E-11: Why It Is Held In The Summer!

Fellow Extravaganza 2011 Enthusiasts:

I bid you greetings from Extravaganza Headquarters where, as the above pictures relate, winter has, indeed, arrived with all of its revelry!  Your Hostess With the Mostess, Kocktail Kathy, and I arrived here yesterday to spend and enjoy our very first Christmas in this marvelous winter wonderland.  So far, KK has kept up with her record-breaking wood burning ability, as the living room’s fireplace has been a-roar with the (too) easy to burn Montana blue pine, whose heat index is a pale fraction of its California oak counterpart.

The forecast here for the next week is snow, snow and more snow, so we are now a cinch for a true white Christmas.  Fishing-wise, except for a few tributary streams, unlike California, fishing season is a 365 day a year event in these-here-parts, but I have a picture well placed in both my CA and MT offices of one of my rigged-up fly rods perched against a snow-laden pine tree as a perpetual reminder that (a) fishing the over-cropping ice along Rock Creek is both a foolish and dangerous exercise; (b) when one casts and his/her flies perpetually snap off on the back cast because the fishing line be frozen is a good indicator that you have made a serious strategic error; and (c) even with gloved hands, knocking and peeling ice out of your rod’s line guides in between casts is a further suggestion that one of Kathy’s over-stoked fires is a far, far better alternative….hence why E-11 is held come the warmer MT months of June and July!

Happy last minute shopping, all—ours was done the minute we stepped off our Delta sleigh yesterday for, indeed, the Santa Clausens had arrived!!

Best to all from the frigid scene of it all,

Rock Creek Ron