Hydrocarbon fuels are a renewable resource and much less polluting then extracting the rare earth's in scale needed for batteries and solar. Wind energy doesn't pencil out, the windmills fail and age out before they pay for themselves, kill birds of prey, and whales in the ocean. Then they go...
Gotta give credit when due, the usps successfully delivered this care package from Alaska today. Lynx, mink, ermine, squirrel, bags of grouse feathers, 2 bags of snowshoe hare feet in borax. I need to wash and lay the Hares feet out to dry for a while.
Any fly patterns use lynx or ermine?
Haven't been in 10 years or more, it's always the same old stuff. Better off going to a fly specific show. Too bad Albany is on a weekend, my only day off is Monday, I can never go to these things.
The ones around here have a slightly raised and angled brick or cement 'buffer' around the center island that's about the same width as a lane. It's a bit bumpy but you can straighten out your lane pretty good by launching over that.
The usps is running about a 60% successful delivery rate for me. Ordered a knife blade from eBay that tracking showed left Portland for delivery then disappeared for a month, was about to start the paperwork when it showed up, looks like it got stuck to a magnet at the facility because the...
What I'm trying to say not very clearly is having a booth at a fly fishing show is a very good and effective use of donation money compared to other things.
If you build it they will come... sorry that was last century. Here's the deal! You have to actively promote and recruit. Go where the people are till you build a self sustaining momentum. This is the smartest use of "donations" if you want the site to pay for itself. We make most of our...