[VFB] Made it home.....

[Rodney]

Hi everyone, Made it home ok...  First of all, I want to thank Tony Spezio for inviting me as a tyer to the "Sowbug", "Thank you Tony!!!"...  I had an absolutely wonderful time, I enjoyed it immensely...  Unfortunately I didn't get there until about 2:30 Thursday afternoon, after 28 hours on the road, I was dead tired and still had to set up camp there at "Bull Shoals", (beautiful, beautiful campground)...  I met some fabulous people, got some very good pointers and instructions, (especially from Slim who taught me some new ways of tying foam bodies and his "thread weave"... WOW!!), and made a lot of great new friends...  I could go on and on about the people I met, and saw tye, but words can not express it enough...  All I can say is that the show was exceptionally put on with some of the most friendliest and gifted people I have ever met...  My hat goes off to Tony and the people of the "North Arkansas Fly Fishers Association" for an absolutely wonderful show...  Thank you...  I just wish I was able to stay a little longer to do some fishing and socializing...  Maybe next year...   Also, Tony, Saturday afternoon, there was a woman there who I was sitting just a couple of chairs down from, who was tying up "Humming Birds" and I saw one in a clear glass Christmas ball ornament...  Who was she??...  Do you know how to get in touch with her??...  She was going to tye one up for me but the power was turned off...  If you can get in touch with her, tell her I would pay anything to have one of her "Humming Birds" in the Christmas ball ornament...  Cost is no object...   Thank you....   Rodney...