Well, sounds like you have been busy as well. We had our first freeze Monday, with a second and third Tuesday and Wednesday. Garden is pretty well shot. Will let the remainder go to seed and have them for next year. Sent you a couple off list myself, never heard if you got them, figured you were busy. Just get ready for winter my friend, your book collection sounds awesome compared to my little 18 books. But mine get read many times through the cold months as do what fly fishing mags I have. Have a good one, Jimi
Hi Gang! During the last few days, I've had several "off list" emails asking about my well-being and why haven't I been putting in my 2 � worth on some of the stuff coming down. No problems here, just awful busy in the daylight hours doing outside stuff for Jody before bad weather sets in and tying lots of flies at night for a couple of November deadline swaps. Also, I've been reading some (very old, collector) fishing books. This treasure trove came about when some guys wife came in to our local used book store and sold his collection. The owner, knowing my love for old fly fishing books called me. Here's what I got : Roderick L. Haig-Browne's "A River Never Sleeps" 1944, An autographed copy of "Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman by Jack Hemingway, ( Ernest's son)-1986, "Just Fishing" by Ray Bergman 1945, Art Flick's "Streamside Guide" 1969, "The Book of Fishes" John Oliver Le Gorce - 1959, and "Professional Fly Tying" by George Leonard. Herter - 1941- I now have all his fly tying / tackle and rod making books. My fly fishing book collection now stands at 102 and counting, very small compared to some of the VFB/FFW/HCFF members. The wealth of fly fishing / tying knowledge in those old books is amazing and most of it still holds true for trout fishing today, plus there's some down right good reading , the kind that you want to curl up an read by the fireplace on a cold winter evening. The thing that's taken the most of my time though was repairing / replacing about two miles of fence at the ranch which was really messed up by the 100 year flood we had a couple weeks ago. I now have bluegills in my tank, thanks to my neighbor upstream whose tanks overflowed and washed some of his fish down the intermittent stream that runs into my tank. Mine was near empty, but now is overflowing. Thank God for that, if it had been full, I'd have lost all my fence adjacent to the tank. Haven't seen any bass in it yet, but wouldn't be surprised if they also show up. So, that's what I've been doing in addition to sending the Daily Quote each day. Have A Goodun! JIMMY D ======================================================== Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.) Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", � Humorist, half-assed poet, and sometimes red-neck Texan. ******************************************************************** "Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback." Jimmy D. Moore - � [2004] ========================================================
