I retired Friday before last and hit the ground running following Monday at Bill Oyster's bamboo fly rod building course in Blue Ridge, Ga. I built a 7'9" 5 wt. I took up to Blue Ridge 10 lbs of Georgia White Wild Shrimp fresh off the Thunderbolt docks for a lowcountry boil for the participants and staff. I was too busy cooking to take good photos like the rest of y'all did, but here is the pot cooking corn, sausage and potatoes. I cook the shrimp separately which avoids overcooking and greasy skins. Here's about 2 lbs. left over on top of frozen water bottles in the cooler which avoids sogginess. During the six day course, Oct. 1-6, I cooked up the split cane rod below. The plan is to baptize it this weekend with my daughter Julia in the mountain streams of NC, but H. Michael may make other plans for us. Gil