L'il Buck Crackers!

Here is the new Pony! L'il Buck Crackers! Adam thinks it's a Shetling Pony, har, oh course everyone knows there is no such thing as a Shetling. Funny Adam. Here's another funny thing say "L'il Buck Crackers" real fast three times. Hee hee, that ought keep the kiddies laughing. Shetland ponies are what you get when it's time to teach your kids to swear properly. Welcome L'il Buck Crackers you stupid *!x*&*#! We love you.

Oh Snap

Well Boo has learned how to snap his fingers. Oh, yea big deal around here. He has been trying off and on for 16 years but finally mastered it last week. To tell you the truth it is wearing thin already. He came up last week and said hey lookee I can snap my fingers! yea! I tried to be supportive but let's face it; if he was five it would have been more of a triumph.. Still, I gave him a attaboy and he went around snapping non-stop for days. It's like having a jazz hands freak around, snap snap snap. I was trying to have a nap sunday afternoon and was woke up by the distinct snapping sounds of a jackass. I kindly said "Stop the finger snapping or I will break them off" There was silence then a definite softening of the snapping sound in the distance. Point taken. He pointed out that his new part in the play Biloxi Blues requires him to snap his fingers. So, just in time. It's all good I guess - if I don't snap first.

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Dogs

Im with the Japanese on this one.

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzche

Weather Man

"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."

True words. Not sure who said them but they knew what they were talking about. When I lived in Southern Utah the weather predicting was pretty accurate especially one or two days out. They had a long time to track those storms coming out of California or up from AZ. But up here in the panhandle of Idaho it is a wild ass guess. They have plenty of excuses - they say that the weather patterns come from 7 directions whatever that means. Too far north, close to the coast and then all the mountain ranges surrounding us - Cascades, Selkirks, Bitterroots, ect. And you cant trust the Canadians, flakey socialist wimps. Anyway the one day forecast is sketchy, two day is not reliable and the 5 or 10 day is funny made up stuff. Oh well the weather is constantly changing here so does keep it interesting. It was 13 degrees on Haloween night, cut down on the trick or treaters. Now it is raining and 60 degrees, tomorrow who knows - Im keeping my short pants handy just in case we get a heat wave (or as they call them in King Cove AK "shorty pants" ) I am going to take the dogs for a walk in the rain so here are some weather related quotes:

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
~Kin Hubbard

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller

CJ Advice

If you think you can turn your weaknesses into strengths, I hate to tell you but that's another weakness.

Death Clock

My day is December 3, 2033



http://deathclock.com/

Kinda morbid but interesting. . Anyway I'll be 70 then, good enough unless I want to loose weight or get optimistic. Yea right.

Ode To Brewster

We have come to the end of an era. The shaggy old pony in Midway has gone to the big pasture in the sky. He will be missed by an entire generation of Larsen grandchildren who grew up with Brewster pulling them around Midway in the pony cart. He lived to a ripe old age estimated at maybe 32 years, 20 of them in the pasture of Grandpa Larsen. I named Brewster many years ago soon after dad acquired him, mom wanted to name him Midnight but one look at him and I came up with Brewster, it fit. He wasn't pretty or majestic, just a rough little pony that liked to founder himself every spring. He had it pretty good munching the green grass in the Heber Valley and only occasional being hooked up to the cart where he willingly (more of less ) gave rides all over the area. One day he didn't have the strength to stand anymore, Adalee gave him one more apple and thanked him for the rides at her birthday parties. And he was put down. It reminds me of the time when I was very young and I asked Grandpa Chugg if he thought that there were horses in heaven. He looked at me and said "If there not I don't want to be there." Goodbye Brewster, of all the horses we have had, your definitely one of them.

Alaska Trip

The trip was an incredible experience, I got to see the real Alaska, the real people and see some remote and beautiful country. If you have never been there I cannot begin to explain how remote King Cove is, you have to take the journey yourself to understand it. Andy and Cherie were so nice and generous and made my stay a lot of fun. They are doing well and the people of King Cove love them. The locals took us on their boats to go hunting, loaned me a four wheeler, offered fishing trips, invited me to their homes and fed us, went to a 40th anniversary party and met most of the town. They are very friendly and generous, its their way of life and Andy and Cherie fit right in. We went non-stop for the whole week and was able to do a lot of different things and see the area. We played all day and into the night and laughed ourselves silly and was so worn out each night we would drop into bed late and get up and do it over again. I would like to go back there probably in the summer when Andy isn't teaching school. It's a rough and wild place, wet and cold but I liked it. I think we are built for it to tell you the truth. Being on the Bering Sea was cool, felt good. It was a great trip.

I'm Back

Jet lag like you wouldn't believe. Had a great time. Will post more later.

Alaska

Well, tomorrow I head for King Cove Alaska. It is very easy to get to - only takes four flights on four different aircraft and all day. I fly from Spokane to Seattle - change planes, Seattle to Anchorage - change planes, Anchorage to Cold Bay - change planes, Cold Bay to King Cove. Each airplane gets progressively smaller starting with a 727 and ending with a puddle jumper that hopefully will make it (gravel runway). I look forward to seeing Andrew and his family, he will be celebrating his 40th birthday while I am there. He filled me in on the plans he has while I'm there. Goes something like this: I arrive Wenesday, a school bus will pick me up. Thursday he has secured passage on a crab boat where we will have a couple of bunks, we will lower his four wheelers into the cargo hold and head out into the Bering Sea. ( I asked how much and he said to bring the captain a bottle of whiskey ) We head to Cold Bay to fish for Silvers, Reds, Humpies, Halibut and whatever else we can. We then head up the coast looking for caribou, if we spot them we will go ashore and hunt same. Have been advised to bring a pistol for the bears and travel light and bring a cooler to haul back all the salmon and caribou I can take. We will be out 4 days and then come back to King Cove for a traditional Inuet birthday celebration consisting of a bonfire and whale killing. For his 40th he will undergo the Inuet rebirth or 'kizat ungk jahk'. The whale will be slit open at the sternum and he will climb in (naked except for a headband) and work his way through the whales internal organs and emerge through the vagina in a triumphant rebirth symbolic of the second half of his journey in life (in this form anyway) After they wash the slime off he will give a short speech and there will be a feast and possibly fireworks. Tuesday he has to teach school but he says another boat captain wants to take me out fishing so we'll see how it goes. Wenesday afternoon I began the journey back that will take two days. Can't wait to see King Cove, I will take a couple hundred pictures so everyone can see what it is like up there. See ya.

Fishing

Nick spent a week here, interviewing in Spokane and Richland Washington and fishing. Dad joined us the last three days as we floated the Clark Fork and the Coeur d'Alene Rivers. The fishing was slow for this time of year, every river makes a certain sound and I decided the Clark Fork sucked. The CDA wasnt much better, oh well what can you do. I enjoy floating the rivers in my drift boat but catching fish helps. Nick wants big fish and lots of them or he ain't happy, lots of smaller fish doesn't cut it, a few big ones aint gonna do it. It was pleasant floating the rivers listening to Nick talk about how great the Green River is and how he should have went there or Alaska and throwing in trash talk about my drift boat and fly rods. ReeLaxing.

Starring Yours Truly

FlyPlane

TeeVee Incompatibility

Can you watch television with your spouse? Just wondering because I can't. We have such different tastes in programing that it is ridiculous. Rare indeed are the times when we sit down and watch a show together. And its not just that we like different programs we tend to hate the programs the other likes. Some cases in point.
She likes:
Reality shows: Big Brother, ect. -----------------REALLY Hate them
Contest shows: American Idol, Dancing w/Stars ect. ------------Hate them
Home Decoration Shows: Trading Spaces, ect ----------------Hate them

I Like:
Comedy: Daily Show, Stand Up Comedy ect -------------She hates them
Fly Fishing Shows: Columbia Country ect. ----------------She hates them
News Channels: Fox, MSNBC, some CNN-----------------Not a lot of interest
Serious Shows: King of the Hill, Family Guy ect------------REALLY hates them

We did catch a few things together, we like Last Comic Standing and Rome and Big Love on HBO so I guess we will survive. It just goes to show you that what they say is true Men are from Mars and Women are f******** nuts.

Cabin Fever

Here is the cabin we have for when Ty's family comes up in September. It is in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest and really remote. It doesn't have electricity but it does have running water (hot water and showers even) and gas lights and full kitchen ect. We got if for two nights, Labor Day and the day after, had to cancel the Gem Peak reservation because it is a tower and not recomended for kids like Johnny and Jett. Should be fun. Right on Teepee Creek and in the area of 4 other creeks and a short drive to some of my favorite fishing on the North Fork, Yee Haw

Hopper Time!

I fished the North Fork of the CDA yesterday and had a great day. First cast a 15 inch cutty nailed a grasshopper pattern, I caught over 10 fish with that same fly, all over 12 inches and several around the 16 inch mark. I had a big one on that I turned and got a look at but the fly pulled out, damn, it was nice. It was a hot bright day and I didn't really know if it would be good fishing or not but they are looking up for hoppers. Later in the evening a caddis hatch came off and I caught a bunch of little ones until dark. Nothing like hoppers to bring out the big ones though, I was glad to see them.

North Fork of the Clearwater

Bryant and I just got back from three days on the North Fork of the Clearwater and Kelly Creek here in Idaho. It is some nice country, great rivers and lots of Cutthroat trout. We drove over to Superior Montana and up over HooDoo Pass, we took a couple of wrong turns here and there and added several hours to a four hour drive, we went left when we shoulda hung right, we zigged when we shoulda zagged. We ended up there later than we planned and needed to find a campsite, the canyons are steep and narrow and the river and road take up all the space. We were worried we would have to stay at one the few campgrounds in the area but finally lucked into the finest campsite we saw the whole trip. Right on Kelly Creek, grass and sand, and next to a bridge that was built for horses and mules because there was a fire lookout that was supplied via the ten mile trail. We never did hike to it though I was tempted since I am a newly isnpired lookout freak (this lookout is also out of commission and is not on the website) We spent the time fishing, hiking and swimming. Bry talked me into swimming with him and the water was so cold it never did stop hurting. We fished the Clearwater and it was much better fishing. I caught ten cutthroats at the first spot we stopped in about ten minutes. Bry stayed with the dogs while I fished upriver and watched a herd of 16 elk cross the river right below him. It was a fun trip and I am glad I saw the area although to tell you the truth my homewaters of the Couer d'Alene and the St. Joe are just as good, most days anyway.