A more flexible format to work with!

I decided I had to do some thing to deal with the frustration I was having with putting pictures on my web page.  I was having a difficult time posting them without a severe loss of quality.  

I also wanted to be a position to add photos to my journal entries.... which I couldn't do.  

And as most of my journal entries had little or nothing to do with music I set up this blog where I can write about anything and not confuse a visitor to my music site. 

So here I am and hopefully all the more fun for it.

First and foremost I do want to thank everyone who has given me encouragement to keep writing my blast emails.  

I must admit I was feeling a bit awkward because some of them were so long winded.  

I started to back them back in size and set up the long ones in the journal and referred interested folks to the journal site.

Then several people asked me if I was starting a blog.  I wasn't really planning to but hey some things just happen.

I posted in my journal this week a little piece on one of my friends back in Xenia, Gary Pack. Gary and I shared more than one adventure.  

He was a real character and my life is richer for the time we spent together. 

I remember one time we were fishing on the upper Little Miami and I stopped fishing and was just sitting on the bank....

Oh I suppose that I should explain to the non angler there are people who sit in boats and fish, sit on the bank and fish, and then there are the wading stream fishermen who walk their ass off flipping a fly or lure into the most likely holding water for fish.  After a few casts, and no one seems to be home, off you go slipping off through the water to the next likely spot.

That is the way Gary and I were fishing, and I just climbed up on the bank of the stream and sat down.  Gary came up to me and asked what was up?  I told him that that I was so mentally exhausted from work and life in general that I just wanted to stop and let go of every thing.  I went on to say I felt like taking my clothes off and running through the woods.

Gary said "Why don't you?"

I told him "Gary, I know so many people around here I would probably run into some on I knew".   Without missing a beat Gary said "no problem man, I would just tell em the park ranger has had a rough day!"

Gary was cool and I am glad we got to spend a little time together. 

I hope you enjoy the topics I intend to present and explore.

Life is a journey enjoy each step of the way!

Steve