Well, technology hasn't been my friend as of late. I had my laptop hard drive fail on me and the desktop I have as a backup (hardly used) was acting up, so I haven't been keeping up on this.

I had a ton of pictures that I had dumped onto my hard drive on my laptop that I wasn't able to recover. I had to pull the laptop hard drive and I installed Ubuntu (Linux) on another laptop I had and was able to recover most of my important data, but not a lot of the newer pictures.

Anyway, It is Joy's birthday today and we went to her first auction! It was a lot of fun! We got an antique dresser, a smoker/grill, a stool (that I picked up because I was tired of standing at the auction and needed a place to sit), a water fountain thing and we got a few things for free. All for $30.00 We really needed the dresser so we don't have to hang as much up now. It had a small area on the top that had some water marks on it, so as soon as we got it home I sanded it down and we just got done putting new clear coat on it. See pics.

Other than that, things are about the same. Joy has been putting her lab together and has been doing a lot of reorganizing and cleaning up there. She has a student at her disposal now to help out and learn.

The weather has been pretty steady in the 80's during the day and getting down in the upper 50's at night. Could not ask for nicer fishing weather! I have caught a few decent sized Rainbow Trout in the Turtle River. On the other side of the field, we have access to the river which is actually walking distance (but I drive). It is a lot closer and there are a bunch of deeper areas in the river where the bigger fish have been hiding. I catch a ton of little Rainbows and Shiners every time I go, but only occasionally do I get a decent sized one. I am going to need to get a pair of waders here pretty soon to continue fly fishing. I have a pair of wading shoes that I have been wearing with shorts, but the water temp is getting pretty cool and I have noticed in the past week or two a decrease in water temperature.

The dogs are doing good. Duke has a new friend who's name happens to be Duke also. Gets kind of confusing when I am trying to get our Duke to come in the house when the other one is here. Duke has been spending a lot more time outside playing. The wiener dog is not amused by the other dogs because she feels threatened by them, thinking we will pet them and not her.

Well, here are some more pictures. Some of the sunsets here, some from fishing and some other random things.

Enjoy!