All I really want to say about emdash is that it took me a good 30 minutes to figure out it isn’t an April Fool’s joke, and that is only because an insider vouched for it. Doesn’t pass the smell test otherwise.

Pretty cool to watch the Artemis II launch live on TV with Amanda and Charlie! From a TV at a car dealership no less.

Tied some Synthetic Clousers tonight. Striped bass on the brain.

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Questions from your kid that make you nervous:

“Daddy, have you seen the creepy eyeball in the sky?”

Cue trying to hold it together while you calmly ask follow up questions.

It was better when we didn’t know Banksy’s mortal identity.

Trying to force the rhubarb.

Hot coffee take: Jamaican Blue Mountain is overrated and over priced.

Crocuses are up!

Saw the first robin on Monday! More are out today.

It is lovely to hear the spring peepers again.

Pretty soon Cloudflare will block all crawlers just to make you pay to use their crawler.

I added a new photo to the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Chronolog.

I haven’t tied much this winter, but the prospect of some rain and warmer weather melting the snow and ice has me hopeful for getting out on the water. Tied some peacock body little black stoneflies with CDC wings, and some glass bead dark sakasa kebari.

Planning to tie some BWO comparaduns and CDC midges next. Can you tell I’m eager for dry fly season?

The Little Free Library I put up in 2024 is still doing great! The three of us walked over and each put in a couple books. Glad to see it was pretty full with good books.

In some old outdoor writing I’ve noticed the phrase “the Red Gods” multiple times and wondered where it came from. I think it comes from Kipling’s The Feet of the Young Men.

While the poem draws me in with the lust for springtime adventure it stirs after a long, frozen winter, I can’t help but notice the romanticization and appropriation of indigenous spiritual practices. Probably best to leave that one in the old books.

Winter is really going full bore until the end. Yet another snow day. We haven’t had a full week of school in a month.

I woke up early for this lunar eclipse, but unfortunately we have total cloud cover here.

At least I got to see the local skunk sauntering back to its den under my shed after a night of activities as the sun rose.

We’ve turned a corner. Our 4yo decided he loves carrots this weekend after two years of rejecting vegetables outright.

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