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Corn Chowder, improved. With a can of creamed corn instead of corn in blender. Better texture for sure, and a little sweeter too, as expected. One pot easy. A keeper.

Interesting. Me, I just never fish them. Nothing against them, I know they'll catch fish. I just never get around to them even though there are a few in the box.

Short answer is yes, it's a wet fly. Based on the swept back, softer hackles it's made with, I'd put it in the 'soft hackle' sub category.

Cool looking fly very nicely photographed. What was your setup?

Well, I broke my ankle on 9/11 so I've had to stay off it as much as possible. The garden got away from me pretty badly - didn't keep the tomatoes pruned or treated and it was a tangled mess with a lot of disease. There were a few small, hard tomatoes and probably 100 or more cherries. We did get a freeze Sunday morning. Thermometer, which is about 10 feet above ground near the garden, read 27 degrees at 6 AM. Fall lettuce did fine, Swiss chard, peppers and tender herbs didn't like it. But the fruit wasn't damaged and we brought in a bunch of small poblanos, and full-sized banana, Anaheim and Jimmy Nardellos. Also brought in some herbs to dry. Took out all the tomatoes. Disconnected the drip system. Yesterday planted 2026 garlic. Temps on the 60s+ most of this week, so we'll get some more lettuce and maybe spinach.

Walmart slider and clam chowder. Quick, crappy meal before the ghouls and goblins and kpop demons appear.

We drove through Meramec Springs Park a couple weekends ago. It had been a long time since Id been there -- close to 20 years I think. Some of it looked very familiar, but some not. Of course I remembered the iron works. I also fished the river some when I was cutting my teeth learning fly fishing. Good memories there, for sure.

Nice, plump beauties!

What a show that was!

Oh my! that all looks so good !

Two more things to wash though!🤪

I saw it again the other week. Comments are kinda fun to read😀

Nothing special really. Onion/ carrot sweat, flour, chicken broth, thyme, potatoes. Some corn and cream in the blender then whole corn at the end. I thought I could get the corn in the blender really smooth but that didn't go as planned. Would have been better with can of creamed corn.

What're we talking about here? We had corn and a hankering for chowder. Winged it and we liked it but would tweak a couple things next time

I'm ok with urban, or in this case suburban, trout stocking programs. Released, to the dismay of the guy down the bank from me, Shawnee Mission Park, Lenexa, KS. Notes say 19.75 inches. Date unknown 'cause I didn't write it down. Non-native, of course, as this was clearly a Missouri trout. 🤪

I think polak

We were out to eat one time and I was getting hooked up to WiFi. One of ones that popped up was 'FBI Surveillance Van' 😀

We to see Firefall last weekend at Wildwood Springs lodge. Man, that was an excellent show. There's only one original member left in the band (Jock Bartley), and they've had probably 20 guys over the years. Lotsa great old tunes from my high school and college years. A real treat were two solos by the keyboard/flute/sax/harmonica guy Jim Waddell, one on sax and one on flute. He had the crowd on their feet! Crummy pics:

I love them on the half shell! Had these in Branson about a year ago when we were there.

Grandma Vi, of pancake fame, was originally from western IA and made oyster dressing too. I didn't like it either. Not sure anybody did because it just wasn't made after a while.

The missus grew up in IA, and up there it seems 'Oyster Stew' is a thing around the holidays. Very simple milk/butter/S&P broth, and the fresh oysters in a tub. We've been making it with the MIL the last few years for nostalgia's sake, but I think I'd like a chowder better. But we'll keep with the stew for obvious reasons.

New recipe for us: pork chops with a cherry bourbon sauce. Pretty good, but we've got better pork & fruit recipes

Tell me about the oysters please. Fresh, canned, shucked?

Grew up with? That bad boy still holds a spot on the utensil reserve bench. 🤪