A Person, Artist, Software Engineer, Geologist.

I was doing what I normally do during the week and that is looking for places to fly fish.  This last week I tried out a new area on the South Mills River via the Turkey Pen road and trailhead.   Drive on a short gravel (2 miles long) road to the trail head, then a short 1/2 wish mile downhill trail to the river and suspension bridge over it. Once over the bridge there are rough trails (very) on the banks of the river for accessing campsites and fishing spots. easy right? This is where the trouble started... The terrain in the Appalachian is quite hilly and twisted as the forces of erosion continue, the rain abundant and the river contains many twists on its downhill run.  The foliage on the banks is quite thick and deep so, even from 25 feet away, you may not even see the river.  These two factors make location awareness a bit tricky as the same foliage, twists and terrain keeps repeating along the banks.  When I crossed the suspension foot bridge I failed to make a mental note of wha

Summer heat is peaking and I'm looking forward to the waining temps.  We gotback from our trip back to Utah where we stayed at our empty house that is in-between renters.  Got to play fix-it man again for a while.  It's not that it needed a lot of help but more of keeping ahead of issues that where starting to appear.  Save now or pay big time later.   Just before we got there some mice had chewed through some of the sprinkler valve wires, preventing a couple of the circuits from working.  Replace a couple of heads that still sprayed but did not rotate (just old age) and replaced the old toilets with new low flush volume ones.  The past tenant liked the old incandescent bulbs for some reason but kept my LED's, so I had to restore the LED's back to there proper place.  Garage opener bulbs needed to be replaced so there would be light if someone used the opener or entered the garage.  You know, small but important things like this. Off all the time living at the house in