Hi Gary, Good to hear from you sport. Yep I remember the photos Byard put out of his dining room table covered in boxes of flys :-) I did 1 and 2 and still have the hooks Byard got as a sample from one of the suppliers he used. That was a great forum. I till have all the swap flies from all the swaps we did. Tied copies but never used any of the flies. Did you do the Beer Swap? Tie flies based on a local brew and send it in along with Beer coasters. I ran that swap and it was such a great variety. DonO's Cherry Bomb was literally that!!! The only regret I have is not ever being able to get out to the Sowbug show Tony Spezio ran. Could'nt afford it and now dont like the thought of all the travel. Hey ho. Maybe I'll hop across the English Channel to Cologne and see Rene!! We should run an Old Farts Swap. No one under 50 allowed in! Hahaha Take care Keith
On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 at 19:33:54 UTC+1 Gary Webb wrote: > Hello Keith. Great to see your name on my screen again. I joined VFB > right at the end of the 2nd 100 Caddis swap. I guess you could call me one > of the Old Timers. More likely an Old Fart. I remember thinking that I > was glad I was not the SwapMeister sorting 10,000 flys. > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:09 AM 'KP' via VFB Mail < > vfb-...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> HA!! Good to see you are still kicking around you old Blowhard :-) >> Sorry to hear about your tough medical times bud and your brothers >> passing. However I'm a boy from Wolverhampton in the UK and its city motto >> is "Out of darkness cometh light" and your three recent additions to the >> "pawpaw" duty list are exactly that. The light. Welcome to them all. >> Ive been on the list for years even before the )2 Caddis Swap. Who >> remembers that little swap. A Byard special for sure. I still have the >> flies from both of those mega swaps plus lots of the others we all did. >> Some great guys now gone but what times they were. I worked for Orvis >> (yes I know) in the UK for the last 13 years of my working life. I retirred >> 2021 and they closed down all but one of the stores in 22. See they just >> didnt realise how much they need me !!! :-) Now I just do the gardening, >> some teaching tying and fly casting and looking after grandkids >> occassionally. >> Good to hear from you all. >> Oh and HPPY BIRTHDAY Great Grandad!! >> Keith >> >> On Sunday, 16 April 2023 at 23:43:00 UTC+1 Charles Alexander wrote: >> >>> Folks: I'm still here too. Just haven't felt up to it as for the last >>> two yrs after covid TRIED to kill me. I spent over 70 days in a >>> coma,kidneys started shutting down etc etc. As soon as they'd fix one thing >>> something else would pop up,with the latest thing being a positive >>> cologuard test and I'm supposed to have the ole colonoscopy to get that >>> checked out. >>> >>> my docs have all told me that I had the worse case of covid they have >>> seen and lived to tell about it. I still cannot walk without the aid of a >>> walker but God has seen me this far so I don't think He's going to fail me >>> now. I did lose one of my younger brothers this last July. He went to >>> Wal-Mart, got inside the door and he just feel over dead. There happened to >>> be a gold sematin right there and he gave my brother CPr till the got there >>> and because of that we were able. Donate my brothers organs which either >>> saved the lived or improved the lives >>> >>> On a better topic, two months ago we closed on a new home and are still >>> haven't finished moving which is a pain but we love the new place and it's >>> only 5-10 minuites from two city parks, which are both stocked with bass >>> and bluegills. And I did get to go fishing three times last Spring and we >>> did fish each trip. Then, three and six months ago respectively, we >>> welcomed two new grand daughters which brings the total to 17 and 18 total >>> and paw pawpaws job is to hold and spoil them. We even have one great grand >>> daughter. Now, I turn 65 tomorrow, but that don't seem old enough to be a >>> GREAT grandfather lol. Well, sorry for writing a BOOK here but trying to >>> condense two Yrs into one email ain't easy for a blow hard like me lol, >>> Chuck >>> >>> -- >> > -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" >> group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to vfb-...@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> vfb-mail-u...@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+u...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vfb-mail/2b3f68b8-e2a7-4e8d-a81a-93009d7fb9a2n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vfb-mail/2b3f68b8-e2a7-4e8d-a81a-93009d7fb9a2n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. 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