update 11-24-09
I’ve been busy without being real busy. You know, busy doing seemingly endless tasks that don’t seem that important, but that take a lot of time to complete. I recently installed Windows 7, so I’ve gradually been getting it up […]
Month: November 2009
(Post) Colonial Vampires
While driving home from fly-fishing yesterday afternoon, I happened to listen to a PRI: The World story about a recent blog written by the current British ambassador to the United States. It was about his observation of the trend that […]
Mugshots and Terrorists
This past week Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was returned to the headlines in (in)glorious fashion since the U.S. Attorney General announced he will be tried in New York City for his part in the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks […]
Baldo plays…
Baldo and Chica like to chase twigs, leaves, feathers, toy mice; any item I can tie to the end of some string, twine, or, especially, fly line. I have cut about fifteen feet of weight forward floating fly line–it’s actually […]
fly fishing huntington reservoir
A couple of weeks ago I drove to Huntington Reservoir about an hour south of Springville to fish. It’s my favorite reservoir because of the Tiger trout–a hard fighting hybird female Brown and male Brook trout–the fact that there isn’t […]
My new friends
Here are my two newest friends. They live across the street. Their owners didn’t take much care of them during the first couple of weeks they were in the neighborhood. They would regularly cross the street and hang out here. […]
Tonight’s football game…
Springville 16 Woods Cross 12 It was an excellent game. Not a lopsided win for the home team this time. Woods Cross, a Salt Lake area high school looked bigger than my high school team. Eventually, their strength helped them […]
What kind of man am I? (“The question.”)
It was a week ago today. The first football game I had attended in years. The weather was cold, with drizzling rain and light snow showers in the mountains and an occasional lonely flake finding its way to where I […]
Afghanistan and Authenticity
Driving home this morning after doing some light shopping I overheard “enlightened” public radio analysis and speculation regarding U.S. foreign policy toward Afghanistan as President Barack Obama currently ponders whether to follow the advice of military leaders and send in […]