Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Pond Boss Moderator's Retreat

What a great weekend!

First off, I want to thank Bob and Debbie for putting us up, and for putting up with us. Food, accommodations, and hospitality were all first rate. They even had Fritos for Mike Otto!

I will hopefully have time to empty a bunch of photos out of the camera later to day and post the highlights here. Until then, I want to post a few mental snapshots:

- What Bob Lusk has done with PBMag (developing a world class magazine down in Texas, constantly striving for improvement and perfection with a down home atmosphere), his wife Debbie has done with their gorgeous home.

-The retreat was a great source of ideas for improving PBMag, the Forum, and the 2008 PB Conference, and for increasing the number of Pondmeisters enjoying and learning from these different entities. Expect to notice improvements. Subscribe to PBMag so you don't miss any. If you can make it to the Conference in July this year, do so.

-Given a fishing pole and a body of water, Bruce Condello turns into a fish-catching Terminator with the grin and excitement of a 6 year old. The fishing at LL2 was really good, but after catching a huge BG each day, I found it more fun and VERY educational to watch Bruce land fish after fish after fish ...

-Bob's house is NOT in the flight path of Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport. Those jet engine noises at 2:00 AM were either Bruce, Sunil, or Bill Cody snoring.

-According to Bruce, Sunil beat me in reading lamp football by a score of 27-14.

-Quote of the weekend (Sunil, after watching Bill Cody crash Lusk's Space Shuttle): "Well, there goes ten million dollars!"

-Bob Lusk is a lucky man - there is a little corner store only 1/4 mile from his house where you can get live bait, Diet Mountain Dew, and t-shirts commemorating the annual Gordonville Crappy Tournament. We also ran into wildlife biologist and regular PB columnist Dan Van Schaik there, who had the pleasure of being introduced to world-famous PBForum Moderators Bill Cody and Theo Gallus. Dan seemed rather impressed to meet Cody. My own Kodak-moment, Van Schaik-inpiring introductory handshake was quite moving. Dan was so overcome by emotion that he developed an unfortunate nervous tick, involving rolling his eyes, shaking his head, and repeating "Theo Gallus. Theo Gallus." As a result, the poor man was unable to request an autograph from moi. Don't worry, Dan, there'll be another opportunity.

-Trips to and from the airport were highlighted by stops at such memorable locations as Pond Boss World Headquarters, the Birthplace of Pond Boss, and the trailer park where many years ago Dave Davidson lost his virtue not once, but twice.

More later with photos!