Court

The first time I went fishing this year we were in Uinta Canyon. We drove up to the end of the road, and near the trail head parking lot was a road closed sign in the ditch. We read the first couple lines and it made you think that the road was only closed from sunset to sunrise due to the mud slides they had in August 2007. It was May 17, 2008. Long after the mud slides of last fall. We spent the day fishing and came back to tickets on our trucks. I had one on my truck, another guy in the ward had one, and my brother Clark had one on his. The ticket was for "driving a motor vehicle on the portion of the Uinta Canyon road that is closed to motor vehicles."

The fine for the ticket was $150 plus a $25 processing fee. Stupid federal government. All the road closure is is a back door way to close public land. Still to this day the road is closed.

Today I had a court appearance to fight the ticket and the poorly worded notice on the road closed sign. Dave, the guy from the ward, was there also. Clark paid the ticket long ago. After hearing the other people had their turn for their various tickets, the Judge asked if there were others in the courtroom who had tickets. Three of us raised our hands.

The first guy gets up to the podium, states his name, and the Judge says that his ticket was dismissed. So it was Dave's turn. He gets to the podium and they say his is dismissed. I state my name as soon as I stand up and didn't even walk through the little double saloon doors to get to the podium before they tell me mine is dismissed. SWEET!

I called Clark to tell him what happened. He wasn't too happy since he had paid his ticket, but what else could he do?

If we would have plead not guilty we would have had to come back in November for a trial. Dave had pictures of the new sign they have up there now. It now states in big letters: NO MOTOR VEHICLES, WALKING ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT. or something to that effect.

It was quite the relief to not have to pay or even fight the ticket. Now if the government were to do the right thing (ha ha yeah right) they'd send Clark and everyone else that paid their money back.

Friday at our house

While Amy was watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, Lily and I were busy doing more important things. She's definitely my daughter. Be worried all you boys out there.

Dogs...

This is what the dogs have done in our yard this week. Police reports have been filed. I just need to catch them. Time for a trap of some sort.



Thursday's Damage:

Tuesday:

Thursday again:

Garden

My garden continues to grow! It's ok for a first timer.




The first ripening tomato.




Hopefully the corn grows. I have 2 zucchini plants that I wonder about. Some days they look good, others they look dead. We've now picked 2 yellow straight squash and any day ready to pick another. In addition to the aforementioned plants, I also have white pumpkins. I really hope they do good. It will be lots of fun to have white pumpkins for Halloween. It sure is a lot of work for what little I will get out of it. Amy and Lily get to reap the most benefits of my labor.

So you know, it took 4 trailer loads of dirt to fill the wood frame I built for the garden. All loaded and unloaded by hand. That is part of why I got a late start on the garden this year. Next year will be much more productive.

Hey! Check this out!

I like to browse different forums. And I also like to visit the humor section of the forums I visit. But what I don't like is when someone has a title to lure you in and it is a stupid youtube video. If I wanted to see videos, I'd be going to youtube. I'm going to the humor section to read jokes not watch them. Many times I don't want to turn on the sound or Amy doesn't want me to turn on the sound making it pointless to visit a video site anyway.

Just knock it off people. It's very lame and annoying.

Now get out and go catch some fish.

Proof

Here's proof, I can catch a fish. This one is an 11 inch brook trout. We made a short trip to Chepeata res. Saturday afternoon. It was dark and cloudy so I was expecting a downpour. It just rained a bit. It was 53 degrees for all you heat lovers in the south. We were at an elevation of over 10,000 ft. It was too windy to fly fish so I was stuck using a spinner. Size 0 blue fox vibrax. I've got a few of those and this was the first time I've caught some fish on them. I caught a whopping 5 fish in about 90 minutes. You Dunlap boys sure are missing out!

I did it!

So, on the third try of fishing for more than 10 minutes, I finally broke 49. Saturday Clark and I went up to Uinta Canyon and fished the river. Clark wasn't so sure we'd catch that many fish because it's a harder river to fish at times.

We parked at the trail head parking lot and headed west. There was a small beaver pond that Clark caught a couple dinky ugly planted rainbows in. After a short hike through the trees we made it to the river. Clark did his usual "I'll take the other side" and I'll take this side thing. So while he went down stream I worked at fishing what few holes I could without getting things caught in the trees. It was a chilly 50 when we parked the truck and the water was still runoff cold. I wasn't trying hard to get wet like Clark. I'm a wuss at times.

After working at the river for a while, and fishing all the little side streams that the river makes, I finally caught more than 49 fish. I got a whopping 58. I kept three.

Clark on the other hand, caught a measly 112. He kept only 8 (that's the limit). I only caught brook and brown trout this time, he caught brook, brown, cutthroat, and rainbow. 4 species in one day is pretty good. Maybe next time I'll catch more than him. I probably would have done better had I wanted to get more wet. That and changing to a new fly when the one I had on was so worn out. I used the worn out one from last week for a while, then put a fresh one on and should have changed it around fishy number 30 or so. Clark went through 3 flies. He just needs to tie more so I have more to lose in the trees.