Gary Price

Linda, I too am an active photographer.  This Flickr link to my most recent photo can also lead you to categorized albums of photos.

https://flic.kr/p/2r2vfGH

Bruce Benson

Clark - You aroused my curiosity. 

I thought that I remembered a comment that you made a couple of years ago about the Federal Debt. I looked back and danged if I didn’t find a post from you specifically addressing political comment on the forum. I am attaching screen shots of a couple of your posts from two years ago.  I did not add the underline so I assume that came from you.  

My quandary is what changed your mind? 

Dick Storey

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Apolitical.  :-  )

Gary Price

I mentioned in my previous message to Linda that the link I provided could lead to my various albums of photos.  However, persons unfamiliar with the Flickr website might find it hard to find those albums.  I hope that this link works better.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ggppix/albums/

Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

Cinco de Mayo is a big deal here in New Mexico. Plus I have a nephew born on this day. He is 4 years old. Happy Fiesta, everyone!

Bruce Benson

I appreciate the political rhetoric.  It is very enlightening to me to see information about such things as medical and educational research.  Dick and Gary have both the credentials and experience to provide sound information on the subject.  

No, none of us are going to be "converted" by what we read here but, overall, I feel it is helpful to try to understand where our friends and colleagues are coming from in their views.  It adds information to the basket.  This is much more educational than listening to the constant babble of politicallly focused, entertainment networks that falsely call themselves news.  I enjoy reading forums like this and, dispite owning 6 televisions, I do not even have access to any news channel or any other network programming.  Perhaps that makes me happier?

I do check in here fairly often and enjoy all of the subjects discussed and updates shared.  The shelves were often a little bare here without the political discussions, so there is that.  We probably could expand into some other subjects as well.

Linda Fisher (McLellan)

Gary, that is a beautiful body of photography over many years and many places you have been. Thanks for sharing the photography with us.

Gary Price

I have fond memories of bicycling explorations and inventive activities with my Roswell neighbor Dale Ware [Truman Dale Ware (1945-1987)].  Some of you may have had one of his parents—Riley Cobb Ware (1907-1995) and Mable Louise Ware (1911-2008)—as a teacher.

On one memorable trip, a couple of miles south of W. Hobbs Street on S. Sunset Avenue (a popular drag strip well coated with burnt rubber), we waded into a drying irrigation pond to hand-catch large fish whose backs were visible above the surface of the shallow water.  In the middle of the pond, we made the unhappy discovery that the sharp spines of buried-in-muck bullheads could penetrate the soles of our tennis shoes and flip-flops.

On another trip in the same vicinity, we discovered a dump-yard trove of discarded telephone parts:  handset microphone capsules, handset earphone capsules, and heavy, 3-conductor cables.  With these treasures, we improvised an intercom between our bedrooms; the wiring ran down the alley, past the Detwilers' house, and we hung it on telephone poles.  When someone else (we suspected Dick Storey) began causing static by shaking the cable that ran down the alley, we spiraled baling wire around the outside of the cable.  I attached the baling wire to a Model T ignition coil that I bought at an auction.

The next time we experienced a static storm on our intercom, I connected a No. 6 dry cell to the ignition coil, electrifying the baling wire like an electric fence.  The static stopped immediately, and I could hear cursing from the alley.  I didn't dare look out to identify the source of the cursing, but there was no recurrence of static.

In another inventive activity, Dale and I bought a neighbor's old reel-type lawn mower for its Briggs and Stratton engine.  We then designed and built a go-kart, which we drove up and down Adams Avenue a few times.

Although my career took me in other directions, I avocationally continue the inventive activities that Dale and I shared.

During mid-January to mid-March, I taught myself via reading and YouTube to use Autodesk Fusion 360, a computer-assisted design program.  Here is a playful challenge:  What is the purpose of my latest invention, which I designed with Autodesk Fusion 360?  What's it supposed to do?  I assembled these FIVE pictured pieces after they'd been 3D-printed by some friends who have a 3D printer.

In a day or two, I'll reveal the finished product.

Dick Storey

Thank you, Bruce.

You are a scholar and a gentleman, as my Dad used to say (not about me).

Nice bundle of salmon in your photo. Looks like the Kenai River behind you. But many in AK look similar to the untrained eye, as I recall from our one trip there in 2002. We (wife and I)  fished the Kenai and the Russian—had a great time of it, crowds and all. Stayed in Anchorage—about 100 miles from Alaska, as we were told, with our dear friend, a prof at UK Anchorage.  He took us to the great rivers miles south and north of the city. The Big Su tributaries were amazing when the bite was on. Combat fishing at times. We sailed around the Petersburg, AK area for a week, fishing the ocean and rivers with a guide friend of ours originally from Colorado. He owned a ~50 foot guide/fishing trip boat.  "Oh, there goes another whale."  Or bear.

 Have you tried the Big Horn or Missouri in MT? Not AK but...........

Gary:  Intercom cable? Not me, never touch that stuff. Or catfish in a mud hole. 

Gary Price

At the outer edge of the circular shape in my design are three arc-shaped pairs of walls.  The little grooves that cross them are meant to contain these.

Gary Price

Here's a short video of my unconventional lazy susan, which consists of a repurposed microwave-oven platter resting on a 3D-printed base, which I designed to take advantage of some of the platter's underside protrusions and to stay out of the way of others.

Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

You are a person of remarkable talent and quite the one to bring your ideas to fruition!  

Gary Price

Cheryl, Aw shucks!

Bruce Benson

Good call on the Alaska river, Dick. It is the Kenai and the location is Centennial Park right in Soldotna. 

We moved to Alaska in 1999 and have lived there, sometimes physically and sometimes virtually, ever since.  We moved into a motorhome in 2003 and have lived in one or another of them since.  

We snowbirded back and forth for a number of years but have maintained two separate motorhomes for over 10 years now.  One stays in Alaska full time and the other stays in the lower 48.  We park the Alaska one in Centennial Park in Soldotna for the summer, thus putting me within a few hundred feet of my daily fishing spots.  Being there all summer gives me the opportunity to fish four species of salmon and often be without the crowds.  

I used to do a lot of trout fishing and did enjoy the thrill of the catch and a tasty meal.  After the salmon though, I have changed my preferences, particularly on the eating part.  

I do have a great deal of respect for the skills required to tie the right fly, read the water, set up the right drift and hook a trout.  Salmon fishing is a lot different skill set, some would say less sophisticated.  I do use a fly rod (some do not) and the thrill of the fight is spectacular. 

If anyone is ever up Alaska way, feel free to stop by.  We could probably even rig up short term accommodations, keeping in mind that we pretty much “rough it” there.  

Time is a wasting, you 80 year olds!

Clark Walter

I saw that Gary Price included a story of Dale Ware.  I have one. Back when Dale and I were old enough to get a drivers license, he drove by my house on his NEW Matchless 650 Motorcycle to take me for a ride.  I hopped on the back and he took off immediately going 60 mpg.  It scared the daylights out of me so much that I never rode on a motorcyle for the rest of my life!  Dale was a great friend to me thru the years, but i never got on his bike again.

Bob Richardson

Thanks to whomever fixed the problem with my not getting the regular message-forum updates to my email box!

Dick Storey

Hello Bruce,

Yes indeed, time’s a wastin'.

Unfortunately, we never got back to AK after our trip there in late summer 2002. We did bring salmon from the ocean and rivers home—yum. In 2004, we moved to MT for me to take a job at the local university and my wife to retire to horses and fly angling. Rumor had it around our little town that we relocated for the trout fishing. I denied it with a small smile: Busted.

I nicknamed my wife “fishhawk.”   A nickname she earned casting home-tied flies to rising trout inhabiting rivers and streams in MT, WY, CO, NM and ID.  Yep, I “tied” flies before my hands shook and my vision blurred. My K-Mart level bug imitations are easy to differentiate from those wrapped by someone with talent. My best fly was named the homely hopper.

We have great memories of reading holding water and trying to “match the hatch” with the right drift. While still in Colorado we made numerous trips to northwest New Mexico to fish the famous San Juan River.  What a remarkable place to remain a kid.  I hope you have been there in your travels.

There are land-locked salmon in MT lakes and about 4 hours West in the Snake River and tributaries with sea-run salmon and steelhead. We’ve only been there once to discover how it feels getting skunked by steelhead. To hook salmon, you just get in line with others to your left and right in the middle of the river. Sounds like AK when the bite is on.

I noticed you listed agriculture as your occupation. My final degree was in plant physiology and biochemistry and we retired to a small (very small) hay farm in SW Montana.  I found something else that was not my calling.

It would be fun to get back to AK. But, alas, travel is off the menu--enough whining.

Stay in touch. Come to MT. We have motorhome parking on the farm. And a good river about 7-8 minutes west of us.  Busted.

Dick Storey

Bill--are you OK?

Bruce Benson

Sounds like serious fly fishing, Dick.  I would probably embarrass myself. 
 

The ag tag stems from the most years of my ever changing directions.  I moved from 35 hundred head of feeder cattle through 7500 peach trees to a small ranch near Kerrville, TX where we nurture migratory song birds   Sort of like being in the hotel business. 

My favorite accomplishment was the 18 years that I donated big chunks of my time to Habitat for Humanity.  I traveled from Alaska to Mississippi and to a lot of spots in between, sometimes choosing the jobs and sometimes taking assignments from the national headquarters.  I did about anything you can think of and was extremely rewarded when sparkling eyed kids grabbed my hand and said "Come here mister, I want to show you my room!  Even though I might have spent hours in that very room, I would follow eagerly along.  That's when I knew that I truly had a hand in changing a life and, hopefully, setting a goal for the child's future.  I know that as teachers, you and many of our classmates have left similar footprints   We are blessed!

Cheryl Corazzi (Essex)

Bruce, thank you for endeavors with Habitat for Humanity. Wonderful organization.

Joy Lee (Mullins)

Bill, what's going on?  How are you doing?

Dick Storey

As they say in Kansas, "Good on ya Bruce"   !!!

We have donated fly fishing gear, fly tying materials, fishing magazines and my flies to the MT Project Healing Waters for vets.  

That's not much compared to building homes for people.

Your ag endeavors leave us in the proverbial dust.  Large ranches surround us and we know how hard the cowboys and cowgirls work.

Dick Storey

This is a huge breakthrough!

W Leggett

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Bill ... INTERESTING !   it's so good to see that you are back on our website !!