Six inches of snow yesterday, and two more since I cleared the back deck last night. Sadly, there’s a direct (inverse) relationship between the amount of snow we get and my chances of hitting the river in search of a BWO hatch.
Still, at Trout Underground/Man Cave World Headquarters, we’re making headway in the ongoing War on Snow (millions in federal dollars needed).
Yesterday, rodbuilder and mechanical genius Chris Raine drove up and helped transform the evil, backbreaking Satan’s Snowblower from a sniveling, underachieving snow-weakling into a Powerful, Snow-Flinging Beast.
For a brief moment, I was the King of the Snow World. I was moving snow. I was clearing driveway. I was, in fact, kicking white fluffy butt.
And then I wasn’t. I wasn’t steering a snow-moving marvel. I wasn’t King of the World.
Once again, I was standing behind Satan’s Snowblower.
Satan’s Snowblower in its natural state (getting worked on): a more evil device never existed.
Sadly, Satan’s tenure as Beast was short-lived (about 30 minutes), and today I’m off to the hardware store to locate those tiny bits of metal that might resurrect what has become the snowblowing equivalent to the economy — a sputtering, slow-moving, under-performing monster.
More economic reports later (and maybe a fishing report if I can sneak out tomorrow).
Why Fly Fishing’s Better Than Skiing
Sure, fly fishers look dorky in our baggy rubber pants, but at least we’re not stomping around expensive ski lodges in oversized goggles and alien-looking plastic boots.
That’s one reason to fly fish in the winter instead of skiing. Here’s 45 seconds of another:
The Underground officially says “OUCH.” And wants you to know the potential organ donor in the picture will in fact recover fully.
That little fall you took last time you fished? Doesn’t look so terrifying now, does it?
This little life lesson brought to your courtesy the folks who really care about you.
The Trout Underground.
See you in the ER, Tom Chandler.
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Hmm, I quit skiing because of all the crazy snowboard maniacs. Our guests experienced a problem when a teen knocked down their little kid whose ski flew in the air and knocked out the teeth of another visitor.
Sheesh, the kid was in trauma.
Over here we got a lot of snow and it is still coming. Not sure how much since the wind blew it off my deck.
I’ll be going up the stairs shortly and that is always a good gauge.
My snowblower is currently hard to access since a well meaning buddy placed it in the worst place possible on the deck–I’ll move it back to the storage area near the stairs where the plug is and where I don’t have to dig it out!
The only thing I have to complain about is the chute–which sometimes clogs.
Let me know the make and model–I’ll be doing a review on snowblowers soon.
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Mad Dog and I have Satan’s evil twin laying in pieces all over the garage. Say hi to MD when you meet in the snowblower aisle at the Ace. (I can already tell you both, they’re out of what you need.)
We are thankful down here to have neighbors with big tractors who take mercy on us and will plow for wine….
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I think if you are after the King of Evil Snow-blowers you need look no further than this, a BMW R-series-powered machine. Cool, esp in the tech details like this:
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But think how much you will appreciate all that snow come next summer and how great it will be for the fishing!
Of course I can say that since I have have not had to fire up my snow blower yet this year. Oops, I may have just jinxed myself.
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Dude, I’m not so sure…I went bording this weekend in keystone and I have to say it was quite excellent! Admittedly though, there was this little stream that ran under the trail to the lift that I eyed every morning on our jaunt out wondering if there were any little trout in there…pretty sure there weren’t but I couldn’t say for sure?!
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