MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
I didn't think it was that bad either. It didn't look any worse than some burns I've had before that sucked but were over in a couple days. I am still bright red on my legs and blisters keep popping up. The big one drained off today, but there are little ones all over both knees now.
I kept cold compresses on them most of the day and aloe. Plus I took a few cold showers, I am hoping the end is about here.
Oh yeah and by the way Koda the 2wt performed beautifully! They were fighters but I have all the confidence in the world in that little rod!
T Bone
Some years back we vacationed in Acapulco. The vouge down there is to be a beach bum where the Mexicans roam the beaches filling you up with Margaritias. Well after to many of em and layin out in the sun I got the bageez burned outa me. At night I had the shivers like I had the plauge. Had to belt down some wicked tequila to ease the pain. Just thinkin back on it makes me wanna hit the bottle again. For preventative measures ya understand 
I don't know how big you can go with the 2 weight. I do know I've busted some 5 pound bass in the Pemi with one. It's neat to watch all the line go out and there ain't a damn thing you can do to stop it. Seems like they get down to the last few wraps and then you gain some line back. The game of see saw can go on for well over an hour. But when you win a round like that you feel like you just did something the average bear don't do.
Speakin a bears. Samantha's 4 brats decided they wanted to come to the cook out. So they climbed up the lattice and one lost his balance and flopped on the deck. I figured Sam would go ballistic and take the deck apart so I grabbed the little fur ball and hoisted em over the rail. Back feet were going 300 miles an hour. Sam just looked at em in disgust. Then the other three decided it looked like fun and up they come. Was a long cook out
The possums got into the garden so I set out a Harvahart trap. Half hour late I walk by the trap an it's gone! :wtf: :Looked up an there's a bear trashin the trap. Caught em red pawed. He won't forget that whoopin fer a spell.
Here are some current pics of my condition that keeps getting worse.
The pictures just don't really capture the essence of pain and distgustingness that you see with your own eye but this will have to do.
That's what I call sun burn poisoning . Ouch !!!!!!!!!
You got your house in order? Man that looks like the POX! Maybe even the plauge. A bottle of sour mash may ease the pain, but you may be better off tryin to mooch some of Sebastian's Plum Moonshine for that one Brother.
Keith, You're fired as a guide my man! Ya near got the lad kilt 
Koda I'z waz charged wit gett'n the boy on some fish, the sun was his problem.
I figured a Vermont farmboy knew how to handle a little bit'o sun, I mean I was out there the same amount of time and I'm not red, I am considering filing for minority status however.
I have however learned my lesson, I now have a tube of SPF 1K in my vest, I'll never use it but I will slather it on any pasty skin I see.
Keith
Ya can't go there. There's that generation gap thing. Hell, my Pa raised me on a breakfast of roofin nails and said it straight. You toughen up ya little bastard or you'll wish you did down the road. I reckon we're just about the same age so you must have come up about the way I did. So we're sun proof, bullet proof, knife proof and rattle snake proof. It ain't fair to expect the young uns to be made outa rocks like us
We gotta take care of em cuz they're our replacements when we go fish the Big Pond
Very funny gang! LOL! I have had a million sun burns in my life and ones that would have seemed to be worse than this. But the conditions must have been just so.
It was my own fault for not remembering that summer was upon us and sun screen would be necessary, but despite it being my own fault... Well it doesn't suck any less admitting it.
Keith, thanks for the good time. I will remember next time.
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Ya can't go there. There's that generation gap thing. Hell, my Pa raised me on a breakfast of roofin nails and said it straight. You toughen up ya little bastard or you'll wish you did down the road. I reckon we're just about the same age so you must have come up about the way I did. So we're sun proof, bullet proof, knife proof and rattle snake proof. It ain't fair to expect the young uns to be made outa rocks like us
We gotta take care of em cuz they're our replacements when we go fish the Big Pond
Koda we might have had the same Dad. I recall after working my first day as a laborer under his supervision, it was hot and I was hauling and pounding grade stakes, so I took off my shirt to get a nice tan; long story short I looked like a lobster fresh out of the pot.
My Dad's reply: "You had a perfectly good shirt, tomorrow wear it...oh yeah and that's really going to hurt when you are working the hot top scree tomorrow"
He always made my brothers and I work twice as hard as the other guys so that there was no talk of favoritism.
Dang Theron that sucks about the sun burn . Been there done that . Blisters and all. Got sun poisoning itched so bad I almost went crazy . Feet were so swollen couldnt put my shoes on. Not to mention the puking . Peeled some layers of skin that time. Will never do that to myslef again. Get better man . That just plain sucks.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was
cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.
On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words,
and some of the words are theirs.