These are a few of my favorite things...

[Jennie@ifish]

OK...

I thought this would be fun. Besides fishing, I mean BESIDES fishing!!!-- What are two of your favorite things, today?

Hot coffee

Overcast skies

[Pyramid]

Guitar Playing
Good Food

[Thumper]

Starbucks. A foggy September morning.

[ampersat]

fall leaves (before they drop and i have to rake them - that's one of my least favorite things)
the crisp twinkle of lights on cold, clear nights

[24 on/ 48 off]

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens"

--spud-- :smile:

[Straydog]

My wife.
My kids.

And vise versa........

[Born to be Wild]

Reading ifish and waking up. Not necessarily in that order. :grin:

Ah yes, and no hangovers!

Dano

Day 56!

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[Flatfish]

Dawn when she is happy.

The smell of burnt powder early in the morning.

The instant the dog figures out where the duck is.

Coffee.

Finally, a positive thread on LIG! :smile:

Mark and the dog.

[lost_sailor]

fresh warm smoked coho

fresh cold home brew

(should be ready by half-time ... maybe 2nd qtr! - "GO DUCKS!")

[LCFisherlady]

first smell of rain after a long dry spell......

the smell of a warm wiggly puppy
both bring such warm feelings and memories
j

[fishisabonus]

Crabbing (you said besides fishing!)

Shrinking brain tumors

A clean house

Listening to my kids giggle

...a good movie on a Saturday afternoon
...the cool of the evening after a warm summer day
...the sound of rain on the window
...my daughters little chihauhua "Petey"
I know you said no fishing but I have to add this
...a perfectly cast fly on the Deschutes river.

Good topic!

[Thumper]

Originally posted by Stew:
I know you said no fishing but I have to add this
...a perfectly cast fly on the Deschutes river.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">That's O.K. Stew. As we all know, fly fishing really isn't fishing anyhow. :grin:

[Jennie@ifish]

I can relate to most of these! I'm loving it!

Another one of my favorite things?

A post that makes me smile.

:smile:

Jen

Originally posted by Thumper:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Originally posted by Stew:
I know you said no fishing but I have to add this
...a perfectly cast fly on the Deschutes river.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">That's O.K. Stew. As we all know, fly fishing really isn't fishing anyhow. :grin: </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Well Jack if you look at my success, or lack thereof, at fly fishing I might have to agree :grin:

[deschutes2]

Well humm...

#1...Fresh snow on ponderosa pines

#2...My wifes glow in her 7th month of pregnancy

#3...Labrador Retrievers

#4...Fall

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[Born to be Wild]

Re-phrase that Jack. Fly fishing is fishing it's just not catching. :grin:

Just kiddin' Stew. been there and done that. It's very rewarding especially when you catch them on a fly you meticuously tied.

Dano

[ampersat]

you lift your nose in a primeval sort of way and smell it down deep. fall is coming, with all that it entails. it happens just once a year and there's no mistaking it. no other season has the meaning that fall does. it's not any one thing, it just is and it's full of portent. it's close and i can feel it, but not quite yet...

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[Mad Mikey]

The smell of fresh rain on sagebrush on the Deschutes.

The heart pounding moment when a steelhead goes out of the water to take a waking fly.......

[Thumper]

Flies sleep??? :whazzup:

[Jennie@ifish]

House flies do when they land on you.
I was told they also regurgitate and go to the bathroom on you, all at the same time.

These are not a few of my favorite things.

Jen

[maggot]

hearing my kids laugh......and......hearing an elk bugle at the bottom of a deep canyon

[clearview2u]

Hot chocolate and a good nights sleep

[Silver Hilton]

Hugs from my kids.

[Wang]

My 3 year old daughter

Enjoying morning coffee with someone special

Elk camp

[Pyramid]

Originally posted by Silver Hilton:
Hugs from my kids.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Definitely! :smile:

[Dipnet]

My grandsons telling me they love me [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]

My sons Beagle giving me a sloppy Beagle kiss [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]

Dipnet :grin:

[crabbait]

Bugling elk on a frosty morning.

Goose music.

Puppy breath.

The call of a single mountain raven.

The roar of ducks coming off the water before dawn, walking into the blind (Nick reeeealy likes that one).

The look in a lab's eye when you know he is marking birds even though your head is down in the blind, working the call.

A pre-dawn launch into fall tidewater.

[Maddie'sDaddy]

Not neccesarily today but,

1: When i first met my baby girl in the hospital after trying for 15 years to have a baby with my wife.

2: And now she is almost a year on the 20th and hearing her say Hi Daddy when i greet her in the morning.

[img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]

[5-Cents]

Maddies Daddy

[Captain and Marie]

I simply love the fresh spring smell that comes off the trees in early april.

And fresh baked bread and butter!

coffee in the mornings! amust!

golden sunsets!

long walks on the beach

a good romantic love story movie!


just a few.....never just two!!

Marie

[ 09-06-2003, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Captain and Marie ]

Originally posted by Mad Mikey:
Thumper you crack me up.... :tongue: :grin:


&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;Flies sleep??? [Confused]&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;

waking= skating ie. on the surface. Try it sometime, you'll toss your gear stuff in the round file! :tongue: :grin:

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Exactly Mike....got to get these non-believer to see the light I think Jack is a fishing pagan

[Mad Mikey]

I think Jack is a fishing pagan [laughing] [Wink]

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Serious carb deprivation going on maybe???

[OceanBlue]

I get the biggest kick out of my kids when they treat eachother as peers.

Goin' on a tuna hunt on "Pilar" when the ocean is flat and magic is in the air... porpoise dancing alongside the boat, flat, mirror-like ocean and John with that little-boy gleam in his eye as he screams "fish-on! No, Double! Wait! Triple! Oh,all 'heck'(edit) is breaking loose!"


The prospect of being swordboat crew (I can't wait to get that call!) C'mon BeeeeAchhhh! Lay on down! :shocked:

Definately autumn! What a great time of year :smile: Going out to Sauvie Island during that time of year and watching the thousands of waterfowl taking off for their evening feed.
My little grandson Connor [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]
My wifes embrace and encouragment
....so many things

[Mad Mikey]

Thumper you crack me up.... :tongue: :grin:


&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;Flies sleep??? :whazzup: &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;

waking= skating ie. on the surface. Try it sometime, you'll toss your gear stuff in the round file! :tongue: :grin:

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[steele]

M

[steele]

Try again;
1 My granddaughter giggleing the whole time she is bring in a fish[she's 11]
2 The joy in my heart watching her

[FallRiverGuy]

Watching the snow fall at night with a flood light on.

Snuggling with my wife.

[C-lice]

...the atmosphere in a small-town pizza parlor after the home team has just won a big game.

...soiling my waders when a knot of teal buzzes the blind like a MiG fighter jet.

...sitting on a clearcut before first light, "unfocusing" my eyes so I can see any movement in the unit...then seeing the twitch of an ear of the flash of white from the underside of a hind leg.

...the fact that Kordell Stewart is ruining Chicago instead of Pittsburgh.

...sitting on a flush when another player is raising with 3 of a kind.

[bucketmouth]

My baby daughter

receiving fishing gear catalog orders in the mail

[fishisabonus]

My dog, Rocky.. I can't believe I forgot my dog! I am so ashamed! :blush:

Fresh vegys out of my garden!

ifish

Tuna and being on the ocean

[Steel Reign]

Greetings from a new member in Washinton;
Since it was asked a few of my favorite thing are :
** Taking my family out to look at Christmas Lights.
** Using the new Steelhead outfit I bought for my wife.
** Vacation time away from work, even if I don't get to the honey-do list