How Texans View the US - A Post for Gavin  

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song chart memes
more graph humor and song chart memes

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Stuff I Need - Cigar Caddy  

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The CIGAR CADDY.

Yes, yes, and heck yes. For the ultimate in fly fishing and cigar smoking pleasure. There is nothing worse than getting on the water and finding your cigars crushed or wet. We will have the cigar caddy to thank for never having that happen again, unless of course you drop your cigar when that 30" trout starts burning your drag.




From the cigar caddy website for the 5 stick:

The Cigar Humidor 5-Stick

  • Waterproof, crushproof, cigar travel case that can float.
  • Keep Cigars moist and fresh for weeks with our travel humidor.
  • Store up to 5 Churchill cigars in our 3400 Cigar Cases.
  • Fits perfectly into a golf bag, briefcase, glove compartment, or tackle box.

All Cigar cases are guaranteed to protect cigars to water depths of 100 feet.




At 8"x5" the 5 stick might be a bit big stick in the vest by the smaller 2 stick will fit nicely at 8"x3". The other sizes are the 10 and 15 stick. Which means my dad can fit about 330 of his White Owls in to the 15 stick!

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Emergency Preparedness  

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Two weeks ago the town we live in was hit by a tornado. The estimates were from an EF3 to an EF4. See the video of it here. I lived in Nebraska for a large portion of my life and tornadoes were something we lived with every summer. I've never been this close before. The tornado literally was two blocks from our house. We were very fortunate to only get hail. That is video I took from our house. Anyway, I've always thought about those poor people, I hope they're ok, and glad that isn't us, when disasters strike on a large scale elsewhere. And, I've thought too that I should probably get something together so we're ready in case of..... Well I've never gotten around to it.

Right after the tornado we were out of power, no phone, no tv, no radio. The only way we knew we were out of harm's way was via cell phone and that was sporadic due to either outages or congestion. I was kicking my self over and over for the things we needed but didn't have. Mainly an emergency radio and an operational flashlight. We ended up using a car radio for our information (turn the car on auxiliary, roll the windows down and turn the radio up). We had to search for stuff, not good when time matters. My near term goal (next two weeks) is to get basic preparedness stuff together. Ends up we were without power for 5 days. Fortunately we have family close by to stay with, but owning a generator was looking pretty good. I ended up purchasing an emergency radio from Amazon.

Here's some links to good info:

Emergency Kits
Emergency Lifehacks:Plan Ahead
US Army Survival Manual FM 21-76
Equipped to Survive

And here's a slide show of the tornado damage in our town. We took these pictures as we, with our Church, were helping to clean up the more devastated neighborhoods.

Merle's Fly Rod is Finished!!  

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Here's the pictures of the finished product



I'm building a 9' 6# for myself next. It's a Diamondback with a fast action. The blank is black and so will be all of the components and thread. It should look great!

Moab  

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In between jobs, I took my son, Sam camping in Moab. We went with my buddy Kris and his son, Will. We had a blast!

 

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Canyon fishing last summer. Doug and Gavin, I can't wait to go again!

Been a While  

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I'm trying to get somewhat regular at posting again. I really kind of enjoy blogging, especially about fishing! It's spring time now here in the Rockies and I've got spring fever!!! Bad. I'm going to post some video and pictures of some places I've fished recently. I'll try some new things here and probably start posting non-fly fishing related subjects as well. I've been on a trip to Moab with my son, so a slide show of that will be posted too.

I want to go fishing sooooo bad right now. With young kids it's pretty hard to get out and fish seriously. I work from home now, so maybe it will be easier to get out some. I now work M-F and feel pretty guilty about leaving my wife with the kids on the weekends. She's been dealing with them all week and needs a break too. We've traded days before....you get the kids today and I get to do whatever I want, and then tomorrow I get them and you go do whatever. Anyway I want out on the water!!!

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