First Cast Into New Waters

                     At the request of my friends and family I am starting this blog to tell the tall tales that this summer in Newberry provides. Before I get into any of the meat of this blog I will start with a map of Michigan showing just where Newberry is located since the most common question I get is "where the heck are you".

         As this summer got underway I realized that moving out on your own in the middle of the U.P. is a process that provides an excess of entertaining stores which I plan to share through this blog. I also had the realization that my job (I will have post at some point describing exactly what is I do) makes me an ear to the stories of many others including fishermen and everyone knows that they are skilled in the art of spinning tales. I have grown up with a soft spot for story telling with greats such as Donald Davis telling me stories (via tape and CD) until I could repeat them almost word for word. Still to this day I do not pass up the chance to listen to radio shows that feature story telling or the special occasions where I am able to attend a story telling festival. I don't know if I will ever be up on one of those stages instead of in the audience but just in case I ever do this blog is also a selfish endeavor so that I will have a written record to remind me of the stories I have to draw from. I will do my best in this blog to provide accurate portrayals of real events as they happened while still being entertaining and taking a few of the liberties afforded to fishermen. If you double check this blog is authored by Tyler Walters not R.J. Walters and since this is the case misspelled words and grammatical atrocities are par for the course. In addition to the written word I will try and include photos and if I can figure out how to I will include a list of all of the wildlife encounters I have throughout the summer. I hope you bear with me in this my first attempt at anything like this but since I work for the DNR now I can assure you it will be good enough for government work.