I've been working from home....my son drops in a couple of times a week for some short hikes.
This is the remains of an old girl scout camp.....up in the woods behind my house. Looks like the fireplace is still in use.
I held on to a dead tree while trying to cross a stream......tree broke and i fell into the water. I asked him why he didnt get a picture.

I’ve always enjoyed avoiding people 😬
Been laying real low, like snake’s belly in a wagon rut low.
Did manage 2 quick hits at a nearby pond, and found superb fishing. Lot’s of high quality trout. I just hope the ponds can support the amount of fish put in them...we’ll see.

I wonder if they're closing the GI bridge to fishing, with squid around the corner, the NY/CT/MA guys are out. That will give RI'ers the entire bridge... even if it's just 5 guys at a time :eek5:, (with the others waiting in their cars for the rotation of course). I'm sure you'll see a police presence there...

Curious to hear how that's going to play out.
Are boat ramps closed in RI? Even those not in State parks?

No. Will still be mobbed.

Even though we had three days of decent weather, I used two to get some sealer on all the carvings I had done and a bench I'm refinishing, but yesterday I finally got back out on the water. It was a beautiful day, the eagles were flying on occasion, the big pickeral were everywhere and with water temperatures finally climbing into the low fifties, a couple nice smallies decided to come shallow to feed. Near the end of the day a pickeral took a hair jig deep and wasn't going to make it, so I gave him a chuck suspecting the eagle sitting on top of a pine a couple hundred yards away might take interest. Once I moved to a distance he felt safe coming down for dinner, I got a good look with the binoculars as he took the pickeral back to the nest.

ps to John: I've asked before and haven't got the answer. I post first uploading this picture and didn't preview and notice on posting the picture is upside down. I go back, open the picture in paint, rotate (even though it looks fine) 90 degrees twice to correct, delete original, upload again even though it's now upside down and it posts upside down. I delete pic, open in paint rotate back to the way it was originally, upload again and it's now perfect. So why does this happen?

that's a nice fish^^^!....got out on the paddle board yesterday...got to ride the current in the outflow, collect some conchs and watch a couple of oyster catcher pairs doing their thing....tog soon hopefully...thankful to have water so close

Here are a couple pieces I finished off in self confinement over the past couple nice days.

ps to John: So I upload all three, preview, all three are on their side. I go to paint, rotate each to mirror that position, even though I know it's wrong, close a save. I open each again in paint, rotate back to vertical and the original, close and save, upload again here and they are upright as they were, am I the only one seeing this?

Bob... put the dang Cognac down and hold the camera the right way, problem solved.... :rotf2:

Btw, great job with the carvings...and a great way to stay sane.

Sane? The middle one is a stay at home self portrait.

One thing I really miss about confinement is a good haircut. Anyone out there resort to cutting your own hair yet? Thinking about getting one of those cut your own hair kits.

very nice

Ross, it is absolutely the best olive oil there is. Just got 2, 500ml bottles. I went thru 4 250s in no time. No 750ML left.

The floobee is gonna make a huge come back. Buy stock in it now. That will help the stock market
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I keep joking to friends I'm going to get a flobee.

oh yeah...Ive had 4 haircuts in the last week! LOL First was a little self "trim"...very timidly because I know how badly things can go, the second one was the typical over confident mistake because I got cocky after the first round, third one was begging my husband to at least make sure it was even in the back (somehow two more inches came off but I dare not complain or he'lll never do it again) and the fourth one was a follow up to the third one to blend a few things together :( all in all it actually isn't so bad at the moment!

What is this a freaking ponzi scheme?
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Staying at home with cute 10 year old daughter. I’m 61; may be the only person actually enjoying this.Making each day with her count!
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Me too, I has haven't had hair this long since the 70's... I told Nancy I'll put it into a man bun(just kidding her) she promised me if I did I'd wake up bald in the morning...I believe her.

On the Covid front, still working, wearing mandatory masks with a nurse at the door doing daily temp checks when we arrive..I went to store for the first time since the first week of March, the breaker on the electric stove lost a leg, so I masked up, gloved up and did the deed, left my clothes at the garage door and hit the shower immediately..

Nancy and I bottled 46 bottles of oatmeal stout last night...Saturday, we are planning on brewing a batch of Red Ale.

I moved the lobster pots out from behind the shed, I should get through checking them Sunday..covers coming off the boat this weekend..
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Getting the last of the mulch spread. Cutting more dead trees and going back to work next week. Jeanne is thrilled beyond words.

Somewhat self confining but working my butt off. It is not a lot more hours than before the pace is wicked. Been to the FD 5 times and the PD once in the past 10 days for work.


Bob - first - if pic2 is a self portrait - that's funny. Can't help with the rotation unless it is remembering a cached version from before (clear browser cache). They look perfect to me.



About to buzz it all this weekend with a #5 and then his the sides with a #3 (this assumes the #5 leaves more hair than the number 3

:kewl: :kewl: :kewl: :kewl:

Mixed bag yesterday, another day of self isolation after some morning shopping, which is always less fun.

nice Bob , that will give you some [me] time :happy:

Getting a ton of stuff done.Lots of fly orders completed.More getting done daily.Folks dropping off rod blanks and rehabs to get done.Almost no time other than hunkered in the mancave with the CD player cranking disks I haven't listened to in years.The main problem is the queen doesn't have a hobby so she's kind of bugging me with the "what are we doing today".So I got her in the yard doing the clean up and now she's enjoying it.I do the dump runs of debris she rakes and cut up.

Wow
How’d you pull that off,,, LOL

I've been "down the road" with buying a fly tying vise[tying],attempt at rod building,flycasting,fishing at night,etc.She will fish with a spinning rod but that only lasts a little while and can be dangerous.We battled over plants,shrubs,flowers,raking etc. So I said;You do it your way and I'll leave you alone.So I do the dump runs and provide "some" funding for plantings.
So far so good!:hihi::kewl:

This is how Tony’s handling it.....
https://youtu.be/tr3TJbOerjo
https://youtu.be/tr3TJbOerjo
He practices every day and dreamt about the Lobster Pot turnny on CC all winter,,,,, I hope they can pull it off in the fall... kids are taking it on the chin also... hug um

:btu:

Yeh, he should be writing a book, documentary, and selling movie rights.


:kewl:

back at work. Love it!

This fing weather pattern isn’t making this situation any easier, we get a cold sunny day, followed by a cold rainy day and no string of warm weather anywhere on the horizon.

Windy as #^&#^&#^&#^& too.... :crying:

Been great working at the course with no golfers around. Much easier to get stuff done
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I hope the mass golf course association is successful in petitioning Charlie Baker to allow courses to open, because it’s safer then what I see others doing for exercise. Our course had it down, no carts, no club house access, no flag pulling with raised cups.

I did see an interesting way to deal with cups on a British you tube show.
They put the cups in upside down, makes them about an inch deep, you can leave the pin in and still pick your ball out without having to pull the pin.
You get the right sound and don't get trained to putt thru the break.

We are scheduled to open on May 5th if all goes well. I set up a net in the garage a couple days ago, so that's fun... and boring. And set up a putting station in the basement. Hmmm maybe I could hit a ball in the garage, chip through the door into the living room and bounce it off the couch :hidin:, chip again through the basement door and then putt out...
That would drive my wife completely nuts...

Yeah, you want to have as many safely distanced outdoor events open as possible; I mean people need to keep from going crazy. No reason you can’t have golf if done right. Maybe even open up some other stuff wherever you have open fields with good separation.
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I was doing good in the beginning. But now I'm blind!

Eat lots of jerky,,,,,

Well if you use hand sanitizer for lube the world will a safer place....
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We are still closed at Franklin but the grounds crew is working. We have been aerating, mowing everything including fairways and rough.