Boys weekend in the UP

Took a couple day's extra on a short week and went north to the UP.
This is my regular annual trip to our cabin, where me and my boy meet up with my dad, and brother.

On the way up we stopped at a well loved and memory filled but now vacant farm.















We found morels.















Our morel guide, my cousin, came through big time.



Once at the lake - the BLUEG harvest was on.





Some Big Lake rocks and rock climbing.





This is the boy casting a dry fly upstream to rising trout. Don't know where he picked that habit up from, obviously not inherited.



I netted the one keeper of the dozen or so he hooked.



He ate it.


He also ate the Morels.





These are morel stuffed thai dumplings with plum sauce and my cousin's home brew.


I got out for one evening on the stream fro a couple of hours.
Fished with this fly.



With all of the brown line blog talk I should feel good about catching nothing but these, but, the experience left me hollow.




A flowering Dogwood on the great cyr swamp plain.



This pic speaks for itself.



Last night at camp bonfire.

Tech Report : iPhoto 09 is a failure

Despite the rave reviews on the new features that Apple has put in to new iLife 09 I am afraid that in this reviewers real world testing it has demonstrated that it is a failure. While it succesfully sorted thousands of images by using the face recognition tool, organizing the images into sortable categories by tagging the faces of my kids, in my last test it has totally failed, rendering this new feature essentially meaning less to me. Even though I tagged 6 of my pictures with the face of my brittany, Griffindor, the software tool has proven to be completely unable to recognize my dog’s face in any of other of the 20,000 or so more images I have taken of this important member of my family in the last two years.



If you notice in the image above despite having tagged six images iPhoto fails to match any more images of my dog. My recommendation to potential users of this powerful software suite at this point is to wait until Apple has corrected this oversight in their face recognition software tool.

Happy Birthday from Griffendor

It's Leahs 12th Birthday.

The dog wanted in on the singing.

A pack of Feral Brittanys

I am not sure how my brother managed to get off our frozen bay on Shag lake with this pack of killers closing in, but some how, he did. Perhaps he rubbed their bellies. We'll probably never know.

Fall cast and blast IV

Today I did morning and evening blast and no cast as we really did have to do the winterizing.

Some landscapes with gun and dog. My Brother took these so no claim as to composition or real pic value.




Some shotgun pron.


and no boyds but me & and the dog had a good time.

The one on the top is my grandfather's Winchester 12 gauge model 1897 total take down made in 1913.The one on the bottom is my uncle's 1985 Montie Ward WesternField 20 gauge. This is the same Winchester as above with two ducks and my grandfather in 1958.


No woodcock or grouse were harmed in the production of this blog post.

Fall cast and blast II

Day 2 results much similar to Day 1. Grouse flushed with none accidently flying into the direction that the birdshot was flying. The day was warm and the dog got a work out. Here he is lying down on the ground drinking from his bowl refusing to make eye contact with me because he is so disappointed in one half of the team.


As usual the cast portion of the day went much better.





With no grouses to bring home I took a couple of trout for the old man back at the cabin.


There are essential vitamins and nutrients in fresh caught brook trout that are very beneficial for 86 yr olds.

@shag

Bird dog and stinky UP muck

It's called happiness in Griff's world

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