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Hi Eric, thanks for checking in.
Just a really busy December, which is hard to fathom considering a good hunk of it was spent burning off my remaining vacation hours. Between the caroling group for my church, the son's big holiday musical, hosting a couple of holiday get-togethers and all the frantic home maintenance that goes with that, I really didn't have much time for writing.
But I DID find the time to construct a fold-up portable fish house, based on design specifications contained entirely in my own head. That included a frantic after midnight push to be ice-ready for new years day. I got skunked but one of the fellows I was with brought the first of what I hope will be many fish through the floor of my new shack (a potato chip-sized bluegill)
Hopefully some of that will make some good post material which I can post date a la the father of five style. Heck, I think I'll even post THIS for now.
Thanks again for writing and I hope that you are getting some good winter adventures of your own in!
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Terry
www.electriclazyland.com
From: eric
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:40 PM
To: terry
Subject: Hey!
Hey Terry,
I spend an inordinate amount of time every day clicking around my blog roll, and I couldn't help but notice your extended absence.
I hope everything's OK!
Take Care,
eric
Hey....
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with this???
Just because Duck Hunting 2007 is not finished yet, and Deer Hunting 2007 is not even started yet - are you guys making fun of my "Style" (snicker...)
Wow, ever since Bill switched jobs, he has not been on my case as much as he used to - to finish up the old posts....
Are you guys going to take over his job??
David -
ReplyDeleteAs discussed over on Eric's blog, if the shoe fits...
Eric-
Oh crap, now you will make fun of me for sure, as I went with the quonset hut shape thinking the gabled look was too simplistic and did not require any spectacular feats of joinery to accomplish. I only had enough piano hinge to do the trap doors in the floor, so the superstructure pivots on gate hinges. I was too stingy to buy real plywood and instead went with it's cheaper cousin, OSB. With all these savings I was able to splurge a little on the tarp and go for the heavier dutier brown one. I was resigned to this color but was then delighted once I got it home to see that it was reversible with a nice space-age silver on one side. So in fact my house does indeed look like a quonset hut! It will look even more so like one after I paint the exterior silver to match.
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Terry
www.electriclazyland.com
SOOO funny! David once called me a "blog tease" in reference to the preamble for my series of posts about a BWCA trip. Funny, those very compelling photos of "Duck Hunting 2007" have been taunting me since MID OCTOBER!
ReplyDeleteI'll assume that the lack of even the smallest photo of the new fish house was a calculated humorous omission.
Thanks for the belly laugh, guys!
Eric -
ReplyDeleteYour first sign that I was 'Mailing it in' should have been how I copy/pasted an email as my post. That's go to be the epitome of blog laziness!
Sorry, I was too busy building the fish house and then too busy fishing in it and then too busy being back at work.... We're not all civil servants with hundreds of work hours to spend working on our blogs and cushy holidays like MLK day and Presidents day to spend cross country skiing in the BWCA, ya know! ;-)
Maybe I will get some pics this weekend, although tomorrow is the wife's birthday so I may be toying with my life if I'm seen anywhere in the vicinity of the garage after last weekend's marathon build!
Speaking of work hours spent working on my blog, got to go. Thanks again (I think) for commenting!
Actually, I'm a government employee AND a union member with over 15 years of seniority - I'm taking the First Day of Muharram off, too!
ReplyDeleteThis summer while neck deep in my hated bathroom remodel, the Mrs. caught me over by the storage shed looking at my duck hunting canoe. "Hey! You get away from there RIGHT NOW!" she yelled. She had a big smirk on her face, but I left the area just in case. I don't understand women, but I've figured out just enought to keep alive - the photos can wait. ;-)
Take care, Terry.