:Kathy on…her New Year’s Resolution

I can see it now:  Gen-u-ine Tibetan lhasa apso fly fishing lures by Kathy

Cotton Cordell

When Cotton Cordell was just a kid, his father owned a boat landing on Lake Catherine, in Hot Springs, where he cut his teeth on fishing, guiding, and lure designing.

After World War II, he discovered that, by purchasing survival kits from B52’s, he would get a knife, a razor, twine, bandages, and a bucktail jig, made with white-tail deer hair. It was the jig that caught his attention. 

When war survival kits became scarce, he learned to improvise by using hair from his English Setter. “Dog hair will catch just as many fish as deer hair. But before it was over, I had the baldest English Setter in the world”. Quite an inauspicious beginning for sure and one that led to him forming his own lure company when the demand for his jig heads outgrew his ability to make them in the bathroom of his small bait and tackle shop.

:Moonlight…

Kathy wrote:

This is a tree in our neighborhood, professionally done, because of it’s incredible height.  Joe took the photo over the weekend and just caught the moon rising.  I loved the photo you took on the night Ponya gave birth to Dawa&Margo.  Which camera did you use?  Setting?  Lense?  Gorgeous!

I’d love to take credit for that photo, but it’s not mine.

:Ginny,Rose and Christi too on…bed bubbas and Christmas toys

Here’s a picture of “Mama and two babies” in their new Christmas bed from Auntie Rose, Willis and Tango.
All of them look like they opened one too many presents !!! Either that or it was the eggnog !!

And the rest of the gang….

Macy…

Meggie…

Moon…

Rose…here’s more of the family enjoying xmas & santa’s goodies

Tango…

Tango and Willis…

 And from Christi…

Just had to share a cute and unique gift we received from my son’s family.
Ruby’s looking a little bedraggled after the holiday, too many late nights this past week, but notice the gift is a puzzle of “Ruby”.