Saturday, August 7, 2004

What are the odds? That's another way of saying synchronicity.  I was sitting at our booth on Franklin St. at Maxwell Street Day in Port Washington this morning, when one of a hundred or so boats went by on a trailer.  I noticed the name on its transom.  "Reelality."  Sounded vaguely familiar, like something I had just seen recently.  Then I remembered.  I picked up the June New York State Conservationist I had been reading, and found what I was looking for.  On page 31 there's a short piece by Wayne Radley about a great fishing outing when he caught pike after pike, then woke up from a dream.  The title of the piece?  "Reelality." Then another wierd coincidence.  A friend stopped to look at Shivani's soap and noticed a bat fall off the brick wall of the Port Washington State bank behind our tent.  Upon close examination, we discovered he was a left-winger.  That is, he had ONLY a left wing and a partially healed stump where his right wing should have been.  While we were debating whether to scoop him up and take him (wounded critters are usually "hims") to a local rehab center, where this gal had taken a bird caught by a cat jjust this morning, the bat crawled back up the wall and under a window ledge.  We figured, OK, if we can find him when we pack up, we'll take him.  If not, he's on his own. So at 4:00, when we started to pack up, there he was, in an empty box we had brought some jewelry in to sell.  The box was 8 feet away from where we last saw the bat.  OK, we figured, he needs help, so we put him in a paper cup and dropped him off at Cedar Ridge Wildlife Rehab Center in Cedar Grove on the way home. There was more synchronicity, too, like a visit from Geoff Grainger, who is volunteering with DNR to help survey smallmouth bass in a local river.  So... I expect we'll fish together sometime soon. BTW, I did fish for smallies for an hour this evening on a local river, but caught only a small rock bass that hammered a Dahlberg Diver.  Heard a flock of turkeys fly up to roost about 7:30, tho, which is always a nice addition to an evening on the water. Gotta go get some shut-eye so I can be mildly coherent when Mike Jackson calls me at 6:15 tomorrow morning! Later... 10:01:58 PM    comment []