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The Fishing Tales, Today Show Frog Jumping, and Plans for 2011
In 2010, I caught only three fish. Not exactly a reasonable ROI for a $44 fishing license in California. This year I plan to be more persistent in my finny quest. Primarily I will spend more time fishing with focus. Second I will fish where fish live. A bit less than rocket science. Four favorite spots -- Lake Davis and Gold Lake in Plumas County with nephews, Pardee Reservoir about 15 minutes away with nephews. And the Mokelumne River just five minutes down the hill from home. I share the trout with our remarkable neighbor Irene who used to be an avid fisherperson with her husband. I hope Irene needs to get a bigger freezer this year to hold the fish! Results of my first expedition with Friend Tom -- zero. But the fishing license is now just $43.86 -- so it'll be much easier than last year to catch one fish for each dollar of the license. Oh yeah. My second expedition was in late September on the West Carson River, and it was so beautiful. I caught a couple small trout and returned them to the stream. No keepers yet for Irene or the freezer!
I've been moving forward with a redesign of this website, but some major items that I wanted to introduce have not been posted yet, including the fictional short story.
On the business side, I'm lucky to work with excellent people who are also clients; some for over 23 years. This year I am working on several websites, have produced dozens of ads and brochures, and am making short client videos for YouTube. I enjoy what I do.
My revised site (very lightly penciled in for "sometime" this year with an eraser at the ready) will include good ideas and samples in a different visual approach. I'll include some thoughts about working with technology-dependent media and the ever-increasing load of digital information. And I'll be offering downloads of some of my photos and NASA images that can be used for your computer desktop background image.
Every website needs to have an entertainment aspect to it, with things that people enjoy aesthetically or procedurally or linguistically. Hope you enjoy the visit.
Cousin Judy from Penobscot, Maine sent a wonderous live lobster dinner for two and it arrived on my birthday June 22. Our Bichon Gus and Schnauzer Brothers Archie and Chester enjoyed jousting with our East Coast visitors. What a great dinner! We steamed the clams that came with the lobsters and put them over pasta with a nice white sauce with Portobello mushrooms on June 23. On June 25, we had some great shrimp bisque with garlic bread for dinner. It will be difficult to go back to those Banquet frozen Salisbury Steak dinners! CLICK HERE to see some of the fun on Lobster Night!
OH -- Did you know I was on the Today Show on August 31 of 2011?
Here's how that happened -- I volunteer my time to help announce the Frog Jump, held the third weekend in May each year in Angels Camp at the County Fairgrounds. The folks on the Frog Jump Committee are truly outstanding volunteers, and I feel honored I'm asked to participate in a very small way each year. The Today Show contacted the Calaveras County Fairgrounds and asked for someone who could MC a Frog Jump on the Today Show during a segment that celebrated the odd and wonderful actitivites of county and state fairs in America. The Fairgrounds folks asked me to be that MC. I was stunned. But I gathered some video clips of the Frog Jump and sent those the Today Show producer, worked on the topics that the Today Show wanted me to talk with the show anchors about, and after preparing for about a month I flew to NYC to appear on the show. Also travelling from Calaveras County to appear on the show was Mindi Bach, who was working with the Fair and Frog Jump to develop and implement a fun new program called LEAP - Let Every American Participate - which provides the chance online for anyone to enter a sanctioned Frog Jump, name their frog, and have that frog offically jockeyed and measured for distance. The winning LEAP frog and online participant qualify for the Grand Finals Jump where the top prize is $5000. The Today Show segment was a lot of fun, and we'll see if the Today Show will be able to do a segment next May from the Frog Jump itself!
Here's a link for that Today Show Jump - The third video clip is the jump footage. http://allday.today.com/_news/2011/08/31/7538886-savannah-confronts-one-of-her-biggest-fears-frogs And be sure to check out the LEAP Program on the great new Frogtown website. http://www.frogtown.org/
Abraham Lincoln wrote: “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
And what is it I claim to do for a living?
Print, Internet and Video Services - Writing, photography, ad and brochure design, websites, video production
Communication and Event Management - Communication with groups, membership and sponsorship solicitations, event promotion and staging. Adding to database deploying experience.
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