Well, I'm back. For those of you who might have noticed I wasn't around, I apologize for dropping out without warning or explanation. It turns out that my 1st summer of retirement was interrupted by a couple of months of work. And I don't want to beleaguer that too much as I know some of you who get up everyday and do 8 or 10 hours of hard labor would not agree that spending all day floating down a river in some of the prettiest places in the world as "WoiK!". Or that helping others learn how to feed the fish bits of fur & feathers really qualifies as a real job. I will say that it ain't all glory. And it don't pay near enough.
Just ask the young gentleman who suddenly decided 3 weeks into a 3 month summer job that he really didn't like fly fishing in Alaska! Seems the magazines he had read didn't talk a lot about mosquitoes or rain. Imagine that! Not talking about the bugs or rain in country that only has 3 things, sunshine, bugs & rain. And the bugs are there whether it is raining or sunny.
So when I got a call from my friend that he needed help, I said I could come out for 2 weeks until he lined up someone else, left that afternoon with a small bag. June 24
Did I mention that it rained quite a bit this summer? I think that all the rain that didn't go everyplace in the Midwest this summer ended up in my raft. Everyday! Nobody, I mean NOOBODY, wanted to come out for the summer. Past experience had shown all those invited that long days in the land of the midnight sun " ain't all glory."
So I had a great summer. I met some really nice people. Had a few experiences that I'll never get to have again. And survived.
Now I'm back. I hope to get caught up on honey-do's shortly and get started on the 2 telecaster projects that I had planned for the summer. I think the rosewood body should have dried enough to be finished and I will be looking hard for a neck for the new Warmoth body I received the day before I left. I was thinking a nice flame maple with ebony board, but the 1 I was watching is long gone. So… the watch is on.
EDIT; I understand that only posts with pictures are truly believed. But I have none. Period! One of my better experiences was watching a guest drop my digital camera into the river. On the 3rd day out! That's my story & I'm sticking to it.
:rock-on:
Just ask the young gentleman who suddenly decided 3 weeks into a 3 month summer job that he really didn't like fly fishing in Alaska! Seems the magazines he had read didn't talk a lot about mosquitoes or rain. Imagine that! Not talking about the bugs or rain in country that only has 3 things, sunshine, bugs & rain. And the bugs are there whether it is raining or sunny.
So when I got a call from my friend that he needed help, I said I could come out for 2 weeks until he lined up someone else, left that afternoon with a small bag. June 24
Did I mention that it rained quite a bit this summer? I think that all the rain that didn't go everyplace in the Midwest this summer ended up in my raft. Everyday! Nobody, I mean NOOBODY, wanted to come out for the summer. Past experience had shown all those invited that long days in the land of the midnight sun " ain't all glory."
So I had a great summer. I met some really nice people. Had a few experiences that I'll never get to have again. And survived.
Now I'm back. I hope to get caught up on honey-do's shortly and get started on the 2 telecaster projects that I had planned for the summer. I think the rosewood body should have dried enough to be finished and I will be looking hard for a neck for the new Warmoth body I received the day before I left. I was thinking a nice flame maple with ebony board, but the 1 I was watching is long gone. So… the watch is on.
EDIT; I understand that only posts with pictures are truly believed. But I have none. Period! One of my better experiences was watching a guest drop my digital camera into the river. On the 3rd day out! That's my story & I'm sticking to it.
:rock-on: