Hey, I'm back home after the blizzard. I stayed at my Mom's last night in case the power went out or something bad happened. The plow snagged their cable and ripped it off the house. There's limbs down everywhere. I slid backwards into a parked car in the gas station lot. My hitch put a hole in the guy's bumper. I told him I'd pay for it. He's going to get an estimate tomorrow, he said. I figure $600-$800. Not my best storm experience. It could have been worse. I'm going to spend tomorrow taking relatives across town with the 4X4.

I went back through the post. I'm spinning my wheels. My buddy is looking through a pattern book the size of the Yellow Pages. All I can think of is the dozen or so patterns we use. Any Mayfly and nymph would qualify, but I'd like to put together something really nice.

"I didn't get the sophisticated gene in this family. I started the sophisticated gene in this family." Willie Robertson