Fishing Throwbacks

therapist and a physical therapist also visit every 3 to 4 days. Soon these services will be phased out as I recover to a point of being safe on my own with my wife Vicki’s care. It is hard work for her to attend to my care. I keep telling her to let me be and to give herself a break.

Anyway I had a very nice Christmas Holiday as my daughter and granddaughter traveled from PA and spent a bit over a week with us. My spirits are good and my fishing trip memories serve me well in looking forward and encourage me to do the prescribed exercises for recovery. I’m figuring mid-spring to get out and fish. I do find being restricted to the first floor of the house, sleeping in the living room and shuttling around in the wheelchair has humbled me into another dimension of awareness. I read a lot. Through our living room window I watch the squirrels and birds that inhabit a tree whose limbs hang over my truck. They scamper and flit about and nibble the spiked seeds that create copious amounts of excrement that coat the vehicle. Love the entertainment.

So I am good and hope you are good too. My best to all you GPFF members in the New Decade.”

This month’s throwback is a unique piece of artwork discovered in New Orleans by our editor-in-chief Doug Hale.

A beautiful piece of 3D artwork made back in 1885 by Sallie Thomas Russ out of Fish Scales!