Field
Notes - Dispatch 27 – Rose Cottage, Idaho
Monday,
December 21, 2015
Greetings
Fellow Adventurers!
As
I write these words I am lounging in front of the ancestral hearth,
with the fire flickering, a cocoa mug in hand and a howling snow
storm just outside the window. Severe winter storm warnings are just
part of Christmas in this neck of the woods and who would want it any
other way? Doesn’t everyone dream of risking their life in a
blizzard just to go purchase a carton of eggnog?
Our
snow leopard (house cat) just came in looking like a small, mobile
mound of frost crystals from the North Pole. The poor thing is so
cold she cannot even meow. The cat just curled up next to MR who is
wrapping presents in the living room. MR does not like to wrap
presents but does it each year. I tried to help once but present
wrapping is a precision skill which I do not possess. My presents
look like the packages of pork chops the local butcher rolls in white
paper--functional but far from festive.
An
unusual development this winter is that we have icicles hanging over
the back door for the first time. They are long deadly things
tapering to needle points. I risk being impaled from above every
morning when I open the back door. There is nothing like ten pounds
of sharp ice cascading past your skull to wake you up and foster a
deep appreciation for still being alive. This pretty much happens
every AM when we go to the gym. If I could remember I would send MR
out first.
Well,
the point of this message is to wish you a Merry Christmas and thank
you all for the wonderful times we have had together over the past
year. I have heard that travel and adventures makes a person wiser
but MR assures me this is not the case for all people. I am not sure
what she meant by that statement. Interestingly, not long after we
chatted I noticed she took a bucket of cold water outside to toss up
on the roof over the back door. Makes a person wonder.
Anyway,
I hope you are all well and having some winter adventures of your
own.
Over
and out.
Your
consummate fly fishing pal,
-
Old Trout
