Good News!

Climate crisis over by proclamation. Inmates to run asylum and all's good. Billionaires know best.

So think about what's important as we enter or return to a new era. Cheap gas, no constraints on power, saving money on taxes and throwing up our hands in full surrender. 

Those who don't study history tend to repeat it. Sure mistakes were made, but how many times do we need to repeat those mistakes. What will happen over the next 2years will take 20 years to reverse and may never restore what would have been. Feeling nostalgic, take some pictures of those fish and have them mounted for your grandchildren's children to see. They won't ever see a trout sip a bug off the top or watch a mayfly spinner fall. Our denial of the obvious has doomed them and us. 

Anger Never Makes the Best Sauce or How and Why things happen?

 Old Sicilian saying or at least attributed to: " revenge is best served cold". Funny saying, but not true, in MHO. Lashing out at people or things that we have no control over, blaming others for our own mistakes, misjudgments and biases is really counter productive. 

Fact we all think we are the most knowledgeable, skillful and extremely correct in every thing around us. Fact is most of us haven't spent the time on any particular item, issue or discipline to even have a tiny insight. We are incredibly lazy in this regard. Complacent is a good word for it. 

For example we are just coming out of a period of inflation and increased interest rates. Notice I didn't use the word or words like high or higher, I have lived through much higher and more troubling times. Experience and studying the past tells me this is a reaction when the good times aren't so great. Oops, didn't mean that better to say fabulous became ordinary. Years ago as I left college and got out into the work force, I made almost nothing. To me home ownership was a dream out of reach, interest rates weren't  7% they were 18% and inflation was at historic highs. Our appointed president took to wearing a button that had WIN on it whip inflation now. His press secretary turned it upside down to read NIM no immediate miracles. Ford was blown out of office by another man who couldn't quite solve the problem and was also blown out of office. Morale is everything changes, make no promises you can't keep. Things out of your control, aren't yours to change. 

So what can we all control, our habits and judgements. Our beliefs and our ethics (not the same). Read A Sand County Almanac for some helpful ideas and quotes. Do random acts of kindness, pick up the stray piece of litter, hold a door open for someone, smile more, complain less, greet strangers with a hello. 

 

Renewed Energy to Fight for Clean Air and Water

 If you believe in these values, you gotta have a game plan. Sucking in the political cocaine only goes so far. Climate Change will be abolished soon. Does that mean it will go away, with a campaign slogan like drill baby drill. Seduction by slogans will not change the course of events. So yesterday was just another day, planning for a better tomorrow should have already started. Now do your part and get off your asses!

Make America Cool Again

 Fight for what you believe in, cold water, abundant fish and the complexity of life in and around our waters. Clean water and clean air to breathe, abundant and free.

I've been contemplating what the next move is, running out of ideas. No ideas for YouTube content and certainly no ideas what to blog about. Four or five views on either is not inspiring at all. The prospect of traveling to get some decent fishing time in, is challenging. My age is slowly creeping up on me. My arthritis in my hands has discouraging at best. Tying flies when thousands populate my boxes is meaningless. Boxes scattered over three states along with various equipment seems to me as out of reach.

A conundrum at best, my sense of adventure fades into early evening. Montana seems like a lifetime ago, Vermont, Maine, California, Nevada only a dream of past lives. The pandemic killed the fun. 

There is still that spark, that adventure awaits. Cooler days ahead, outdoor time available once the heat and high humidity fades away. Like the old saying "wait till next year" is familiar refrain after a losing season. So planning and staring at maps of rivers, trails and far away destinations occupy my days. 

A quick note on climate change, either you get with the program or decide to sit on your fat ass and give only lip service. Your time to act is rapidity disappearing. 

So what will it be..........................

Tight lines

I Hereby Cancel all Trips for 2024

 Seriously due to circumstances out of my control I need to limit my travel, sun exposure till spring 2025. I will post anything of interest I happen to come by as they happen.

Aside from that I did see a call for volunteers last week to rescue fish from the stony Brook duck pond. 

A brief message to climate deniers, I told you so. 

Don't think there isn't a future in electric cars, think on a broader scale.

I recently moved into a private community, gated community. finally able to recycle, reduce to garbage by 2/3 but I do fill a 65 gallon pail with plastics, cans and cardboard every week. combined with a garbage disposer in the kitchen it's tough filling a bag to put out.

My neighbor across the street leave a cooler with cold drinks out for the garbage men. And he pulls in his neighbors pails (81 yo) now that's a neighbor.

So a few examples of looking out for your neighbors, acts of kindness and environmental responsibility. 

My view out the back is filled with sandhill cranes, heron, turtles, osprey and bald eagles.

We have an abundance of lizards, tree frogs, snakes and alligators. 

One decision I made was to make everything I did special and purposeful. No need to fish just to fish, but do an epic fishing trip. Define who you are by not what you did to make money, but what you did to help people and make a difference. Life is like tying flies, once your boxes are filled......................

                                                                    Fred the Tree Frog

                                                                    

The Dangers of Too Much Fun in the Sun

 Recently had the experience of Mohs surgery on my face. Too much UV despite taking normal precaution, nasty little buggery put a two inch scar on my face. I could say it was a dueling scar, or a run in with bear, truth is reapply that sunscreen every couple of hours. The count was eighteen pre-cancerous and one squamous. Not bad considering seventy years in the sun!

Moving on Down the Road

Art has moved, just down the road.