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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/business/orvis-vermont-sporting-retailer-closing-stores/ In my estimation, Orvis, LL Bean, and other "sports stores" have become retailers that focus on selling clothing, footwear, and lifestyle accessories. They are no longer mainly sports and sport...

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I got wait listed 2x, but never got in. I took a job with a Federal Law Enforcement Agency as a Forensic Chemist doing Arson and Explosive analysis. After 3 years I got bored working in the lab and transitioned out to become an agent. I spent 28 years on the...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-streams-rivers-facing-severe-declines-fish-populations/story?id=125890610 No good news here if you like fishing for trout/salmon

I use all those free return address labels that charities send to ID my fly boxes.

When the person sitting next to you at the bar points to the mount on the wall and asks if there is a hunting season for Jackalopes

This past year was great for Tomatoes in NH. Hot & dry (not good for utility bill) Yellow/Green/Red is Mountain Spirit. It is a new variety for me and is supposed to be blight resistant. I can't comment on that as the dry weather curtailed bad blight attack on all planted varieties. I did...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/venison-boar-or-rabbit-the-health-benefits-of-game-and-the-best-types-to-buy/ar-AA1M78jS?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=68c4822ceaf34c429c991a7f349b4c2e&ei=31

Here is a link to a good obit: https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/influential-angler-and-conservationist-flip-pallot-dies-82/7716184

Walleye-Not the most "fun" to catch (like hauling a potato sack), but if there is a better tasting freshwater fish I have not had it

The picture is from a NY Times article on an upcoming natural gas shortage (it you can believe it) in Anchorage. The article included this photo of people "fishing" in Kenai River. I cannot figure out what these people are doing. Netting salmon from the shore? I never saw anyone doing...

Blue Sky furled leaders https://furledleader.com/ Labor Day Sale: 25% Off with Code LABOR I used their products for many years until they closed when the founder died. They have re-started the company, but I have not purchased any units since then. I have been buying from Barrios in...

I actually have only broken one rod myself. I have had others broken due to no fault of my own Here are just a few: Favorite break-Sage 8wt broke in Alaska when I hooked a giant King Salmon. I was still able bring the fish in by hand lining Saddest break: My rod was in the back of a covered...

I bought a compost tumbler off Craigs List a few years ago. It really does work very well. A few turns each week produces "good" compost fairly quickly without any odor, or flies. Since its raised up off the ground it does "go to sleep" in the cold weather, but jumps right back in the Spring...

https://www.flyfisherman.com/editorial/ak-best-passes-away/531272

My brother is a retired hand surgeon. I think he put his kids through college doing trigger finger repair. The surgery does work, but do only as a last resort!

If I wasn't 3000 miles away and a pet parent of the "real" retrievers (Labradors) I would certainly take a look

Here is WAPO article on summer weather. It's a share, so you should be able to access and bypass paywall https://wapo.st/4muawgS Using the calculator in the article, where I live in NH summer is 10 days longer than when I first came here 30 years ago. I know that my areas has moved up one...

It's been a great summer for tomatoes, air conditioning, and the electric utilities here in New England. Pretty much sucks for everything and everyone else.

We call those Frankenbuggers. Basically, you tie them with whatever you have laying around on your bench. BTW, they work fine