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Wool also takes dye well. The only problem I've run into is that, being able to absorb water, some flies can get a little heavy.

Castwell is right again (still?)! The learning never stops, or at least it shouldn't. One of the best things that ever happened to me was landing a job on an island, where when I wasn't cutting hay,...

Sounds like Mr. Safranski wasn't the only one out looking for little pike! Some people would call a 12-inch pike "bait".

Get out early and watch the mist swirling on the water. Hide, if possible, during the heat of the day. Enjoy top water bass and bluegills in the long summer twilight.



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A small, local, "weekly shopper"-type paper in my area carries an outdoors column. When the subject is fishing, the gentleman who writes it usually includes a bit on catch and release, so we "leave...

With a mighty hissing noise, the ice sheet parted the other day revealing a strip of open water about 200 feet across. Then the wind shifted and closed it back up. Next day the ice sheet really got...

I guess it is still early. Only April, after all! Too many years on the front range in Colorado got me all spoiled.

Nick, glad to have been able to share some of that barnyard aroma! You ought to...

I get some time to use the computer, come here and see that the world still spins, with nekkid pyrates tellin' stories and the price of everything going up. Thanks to all who make this the...

Of course, I have to say Vermont. I am surrounded by Lake Champlain so travel time is zilch. I would, however be glad to compare my current home water with everyone else's. Give me a few years!

Celebrated by changing the angle of the solar panels, watching lambs being born and then last evening as we took a break with the first adult beverages of spring a group of five blue herons flew...

Three more e-mails telling me everyone got their wool! I'm glad it ended up working out. I think I have one more day of decently safe crossing so tomorrow I'll head to the feed store for lambing...

Hi, Betty!

In an effort make new friends I washed the wool well before sending it off so ventilation shouldn't be an issue. I even had a couple of people who said not to worry about it because it...

Second attempt at getting packages where they are supposed to be was successful...at least my part of it. No sticky labels this time, though. I scrawled right on the package.

Much craziness going...

Have a break in the action down in the barn, beautiful clear sky and lots of cold sunshine, so new packages will be going out when I cross the ice this morning.

Don, two-year olds are handy for...

Hi, everyone! I recently sent out packages of wool to some of the folks here at FAOL. Some of you got them and some of you did not. My postmaster is trying to find out what happened, but I don't hold...

It's a girl! And a boy and two more girls! Lambs are dropping fast and furious and the snowdrifts are growing by the minute so it must be spring!

Signs of spring? Already?

The one robin we've seen spent the winter here so that don't really count. The back half of the hay loft is showing, there is no more room to push snow in the dooryard...

I haven't seen the article you mention (I don't get out much) but I've only used wool on flies I wanted to sink. Having just washed a couple of fleeces, I'd say that wool does absorb water, even with...

Everyone asks themselves these sorts of questions from time to time, wheteher they admit it or not. A pause to take stock and reassess things now and again is, to me, a good thing. I have found that...

You may both pity and envy me. I hope for no bottle babies, no assisted births and no deaths. Yeah, like that'll happen. Bottle babies are hardly worth the trouble but I know there will be a couple....

Jeff, I can't believe you got that package already! I'm glad you like it. I'll see what I can do about sending some more. Gotta restock supplies for ice-out and lambing is going to start soon and I...

Harold, you are right and I shouldn't have worded it the way I did.

My uncle called it "noodlin'" and told some scary stories. There was even a show about it on PBS, of all places, not too long ago.

Pulling big old fish out of their holes by putting your arm down...

All joking from pyrates aside, the relationships between man and animal always amaze me. Some might make fun of a memorial, but we all need to be reminded of the things we have asked of our fellow...

It has been slow around here! I stop by for the entertainment and just figured everybody was down in FL fishing.

It is the middle of February and we are at that awkward in between stage where it...