Parachute Adams.

3 of 6 today.

Today I got my run done early which left me time to fish before the next session of dog training. Yesterday, I went on a fish recon mission which proved that Eben G. Fine park is one of the best places to fish in Boulder. Sure the fish are small, but they are hungry and love to eat dry flies. I tied two parachutes and two foam elk hair caddis. The fish were rising aggressively which always makes for some fun fishing! The biggest issue that I am having is the trout's teeth are tearing the hackle on my parachutes. So my third fish tore the hackle off. I had given the other parachute to my friend and he gave it to a tree. Now it was time for the caddis. I have had good luck with green foam, but made another with orange foam. Orange to a trout is like red to a bull. Except the trout want to eat the orange objects. When fishing the St. Joe river in Idaho, the cutthroats would try to eat my orange indicator.
In the end I landed a couple with the green foam, but didn't try the all orange foam elk hair caddis. Tonight, I have swimming and indoor soccer. What a great day off. Life is good.

Shoe chew.

Lando has begun chewing. He has munched Wii remotes, helmets, gloves, DVDs, fly tying material, shoes, boxes, tape, anything that he can find. We have been setting up a webcam and watching from outside. He gets zapped and has no idea where it is coming from. We are still working with Sit Means Sit dog training and things are going well otherwise.
The weather is getting better and yesterday we went to Vail. We heard that it would be windy, it wasn't. The signs said that there were huge delays on the highway, there weren't any. The forecast was for a high of 32, it felt like 60. Add over 2 feet of powder and we had a pretty amazing day.

Tea.

I have been working a lot. It is a bit surreal. There was a time recently where I thought that I wouldn't be waiting tables any more.
More importantly, I have enlisted the help of MarkyV. For the first time in my life, I have a triathlon coach. I am excited to work with him. I know that he has high expectations and that thrills me. He will push me much harder than I will push myself. He also loves being outside as much as I do.
Off to work...