CATCH AND RELEASE.

Fishing, if I a fisher may protest,

Of pleasures is the sweet'st, of sports the best,

Of exercises the most excellent.

Of recreations the most innocent.

But now the sport is marde, and wottye why?

Fishes decrease, and fishers multiply
- Thomas Bastard (1598)





The day started off with a large buck in the road as Susie and i cruzed into the Brook at sunrise to pick up the subaru.  By nine the pole barn was clean and a bunch of fire wood was blocked up.







A quick run to town to drop off some of Susie's art at the gallery, then coffee and crescents with Marty and Jace down at the Happy Bean.  A few more projects back home like mowing and pickin apples for cider for the press then a drive out the valley to see Joan and Mart.  A quick stop at the trout stream and 20 minutes later four trout landed and released.   Back down to the gallery this evening for Gail Chavenelle's opening.

Below is a shot of one of Gail's blanks that We doctored up with for bellevues fishtville and below is one of her super cool horses.

A DAY LATE

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

National Fossil Day

It's getting late in the day, but I just learned that today is National Fossil Day! Better get out and celebrate! After all those fossils might not be around for long (but we'll hope so).

For those junior paleontologists out there (like BOB), here's a super fun Junior Paleontologist booklet for free, plus some more activities.

FIRE....

My plan was to drive the bus to school while we had the beautiful fall weather.  So, I pulled up to the house in the morning before taking off for school.  Susie and the dogs came out to enjoy the morning and as i pulled up i heard sh*t the bus  is on fire... a quick blast with the fire extinguisher and crisis averted. It turns out that one of the two little air filters on the engine was so dirty that it caught fire.


So, my bus did not end up looking like the photo to the left.
Had i not stopped to enjoy the morning and taken off with out stopping things would have turned out much worse.








As you can see both the bus and Ace are right at home.  Safe and sound.

OLD PICTURE 1 VS 5

I came across this old picture of Beau on the web and just wanted to see if I could copy it.

OCTOBER

  Rolling into October.  Friday after school Beau brought my fishing gear out to Rolliworld, where Beau, Marty and I caught up on the weeks events before we wet a line on the trout stream.  Poles were set up with the trouts choice mepps, rooster tails or seahorse.  An hour later and no fish so after a quick chat with mr. Rolli him self,  Steve. We busted out by way of the top of the world, off road with Beau's Jimmy in 4 wheel drive.


   On to the next stream a valley over toward Marty's.  As the sun was setting we got to a nice hole where we picked up 4 nice rainbows.  Cleaned  fresh from the stream and them Beau whipped up a marinade from  Big Jim's Game Warden Cookbook.









 We let that marinade Saturday while we were in back in Madison  for the Badger and Husker welcome to the Big Ten  ball game.  Saturday we hit the road for the only place in town that wasn't full or on price line.  The Bates motel or just  as creepy.

Here's a shot of one of the broken down, cigerette  burnt chairs  and Susie in the parking lot with three cop cars.








Great weather for the ball game as we hung with the Platteville crowd at a choice location across the street from Camp Randal Stadium.  P-Ville crowd has been tailgating at this site since the mid 70's.  Sue and I first took Beau to a tailgater 20 years ago when he was just a few months old.

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SAND PRAIRIE

Took the long way home friday after school.  the first stop was at Zach's land takes up most of a section.  the old farmsted sitsing the center of the section down a long sandy lane.











  The prairie is a Shortgrass prairie; Sand and sandsage prairie; Mixed prairie .... with eastern red cedar a dominant tree, especially in sites sheltered from fire.

 Little bluestem and side oats grama are two of the  common grasses along with Prairie Bush Clover, also known as the Slender-Leafed Bush Clover, is a Federally Threateded prairie plant endemic to the Tallgrass Prairie and

Hoary Vervain - The genus name, Verbena, is Latin for "sacred plan.t," and refers to an ancient time when the plant was thought to be a cure-all among medicinal plants.


Saturday I pulled 20 frames off the bee hives to extract and one frame of Ross rounds for comb honey

Susie’s Birthday weekend in Madison.

  Rolled into Madison Friday evening.  Checked into HoJo’s and took off  for the downtown area to grab a bite to eat.  After an hour wait for a table at the Old Fashoned, which wasn’t all that bad because of the great selection of fine Wisconsin beverages, we got a table up front.
Whoever came up with the idea of putting an egg over-easy on top of an already delicious cheeseburger with bacon should be the real Governor of Wisconsin.  RECALL WALKER

We were up early and out the door for

the Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square is a Saturday  tradition in Madison, Wisconsin. You’ll find the season’s best bounty of vegetables, flowers, and specialty products from approximately 300 vendors throughout the year. About 150 vendors attend every Saturday.  All of the agriculturally-related items are produced in Wisconsin. We got there early for the pink pearl apples.  At the goat cheese stand Susie pointed out a guy who bought 30+ pounds of cheese  plus he had a large wagon with wooden sides labeled graze.

The idea for Graze came from Chef Tory’s love of comfort foods. Inspired by the New York gastropub scene, the menus feature a range of classics executed on a higher level than traditional pub food.   After introducing our selves to chef tory we had to hit Graze for some breakfast and good coffee.  Susie did a chocolate croissant with a back up for the ride home and I did the mushroom and cheese croissant.

It was game day so the market filled up rapidly as the day progressed we walked around campus for a while and then we went home by way of Black Earth Wisconsin, home of the Shoe Box.

Four more hours of working on Susie’s new sculpture and then off to the Voices show in Dubuque.  Shots of the sculpture from start to finish coming soon.

Wisconsin

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