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Winter has started to creep in to the Western part of New York and the ‘Browns’ are thinking about grabbing their last meals before slowing down for the winter in the creeks near Rochester.
We had a our first little flurry of snow yesterday. The temps are dropping too but wearing layers seems to be working just fine as I actually got too hot the last time out - except for my fingers! I have to figure out what to do about gloves. Any suggestions are appreciated. My next approach will be to take several pairs and when the first pair gets wet, switch to dry ones.
The bass boat is getting winterized next week. I may take it out once more to mix up the Stay-bil in the tank before shutting things down for the cold weather.
Tracy just bought me a 8′6″ 3 wt. Winston Boron IIx fly rod for my 40th birthday, so I’m now walking the area’s freezing creeks hunting for fish.
I might be addicted to fishing.
Tags: fly fishing
I’ve been messing with boats for over 17 years. I’ll spare you the full story and just say that if you have a boat with stains on the gelcoat, NuHull is the only cleaner you need.
I’m rarely 100% satisfied with anything. This stuff is amazing. Before I could wipe off the spray, the stain had already disappeared.
The cleaner has a slight rotten egg smell and you need to wear a pair of rubber gloves.
I ordered a gallon jug online and used about 15% of it cleaning a stained white hull on a 20 foot boat and the full job took about 30 minutes. Last week, I spent 3 hours trying to clean the hull with other marine and household cleaners, scrubbing while laying on my back getting soaked in the process.
If you order a bottle of NuHull, you won’t be disappointed and I bet you won’t go back to regular cleaners for your boat.
The instructions also talk about diluting the solution in water and using it for all type of cleaning situations. I’ll give that a try at some point and report back on that as well.
One note - rinse your driveway really well if you are on pavement because if not, you’ll have a large clean spot underneath the area where you were working.
Tags: amazing
I’m still trying to figure out this HDR photo process. Here is a shot of the front of the Canton Repository in Canton, Ohio. Howard and I drove over for a visit on Tuesday and the light was really nice when we arrived. I had my tripod in the car so I figured I’d try the process where PhotoMatrix combines multiple exposures. Maybe I’m not picking the right scenes to get the extreme effects I see on pics tagged with HDR on Flickr. On the other hand, this is about what the building looked like in real life. The other thing I think will help is a cable release because at these long shutter speeds using a high ISO, I’m sure camera shake is still happening when pushing the shutter release, even on the tripod. Stay tuned…
Rumor has it that there a gold Pulitzer medal, won for coverage of a crime scene a year earlier, embedded in the cornerstone that was placed in 1927 for the Canton Daily News, the first paper to work out of the building.
Tags: hdr
My mother-in-law called this past weekend to say, “There are a lot of boats on the Lay Lake today”. Well, the story is that the 2007 Bassmaster Classic was held on Lay Lake in Shelby County, AL last weekend.
My in-laws have their waterfront house for sale on Lay Lake, so hopefully one of those fisherman noticed the sign out front!
Now, if there were only some sort of sporting event in the northern part of Shelby County where I know of another “for sale” sign!
(The photo is a shot of my mom, sister, my nieces and nephew on my boat where we were getting ready to head out for a ride on Lay Lake last summer.)
Tags: boating, skeeter
