It's Still Early Days.

 

Departed Long Key at 2:30 am last Tuesday morning and rolled into Winchester Virginia 17 hours later. We were on the road again at 6:45 Wednesday morning and arrived home in Lafayette, New York at 12:30 pm. The only glitch in the journey was a one hour delay in the Scranton / Wilkes Barre area for a serious traffic accident. Spent three days cutting up downed dead ash trees, getting things in order here in Lafayette, watching the USWNT beat Brazil in a "friendly" slugfest of a soccer game, feeding the trout in the pond, and buying provisions for the Lordville Estate.

Packed the car yesterday, and took off this morning for Lordville. Stopped at the Troutfitter in Deposit where David replaced the backing on my reel and attached my Christmas present, (a new double taper 4 weight line) to the reel. Arrived in Lordville around 11:00 and found everything to be in good working order. Both the refrigerator and hot water tank started right up and appear to be expecting to receive social security sometime in the not too distant future, the dehumidifier sprang to life as did the microwave. Hancock Telephone has promised to provide me with both phone and internet next Friday and, best of all the snow plow didn't push half of the road onto my lawn as it has done every prior year. The only two items needing attention are the removal of a large amount of stone strewn onto my lawn by the railroad when putting in new rails, and replacing a dead battery on the lawn mower.

Drove back to Lafayette in time for cocktail hour and plan on staying here until Wednesday or Thursday as Tuesday's predicted weather is more suitable for ice-fishing. Will string up the rod on the return trip and see if I can at least spot a riser somewhere.

Authors note:

My initial post contained little if any meaningful information but it provided me with the reassurance that our grammarian had spurned the nil money available in the portal and is again back on the job. A typo was corrected and the archaic spelling of pilcher was up graded to the currently popular "pilchard". Spell check is aware of my advanced age and apparently felt the archaic version was more appropriate for my writing.

For those of you looking to upgrade your vocabulary, pilcher can also be used both as a synonym for a sword sheath, and to describe a common thief. 

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