Christopher will soon begin an adventure as he reports to the Universal Technical Institute at six-thirty Monday morning. He’s undertaking the Toyota Professional Automotive Technician program, and, hopefully, after sixty weeks, he’ll be on his way to into business of automotive maintenance and repair.
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
the rod that gives and gives…
I was happy to hear the Sean got out on the Truckee River last week during his visit to a cabin on Tahoe’s north shore. I had set him up last Wednesday with my three-year-old $125 Cabela’s 5 wt. fly rod, the one I learned with. Set him up with leader, tippet and five different [...]
skinny water but fish nonetheless
Finished washing some Sierra Nevada foothill mud and gravel off my wading boots and already I’m looking forward to the next visit to the cabin. (Increasingly one of the few “true” cabins in Twain Harte, it seems.) I took a day off to squeeze a bit o’ fishing in last weekend. Headed up Thursday evening [...]
catching up
Summer. A time of day dreaming punctuated at irregular intervals of reaching for those dreams. Tends to keep me away from the keyboard. The weather here in Northern California has alternated between the glorious “summer pattern” and hellish heat. Mix in a gloomy shroud of wildfire smoke and you’ve got some downright ugly stay-in-the-house days. [...]
happy fourth
Best wishes to everyone for happy and safe Fourth of July. Unfortunately, here in California we have plenty o’ natural fireworks going off – though not all naturally caused – with 1,781 fires and 505,872 acres burned since June 20, 2008. Here’s hoping that the services of the 20,254 committed personnel, 1,503 fire engines, 571 [...]
