go up and watch his still while he went into town to vote. It was right up there on the mountain where the map said it would be. But lemme tell you friends and nieghbors, it weren't no ordinary still. It stood up there on that mountainside like, like a huge golden oak. Awww, and there was God's yeller moon shining on the cool, clear evenin'. God's little lanterns jus a twinklin' on and off in the heavens. And like I 'splained to you all before I ain't no drinking man. But temptation got the best of me and I took a slash. Whew! That yellow whiskey running down my throat like honey dew vine water and I took another slash. I took another and another and another and before ya knew it..."

"... I was God's own drunk, a fearless man. That's when I first saw the bear. He was a Kodiak lookin' feller 'bout 19 feet tall. Ha rambled up on that hillside 'specting me to do one of two things, flip or fly. I didn't do either one. It hung him up. He looked me right in my eyes and my eyes were a lot redder than his was. It hung him up. He come sniffin' 'round my body trying to smell fear, but he ain't gonna smell no fear 'cause I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man. It hung him up..."

Maybe that's what happened to me and my bear visitor. I'd had a few pops at the pub down the road apiece, yes, but I wasn't anything near tipsy. Just plain trail happy.

Maybe just tired enough, though, to give him a go for his money, so to speak. Enough sass and backhandin' from this here hiker to feign a smidgen of Jimmy Buffett-like courage so that it plum hung him up.

Hard tellin'.

But I do know this: There's one hiker that's still scratching head over that night. And likely one bear somewhere out there in the NH woods that's doing the same.

So where am I goin' with all this silly-talk?

Nowhere really.

'Cept to the Jimmy Buffett concert this coming Sunday at Gillette Stadium.

Woo-hoo!!!

With tickets to a Jimmy Buffett concert this Sunday in Foxboro it's going to be 5 o'clock everywhere this weekend. The usual outdoor activities will just have to wait...
Carey Kish photo

Yep, I'll be outside this weekend, but up to pretty much no good, except fun and frivolity, parrot-heading around the parking lot at Foxboro with 65,000 other crazed Buffett freaks waiting for the show to start.

Bring it on Jimmy. The fins are up and we're circling around!

But oh Come Monday...

Wonder how many other Maine Parrotheads will be shirking their usual weekend outdoor activities of hiking and boating and biking et al for a trip to Buffett?

You??