About

After living in Western NY for the first 55 years of my life I never imagined that my wife (Darryl) and I would move to Central Florida and three years later move again to the Mid-Columbia Basin of Washington.  Now I suppose that consideration of the economic upheavals of early 21 Century make this all seem quite predictable, but I never saw it coming.  In those moves Darryl and I have gone through some changes, mostly in our employment choices.  Darryl starting a custom kitchen and bath business and I becoming a contract environmental auditor.  Our adventures are not recommended for the faint of heart.

As I reside alone in yet another apartment in Richland, Washington waiting for her to join me after my move months ago, I sometimes struggle to understand  – WHAT THE HELL ARE WE THINKING!  Upon reflection it has been an interesting mix of emotions from fear to resignation to wonderment to confusion – the gambit.  So, that brings me to this blog.

I am hoping that by documenting the past few months or more I may begin to get my head around – WHAT THE HELL WE WERE THINKING!  Of course, I may find that we have been doing very little ‘thinking’ and just charging ahead on a baseless sense of confidence.  This blog will contain my biased ‘insights’ into our decision making but more just a chronicling of our adventure.  Because I am writing this ‘journal’ it will also discuss fishing (mostly with a fly), camping, kayaking, putting thousands of miles between family and friends and most certainly blues music.

Darryl is fond of saying that we could be “dropped in the middle of a field” and we could figure out how to thrive.  Well, so far so good, I guess.

Let’s see…

2/13/2025

I decided to update the “About” post for this blog for those random folks that find it from all over the world.  The two regular readers have already seen the evolution of our lives play out through the posts.  As old age has finally become a reality, which I have denied for too long, I do a lot of reflecting on the events in our lives that led to where we are now and to our perception of life and the world, in general.  Note: A new post in draft form for several months will discuss this. Raising our now teenage grandson actually does help maintain some more youthful perspective, but I worry if it is affecting him having a “normal” childhood.  He is a good kid, treats people with respect and does what he needs to in school, so not too worried. 

Anyway, I expect the blog will continue to have a fishing focus going forward, but I will try to keep to the original purpose by including our personal life evolution for the benefit of our friends and family “back East”.  I do a better job of categorizing my post than I did in the beginning.

I will ask one favor of anyone bothering to read my posts.  Please provide comments or suggestions.  For me this is a form of communication and sending posts out to the void becomes disconcerting.  WordPress tells me people (or bots, I suppose) from all over the world visit the site and look at the posts.  Trust me, I don’t mind and often do talk to myself, but when I know someone is listening it would be nice to get a response.

Thanks.