On 05/31/2010 08:19 PM, Dave wrote:
> Here in the new world .... in the midwest USA, old, IMO, is anything
> over 100... ;-) The house across the street from me was built in the
> 1840s and rebuilt in 1910 (since it was getting old then), it is sort of
> a house within a house.
>
> That house is considered really old around here. When my sister
> bought a house a few years ago, she insisted on a new one.. Now her
> house is 12+ years old and considered an older house by many ... (not
> me.. )
>
> I've been to Rome where I seen the shopkeepers often hold open the doors
> with a piece of carved Roman column. Some there, would consider your
> parents farm relatively new!
>
> I was running Ubuntu 8.04 but that was pretty old (2 years! ). So I
> started using 9.10 (less than a year old). But that was getting old,
> so I loaded up a copy of 10.04.
>
> So it is all about perspective I suppose. :-)
>
> FWIW, I'm not sure they actually had fly rods 150 years ago.
>
> Dave
Dave,
Fly rods and fly fishing, in one form or another, have been around
since ancient times. A little more recently, Dame Juliana Berners (sp?)
wrote one the first books on tying and fishing with flies. Course, that
was England, back in the middle ages... ;-)
Mark
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