Gene’s Sabbatical Adventure, Issue 1 : Jan 24, 2024

Gene’s Sabbatical Adventure, Issue 1 : Jan 24, 2024

I've had the good fortune to spend a good bit of time standing in cold trout water casting upstream to trophy trout. At least in my mind they were trophy trout. The idea is to gently land the fly just above the fish and let it drift as naturally as possible through the fish's feeding slot. It's also important is that the fly line land softly with just the right of slack so that on the one hand it doesn't drag the fly, and on the other the fisherman has sufficient amount of control of the fly to set the…
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Hitting a lick vs doing the very best we can

Hitting a lick vs doing the very best we can

I remember it like it was yesterday… It was about 3 weeks into the spring semester of my freshman year of college and I had just made the decision to be done with baseball, which had been a big part of my identity since I was about 12 years old. I had long dreamed of playing in college. My roommate was a football player and understood what I was going through. The question he asked still makes me shrink up a little bit … "Did you give your all and get as far as you wanted to go?" It is't…
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6 good reasons for being a good neighbor

6 good reasons for being a good neighbor

Heather was leaving to take kids to school and there were cows in the road outside our gate. Again. Once I got them back in our pasture, I counted 27 cows and calfs. They belong to our neighbor to the east of us and have been coming over through a break in our east fence and another neighbor's fence to our south. We were't expecting steers for another few weeks so it wasn't a big deal But when they come through our neighbor's fence to our south, they were able to get to the road. And as anyone who's spent…
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