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Sixteen
Oliver turns 16 today. I have to admit I didn’t think we’d be celebrating this birthday. But I’m quite pleased we have had him with us for another year. Quite an achievement for an Aussie. Mini Australian Shepherds like him…
Windy Two-Handed Practice
Mid to late October marks the start of winter storms in the Northwest. Deep lows in the Gulf of Alaska move south and bring cold wind and rain – with winds sufficient to cause power outages across Puget Sound. This…
Autumn Splendor
The corner house on the next block has this tree. It’s why Autumn is my favorite season; even on a cloudy day, the colors are so rich.
Two-Handed Casting Lesson
After having practiced some single-hand Spey casting over the last two months, I decided I wanted to jump in with both feet and take up casting a two-handed rod – the very symbol of Spey casting. But I decided it…
May the Fair Wind Blow
Robert Redford died on Tuesday at 89. The movies that he acted in and directed have left their marks on me – with their themes of the environment and nature, friendship, loyalty, and loss – to those times and places…
Single-Hand Spey
I’m referring to single-hand spey casting. Spey casting is typically assumed to involve the use of a two-handed fly rod (12 – 14 feet) to cast for salmon and steelhead. Or, more recently, spey rods have been sized down (11…
Fly Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci
What kind of fly-fishing guide would Leonardo Da Vinci be? That’s the premise of “Fly Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci” by David Ladensohn. But this is no reverie by an author, wondering what fly Leonardo might suggest. The book is…
For Love of Country
Several months ago, I posted on what I thought was the relevance of the movie Judgment at Nuremberg to today’s world, specifically to what has been happening in the U.S. since the start of the second Trump administration. That post…
MAFA II
(Note – after publishing, I realized MAFA was too long as one post) So back to the title. MAFA – Making Americans Frogs Again. Why frogs? Frogs, as in the old saying – how do you boil a frog? It…
MAFA
MAGA – Make America Great Again! (And no – the title is not an error). It’s a slogan; it’s a political movement; it’s a self-identifier for a percentage of the US electorate. And it’s basically just another scam. Make America…
