Re: Spey Rod Recommendations

Indeed we did my friend. Sigh ... going to a AA meeting every morning ... I can only 'fondly' (Bad Fred! Bad! Bad!) remember the taste. And I can .. just can't go there anymore.

Remember the night I had dinner for 22 in the MH? Thank God the freezer compartment was full!! Everyone wanted to have dinner with the guys from the UK. Thank God for a generator to run the micro wave to defrost 5'ish pounds of pork chops and a couple of pounds of hamburger.

While they were defrosting, a few onions and garlic in the BIG POT (yes, a REALLY BIG POT)with a 1/4 pound of butter to brown, then toss in the 'meat' to brown ... then chopped up red spuds, brown the heck out of all the above and in goes two huge cans of cream of mushroom soup and a half gallon of milk. (Well, the timing of the above does need adjustment, but we were all sucking back single malt, or other 'beverage of choice.')

"Ok Guys, I've only got plates/forks for so many .. hurry back." And they all did.

Well lets back up here and put folks in context. Saw the info from Aaron on the get-together and it sounded like a hoot, so I e-mailed him on where to stay (the park there in Carnation). Get the info and call and get my 'reservation;' turns out to be the last place in the Park.

Aaron e-mails me back a couple of days later and asks if I have 'room' for a few more folks to bunk over. Sure, up to three in 'comfort,' four is they really need to, but they'll need sleeping bags as the fold out couch in front only holds two. COOL he e-mails back.

A week or so before the event I (dah Fred!) clicked in that I had no clue as to who would show up at 'my front door.' ......... the fellow from Carron Lines out of the UK. The rest of the weekend is history, but Gweneth and Jimmie Jack were quite surprised (poor choice of words) that a 'stranger' would take in and house/feed their folks; no questions asked before hand. It's a Canadian thing I guess.

Great Fellows, Great weekend, Great time for all!!! Save for one evening the fellows decided to have a few beers at a local Tavern .. and watched a knife fight!

Trust me, you can't make this stuff up.

How fast can you get "out of Dodge City?"

That aside, great time for all. Still correspond with some of the folks.

Only 'down side' was the slot I was parked in (save for being as far away from the river as you could get) was under a Black Oak tree. The 'seeds' from these things are huge and the oil as black as the Ace as Spades. Get some on/in your carpets? It's there for life.

Fred