Chuck Grimmett
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Pretty cool to watch the Artemis II launch live on TV with Amanda and Charlie! From a TV at a car dealership no less.
about 11 hours ago
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The 2026 trout releases for the Trout in the Classroom program are underway! I volunteered on Monday and brought my camera along:
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Trout in the Classroom 2026 Releases
2026 Trout Release season is underway for the Trout in the Classroom program here in the Croton Watershed! I went out on Monday to help with the macroinvertebrate sampling, student macro identifica…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/31/trout-in-the-classroom-2026-releases/
1 day ago
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Tied some Synthetic Clousers tonight. Striped bass on the brain.
#flytying
1 day ago
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Some of the thoughts from carving one spoon
the first in more than a year...
https://peterfollansbeejoinerswork.substack.com/p/some-of-the-thoughts-from-carving?publication_id=1718748
1 day ago
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Another nighttime walk in the woods with rubber boots and a flashlight. Lots of green frogs out tonight.
6 days ago
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Testing out some kid waders and exploring a new creek.
cagrimmett.com/2026/03/23/w...
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Wading Around
Charlie and I went and explored a creek about 13 minutes away from our house. I heard rumors that there is a native brook trout population there and Charlie jumped at the chance to try out his new …
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/23/wading-around/
10 days ago
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Charlie and I went out in the woods tonight and caught some spring peepers.
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Spring Peepers
Charlie and I went out in the woods after dark searching for yellow spotted salamanders. I think it might be a bit early yet for the salamanders, but we were lucky to find the spring peepers out in…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/22/spring-peepers/
10 days ago
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Telling my kid this is OpenClaw.
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Discover & share this toy story woody Animated GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.
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13 days ago
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Longreads
14 days ago
"Color is as much a part of our lives as air, water, and taxes. And it is maddeningly, beguilingly slippery." In a new excerpt from her forthcoming book,
@korystamper.bsky.social
details how her work
@Merriam-Webster.com
launched her "love affair with color."
longreads.com/2026/03/19/c...
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Defining Color - Longreads
"A deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral, bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet william."
https://longreads.com/2026/03/19/color-dictionary-definitions-kory-stamper/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social
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Nick Parish | Current Flow State Fly Fishing
15 days ago
Matt Sment at Tenkara Angler explores a new book expressing the tenkara philosophies of Masami Sakakibara, nicknamed “Tenkara no Oni” (the Tenkara Demon), on advanced tenkara technique.
tenkaraangler.com/2026/03/11/d...
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Demon's Game: New Book Teaches the Oni School of Tenkara Fly Fishing
Rob Worthing's new book, Demon's Game, brings Masami Sakakibara's advanced Oni tenkara techniques to anglers worldwide.
https://tenkaraangler.com/2026/03/11/demons-game-new-book-teaches-the-oni-school-of-tenkara-fly-fishing/?ref=currentflowstate.com
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Currently running WordPress 7.0 beta 5. So far so good!
15 days ago
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How do you organize your
#flytying
materials? Here is how I organize mine.
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How I organize my fly tying materials
Once you get into fly tying, you accumulate a lot of materials. If you aren’t careful, a lot of that gets thrown into a drawer or a box, which makes that small bag of CDC almost impossible to…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/17/how-i-organize-my-fly-tying-materials/
15 days ago
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Questions from your kid that make you nervous: "Daddy, have you seen the creepy eyeball in the sky?" Queue trying to hold it together while you calmly ask follow up questions.
15 days ago
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧
16 days ago
Why does my copy of Hedda Gabler contains so much stock text in Latin? (Looks at title page) Oh.. it's the version written by Lorem Ibsen
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It was better when we didn't know Banksy's mortal identity.
17 days ago
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What I'm reading this month đź§µ
#booksky
17 days ago
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My
@aetheros.computer
ID:
https://www.aetheros.computer/id/xs7gyx2tysuh5dy33bvgkntb
19 days ago
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First post from
@aetheros.computer
19 days ago
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Aether OS
19 days ago
Sound on. Aether OS Alpha is online.
aetheros.computer
#atproto
#atdev
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Trying to force the rhubarb.
19 days ago
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This post is reminiscent of the weekly internal posts Toni wrote during his most recent stint at Automattic as acting CEO while Matt was on sabbatical. Toni’s open communication is one of his many strengths.
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19 days ago
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Nick Parish | Current Flow State Fly Fishing
22 days ago
the one and only
@cagrimmett.com
did some hard shoe leather reporting to track down all 12 issues of Outdoor Life from 1969 for two articles by Cecil E. Heacox on the “Charmed Circle of The Catskills.” Then, just because he's a mensch, he scanned them so we can all enjoy:
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Cecil Heacox’s Charmed Circle of the Catskills articles
Last weekend I read Ed Ostapczuk’s Ramblings of a Charmed Circle Flyfisher. Recommended! In it, Ed writes: In 1969, I read a two-part article written by Cecil E. Heacox that appeared in the M…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/01/cecil-heacoxs-charmed-circle-articles/?ref=currentflowstate.com
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Hot coffee take: Jamaican Blue Mountain is overrated and over priced.
22 days ago
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Crocuses are up!
22 days ago
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Saw the first robin on Monday! More are out today.
22 days ago
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It is lovely to hear the spring peepers again.
22 days ago
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Pretty soon Cloudflare will block all crawlers just to make you pay to use their crawler.
developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/po...
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Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering
Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint lets you submit a starting URL and automatically discover, render, and return content from an entire website as HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/
22 days ago
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I added a new photo to the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Chronolog.
www.chronolog.io/site/PRC105
22 days ago
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Casting Out Winter.
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Casting Out Winter
Overnight we turned the clocks forward an hour. This afternoon the temperature on our weather station reached 66F (18.9C). The sun went down an hour later as the clock reads, so Charlie got to play…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/08/casting-out-winter/
24 days ago
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Update: The dry little black stone landed me a wild brown trout today. Lots of stoneflies were out.
#flyfishing
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24 days ago
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I used
@automattic.com
's Telex to create a Pages Family Tree block for my Digital Garden. I wanted to be able to see my hierarchical post types in context, so it shows two levels of ancestors and two levels of children in relation to the current page I am on. I use it in the sidebar.
26 days ago
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Skunk cabbages are emerging! (Plus a mini review of the Canon Extender EF 2x III.)
cagrimmett.com/2026/03/06/s...
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Skunk Cabbages
The skunk cabbages are emerging, a sure sign of spring. Dates we noticed them previous years: March 9, 2025 March 12, 2024 February 11, 2023 February 10, 2022 These photos are also me testing out a…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/06/skunk-cabbages/
26 days ago
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I haven't tied much this winter, but the prospect of some rain and warmer weather melting the snow and ice has me hopeful for getting out on the water. Tied some peacock body little black stoneflies with CDC wings, and some dark glass bead sakasa kebari.
#flytying
#flyfishing
#tenkara
27 days ago
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The Little Free Library I put up in 2024 is still doing great! The three of us walked over and each put in a couple books. Glad to see it was pretty full with good books.
27 days ago
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February recap.
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Month of February 2026
The month of February started out with some fun sledding with friends in the nature preserve at the end of our street after the first big snow. I got out and took some photos of the ice: We read so…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/04/month-of-february-2026/
28 days ago
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Oh man, Rob Worthing just announced a book on Oni-style tenkara. Instant order.
#tenkara
www.tenkaraguides.com/oni-tenkara-...
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Tenkara Guides | Contact Us
Demon’s Game is the definitive guide to the tenkara fly fishing school of master angler, Masami “Tenkara no Oni” Sakakibara. A comprehensive review of the physiology and behavior of trout, the water t...
https://www.tenkaraguides.com/oni-tenkara-book
28 days ago
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Winter is really going full bore until the end. Yet another snow day. We haven't had a full week of school in a month.
29 days ago
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I woke up early for this lunar eclipse, but unfortunately we have total cloud cover here.
30 days ago
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How are we preparing for the Long Web? By
@brennanbrown.ca
brennan.day/how-are-we-p...
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How are we preparing for the Long Web?
What will the Internet look like in 2036? 2046? How do we reckon with the challenges of digital preservation, link rot, and building for the Long Web in an age of ephemeral content?
https://brennan.day/how-are-we-preparing-for-the-long-web/
about 1 month ago
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Just finished An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by
@edyong209.bsky.social
. Recommended!
about 1 month ago
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I really wanted to read Cecil Heacox's classic Charmed Circle articles from the March/April 1969 issues of Outdoor Life, but I couldn't find them anywhere online. So I tracked down physical copies and scanned them so you can read them, too.
cagrimmett.com/2026/03/01/c...
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Cecil Heacox’s Charmed Circle articles
Last weekend I read Ed Ostapczuk’s Ramblings of a Charmed Circle Flyfisher. Recommended! In it, Ed writes: In 1969, I read a two-part article written by Cecil E. Heacox that appeared in the M…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/01/cecil-heacoxs-charmed-circle-articles/
about 1 month ago
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We've turned a corner. Our 4yo decided he loves carrots this weekend after two years of rejecting vegetables outright.
about 1 month ago
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Ben Werdmuller
about 1 month ago
More people live in Tehran than New York City. It’s a bustling metropolis. The people who live there have a thriving culture despite their own government and the machinations of ours. They do not deserve to be bombed by us.
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This week's bean dish: Escarole white bean soup from
@ranchogordo.bsky.social
's Bean Book.
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Escarole White Bean Soup
This week’s bean dish was a white bean soup with escarole and ham. I was going to make a vegetable soup with yellow eye beans, but when I was in the grocery store, I spotted escarole, which I…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/25/escarole-white-bean-soup/
about 1 month ago
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If I were a gear company, I'd simply give my gear to a bunch of kids for 30 days for testing. They wear things out faster than construction workers.
about 1 month ago
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Photos from a winter weekend in the Catskills.
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Weekend in the Catskills
Amanda, Charlie, and I spent last weekend in the Catskills, exploring the Phoenicia and West Kill areas. (Or, depending on how you look at it, the Esopus and West Kill watersheds.) I took along my …
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/26/weekend-in-the-catskills/
about 1 month ago
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I don't pop molly, I read Paul Ford International bring back the blog post
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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What makes a blizzard a blizzard instead of a sparkling snow storm?
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Blizzard
I was curious why Fern last month wasn’t a blizzard and the one this week was. Apparently, the wind! From the National Weather Service: Blizzards are dangerous winter storms that are a combin…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/24/blizzard/
about 1 month ago
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"When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite."
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
I'm really inspired by what @cagrimmett.com shared on the Big Apple Brook Trout eDNA mapping program, led by Gerald Berrafati of the Mianus chapter:
cagrimmett.com/2026/02/11/b...
If every waterway could have this level of local awareness of life I think everyday folks would be more engaged.
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Big Apple Brook Trout
Trout Unlimited is doing a citizen science project in our area: Environmental DNA sampling to locate hidden brook trout populations in the NYC suburbs: Fairfield, Westchester, Putnam, and Long Isla…
https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/11/big-apple-brook-trout/
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