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Site remodeling

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By and large most of the remodeling around here involves our kitchen.

MRS has that sinking feeling

But last Sunday I reworked this site with a new look. It is still a work in progress and there will continue to be some tweaks to the design especially on the pages.

I would love to hear what you think, so comments and suggestions are encouraged!

Thanks.

For those of you who are interested the inner working of blog infrastructure  I used StudioPress Genesis Theme Framework and changed from StudioPress Prose Child Theme to StudioPress News Child Theme. And yes those are affiliate links. I really like how easy StudioPress Themes for WordPress are to use.

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What R & R looks like in Rhode Island

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There is a special place in Rhode Island that I can retreat to to recharge, regroup and catch my breath. It has been a safe haven for my family for 3 generations.

I greet and end each day with this view.

My favorite view in RI

It is an 9 hour drive from the Washington, DC madness, which has shown an incomprehensible disregard for places like this and what it takes to keep them like this.

Tomorrow I will continue the intermittent work that has intruded on this vacation, but today I will soak up the serenity that this special place offers.

 

A Natural Artist

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I get some pretty cool gigs as a fly-fishing instuctor and one of my favorites is teaching the MSU Fly Gals each year. Just spending time with these wonderfully accomplished ladies is a joy in and of itself.

This year, one of my former students, Corey Higley, dazzled me with a very special gift!

A C. Higgles hand crafted bird house

Corey crafted this exceptional work of art with all natural materials. The detail is stunning!

Rising trout and mayfly
A midge and a trout

 

mayfly detail

 

 

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Montana Fly Company Focus Group

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Last month I was asked to participate in a focus group for Montana Fly Company. The focus group was organized by those clever Outside Media folks who ran it on Facebook. It was a very entertaining way for those of us in the group to look at pictures, answer questions and make comments. Our moderator, Sammi, did a great job of keeping us on task while offering some very amusing commentary.

The chance to look behind the curtain a bit at some future offerings from Montana Fly Company and have some fun with Sammi was a treat in and of itself, but the deal got a whole lot better when MFC sent us some really nice tools as a reward for our participation. The gift box that arrived at The Middle River Group world HQ included a set of gold end nippers and a zinger (already attached to my Fly Vines lanyard); a stonefly/nymph box and a large waterproof fly box.

 

Some great swag from Montana Fly Company

While I can’t tell you what we worked on, you just might want to keep an eye on MFC to see what the fruits of our labors produced.

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Disclosure: Neither MFC nor Outside Media asked me to write this post.

 

Happy Birthday Liza

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Readers of this blog and my good friend Chris Hunt’s blog Eat More Brook Trout know Chris’s wife Liza is a pretty awesome lady!

She is famous for telling Craig Mathews to “suck it“, getting tazer for fun and trying to convince the world that her husband didn’t really want a Stromy Kromer but would really rather have a “5 carat princess cut emerald.”

It is Liza’s birthday today so pop over to the Eat More Brook Trout blog and wish her a happy birthday in the comment section of her guest post “Best Day Ever?”

Because this is the closet thing she is going to get in the way of a emerald…

Happy Birthday Liza!

 

 

Keeper

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If you have no idea who Martin “Donny” Donovan is I won’t be surprised. I had know idea who he was either.

Donovan has written a book called KEEPER. And unless you have Departure Publishing or Tosh Brown in you Facebook universe you may not have heard of KEEPER either.

Well as it happens Brown is a friend on Facebook. He posted  a status update the other day:”Watch the Departure Publishing page at 10:30AM and snag a free copy of our new book release, KEEPER, by Martin Donovan.”

So I checked it out and the the contest question was: “Only one golfer from ENGLAND has ever won the Masters. What is his name? What year(s) did he win and what were his scores? (enter the +/- stroke totals for the entire tourney, not the daily rounds).”

Any guesses? No? Really?

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