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Well just got done getting 15-18 inches of snow out of driveway. Wife had fit as I have heart surgery scheduled this tues.

Had to explain to her that Monday we gotta go for prep work. Have to be able to get out of driveway. Was also thinking about being able to get to tying station but I kept that part from her.

Anyway took it real easy and let the Yamaha snowblower do its thing. Most years I wonder why I bought the thing. But every now and then a storm like this reminds me.

Living " out in the sticks " do have some drawbacks but I vastly prefer over city living. Maybe tommorow go tie some more :)

Drive that bad boy down the road and come blow out my driveway. :) I am not even gonna try to dig out till the wind dies down. Have 2 drifts in my driveway, 1 about 2' tall and the other is pushing 3'. I'm out in the country as well, and wide open fields in every direction but the fence row to the South-East. This NE wind is stacking the snow!

Thoughts will be with you on Tues., just take it easy, tie some jigs.

Take it easy with the heart........
Was building a fence back when thought I could do it all
ended up in the hospital with 3-bypass
surgery.

Listen to the wife

Hey good luck with that heart surgery. Had that done in 2000 with 5 bypasses. Had no idea that I needed anything so was a big surprise to me, but I guess better fast like that than needing to plan it out.

Anyway good luck,
Skip

I hear you Bob. With wife I got I can't hardly do anything without her thumbs up. I really did pace myself though. Got a lot more fish to catch and a lot more jigs to tie before I check out.

But if the big guy upstairs needs another fisherman to help feed the masses. Who am I to argue ? Just so I not be shoveling coal in the basement.

http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...1029/snow1.jpg

View to The North. Can just see top of my wife's figurine that set on topof flower bed.

http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...1029/snow2.jpg


View to the South where I blowed the snow earlier

My son is in a hotel room today near the hospital he was in so up around Georgetown and they are getting a lot of snow. Think it is supposed to be the worst snow storm they ever had. I think something like 3' of snow. Earlier it was said they were going to get at least a foot, but now 3 feet. Don't want to be there in that stuff.

He is supposed to go home to Florida Tuesday I think.

They just sent me a picture from DC & still snowing.
Skip
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Here's the smaller of the 2 drifts in my drive.... Not going anywhere today. ;)
http://www.rogerslake.org/images/101_0784_e.jpg

AtticaFish
We got lucky here got about 2 inches went norht and south of us
an hate to say looks like it drifted your way.

:)

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Originally Posted by hays47

Well just got done getting 15-18 inches of snow out of driveway. Wife had fit as I have heart surgery scheduled this tues.

Had to explain to her that Monday we gotta go for prep work. Have to be able to get out of driveway. Was also thinking about being able to get to tying station but I kept that part from her.

Anyway took it real easy and let the Yamaha snowblower do its thing. Most years I wonder why I bought the thing. But every now and then a storm like this reminds me.

Living " out in the sticks " do have some drawbacks but I vastly prefer over city living. Maybe tommorow go tie some more :)

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Hey, buddy, good luck with the heart surgery! Hope everything gets back to normal and you're able to fish and tie again! I don't know what's up with the snow this year, seems like all the storms we usually get have gone south of
us! Not complaining you understand, just know what you're going through!

hay47 good luck with your heart surgery. I was trying to download a picture today but my photo bucket is not working of our place here but we wish you all the luck you guys keep all the snow back east where it belongs.

Hays, keep in mind that we're all with you on tuesday. Tie some before you go, and take some to give away while you recover. The folks that recieve will always remember you. Hope all goes well.

Hey I should tell you a little about my experience so you will not be surprised by these thing that happen to some of us.

The longer you are on the heart pump the more likely you are to have some depression not long after. I know it too me over a year to feel like I wanted to do anything and I mean anything. It's hard to explain, but I was a stock trader for self and a die hard fisherman, but after that surgery I didn't want or feel like doing any of it. I am not talking about pain or anything like that because my experience with that part was a piece of cake since I had as major of a back surgery as you can have back in 1989 so when I woke up form heart surgery my first though was is that all? I know this was more serious, but the pain for me was not all that bad.

The hard part was making my self get out and do something, fishing what ever just something as i really didn't feel like doing anything. Once I finally did things got better and better. This was the start of why I started tying. I finally got back into stocks, but things had changed and I knew what to do, but just wouldn't so after 2 years of doing the wrong thing I quit. Looking around I knew TV was not enough so wanted something to do and started tying.

Anyway my main thing that I feel you should know is even if things go great and all is well, it is possible you will have to deal with a type of depression. So if you ever want to talk after this just let me know and we will talk. Don't believe that this surgery is only about your body and heart.

Good luck,
Skip

still snowing here and at 32" and still counting.mail probably wont return to norm.for another 3 to four days.:mad:

Holy _____ Bob you better invest in a sled and a team of Huskies. You all shoveled or blown or plowed out ?

Skip - thanks for advice but my procedure going to be pretty simple. But according to the Doc there is always some risk. I am more worried about the needles. I'm one of those big tough he men that knees turn to water when a needle is involved. Can't tell how many times in my 62 years I have completely passed out. Doctors and Nurses always think I'm kidding when I tell them" I would rather face combat again then get stuck with any kind of needle. " Been this way ever since I been little and I've long ago quit being embarassed by it.

Everybody- thanks for your thougts hopefully I will be back on here Wed or Thurs telling everyone how bad the hospital food was and how pretty the nurses were.

i know 2 poeple one who had 4 bypasses and anouther who had a transplant and i can tell ya what skip said is true for awile they just wasnt them selfs im not real sure the one who had trans ever will be himself again lol just mean now

Man luckily we missed that storm this time. But we've had enough of them to know it's a pain in the ass and my nephew left for Afganistan so I have to wait for my brother in law to plow me out. I have a bad back so he helps me out.

Fatman