First Snow...

[JStreamside]

Well, our area got plastered...and I don't mean we all got together at some local bar. Anything over 1500 ft in a 4 county swath got as much as 10-in of heavy wet snow. Problem is...most of the trees still have most of their leaves on. Power outages will push 9000 customers throughout the area...trees are down everywhere, but it could have been a lot worse had we gotten the excessive winds and freezing temps that were predicted.

Thing is, if you went a half hour in 3 directions, all it did was rain. So we got a little inconvenienced, missed a ball game and cooked on our camp stove by kerosene lantern. The kids put up their Fisher Price tent in the living room and fell asleep with the glow of our woodstove flickering in the dark. And when they awoke...even still with no power...they asked when could we do this fun stuff again!!! Sometimes all it takes is a "little inconvenience" to remind us how fortunate we really are and what's most important. Think I'll go turn off some breakers now to extend our special family time.

[Spade]

missed a ball game

If you're referring to the baseball game, I think it's still going on.........

[TOPGUN]

Did ya tie a lot of fly's??????!!!!!!:D

[drifter]

Camping indoors .. I LOVE IT !

You get out of a situation what you make of the situation .. sounds like you made that power outage a great situation for the the family !!!!!

another smor please :D

[100$Bill]

Sounds strange but as our lives and habits seem to continue to speed up by as means of convienece allow us. It is easy to loose touch with personal family time. A power out as I remember them was a cool time when the family would instinctivly collect in the living room the light the old oil lamps that my parents had in the house. The power out kind of pulled us together, in darkeness with no other sounds than eachothers voices and only a lamp lighting eachothers faces. I too rembember and cherish the living room forts and power out camp-outs!!! Fortunately dinner time was a family time for me and my family while growing up, we all sat and spoke about our days and made fun of eachother ect while growing up. It is now a very rare treat to sit at a dinner table with my mother father and two brothers. One day it will only be a golden memory.

[JStreamside]

We make it a rule that dinner time is family time...no interruptions...no phone. Then afterwards, we do something as a family every evening...whether its just a short walk in the woods, a story by the woodstove...hot cocoa...whatever. Though ours are still young, the wife and I decided long ago that WE...not some sitter or other family member...would be most present with our kids.

No fly tying for long TG...got a little close to the kero-lamp with some marabou and it started to smoke :eek: !!! Pretty "hot" looking flies though with the cinged fibers!!! Wonder if the chromies like their flies "well done" LOL :cool: :D :cool: !!! Betcha' Toolie hasn't got anything like that in his fly box!!!

[Browntrout5]

J, I highly doubt that. Flesh flies dont take to well to heat :D :D

[mikefishon]

some places around me got 14 inches, it is funny the way this strom came down i got maybe 4 inches and one mile away they got 14 inches strange huh

[cecil]

killin me:o :D

[Linescreamer]

"We make it a rule that dinner time is family time...no interruptions...no phone. Then afterwards, we do something as a family every evening...whether its just a short walk in the woods, a story by the woodstove...hot cocoa...whatever. Though ours are still young, the wife and I decided long ago that WE...not some sitter or other family member...would be most present with our kids."

Now there's a man with priorities. I couldn't agree with you more JS!!!

[JStreamside]

LS...thanks...the little "monkeys" are now starting to tie flies too!!! Even though they are only 6 and 4, we let them tie and "create" whatever they want. My daughter is actually responsible for several of the teeny nymph color combos we have done well on.

Problem is they are both TOO observant. We shot some video a few weeks back on a small trib for salmon. When I showed it to them that evening, both said..."...hey daddy, you SAID the river was too big for us to go yet, that doesn't look like a big river to us!!!" :rolleyes: Doh, pulled a "Homer" on that one...guess it won't be long before the both of them will be tagging along.

[Linescreamer]

JS. I don't know if you remember mine from the bake but I have a hard time saying, fishing or Pulaski without them saying I'm going :confused: :( :D !!

[Salmonfan]

I know what you guys mean. My little girl is only 4, and she's ALREADY asking when she can go with me!! I told her she'd be able to go "when she's a little bit bigger":o I kind of hope it's sooner rather than later, she already slams the panfish and loves it, I can only imagine the look on her face when she get pounded by her first SR screamer!!