Johnsfolly

My dad had a business meeting the morning of 9/11 in one of the buildings that was crushed by the towers. The meeting was canceled at the last minute. My brother saw the second tower collapse from his office. They walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to head home. He said that folks were deathly quiet the whole trip.

I'm in a photo overload 🤣!

Love this mirror koi!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/missouri-city-police-chief-unexpectedly-resigns-along-with-every-single-officer/ar-AAOio5F?ocid=msedgntp Have folks seen this. Wonder how many small police departments will follow suit. May just be the tip of the iceberg.

Tred Avon River - Bellevue MD - 07Sep21 After having to work on the holiday and cancelling a trip to try for banded sunfish, we stayed local and fished one of the rivers leading into the Chesapeake. Really not much to report. Just microfished mostly since we had seen some potential fish, including some possible menhaden, Monday evening. When we go to the ferry landing and marina, we didn't see the number of fish that we had the night before. I trimmed down a Sabiki rig to two hooks to match MD regulations and fished that while Livie fished a #24 hooks with a worm piece. She caught some mummichogs around the ramp. I caught a surprise juevenile black drum (my first for 2021) on the sabiki rig. We moved to deeper water and were only able to catch a few Atlantic silversides. None of these fish were new lifers 😔. Still nice to catch a few.

@oneshot Can't wait to see a trip report once you and your wife actually go somewhere 😅. Just kidding. Anywhere you go make sure to push her to let you try to catch some fish.

Two guys are walking together. Tom turns to Chris and says, "See Kevin over there. That guy's is such an idiot. I do this everytime that I see him. Hey Kevin I have a $20 dollar bill or five ones. Which do you want?" Kevin grabs the ones. Tom says, "See what an idiot. He doesn't know that the five ones are less than the $20." Later Chris bumps into Kevin. He asks him if he knows that the five ones are less money than the $20 bill. Kevin says, "As soon as I grab the twenty, Tom will stop giving me money!"🤣

Pretty sure this was in this mess somewhere but I tell it anyways😅 A Rabbi, a Hindu priest,, and a lawyer are traveling together and their car breaks down. They walk up to a farm house to see if they could stay the night. The farmer said Ok but there is only room for two in the house and the other must stay in the barn. The Rabbi said, "My people were tough enough to wander for 40 yrs in the desert, I will stay in the barn tonight." About 20 mins later there is a knock at the front door. The farmer answers. It's the Rabbi. He says "There is a pig in the barn and my people see these animals as unclean. I cannot stay in the barn tonight." The Hindu priest said that he will sleep in the barn. 10 mins later another knock at the door. Irritated the farmer answers the door and there stands the Hindu priest. The priest states "There is a cow in the barn. My people consider the cow sacred. I cannot stay and sleep on sacred ground." The lawyer says that he will go and stay in the barn. Again 10 mins goes by and there is another knock at the door. The angry farmer pulls open the door. Standing in the doorway was the pig and the cow. 🤣

When I first read this post, I thought that you had a skipper fly that matched the butterfly photo and you caught those fish on that fly 😅

Well we went to a somewhat local pick your own farm. Picked blackberries and Gala apples. Had fun with the family (and did a little fishing - Livie's goldfish before heading home 😉). Blackberry field We were too late that day to get into the red raspberries 😔 Only apples open were Galas but we made the best of it. We often see who can pick the largest and smallest. Sue picked this little guy. Will keep a look out for the other varieties as they ripen over the next month or two.

I may know some spots😉

Couple of chunks! Congrats!

No. Way before I was taking photos. If you are familiar with the Current, it was the first steep bluff hole below Baptist access.

Probably right 🙄, since I have lost some TW baits in bank brush where it was too deep to get across to get my bait. I actually have climbed a bluff or two on the upper Current to get back my hand painted Rapalas. Though I lost this bait due to not checking my line and the bait and my line soon parted 😒. I liked that bait. Vanish line use to fray quickly and sent many baits out on their own. Unlike the cast that lost the bait in discussion (downstream cast and rapids), most were on upstream casts, so I just needed to be patient and they typically would come right past and into my net. Some rocketed into the woods never to be seen by me again even with searching.

Found ourselves upstate and close to a spot where I had found goldfish from a tip. Today only saw a few goldfish. The ones around me all had those guardian bluegill. So all I got were chunky bluegill on the corn and no goldies😒. Livie connected on a healthy goldfish. Livie #91 L Goldfish

A fisherman and his wife had twins. As babies one would always face toward the sea and the other always would face away. Even when the were moved around they reorient themselves. So the couple nicknamed the one Towards and the other Away. When the boys were 10 yrs old, the fisherman said to his wife that they were old enough to fish with him. They agreed and he and the boys went out for a one week trip. After a week they did not come back. After another day no sign. Three days later the wife sees the man and his son dragging a gigantic fish. She has never seen such a big fish. She asks what happened. The fisherman said that they fished for a full week and got no fish. As they were getting ready to head back to Port this fish jumped up and swallowed Towards. I was able to hook the fish and battled it for three days. Once landed I was able to save our son. Again his wife mentioned that it such a big fish. The fisherman said if you think this fish was big you should have seen the one that got Away!🤣

Even for me this was a stretch😅

Found this story online. That a big bowfin caught in NY state. https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2021/08/western-ny-man-sets-new-state-fishing-record-for-a-bowfin-he-caught-using-cut-bait.html

Biscuits and gravy looks great but the pans steal the show.

"Waiter my steak smells very strongly of liquor." The waiter takes three steps back and asks "How's that now?"

Great job! Not sure if she has a good guide or is the guide.

Together they made a loveseat with a globe in it. That way were sitting on top of the world... 😂

Chicken tortilla soup that my daughters made tonight.

Do folks still play hacky sack. Seems to me that hacky sack may have gone out with the need to use a pencil to fix your cassette tapes.

Good luck. I do agree about the variety possibilities being a reason to try to grow them. Ours just never got more that a few small cloves per head. We didn't have a great spot due to high shading in the afternoons and I wasn't really considering getting rid of the mature trees in our yard just for the garden. Also did have a decent selection of varieties at the farmer's market.