Stupid dog, funny kids

This evening, our silly kids come running downstairs, giggling the whole way but not letting us know what's so funny. Moments later, look who comes stumblinginto the kitchen; our stupid dog, Nickel. According to Kiara (our oldest), the girls were worried about Nickel getting too cold in tonight's near-freezing weather, even though she's an inside dog. So, Kiara had Darcy lock her into Nickel's crate where Kiara could then put Darcy's shirt onto the dog. Goofy dog could hardly even walk, since the sleeves were pulled down too far over her front feet.

One moment, Cindi and I are hollering at the kids to get ready for bed; next moment, they do this. Priceless.

Congratulations, Peter!

(I know, I know...this isn't really part of "My life", but that's okay. It's cool nonetheless.)

In yesterday's 66-14 whitewashing of the Kansas Jayhawks, UT redshirt freshman tight end Peter Ullman caught his first collegiate touchdown off the arm of Heisman hopeful Vince Young.

So what? Why am I writing about this?

Peter is the son of one of my friends and coworker, Bill Ullman. Congratulations to Peter and the entire Ullman family!

Now...go kick the tar out of A&M, win the Big 12 championship, and bring the National Championship back home to Austin. Hook `Em!

- Mark

fly fishing report - South San Gabriel River & US183

After not having been out fishing for several months and now having a vacation this week, I ventured out to the 183 crossing of the South San Gabriel on Tuesday (11/8) to see what I could scare up. Something told me not to go, that there probably wasn't enough water in the river to make it worthwhile, but I went anyhow. I shoulda listened to my instinct.

Suffice to say that I fished downstream from the bridge for about four hours, catching only one bluegill between the bridge and CR276 (don't hold me to that...I'm not sure that's the right CR). Yes, I walked all the frickin way down to the next crossing. "How?", you might ask, "that's a long wade." Yes, it's a long wade UNLESS THERE'S NO WATER for about half of the distance.

Anyhow...when I got back to the upper pool that did have plenty of water, I was pretty much defeated, but I finally tied on a muddler minnow and ended up shocked as hell when I was able to catch four cute little bass and one REAL nice bluegill. That last bluegill was the highlight of the day, as he put up a decent fight on my 5wt. The bass each played around for a while, and a couple of them jumped once or twice, but all in all their fights weren't that great.

Think I'll wait for a little more water before trying this again.

- Mark