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June 2008

June 6th, 2006
My goodness, Memorial Day has come and gone, the fish are biting and the weather has been pretty darn good. Not too hot for the most part, and not too much rain on the other hand. We have had guests catching fish, and some pretty nice fish at that. There have been a number of people reporting the "football" fish. These are fish that have a very large girth in relation to their girth. This is an indication that the fish are eating well. (And I guess that this might vice versa as well, if you like to eat fish)
   I was working on the web site this morning and one of our guests came in the office to talk. I have a picture of the guy holding a 22 inch salmon that he caught near by. (We do not have salmon in the pond) Ray asked me if he had ever told me the story about that fish. I told him that I had not heard the story, but that he had told me where he caught the fish. He then said that one Sunday he was at his church attending a prayer group meeting and sitting in the back just kind of listening. He then formed his prayer that when he and his family came to Frost Pond on the next day that someone in the family would catch a 22 inch fish.
   Ray found a pool in a nearby stream that was usually pretty good fishing, even if the water level was a bit low. He made a long cast upstream and he said that the pool literally exploded with the fish on his tiny fly. He said that he had to drag the fish down stream to where he was as there was not enough water for the fish to swim in to get it to where he was.
Later when he measured the fish, he said that it was not 21 7/8 inches long or 22 1/4 inches long, it was exactly 22 inches! So you see folks, it never hurts to have a little help, even when fishing.
    Last night I heard one of the resident Barred Owls hooting away. The loons still take time to call back and forth on the pond in the evening and sometimes even during the day.
   I have a new alarm clock up here this year. The geese get out on the lawn and honk at me some mornings! They just cannot seem to find a new place to live, as much as I would like them to. I do enjoy having them here, except for one thing! (It is not the waking me up, I have to get up anyway)
   Did I mention that with all of the warm weather and just the right amount of rain that I had to start mowing the darn lawn? I swear, mowing the lawn is worse than plowing snow! I have yet had to put on fly spray to plow, but every once in awhile when I am mowing the lawn, the darn bugs decide that I might just make them a good meal! For the most part they are not bad here, but when mowing it sometime tends to get them a bit excited, and hungry! Of course once the lawn is mowed and the weather changes just a bit then they become almost non existent here.
   I do need to put out my signs to help keep them away, I did notice a couple of the pesky things today while I was working out in the yard. The secret to the signs is that you have to write it in "bug" language! (I guess that most bugs must speak the same language as it seems to work for all of them) (Who knows, maybe there is even a bug language translator hanging around the signs) What I put on the sign is a message that tells all of the bugs that they are entering an area known to be frequented by dragonflies, bug eating birds, and after dark, bats and other bug eating night creatures. The signs do not have to be too large as it is a well known fact that bugs have real good eye sight anyway.
   Well, what do you all think about these gasoline and diesel fuel prices? I must say that I find it hard to get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I go to town to get supplies and fill up the truck. (Dizzy perhaps) One good thing is that at least when folks come to camp they are not driving all over the place, from town to town and around and around. They can come and park their vehicle for the week if they want. Just sitting around camp or in the campsites, fishing, canoeing, hiking and all of the other fun things that one can do up here. Even if you do want to take a ride it is still not driving around like if you are on a road trip. I guess that we will just have to deal with it until it all changes, which it will in time.
   In the mean time, why not take some time to just kick back and relax around the campfire and listen to the loons!
GT