Fantastic mouse. I couldn't do it with good eyes and two hands. Joyce On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:18 AM 'Rick Zieger' via VFB Mail < [email protected]> wrote:
> Glad to hear this. You still do better deer hair than I do. > Rick > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* DonO <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 7, 2018 6:24 PM > *Subject:* [VFB] new mouse - Percy > > To my friends at the VFB - an update and some good news. > > My recovery from the stroke is going very well and quickly. Feeling a > little better each day, but it still feels like I was rode hard and put > up > wet. > > I have 'issues' with the entire right side of my body, but therapy has > given > me limited use of the affected areas. > I have progressed to a cane for walking, but I'm nowhere mobile yet. > My eyesight will take time, but I'm told it will recover- hopefully back > to > normal. No hope of tying a #32 RC right now. 40% blind (the right side of > each eye gone). > > So that leaves my right hand- the real meat of this memo. > > I decided to challenge it and myself by tying a mouse pattern as my first > try. A 1-hour tie took over 20 hours- lost track of time. Just threading > the bobbin took an hour (spastic muscles with no feeling), tying an anchor > took 2 hours. You get the picture- not pretty. > But out of it crawled Percy (for 'perseverance'). He's not too tightly > wrapped, but that applies to the tier also. But he looks good for a Baits > Hotel resident. > > Joyce knows what this fly represent in stroke therapy just 3 months in. > > Next- rope dubbing. > > Working on my fly casting also. Not pretty either. Neither is my > penmanship. > > But I did manage to draw a fly if anyone wants to see my 'Picasso'. > > Regards, Don > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
