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Oh jeez. This messes up the math on this whole thing. Can’t you just go to Wal-Mart and pick up a few Mickey Finns and mail them in? 😀

I got my materials in to tie my Stimulators, and had in mind to finish them up this weekend. But …the forecast is saying it’s gonna be bad fly tying weather. Dang it! I hate to be the first guy in history to blow through a fly swap deadline, but if this weather doesn’t cooperate I may be late. 🤪

C’mon spring!

In case you’ve forgotten, the spirit of a fly swap is to tie new ones. Yourself. Recently. One pattern. Unfished. 🤪

February is probably my least favorite month of the year. Football ends, it’s still cold and crappy. But…the buds are swelling, the bulbs are coming up, and you start to get some nice days, usually. Garden planning and seed starting are in progress so there are things to look forward to. But Feb 2025 just flat stunk! March is in like a lion, so… I think I’ll appreciate spring more than normal this year.

I’ve been tying flies.

We haven’t had a good old fashioned landowner-conflict-that-was-unnecessarily-escalated-and-bragged-about post in a long time!!

Pheasant tails are about done. Each one better than the last!🤪Materials for better stimmies came in yesterday. I’ll get those done this week and in the mail next.

Seasonal affective disorder. We’ve been through a crappy winter, on top of the normal short days. I went into a funk a couple weeks ago but have rallied back by staying busy. Sposta get snow tonight. Yippee!

Went to a fundraiser Saturday. Interesting menu and entertainment. Each course accompanied by matching music(?). Only one I knew was Vincent

Pork chop with apricot sriracha glaze and roasted veggies ala HelloFresh. Another goodun.

I can get dying hair a crazy color or wearing goofy clothes. Maybe she was just having a funny time with it. Hell? Our esteemed colleague @Gavin has talked about going there in a gorilla suit! Now the chick that works at our local Wal-Mart with blue tattoos all over her face, neck and arms I truly feel sorry for. And @snagged in outlet 3 no pictures of that either 🤪

I'm on my desktop with a big monitor and I still can't figure out the situation with the blue-haired person.

We've been trying to hire an accountant for several months, and it's been unusually tough even with the internet and headhunters, etc. Great job, great company, great people, great pay and benefits. Why so hard? We finally hired a guy who came from public accounting (think accounting firm doing audit and taxes) a couple weeks ago. Public accounting is a tough row to hoe the first few years. Long hours, travel, etc. The firms weed them out pretty quickly if they don't measure up. I thought, but didn't say anything because it wouldn't help and doesn't really affect me, that this guy we hired must not have made the grade in public. Bailing on his old job in the busy season (year end audits, taxes) didn't seem like a guy that made the cut or had the work ethic or smarts. I guess we'll see. There's some anxiety where I work about all this, and it's particularly important because there's four of us long timers that are all ready and able to retire and probably a half dozen other key people that are within a few years. I'm fortunate in that I've got a really good heir apparent that I'm doing transition/succession work with. But there are some key areas that aren't covered and it's exceptionally hard to find folks these days. And.. the work ethic has really deteriorated the last few years. The whole work-from-home thing seems to have changed the culture. Folks either not being in the office at all or blowing in at 8:30, 9:00, whatever they feel like. Hell, I've peed three times by 9:00! Then there's the way folks dress and the tats. We've got a chick that is covered in what look like jailhouse tats and I've seen her wear tank tops a couple times. What the hell? Maybe it's just the old man in me coming out.

Another Hello Fresh-chicken with a mustard dill sauce with roasted broccoli and potatoes. Another good one that we’ll take on ourselves in the future. Mustard sauce was pan drippings, Dijon, sour cream, chicken base/water and dill. Very good. Rusty seemed impressed too

Beautiful story, beautiful work!!!

Made one of our faves the other night and had some tomato cream/pancetta/mushroom and pea sauce left over. Over some Campanelle pasta for lunch today and didn't get any on the keyboard! No slurping required!

It won't be long, and I'm ready for it!

Haven’t done this in a looong time. Fried chicken, mashed taters, pan gravy with some corn tucked in underneath. Crummy pic but I was in a hurry to eat!

I’m tying up some Stimulators, one of my confidence flies I use a lot with a leetle nymph below. Not happy with the first few so I’ll adjust. I ordered a some more hooks and a spikier dubbing that’ll work better than the ultra fine stuff I had. I may do some bonus genuine Kansas pheasant tail nymphs for everyone too. I’m gonna need most of the time to the 3/15 deadline.

3 here

It's double that here

You didn't go drift shopping, did you??

I have a friend that likes to say, "Where's that global warming when you need it?" I was at the grocery store one day and said that to the lady checking me out, hoping for a chuckle. But before I got it, the fellow in line behind me decided it was an opportunity to educate us with, shall we say, his rather unique views on global warming. So, I'm careful about saying that in mixed company now. I'm ok here though , right?