The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey

23 June 2026

Fishing Days While it's been a fairly rainy month, leading to some progress with indoor chores (mixed in with calculated procrastination), I have made it out fishing a few times. To be honest, it's been mostly fishing, and precious little catching. And those have mostly been what professional anglers refer to as "just like a bass, but smaller". Sigh. Last Wednesday was the first "good" fish, two and one half pounds of large mouth bass. Yesterday I made it out again and my second landed fish in a different part of the lake was about the same size. But the…

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Brian Bilbrey

15 June 2026

Owl Encounter Great horned owl fledgling Pictured above, the Great horned owl fledgling was standing in the middle of the walking trail as we were heading back towards home, shortly after noon today. Georgia spotted the owl and wanted to go visit... this I did not allow. The owl's first reaction was to hop and flutter about five yards further along the trail away from us. It then stopped and turned. I figured we could continue on our way and it would just fly off. But no, there it stopped, spread its wings up and forward to become big (more…

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Brian Bilbrey

30 May 2026

Anniversary Day Today would have been our 28th wedding anniversary. I miss Marcia terribly. But I'm soldiering on, which she would have wanted. It's almost time to put seedlings in the ground (they're outside, but on trays), and I have a couple of fall-back garden centers if the seedlings fail. It's still a cold, rainy late spring, although much of next week is slated to be lacking in falling moisture, and warmer. We'll see what reality brings, when it arrives.

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Brian Bilbrey

25 May 2026

Finding My Way Eventually, I expect to find my way. A few different things are going on, but I appear to be mostly afflicted by a weird procrastination. Weird in the sense that since I don't really have a schedule or deadlines for anything, it's easy to put off things that I'm probably interested in getting done, but eh, mañana. Sadly, that has affected my lack of urgency for posting here, too. There are things I'm actually getting done, like finances, a trust and new will, etc. I'm not having difficulty with the day-to-day stuff of household chores, light maintenance,…

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