Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update- fishing blues
JimmyD, Really-really glad to hear you’re doing OK. With DVT, the news can go either way. Tony, all, Sounds like my plight, fishing-wise. I’ve been fixing up my Grumman Sport Canoe with folding seats, a new electric motor and a huge battery that would double as a toy-hauler travel-trailer power supply. I used it once two years ago with the new seats and nunce since I got the trolling motor last spring. Health issues (mostly cleared up now) and a sudden death with our camping buddies (the wife- my wife’s best friend) put a serious hurt on motivation to get out camping this summer. Added to the the total fire-ban for all camping areas, and it’s just not the same ‘happy happy’ time that it used to be. I also outfitted my Mokai (jet kayak) with a neutral clutch a year ago, which will make it a lot easier to navigate slow, park, wait, etc. Haven even gotten to finish the installation, much less use it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm6RKrA8aSA And my poor pontoon kick-boat doesn’t remember what the water feels like, it’s been so long. Will be another 6 months before I can try any of them again because of hard water concerns. If I can lose more weight over the winter... Right now I’m focusing on my diet and exercise for T2D, and it’s coming along pretty well. My body doesn’t notice when I skip my 3X/day short-blast insulin, so I’m hoping I can get officially off it and rely on the 24hr stuff. Then I want to get off of it too. Doc’s really happy, as I got an interim T2D blood test before my visit last week, and it was normal in almost every category that was way off when my sugars skyrocketed a month and a half ago. I also dropped 37lbs, which made him happy too. My eyes have seemed to stabilize now, with needing reading glasses to tie and best driving vision coming with old 30 year-old prescription glasses. So now I’m really hoping to be able to see a #14 dry fly float by at 70 feet. Getting old is no fun, especially having a diet that cuts out most of my favorite Cajun grub, especially the deep-fried stuff. Oh well, as long as I wake up on the green side of the grass. DonO From: Anthony Spezio Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 6:37 AM To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update I bought a new Electric Start outboard for my river boat five years ago. I was having a hard time pulling the start rope on the old one. To this date, the new outboard has less than five hours running time on it. Tony On Friday, November 1, 2013 6:36 PM, Anthony Spezio bambot...@yahoo.com wrote: You are welcome here anytime. Maybe both of us old broken down fishermen can take out the boat and bend a rod. I am not allowed to take the boat out by myself. It is hard to find someone to go out with when I am feeling well enough to go. Tony On Friday, November 1, 2013 6:31 PM, the smiths aflyt...@comcast.net wrote: Tony I will trade you my Cabala's 60 miles for your back porch. gary - Original Message - From: Anthony Spezio To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update I know what you mean about driving. Dot will not let me drive either. I have to get her to take me anywhere I might have to go. You are lucky, the nearest Cabala's is over five hours round trip and the BPO shop is over 6 hours round trip. But I don't have to go far to fish if I am up to it. The White river is 52' from my back porch. Tony On Friday, November 1, 2013 12:22 PM, Jimmy D. Moore ray...@earthlink.net wrote: Had appt with doc yesterday. All is progressing nicely, Got a pair of white stockings. I really look like an old man wearing those and bermuda shorts. ;-) Miss Jody won't let me do anything. :-( I was going to drive down to our new Cabela's store but she wouldn't hear of it. Son Joe gave me glowing a glowing report on the store, Now he and I have only a short distnce to drive Beats the helluva out of BPS at 250 miles round trip and 150 for the Buda (18 miles RT from my house,Cabelas. I still have three gift cards from Cabelos and itching to use them. JIMMY D Allan Fish wrote: Dadgummit Jimmy! If it weren't for bad luck, you wouldn't have any luck at all!! Get well KWIK!!! af -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VFB Mail group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit
Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update- fishing blues
On 11/2/13, 12:44 PM, Don Ordes wrote: Getting old is no fun, Don, I must beg to disagree with you. Some of the 'minor' setbacks are not enjoyable to deal with, but on the other hand, the upsides are so very great. And no, my boat hasn't been in the water but once this year, I wasn't able to wade the Madison, and I'm trying to lose weight - but I still enjoy old age. Someone sent me this just this week and it describes my attitude exactly - especially the last paragraph. Al Good friends are like quilts-they age with you, yet never lose their warmth. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon, before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. W business is it if I choose to read, or play on the computer, until 4 AM, or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 40s. 50s, 60s and if I at the same time wish to weep over a lost love, I will. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They too will get old some day - if they're lucky. I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And, eventually, I usually remember the important things. Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength, understanding, and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile, and will never know the joy of being imperfect. I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong. I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here I will not waste time lamenting what could have been or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (but only if I feel like it). -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VFB Mail group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update- fishing blues
Had to add a note to this; remember, no matter what happens health wise, we all have to accept and enjoy growing old. The option is to become miserable and depressed and never think you can enjoy anything. I always use my Dad as the example: he taught us to visualize something else if we had a pain anywhere. But as a Type 1 diabetic for 7 years, starting at 48 he was blind, then on dialysis then lost a leg, and he never complained. When asked why, his response was the no one wanted to visit a complainer. But the visualization does work well, I used it for years with a vertebrae our of place in my lower back, I got it put back in place when I couldn't fish anymore. JimmyD and Don and all glad to hear things are going better for us all. Peggy B On 11/2/2013 12:44 PM, Don Ordes wrote: JimmyD, Really-really glad to hear you’re doing OK. With DVT, the news can go either way. Tony, all, Sounds like my plight, fishing-wise. I’ve been fixing up my Grumman Sport Canoe with folding seats, a new electric motor and a huge battery that would double as a toy-hauler travel-trailer power supply. I used it once two years ago with the new seats and nunce since I got the trolling motor last spring. Health issues (mostly cleared up now) and a sudden death with our camping buddies (the wife- my wife’s best friend) put a serious hurt on motivation to get out camping this summer. Added to the the total fire-ban for all camping areas, and it’s just not the same ‘happy happy’ time that it used to be. I also outfitted my Mokai (jet kayak) with a neutral clutch a year ago, which will make it a lot easier to navigate slow, park, wait, etc. Haven even gotten to finish the installation, much less use it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm6RKrA8aSA And my poor pontoon kick-boat doesn’t remember what the water feels like, it’s been so long. Will be another 6 months before I can try any of them again because of hard water concerns. If I can lose more weight over the winter... Right now I’m focusing on my diet and exercise for T2D, and it’s coming along pretty well. My body doesn’t notice when I skip my 3X/day short-blast insulin, so I’m hoping I can get officially off it and rely on the 24hr stuff. Then I want to get off of it too. Doc’s really happy, as I got an interim T2D blood test before my visit last week, and it was normal in almost every category that was way off when my sugars skyrocketed a month and a half ago. I also dropped 37lbs, which made him happy too. My eyes have seemed to stabilize now, with needing reading glasses to tie and best driving vision coming with old 30 year-old prescription glasses. So now I’m really hoping to be able to see a #14 dry fly float by at 70 feet. Getting old is no fun, especially having a diet that cuts out most of my favorite Cajun grub, especially the deep-fried stuff. Oh well, as long as I wake up on the green side of the grass. DonO *From:* Anthony Spezio mailto:bambot...@yahoo.com *Sent:* Saturday, November 02, 2013 6:37 AM *To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update I bought a new Electric Start outboard for my river boat five years ago. I was having a hard time pulling the start rope on the old one. To this date, the new outboard has less than five hours running time on it. Tony On Friday, November 1, 2013 6:36 PM, Anthony Spezio bambot...@yahoo.com wrote: You are welcome here anytime. Maybe both of us old broken down fishermen can take out the boat and bend a rod. I am not allowed to take the boat out by myself. It is hard to find someone to go out with when I am feeling well enough to go. Tony On Friday, November 1, 2013 6:31 PM, the smiths aflyt...@comcast.net wrote: Tony I will trade you my Cabala's 60 miles for your back porch. gary - Original Message - *From:* Anthony Spezio mailto:bambot...@yahoo.com *To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Friday, November 01, 2013 6:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update I know what you mean about driving. Dot will not let me drive either. I have to get her to take me anywhere I might have to go. You are lucky, the nearest Cabala's is over five hours round trip and the BPO shop is over 6 hours round trip. But I don't have to go far to fish if I am up to it. The White river is 52' from my back porch. Tony On Friday, November 1, 2013 12:22 PM, Jimmy D. Moore ray...@earthlink.net wrote: Had appt with doc yesterday. All is progressing nicely, Got a pair of white stockings. I really look like an old man wearing those and bermuda shorts. ;-) Miss Jody won't let me do anything. :-( I was going to drive down to our new Cabela's store but she wouldn't hear of it. Son Joe gave me glowing a glowing report on the store, Now he and I have only a short distnce to drive Beats the helluva out of BPS at 250 miles round trip and
Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update- fishing blues
Reminds me of the Red Hat gals with their purple dresses. Gary - Original Message - From: Allan Fish To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update- fishing blues On 11/2/13, 12:44 PM, Don Ordes wrote: Getting old is no fun, Don, I must beg to disagree with you. Some of the 'minor' setbacks are not enjoyable to deal with, but on the other hand, the upsides are so very great. And no, my boat hasn't been in the water but once this year, I wasn't able to wade the Madison, and I'm trying to lose weight - but I still enjoy old age. Someone sent me this just this week and it describes my attitude exactly - especially the last paragraph. Al -- Good friends are like quilts-they age with you, yet never lose their warmth. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon, before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. W business is it if I choose to read, or play on the computer, until 4 AM, or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 40s. 50s, 60s and if I at the same time wish to weep over a lost love, I will. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They too will get old some day - if they're lucky. I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And, eventually, I usually remember the important things. Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength, understanding, and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile, and will never know the joy of being imperfect. I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong. I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here I will not waste time lamenting what could have been or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (but only if I feel like it). -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VFB Mail group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VFB Mail group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update- fishing blues
“To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing. ” ~Robert Traver On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Peggy Brenner peggy.bren...@comcast.netwrote: Had to add a note to this; remember, no matter what happens health wise, we all have to accept and enjoy growing old. The option is to become miserable and depressed and never think you can enjoy anything. . -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VFB Mail group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update- fishing blues
Don, Tel me about getting old. I am there now. Tony On Saturday, November 2, 2013 3:38 PM, the smiths aflyt...@comcast.net wrote: Reminds me of the Red Hat gals with their purple dresses. Gary - Original Message - From: Allan Fish To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] ]Jimmy D Update- fishing blues On 11/2/13, 12:44 PM, Don Ordes wrote: Getting old is no fun, Don, I must beg to disagree with you. Some of the 'minor' setbacks are not enjoyable to deal with, but on the other hand, the upsides are so very great. And no, my boat hasn't been in the water but once this year, I wasn't able to wade the Madison, and I'm trying to lose weight - but I still enjoy old age. Someone sent me this just this week and it describes my attitude exactly - especially the last paragraph. Al Good friends are like quilts-they age with you, yet never lose their warmth. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon, before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. W business is it if I choose to read, or play on the computer, until 4 AM, or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 40s. 50s, 60s and if I at the same time wish to weep over a lost love, I will. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They too will get old some day - if they're lucky. I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And, eventually, I usually remember the important things. Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength, understanding, and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile, and will never know the joy of being imperfect. I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong. I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here I will not waste time lamenting what could have been or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (but only if I feel like it). -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VFB Mail group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VFB Mail group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VFB Mail group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr
