Friday. It’s been a while since my last post. I built an end table for my wife Jody out of some of the wood from the maple tree that was removed from our front yard. She loved that tree and was sad to see it go. The roots have destroyed my driveway twice. There won’t…
Month: March 2013
Jerry’s Launch Day
Saturday. Today was a huge day for my neighbor Jerry Johnson. About 3 years ago Jerry bought an old bare lifeboat hull. He trailered that hull to his shop on Puget Island and started the long process of building a fish boat for he and is wife Nalane to enjoy on the lower Columbia. Today…
First Springer of the Season
Wednesday. Today was a typical March day in the Northwest – rain and about 40 degrees. Around noon I called my neighbor Jerry J, and we boarded “Rachel” and made way up the Columbia for about 10 minutes, dropped anchor in about 13 feet with the tide running hard. I rigged up both rods and…