catching up
Jul. 12th, 2002 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdonarkI did the last two nervousness.org poems, with appropriately decorated envelopes. One is heading to Maryland, one to Canada. I got my reimbursement off for a public garden cap voodoukween was kind enough to get for me at Quail Botanical Garden, this wonderful garden in north San Diego County. When I lived in CA, Quail was one of many public gardens that made daily life worthwhile. A Quail Botanical Garden cap should be a welcome alternative to the TARPON hat I got at K Mart during our Florida trip and wear on many sunny days. To my limited eye, the TARPON is very appealing hat, not kitschy at all, but a very respectful looking fish--certainly much more substantial than if the hat said BONEFISH or GATOR. But I notice that when I wear this TARPON hat, I get a certain sort of "macho fisherman" reaction from people which is a trifle puzzling. I do fish, of course, but with worms and cane poles for sunfish not much larger than my hand. Even when I ocean-fished frequently in Southern California, I tended towards the lightweight but quick-biting Pacific Mackerel and late evenings on fishing piers rather than the three day albacore runs out off the Baja coast. In the great aquarium of fisherpeople, I am in the guppy category, a catcher and releaser of non-trophy fish. Perhaps I will get a reaction more appropriate from my botanical garden cap than I did from TARPON. Deep down, I prefer my "real" hats to my baseball caps, but nothing shields the sun like a baseball cap. scottm has fixed a date for recording madness with me--nothing good will come of it, unless, as I do, one considers a bit of ambient noise a good in and of itself. I still must post something to gregwest98, which will be the first of two somethings, but I am not going to wait until I finish the second something next week to get it mailed on tomorrow. I am eager to translate this early morning hobby productivity into work productivity, though, which I cannot do while posting to LJ, and so that file with the cool statutory analysis issue instead of figuring out new easy to use HTML tags must be my next quest.
voodoukween was kind enough to get for me at Quail Botanical Garden, this wonderful garden in north San Diego County. When I lived in CA, Quail was one of many public gardens that made daily life worthwhile. A Quail Botanical Garden cap should be a welcome alternative to the TARPON hat I got at K Mart during our Florida trip and wear on many sunny days. To my limited eye, the TARPON is very appealing hat, not kitschy at all, but a very respectful looking fish--certainly much more substantial than if the hat said BONEFISH or GATOR. But I notice that when I wear this TARPON hat, I get a certain sort of "macho fisherman" reaction from people which is a trifle puzzling. I do fish, of course, but with worms and cane poles for sunfish not much larger than my hand. Even when I ocean-fished frequently in Southern California, I tended towards the lightweight but quick-biting Pacific Mackerel and late evenings on fishing piers rather than the three day albacore runs out off the Baja coast. In the great aquarium of fisherpeople, I am in the guppy category, a catcher and releaser of non-trophy fish. Perhaps I will get a reaction more appropriate from my botanical garden cap than I did from TARPON. Deep down, I prefer my "real" hats to my baseball caps, but nothing shields the sun like a baseball cap. scottm has fixed a date for recording madness with me--nothing good will come of it, unless, as I do, one considers a bit of ambient noise a good in and of itself. I still must post something to gregwest98, which will be the first of two somethings, but I am not going to wait until I finish the second something next week to get it mailed on tomorrow. I am eager to translate this early morning hobby productivity into work productivity, though, which I cannot do while posting to LJ, and so that file with the cool statutory analysis issue instead of figuring out new easy to use HTML tags must be my next quest.
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Date: 2002-07-12 03:49 pm (UTC)as a great appreciater of all things sea related, i enjoy most the lap lap lap of the water against the hull of a smallish boat where only two can fit and fish in quiet
i used to fish a lot, on the bay and lake, out at sea (got a good story or two there) but my favorite is surf fishing in baja
i like the pounding of the waves on my legs and the aloneness
no conversation possible in that pursuit
just me and my favorite pole and reel and some clams or mussels
any kind of fishing in baja was delectable because one could get so remote and alone in somewhat wild and original surroundings
i have not fished much in the last 10 years, what with the over fishing and pollution and something happened in my aging that i could no longer eat the fish i killed
so i had to stop killing them
now if someone brings me ocean fish i will devour it in a minute and often raw
i am extremely fond of sashimi given good fresh fish
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Date: 2002-07-12 04:24 pm (UTC)I loved fishing the Pacific, but I almost always just went on half day boats or to the fishing piers. That seems "real" to me somehow, in a way that "nicer" fishing never did. I do wish I had tried Castro's Camp or the Gulf of California fishing resorts, though--I may yet someday. Overfishing has apparently been a big problem in Baja; LA County is just now recovering from overfishing and DDT.
Thank you very much for taking the extra effort for the cap.
I am so looking forward to it!
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Date: 2002-07-12 04:55 pm (UTC)and you are most welcome!