Friday, April 13, 2007

 

A Curious Walk

The sun finally came out this afternoon, so Rick grabbed the dog leash, and I grabbed my camera and we headed out to the creek out back.

First, we came across our goose. I say our goose, because this goose seems to live here, in our back yard, every spring. It comes by itself, wanders around our back yard and hangs out at the creek. The neighbor kids have chased it in year's past, but it always comes back, always alone. We speculate that the goose is waiting for its lost mate. I'll have to ask my naturalist friend Jennifer if this could be true.

Penny's barking sent our goose into the creek, but the goose swam in the eddy pool close to us, patiently waiting for us to leave.

On our walk back to the house, I checked the blue bird house, to see if we had any signs of activity. For the last 2 years we've had families of wrens, which have been so fun to watch.

Well, I am sad to report that we did have a bluebird, and the bird was dead. It did not look injured. Perhaps the bluebird froze to
death when our 65 degree spring days turned into a week long blizzard? Another nature question. Matthew buried the bird.

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It's Fishing time!



I spent a very pleasant Saturday morning down at the Audubon with my friend Jennifer at a fly fishing clinic presented by Alberto Rey, a local Orvis guide. Jennifer and I have made a pack to become fishing buddies, and we started by going out to breakfast before the clinic. Fortified with a good breakfast from a local Mom 'n Pop lunch counter, we were ready to tie flys, cast, take notes, and bask in our dream of becoming fly fishergirls.

Here's Alberto showing us how to tie a wooly bugger.




In this photo, I've got my wooly's eyes on and I'm ready for the chenille and feathers.

During the casting session, I was able to hook a late model 1/2 ton Blue Ford Pick-up that I saw surfacing in the parking lot. Liberty, the eagle at the Audubon, squawked in appreciation of my fine catch. (Which, as a good fishergirl, I released.)





Jennifer says she was very frustrated tying her first fly, but she seems calm to me.

I look forward to blogging our fishing adventures!



These pictures, courtesy of Jennifer, were freely pilphered from her flickr site.

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High School Musical



High School Musical was on the boards earlier this month, and played to standing room only crowds. Matthew was Ryan, the overshadowed twin brother of Sharpay, the drama queen. If you've seen the Disney movie, then you know the show, which was just released in August for community stage productions. At the end of the show, a colleague's tearful niece said, when asked why she was crying "I love Ryan in the movie, and he's even better here, and, it's all over, and, and, and, (more sobs) I didn't bring him (sniff, sniff, sniff) any flowers."

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More Skiing!

Here's some more pictures from our ski season. On the last day of the season, we cleared our lockers, gave the skis a final waxing, and bid the Peek "good-bye and thanks for a great season" on a beautiful sunny 65 degree day. Now that we've stored the skis and polished up the clubs, we have a foot of snow in the back yard. Oh well...welcome to western New York!

Between Brian and I, we got some great photos of us skiing in action! Here's me. I took a great clinic this season from Billy Beerman of PSIA, that really changed how I think about, and execute, my turns. I'm happy with my form in this picture.

Here's Brian!
Here comes Katie!
And Rick!




Matthew was working at the ski school when we took these pictures. I caught up with him later in the day in the moguls, his favorite place to ski.

It was a great season!

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