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Yes, I am still alive and well. I've been fishing up a storm. I figured out how to get my kayak up on top of my van, so I don't have to borrow She Who Must Be Obeyed's vehicle. I've been tying flies, and fishing some of them, but not as much as I'd like. This weird weather in the past 6...

Well, it looks like Tornado Season is upon us with a vengeance! My family and I are OK as of this post. I am not expecting a tornadic storm to approach our area. My heart is heavy, watching the news about the events unfolding in Oklahoma City.

What a rough 48 hours! Sunday, I get home, and spend 2 hours glued to The Weather Channel and my local ABC affiliate, watching the weather unfold. I was dismayed to learn that Shawnee, OK, took a hit from a tornado. Monday, I was off. The weather people had warned us for days that this would...

Still with the new computer, and now using Firefox v20.0 I'm getting an insertion point / flashing cursor in the text of webpages. Also, the page-up, page-down, home, and end functions aren't working like they should. Any ideas???? I'm about to go through the option of restarting Firefox...

Now, if I can just figure out why Firefox crashes every few minutes. It's a Windows 8 OS, Mozilla Firefox v19.0

I have really gone off the deep end with tying flies. The past couple months, I've been heavily researching fly patterns on the internet. Spending a lot of time staring at text and photos on the computer monitor. Well, a couple weeks ago, I started getting a very persistent headache...

And no, I'm not really into that. However, I will use the stuff occasionally to tie some flies with. I've been trying to find an orange metallic embroidery thread. I've been to Micheal's, Hobby Lobby, and Jo-Ann's Fabric. They all have a rainbow of metallic-colored threads, EXCEPT...

Some of you all might remember when I made a post early this Spring about "going off the deep end" and getting into fly fishing. Well, with help from JoeV, not only did I do that, but I'm able to supply myself with flies to go catch fish. I just got a new camera that can do macro shots of my...

I saw one of these a few days ago, so when I saw this one coming, I pulled out my camera and captured video. Watch the upper left corner of the screen, especially in the last second. You'll get a clear shot of the vertical stabilizers. Judging from the shape of the jet nozzles under the tarp...

As you may recall, several months ago, I "stepped off the deep end" and got myself a fly rod. Well, with the help of JoeV, I took a second step off the deep end, and started tying my own flies. This is meticulous, tedious, SMALL work. It helps to be a bit anal-retentive as well. Luckily, I...

Well, after putting around for a little while with a spinning rod, I decided to give my fly rod a try. I tied on a streamer, olive over chartreuse over white, with green krystal flash and flashabou, size 6. I’ve tried this, and other, streamers before, but haven’t had much luck with them. Well...

Oklahoma is a tender-box right now. There has been a huge fire (or several smaller ones, not sure) to our north and west. I-44 (which is just a mile away) has been shut down twice in as many days. Today, there was a HUGE mass of smoke blowing just to our north. The smoke column rose high...

Two weeks ago, PeppA had all the kids in the truck, and was putting some gas in. They saw this little kitty run across two streets, then run under a car. They tried to get the kitty out, and she ran under a different car, climbing up onto the engine block. The owner of the car walked out...

I used to make this up in Michigan. It's ADDICTING! We would make a batch each day, and use maybe a third of it for salad orders; the rest would be used as a dip for the bread we baked each day. Since it's summertime, this is a good, "light" salad dressing. It really makes a salad of Mesclun...

I got out of work a little early today, so I hit up the pond there at work. CalOkie had given me a couple bead-head nymph flies, so I decided to do a “Pop-and-Drop” presentation, with a popper on the tippet, and a dropper tied to the hook of the popper, and a bead-head nymph on the dropper...

I bought the city permit for this lake today. I went up there to fling a fly around, and maybe dunk some minnows if the fly fishing slowed down. As I walked to the spot I was going to fish, I noticed a bunch of small grasshoppers in the grass. I made a note to try my hopper pattern, but I...

We had a full prep crew at work today, so I had a gut feeling I would be getting out a little early. I had a fly rod in the van, and took the reel in with me so the heat build-up in the van wouldn't start breaking down my line. Once I got out, I drove over to the pond, pulled out the rod...

Last week, I borrowed a 5wt fly rod from a buddy. Caught a couple Skipjack Herring, a Bluegill, and a LMB. Today, I purchased a White River 8' 6" 5wt fly rod, spooled on some backing, and WF5F line. Took it out to the pond at the main park in town. Started making some casts. Noticed I was...

We had the graduation party for my oldest step-son this past weekend. Big BBQ meal, pulled pork, chicken, bologna, tater salad, cole slaw, baked beans, etc. My g'mother made two cakes and brought them. We were able to eat enough of each of the cakes to combine them into one cake box. Logan...

My oldest step-son graduated HS last weekend. TODAY is the family graduation party for him. I got up at 0400 CDT and fired up my smoker. At 0500 I put on two pork butts. I'm going to let those go for about 5 hours, then finish them in the oven at @ 250 degrees F for 4 hours or so. While...