John Gierach is a fly fisherman who has managed to turn his love into his profession. He gets paid to roam around the country looking for little used trout streams and pull trouts out of them. Along the way he talks about his hippie days, how he feels about the new rich, and how book tours are not as much as you might think. His many opinions all lead, one way or another, to fishing, specifically, fly fishing. I’m not a fly fisherman, though I have been known to do a bit of fishing for carp, catfish, and the occasion…
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The Quest for The Perfect Hive
Article first published as The Quest for The Perfect Hive on Technorati. Back in my Mom’s hippie days she subscribed to Mother Earth News and I was taken with the idea of finding 50 acres and living the Organic Life. One of my top interests was keeping bees. Over the years the idea of getting a bee hive has tickled my imagination, but I have never quite gotten around to it. Bees were big news not too long ago because of the mysterious affliction known as Colony Collapse Disorder-which seems to have been traced to the use of tobacco genes…