AW: Re: [VFB] Re: I'M still kickin'

[rene.zillm...@t-online.de]

Hi Keith,

Both are good ideas! Any taker? And for the visit.. Maybe during carnival 
season? Good time to cb collect feathers...
Best
René




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Hi Gary,
Good to hear from you sport. Yep I remember the photos Byard put out of his 
dining room table covered in boxes of flys :-)  I did 1 and 2 and still 
have the hooks Byard got as a sample from one of the suppliers he used. 
That was a great forum. I till have all the swap flies from all the swaps 
we did. Tied copies but never used any of the flies. Did you do the Beer 
Swap?  Tie flies based on a local brew and send it in along with Beer 
coasters. I ran that swap and it was such a great variety. DonO's Cherry 
Bomb was literally that!!!  
The only regret I have is not ever being able to get out to the Sowbug show 
Tony Spezio ran. Could'nt afford it and now dont like the thought of all 
the travel. Hey ho. Maybe I'll hop across the English Channel to Cologne 
and see Rene!!
We should run an Old Farts Swap. No one under 50 allowed in! Hahaha
Take care
Keith

On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 at 19:33:54 UTC+1 Gary Webb wrote:
  Hello Keith. Great to see your name on my screen again.  I joined VFB
  right at the end of the 2nd 100 Caddis swap.  I guess you could call me
  one of the Old Timers.  More likely an Old Fart.   I remember thinking
  that I was glad I was not the SwapMeister sorting 10,000 flys. 

  On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:09 AM 'KP' via VFB Mail <
  vfb-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
HA!! Good to see you are still kicking around you old Blowhard :-) 
Sorry to hear about your tough medical times bud and your brothers
passing. However I'm a boy from Wolverhampton in the UK and its city
motto is "Out of darkness cometh light" and your three recent additions
to the "pawpaw" duty list are exactly that. The light. Welcome to them
all.
Ive been on the list for years even before the )2 Caddis Swap. Who
remembers that little swap. A Byard special for sure. I still have the
flies from both of those mega swaps plus lots of the others we all did.
Some great guys now gone but what times they were. I worked for Orvis
(yes I know) in the UK for the last 13 years of my working life. I
retirred 2021 and they closed down all but one of the stores in 22. See
they just didnt realise how much they need me !!! :-)  Now I just do
the gardening, some teaching tying and fly casting and looking after
grandkids occassionally.
Good to hear from you all.
Oh and HPPY BIRTHDAY Great Grandad!! 
Keith

On Sunday, 16 April 2023 at 23:43:00 UTC+1 Charles Alexander wrote:
  Folks: I'm still here too. Just haven't felt up to it as for the last
  two yrs after covid TRIED to kill me. I spent over 70 days in a
  coma,kidneys started shutting down etc etc. As soon as they'd fix one
  thing something else would pop up,with the latest thing being a
  positive cologuard test and I'm supposed to have the ole colonoscopy
  to get that checked out.

  my docs have all told me that I had the worse case of covid they have
  seen and lived to tell about it. I still cannot walk without the aid
  of a walker but God has seen me this far so I don't think He's going
  to fail me now. I did lose one of my younger brothers this last July.
  He went to Wal-Mart, got inside the door and he just feel over dead.
  There happened to be a gold sematin right there and he gave my
  brother CPr till the got there and because of that we were able.
  Donate my brothers organs which either saved the lived or improved
  the lives

  On a better topic, two months ago we closed on a new home and are
  still haven't finished moving which is a pain but we love the new
  place and it's only 5-10 minuites from two city parks, which are both
  stocked with bass and bluegills. And I did get to go fishing three
  times last Spring and we did fish each trip. Then, three and six
  months ago respectively, we welcomed two new grand daughters which
  brings the total to 17 and 18 total and paw pawpaws job is to hold
  and spoil them. We even have one great grand daughter. Now, I turn 65
  tomorrow, but that don't seem old enough to be a GREAT grandfather
  lol. Well, sorry for writing a BOOK here but trying to condense two
  Yrs into one email ain't easy for a blow hard like me lol, Chuck

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Re: [VFB] Re: I'M still kickin'

['KP' via VFB Mail]

Hi Gary,
Good to hear from you sport. Yep I remember the photos Byard put out of his 
dining room table covered in boxes of flys :-)  I did 1 and 2 and still 
have the hooks Byard got as a sample from one of the suppliers he used. 
That was a great forum. I till have all the swap flies from all the swaps 
we did. Tied copies but never used any of the flies. Did you do the Beer 
Swap?  Tie flies based on a local brew and send it in along with Beer 
coasters. I ran that swap and it was such a great variety. DonO's Cherry 
Bomb was literally that!!!  
The only regret I have is not ever being able to get out to the Sowbug show 
Tony Spezio ran. Could'nt afford it and now dont like the thought of all 
the travel. Hey ho. Maybe I'll hop across the English Channel to Cologne 
and see Rene!!
We should run an Old Farts Swap. No one under 50 allowed in! Hahaha
Take care
Keith

On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 at 19:33:54 UTC+1 Gary Webb wrote:

> Hello Keith. Great to see your name on my screen again.  I joined VFB 
> right at the end of the 2nd 100 Caddis swap.  I guess you could call me one 
> of the Old Timers.  More likely an Old Fart.   I remember thinking that I 
> was glad I was not the SwapMeister sorting 10,000 flys. 
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:09 AM 'KP' via VFB Mail <
> vfb-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> HA!! Good to see you are still kicking around you old Blowhard :-) 
>> Sorry to hear about your tough medical times bud and your brothers 
>> passing. However I'm a boy from Wolverhampton in the UK and its city motto 
>> is "Out of darkness cometh light" and your three recent additions to the 
>> "pawpaw" duty list are exactly that. The light. Welcome to them all.
>> Ive been on the list for years even before the )2 Caddis Swap. Who 
>> remembers that little swap. A Byard special for sure. I still have the 
>> flies from both of those mega swaps plus lots of the others we all did.
>> Some great guys now gone but what times they were. I worked for Orvis 
>> (yes I know) in the UK for the last 13 years of my working life. I retirred 
>> 2021 and they closed down all but one of the stores in 22. See they just 
>> didnt realise how much they need me !!! :-)  Now I just do the gardening, 
>> some teaching tying and fly casting and looking after grandkids 
>> occassionally.
>> Good to hear from you all.
>> Oh and HPPY BIRTHDAY Great Grandad!! 
>> Keith
>>
>> On Sunday, 16 April 2023 at 23:43:00 UTC+1 Charles Alexander wrote:
>>
>>> Folks: I'm still here too. Just haven't felt up to it as for the last 
>>> two yrs after covid TRIED to kill me. I spent over 70 days in a 
>>> coma,kidneys started shutting down etc etc. As soon as they'd fix one thing 
>>> something else would pop up,with the latest thing being a positive 
>>> cologuard test and I'm supposed to have the ole colonoscopy to get that 
>>> checked out. 
>>>
>>> my docs have all told me that I had the worse case of covid they have 
>>> seen and lived to tell about it. I still cannot walk without the aid of a 
>>> walker but God has seen me this far so I don't think He's going to fail me 
>>> now. I did lose one of my younger brothers this last July. He went to 
>>> Wal-Mart, got inside the door and he just feel over dead. There happened to 
>>> be a gold sematin right there and he gave my brother CPr till the got there 
>>> and because of that we were able. Donate my brothers organs which either 
>>> saved the lived or improved the lives
>>>
>>> On a better topic, two months ago we closed on a new home and are still 
>>> haven't finished moving which is a pain but we love the new place and it's 
>>> only 5-10 minuites from two city parks, which are both stocked with bass 
>>> and bluegills. And I did get to go fishing three times last Spring and we 
>>> did fish each trip. Then, three and six months ago respectively, we 
>>> welcomed two new grand daughters which brings the total to 17 and 18 total 
>>> and paw pawpaws job is to hold and spoil them. We even have one great grand 
>>> daughter. Now, I turn 65 tomorrow, but that don't seem old enough to be a 
>>> GREAT grandfather lol. Well, sorry for writing a BOOK here but trying to 
>>> condense two Yrs into one email ain't easy for a blow hard like me lol, 
>>> Chuck
>>>
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