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Cat and I have been leaving the idiot box off more often lately and just turning the CD player on while we do things around the house, chill, whatever. I've been on a total 311 binge with the release of the knew CD, but a good measure of other music that we've listened to for seems to have been forever. Interesting how some CD's seem to occupy certain phases of my life, meaning one thing at one

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Hit the water today in hopes of getting out of the house for a bit and catching some decent fish on the full moon. Fishing is what I did, bit catching was not really in the cards today. If I had hooked 1/4 of the fish I made contact with today, it would have been a spectacular Sunday. My timing was off, the fish were being funky, and I couldn't seem to keep them on the hook when I did poke one.

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After much wait and anticipation, my Deluxe copy of 311's new cd Uplifter, with 2 bonus tracks and a dvd, arrived at my doorstep yesterday afternoon. I have been listening to it nonstop in my waking hours. What an incredible piece of work, absolutely wonderful!A little more relaxed than some of their previous cd's, I can still see this one turning into a fav! I had big fears that this would be

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I've been meaning to do a post on Adicus, the most incredible dog I've ever known! His birthday was last week (he turned 3) and what a three years it has been! We got him from a breeder from Tennessee and got a hell of a bargain looking back on it, plus, we always get to make fun of him for being from Tennessee. When we got him, he was little more than a ball of fuzz, full of energy and

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The benefit of all the rain we've been getting is that the garden is growing like gang busters these days! Unlike the past couple of years where we've struggled to keep the garden watered, this year is the exact opposite. I don't think the soil has dried out in two weeks, mushrooms are growing all over the garden and we're starting to have some fungus issues from all the moisture. I need to spray

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I decided to get out for a bit today to hit some new water above Canton that I've been eyeing for a while. The skies were overcast with rain threatening. I was happy to see this, hoping that it would keep the tourons at bay that flood the area this time of the year and help turn up some nice sized fish. I was fishing water that is a little larger than what I normally prefer, but you don't

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Today is Adicus' birthday, so I thought I would take him on a hike since he prefers to do that over fishing. More on the birthday boy in another post. A bit of background on this hike. First, it starts in the back of my "neighborhood" and climbs about 1000ft in 1 1/2 miles, topping out at an rock outcrop overlooking the Crabtree Valley. I love this hike for many reasons. One being that I have

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Another very effective around here, the stimulator is a fly that I tend to fish a little later in the season. They generally make their first appearance at the end of my leader in May when the yellow sallies begin to hatch around here and become more common as we get into hopper season. A fairly big fly, it's a favorite of mine to hang heavy dropper nymphs off of. An acceptable imitation of a

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We've been in a drought so long, normal amounts of rain make it seem like it will never stop. It's been rainig for what seemed to be non stop, so I took the first opportunity I got with a break in the weather of a couple of days to spend some time in the water. I hit one of my favorite stream West Prong, is a beautiful piece of water that winds it way in and out of long steep drops into large

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The Elk Hair Caddis, a fly that every fly fisherman/ woman should have in their flybox, if not, you should maybe consider a new sport. Designed by Al Roth to fish the Caddis hatches in Montana, it was first published in 1978, although he had been using the pattern for years before this. An excellent imitation of an adult Caddis that has many variations.hook: 8-18 standard dry fly hookthread: 6/

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It's raining and has been for the last two weeks almost solid. As stated before, I'm not one to complain about it since we've been in a drought for the last 3 years, but holy cow! Is it ever going to take a break? Water volume in the streams is crazy, my garden is getting waterlogged, and I need to cut the grass.I was able to get out and fish the other day on my local lake. Conditions were

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Spring showers led to cleaning and some down time today to take some photos of what's going on around the house this week. After multiple years of dry weather, severe drought in some years, it's nice to see it raining somewhat regularly. Too often it seems I'm wishing we could get some later in the year as the summer lengthens, so I'll take what I can get. The irises in the front yard are

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I started out today's trip a little different than most. I decided to leave the watershed I had dedicated myself to for this season and headed over to Cuhlowee and hit some of the feeders that run into the Tuckaseegee. Adicus was excited as usual, maybe a bit too excited. While heading down HWY 23, a something very malodorous began to pervade the truck. At first I had to think about how close I

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Fishing is at full swing here as spring has busted wide open. The fish are literally throwing themselves on hooks and I'm in the water 6 days a week. It's all starting to run together. I can't seem to get enough time to post reports, so I'm combining a few.I met up with KYflyfisher on Sat in Greenbriar in the Smokies. This is an annual pilgrimage for Cat and I. Fishing for me, wildflowers for Cat

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I decided that it was far enough into Spring for me to fish my favoritest wild trout stream in the world! This stream is a collection of everything that I love and hold dear about trout streams! It fishes good, it's big unobstructed water with open banks, staircase plunge pools full of trout, all in all, heaven on earth for me! Relatively close to my house, I try to fish this stream 2 or 3 times

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Went with Adicus down to my favorite section of my local smallmouth river today to see what was going on with the spawn. I rigged up my med action spin rod with a brown/ orange slash bait and hit the water. As is usual, I made a few quick casts into my "test" pool to see if the fishies were active. My second cast netted a solid 14" smallie that took the lure with out a second look.The water is

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A recent thread on a message board I follow was asking about whether people take their dog fishing or not. There were some interesting replies, but for the most part, it got me to thinking about why it is so important for me to take my dog , Adicus, fishing with me. Enough so that I really don't fish in the National Park anymore because I can't take him with me, and Smoky Mnt Nat Park is the SHIT

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After a very trying week mentally and emotionally, I whisked Cat away for a much needed weekend in the serenity of the woods in early spring. We left on Thursday morning and headed towards an area neither of us had ever been too. After running multiple errands, we were finally on our way towards what would hopefully be a relaxing weekend.We entered the Fires Creek watershed and began looking for

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In an effort to distract myself and kill time till Cat gets home, I walked around the yard taking photos of some of the things that are starting to bloom around here. It's still early spring in these parts, so not a lot is really going on. Trees are just starting to move from buds to leaf, still not much green though. Enough talk, here's just some beautiful flowers.The common blue violet (Viola

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I really don't know how to write this as I sit here crying, very upset, alone. I need to vent, make some sense of this, get it out of me, and say goodbye. Please bear with me, things will most definately get weird, But I don't know what else to do. I was awaken from an afternoon nap yesterday to the sound of a very animated voice. Eventually I rolled out of the bed and asked Cat what was up in a

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Anticipating chores and work over the weekend , I stole away for the day to hit one of my favorite little brownie streams. After loading up Adicus and my favorite little 2 wt., I headed down the road with the widows down, chillin to some good tunes, enjoying a beautiful spring afternoon. I always think I'm going somewhere else in the area, but I have a tendency to end up at this stream

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It's April 7, 27 degrees outside and snowing fairly hard. I'm done with it! Over it! Ready for spring to show up in force and STAY! I can just hear my trout lilies screaming as they freeze to death in the front yard. This sucks!I've waited over 5 months for the return of some decent weather..... It was 73 outside on Sunday. Oh mother nature, you are so cruel! The silver lining is that it's

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So I'm sitting around today with not a whole lot to do, and I'm thinking to myself, "sure would be nice to catch some fat smallies today!". Well, after reading all the recent posts about guys gettin in on all the fat prespawn smallies, I decided I'd wander down to my local river and see what was moving around. Seein as it was starting to flurry with a nice 20mph wind, I decided to forgo the fly

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A Smokey Mountain original attributed to Joe Hall of Bryson City, the Thunderhead is one of the most popular flies fished in the area. Different from the Adams Wulff in that it's tied with opossum fur and was developed in an isolated area to fit the local conditions. I fish this fly all the time, because it is visible and fits a variety of conditions. It's also very buoyant, which is a big plus

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With the upcoming weather (possible snow on Mon. night), Cat excused me from chores and planting to get a little time on the water. We were going to plant the garden this weekend, but we decided to put it off until temps stabilize a bit. It's nice when an unexpected opportunity to get on the water presents its self, and Cat not so secretly wanted to get me out of the house to work on homework, so

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The smells of spring are in the air. The very first of our trees are just starting to put out leaves, water and ground temps are on the rise, days are getting longer. Oh how I rejoice at the beginning of spring. The end of the dreary doldrums of winter, in with the renewal of life, including my own! The despondency of winter always wears me down. I become lethargic and lazy, not wanting to do

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Cat has left to be with her family after the loss of her Grandma. I never really spent much time with that side of her family due to "issues", but I did get to meet Grandma Lizz on a few occasions. And she was a wonderful person that is exactly where she wanted to be, in the hands of God.Because of work, I stayed home. I should be in bed, as I have to be in at 6 tomorrow morning, but I never

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I've been dreading turning the garden this year due to the death of our community tiller. Nightmares have haunted me since I found out that me and a mattock would be spending 2 or 3 days of quality time together. I've been putting it off, finding any excuse to avoid the labor of turning almost 1000sq ft by hand.Cat and I were going to rent a tiller today and take advantage of the good weather,

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This is one of my all time favorite nymphs, something I would never be on the water without. If I don't have a Harey Moose tied on, it's probably because I have a soft hackle pheasant tail on. A variation of the pheasant tail, but more versatile in my opinion. This can be a moderately difficult fly to tie. Most of the materials are fairly delicate, which just adds to the difficulty of the pattern

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Spring is coming and I still have so much to do. I sit here blogging when I have a million other things on my list that are so much more important, but i guess not really, seein as how I'm doin this instead. The hecticness of life has left me totally unprepared for spring, I had a plan and the plan was not implemented on time. I'm really tryin not to stress over it all, but I have a few things

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It sometimes amazes me that Cat and I can live together. I mean, it's like we're from different planets or something. Don't get me wrong, we have many things in common, but when it comes to personal taste, it's like we tried to find someone as opposite from each other as possible.Let's take music for example. On any given day, I'll hear Cat pull up in the driveway with her stereo blaring Cindey

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I absolutely can not go into a fly shop without spending more money than was allotted to me by she that must be obeyed. To be obeyed except when I'm in a fly shop. :) I sure to be chewed about it later, but ya know.So, I was supposed to spend like $10 bucks in Hunter Banks, which is just an absurd amount. I ended up spending $20 instead. Not too bad, in my opinion, but more than I was supposed to

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So I'm standing in the grocery store last night with my most wonderful wife pondering deep things such as, why can't I have some Little Debbie snacks, when i found myself staring at an enormous wall of bottled water. Water bottles in every shape and size you can imagine, some from as far away as artisan wells in Chile. I didn't know they had artisan wells in Chile. One was even called something

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Happy 311 Day!!!This time last year, Cat and I were chillin with some friends in New Orleans rockin out to 5 hours of live 311. Hopefully we'll be down there next year doin the same! I leave you with this... one of my favorite lyrics from Plain:stress is the enemyit's not a friend of meone thing I see is to be easy goingflowingknowinglife is but a dreamPeace

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It's 74 degrees outside and has been for the past few days, this being the reason that I haven't posted in a few days. The doldrums of winter have seemed to have passed and I'm getting back into some sort of groove. Chores are getting done, projects are getting good sized chunks knocked out of them. Man I love spring! But alas, I fear it has showed up too early.Early trees are starting to bloom,

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We still have snow on the ground in the shady spots, but rumor has it that it's supposed to hit the 70's this weekend. The license is up to date, waders will be patched (again), DH gets stocked Thursday, I'm off on Friday..... I think I'll go fishin and enjoy this mild break in the weather.Dreams of fresh veggies are again dancing in my head. The garden plan has been finalized. (over complicated

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In an effort to stem the chaos know as our lives, Cat and I have agreed to a set routine, or "schedule" if you will. Anyone who knows me, knows I reject almost any and all form of routine. I am a creature of spontaneity, a free spirit of sorts. I do most things as they come to me, stress is not a friend of mine. My most wonderful wife on the other hand, has gone schedule nuts! Last night she

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Friends piss me off. How do you decide when a friendship is worth continuing putting effort into? When does a friend become an acquaintance? How do you deal with an acquaintance that wants to be a friend, maybe even a best friend, but is not really interested in putting the effort into it? Why do I feel like I'm back in high school? I guess that's better than being in HighSchoolMusical!What do

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It's cold out. Something like 20 degree cold with a 20+ mph wind. BRRRRR!!! Every one's getting cranky, the cat's are driving us crazy, the dog is getting squirley! Snow.... seen it, been in it, done with it! I have a bad tendency to become very lethargic during winter. Mainly, I tie flies, read books, and bitch about when it's going to start warming up.My hats off to all of you who live farther

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311 IS COMING TO ASHEVILLE ...AGAIN!!!!!My absolutely wonderful wife procured us two tickets for 311 at the Orange Peel in Asheville, in May! I'm ecstatic, as is Cat. I might be a little bit more excited, but she'd be running close behind me. I think this will be my 13th or 14th and Cat's 8th or 9th time seeing them live. Anyone who knows me is keenly aware of my obsessive nature. (take fishing

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So I'm making a commitment to spend more time posting on my blog. After suffering through almost 6 months of inactivity, I'm going to make a better effort to post more regularly. Maybe something like 3 times a week if there's nothing really going on, maybe more if there is. Cat is a driving force behind this to some extent. Anyone who reads my blog regularly has probably looked at her blog at

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Well, I just got back from Cumberland Island and the weather was absolutely fantastic. This place was all and more than I expected. Bill and I left on Wed. night around 11pm and got to St. Mary's around 6am on Thurs. morning. Enough time to catch a quick wink and a bite to eat before we hopped on the ferry.To some extent, this was an escape from the cold and to some semblance of warmth. Thursday

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So after having the photo's to post this recipe for 3 weeks, I'm finally getting around to posting it. This is a self creation (IMO), although I'm sure someone out there has tied something like this before, but I like to think I have an original thought from time to time. It's a variation of a hares ear and maybe a birds nest. If you have any comments on the design, feel free to share. If you tie

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Well, a very busy Christmas season is finally over for me and I finally have some time to relax. Returning to the world of big box retail just before the Christmas season started was quite a reality check, but thankfully it's over! Haven't been fishin in months, too cold to ride the bike.... I'm about dine with winter! Sometime around early march, I'll start getting real giddy about the prospect

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The battle of the century seems to be keeping this 28 year old Honda CM400 running. Actually it's not been that bad, but she does take up quite a bit of time every couple of weeks. Right now I'm trying to figure out why my engine is getting so hot, and I mean like skizzle hot. The crankcase is averaging in the 230-250 degree range as far as I can tell, which is a bit on the hot side. Now, there

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It seems the universe has finally righted itself. After a month of despair and misery, gainful employment has finally been secured. In case your not aware, Western North Carolina does not have the best job market in the world, so I'm pleased to find something reasonable that didn't require me to shave my beard or wear a uniform. Hopefully now things will begin to right themselves around here. I

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Sometimes life seems to get out of hand, at least for me that is. I'm having one of those moments right now and things are getting REALLY out of hand! Seems I pissed of the head ranger on my side of the Park, so I was shitcanned! Office politics has never been a specialty of mine, so navigating the minefield of what's probably the most political NP in the country was not something I was capable

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So I have finally recovered from the vile bug bestowed upon me by my best friends crotch fruit. 4-5 days of highly unpleasant expulsions, thank god it's over with now. It took a few days, but even my appetite has returned in full force. So what's been going on since then? Not a whole lot! The garden has taken a pretty big hit this week, I think it's been over 2 weeks since we've received any rain

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Sorry for the lack of posts this week, I was infected with a stomach virus by my best friends urchin. This has kicked the crap out of me, literally and figuratively. I woke up around 3am on Tuesday expelling liquids from multiple orifices and it has only let up a bit over the past 4 days. I felt better on Wednesday night and over did it trying to get something other than rice and toast into my

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I decided to get out and hit the water today since it was so nice out. It was supposed to get warm too, so a day wet wading a creek sounded good. I loaded Adicus since he had not been able to go on my last two trips and headed out to one of my favorite brown trout streams.After arriving at my destination, I strung up the new 2wt and headed down the road until I reached where i wanted to get in. A

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As planned, I took off from work early today so that I could run my newly built rod through her paces. After getting off, I strapped everything to the bike and took off up the road to Beech Flats, one of favorite places to hit on a day after work. A perfect place for a new 2wt to do her thing in style!I had a pleasant ride up the road, it was rather warm out, so it made being on the bike very

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If you've been following my blog, then you're aware of the horrendous death of my favorite rod and the unexpected replacement of it with a new 2wt rod building kit from my wife. Well, it's been over a week and I finally found the time to finish her. Excitement is already building, I'm taking half the day off tomorrow to fish one of my favorite streams in the park.She's beautiful! A black 6'6" 2

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I fished from the motorcycle for the first time today. It took about 20 minutes to figure out how to get everything attached to the bike, but after that, off I went. Because of riding the bike today, my trusty sidekick Adicus would not be joining me this afternoon. I enjoyed a pleasant ride up above Canton for my destination for the day. After getting to my pull off, it took a bit longer than

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Because of the rain this morning, I didn't get out to do any trout fishing. In light of limited time due to some other things going on today, I decided to take Adicus out to the river for some smallie action. To my dismay, there was someone already fishing my beat. Damn! Nobody but me fishes that section, I was sad to see someone there. I moved down the road a bit to hit my 2nd favorite section

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So, as stated in earlier posts the headlamp on my Honda CM400T is like riding down the road with a flashlight, and not a good one at that. Something had to be done, so I finally went down to WallyWorld and bought a set of cheap halogen driving lights for a quick fix until I can come up with something better. Car lights are not the best option, they have a tendency to vibrate themselves to death

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Seems I screwed up pretty big recently. Cat has been making cookies for work (for like three days), struggling a bit. Last night she had school, so I made myself breakfast for dinner. Yumm, a favorite thing in our house. In my pursuit of French Toast and eggs, I used the last of the eggs in the house. Mistake #1. Then in total stupidity, I forgot to write it on the "grocery" board, something

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And so it does. It's been a bit of a stressful, hectic, and tiring week. The motorcycle has been dominating most of my time and energy. I was able to start on the rod Cat bought me, but it will probably be this weekend before I'm able to put the finish on. I was able to get all the guides on and so far, only one wrap has come unraveled. Wasn't really that hard, definitely would have been easier

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So life has been rolling along in our house like normal as of late. I've been too busy for a whole lot because the motorcycle has been sucking up alot of time. New toy, goes froom, froom, is fun! Fishing has definitely taken a back seat, that's OK, after the breaking of my 2wt, some luster was lost for a short period. Although, I do plan to get out and hit some smallies tomorrow if it doesn't

modernhillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01585844539063713194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764937089089422847.post-65861626781583236422008-07-16T18:47:00.000-07:002008-07-16T19:40:31.281-07:00

Buy a motorcycle. I did, and it's smackey!. Cat and I had been trying to decide what to do about our rising expenses and we had been bouncing around the bike idea for a couple of months. Thanks to Uncle Sam and his rebate check, we decided to go ahead and do it. Now, a little background. I haven't ridden a motorcycle in about, I dunno, 20 years. Been a long time. Being about 12 at that time, I

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I'm happy to announce a new category because of my wonderful wife: Rodbuilding. Seeing how tore up I was about the loss of my favorite rod because of my stupidity and Adicus doing what he was taught to do, she surprised me with a 2wt rod kit. WOW!!! I couldn't believe it. I came in last night around 10 wanting to go to Wallyworld to get epoxy to attempt a repair on my rod. When she got all weird

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I was running early for work today, so I decided to head over to Mingo Falls since it has been raining over the past few days and flows would be good. I was right, they were. Mingo can be a little difficult to find. It is off of Big Cove Rd. on the Cherokee reservation. It's past the KOA campground on the right near the Mingo Campground. The trail head is in a small parking lot across the river

modernhillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01585844539063713194noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764937089089422847.post-56423348521462888892008-07-12T17:16:00.000-07:002008-11-13T18:58:36.168-08:00

Well, the time has finally come that we are pulling a substantial amount of veggies out of the garden. Zucchini and squash are flooding the kitchen, along with cabbage and cucumbers. We literally have a pile of the stuff on the counter from tonights harvest.The onions are doing really well, I pulled a few of them tonite just because. Some of them are still growing, but most will be ready to

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I don't know how to even write this post, such a devastating thing happened at the end of my day fishin'. The day began with me getting up early and meeting up with TroutFreak at MickeyD's for a day of wild trout fishin before the rain began to move in. After meeting up, we were on our way to one of my newer that treate me right the first time I was there. With the recent rains and overcast

modernhillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01585844539063713194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764937089089422847.post-43168310537100094182008-07-09T19:13:00.000-07:002008-07-09T19:45:37.495-07:00

An excellent history of the Little Tennessee River drainage starting from colonists first interaction with Cherokees to the present day. Believe it or not, the TVA actually backed the writing of this book by Alberta and Carson Brewer to give a history of the valley they were flooding with the construction of multiple dams through the Little Tennessee basin.A very concise history, it gives an

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I woke up early to the patter of rain on the metal roof of the house, a quite drumming that quickly put me back to sleep, despite my intentions to get up early today. I find rain to be an excellent excuse to sleep in. Getting up late, I was really in no hurry, thinking that would be the only rain we would get today. I began to get my things together while talking to Cat and enjoying a lazy

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This in honor of the fattest piece of crap cat I have, Gizzy, aka: Fat Bastard. Gizzy was the first cat to come into our lives after moving in together. Cat (my wife) had another cat that she had retained from her childhood that hated me, so in my logical (retarded) thinking, I decided to bring home a little orange furball that I found at work when we lived in SC. Gizzy was sweet little kitten,

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At an early age, William enlisted in the Army as a way to escape the poverty of his childhood in the Ozark Mountains and to create a future for himself and his new wife Kay; and frankly, it was a way to pay for college. Not an option available to him in 1964. Can you imagine, enlisting in the infantry, during Vietnam, because of deep held personal beliefs and the desire to achieve more. Not

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Overall, things seem to be going well in the garden. The nastriums have started to bloom along with the marigolds, and we are starting to harvest squash and zucchini in large amounts. For the squash, I imagine I'm going to bring in about 30 or so this week. Yikes! The second planting of lettuce is being thinned for baby greens, some of the muslin started to bolt, but we just let it go. The

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Hillbillyland by JW Williamson is a very academic and heady book that analyzes the relationship between Hollywood's portrayal of mountain people and the acceptance of the general public of the image that was perpetuated. A lot of time is spent analyzing movies from the early 1900's to modern day films showing reoccurring themes of man's domination of nature and that civilization and society as

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My intentions today had been to work on the fire pit, and the beginning of the day began that way, but due to situations beyond my control, it was not to be. Having been itchin to go fishin, I saw it as an excuse to get out of the house for a bit. Little did I know that karma would repay me for fishin when I should've been workin around the yard. I got my things together, I loaded up the dog and

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It's Friday, and Cat and I are both off for the next three days. We had originally intended to go camping, but a usual, priorities change. Instead, I'm working on moving the fire pit because it was in the way up by the garden. Like most things I do, moving the fire pit is not as simple as "moving a fire pit". Today, I shoveled and leveled a path next to the house, I then put a 4" layer of mulch

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I took the opportunity to hike to Andrews Bald after work yesterday, despite the fact it was going to be around 7 before I could get to the trail head. After getting off at 6 I started up to Clingmans Dome and made it to the parking lot by 6:45. I strapped on my daypack and started towards the trail head, which is located between the water fountain and Observation Tower trail. The trail dropped

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I decided to hit my local smallmouth river after I got off work this afternoon. I only had a few hours to wet a line before it got dark, so I hit one of my usual beats close to the house that tends to yield numbers over size. Today was no different, caught lots of 7"-9" smallies hangin out in deep runs and shallow riffles. They were also regularly station at the exits of runs, pretty much

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Things have been going pretty good lately in the garden, despite the lack of rain. Luckily, we have been getting some at the house, but regionally, we goin dry down here. I'm surrounded by high elevations near the state line, so we tend to get rain when no one else does, but not as much as we should be! The last of the first succession of broccoli has been harvested, along with the spinach that

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Cat and I got up early this morning and hit some of the Parkway before the tourons got out of the pancake houses. We had wanted to get up early enough to catch the sunrise, but alas, it was not to be. Didn't get up early enough to catch that. We had a pleasant morning together. I must say, the laurel and Catawba Rhododendron was insane, you definitely have to see it to believe it. We arrived back

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Headed out to another blueline today with Adicus, I've been eyeing this stream on the map for a while. I hadn't really planned on fishing this stream today, but I just happened to be in the area to do something else, and hey, what the hell! Drove down a bumpy dirt road for awhile before making to where it crosses this particular piece of water. Ran into a guy that was mnt biking in the area doing

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I had some time to kill after closing last night, so I figured it was as good as any time as any to wet a line. I was able to get on the water at about 7 and fished until about 9. I had a mixed bag bows and browns, with two brookies to boot! A slam, after work, on the water for two hours. SWEET! None of the fish were particularly big, but they were plentiful. I reckon I caught maybe 2 dozen fish,

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It has finally cooled down here! I don't mean to complain because I know it's hotter in other places, but man, we are not supposed to be in the mid 90's this time of the year. Thankfully, we're back into the upper 70's- lower 80's for highs. Accuweather is showing it continuing to mild for the rest of the month. Now if we could only get some rain! I did get about an inch over the past week, but

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Jumped in the truck with Adicus and headed for a stream I like to fish at least once a year. I don't really know why I only fish it once a year, but.... Headed out early in hopes of getting on the water before it started to get warm. I decided to wear waders seeing as how I was going be walking through some pretty dense stuff to get to the water. Learned my lesson a couple of years ago when I

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I just finished Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart and it was a well executed documentation of life among the Appalachian mountain people before modern ways and industrialization came to the high mountains of southern Appalachia. Kephart was the first person that I know of that came into Appalachia and documented the simple lives of the Southern Highlander. He didn't come here to save

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Well, Scooter the polluter has lived up to his name! Lately, he has been feeling under the weather, seems he's got a pretty bad case of the trots. And if you're never had a cat that got the green apple splatters, then you just haven't lived yet. We noticed a couple of days ago that Scooter's little sphincter was raw and swollen, but for the most part he was fine. Things started deteriorating

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Cat and I got out for a few hours this morning to do a little fishing on Junaluska. We got to the lake about 7:30 or so, and there were already 4-5 boats on the water. It was a cool morning with no wind, obvious that it was going out get hot again. After dumping the Gheenoe in the water, we pushed off to some of my favored holes. Holes number one and two were occupied by other boats so I had to

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It's June 7, and summer has arrived fir sure! Temperatures are soaring and we're not getting hardly any rain. Despite these issues, the garden seems to be coming along fairly well. We did get a couple of local isolated showers today that totaled up to almost an inch all together. Yeah! But in general, the region is not getting any rain.So here's the good. The onions are developing nice looking

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Decided to hit Bradley Fork after work yesterday since the campground had been closed for paving. I figured that no one would have fished there because of it. I drove through the practically empty campground with building anticipation of the evening fun to come. I decided at the last minute to wet wade since our temps are beginning to exceed 90 already. Yikes, that's hot for this time of the year

modernhillbillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01585844539063713194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764937089089422847.post-48111263596633621872008-06-03T17:53:00.000-07:002008-11-13T18:58:50.722-08:00

I had some time to kill for work the other day, so I decided to go for a short hike before I went in. I've been driving past a fire road near the end of the Blueridge Parkway for the past couple of months, and I didn't really know where it led to other than to an old fire tower. I figured today was as good as any day to find out what was up there. Not a whole lot. The trail (gated fire road) led

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Because of the insane price of gas, I've been trying to find some streams near the house that I've always wanted to fish, but never seemed to have time, or there was always somewhere else to go. Hit a stream with Addicus that I've been looking at for a year or two. Today was the day. I had planned to get some weedeatn and mowin done today, but due to some rain early in the morning, grass was wet

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Things seem to being going well in the garden at the moment. Spent part of this week weeding and moving some squash seedlings around. Man, we are going to have a ton of squash this year, most of it is yellow crookneck, which works out well because it tastes soooo gooooddddd!!!! I love to dredge it in cornmeal and fry it. (Leave it to a Southerner to take something healthy and fry it!)The beds of

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AdicusBadicus and me decided to get out and hit some water I hadn't fished before. The morning started off cool and cloudy and I got a slight chill walking through the wet underbrush from last nights rain. The water was up and a little off color, good conditions for turning fishing into the art of catching. Hiked as far as I could and started fishing back to the truck. Had a size 16 Elk Hair

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Hiked to Baskins creek falls with the association for training (getting paid to hike!) on the Tennessee side of the Park. Met up with the group around 9 or so and headed towards the trail head. The trail descended into the woods on soft path of humus and damp leaves. My favorite type of weather for hiking was here; rain threatening, clouds hanging in the sky, smells of the woods hanging heavy in

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Fished B.E.F. on Monday with Adicus. We left the house pretty early so we could get on the water first. Didn't really matter, we only saw 2 people camping on the hike in, other than that, we had the forest to ourselves. The hike in was absolutely beautiful, the musky scent of doghobble blooming with the occasional Vasey's Trillium (Trillium vaseyi) poking through the low spring growth . We hiked

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In light of recent economic issues and after finally getting used to living in a house (and not an apartment), the wife and I have jumped with both feet into gardening. Sometime around late February, we decided that we wanted a garden. Seems pretty simple huh? After doing some reading, since neither of us ever had much exposure to it, and then arguing about about shape and size, I tilled out a

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This is an attempt to introduce myself to the world, when I'm not sure that I can give an accurate description of that. Much discussion has been entertained in my house as of late trying to decide just who I am, but I'm sure we'll get into that aplenty later. I'm doing a blog at my wifes request, for some reason she thinks other people will find me interesting. I wonder if that's a compliment?

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