Fish Chimes...and Ultrarunning

Yesterday, Christmas Eve, is the day our family traditionally exchanges our gifts.

For one of the bride's gifts I created a set of fish wind chimes using some old silver teaspoons that were my mother's:

 

[image credit Gary]

 

 

Here are the basic steps:

1. Pound the spoon part flat
2. Cut off the handle, leaving about an inch attached to the flattened spoon to be the tail
3. Split the tail using a metal cutting blade on a Dremel tool
4. Bend the two tail parts into curves using pliers
5. Cut mouth notch using Dremel tool
6. Drill hole for the eye
7. Drill a smaller hole for the monofilament string (first use a piece of string and duct tape to ascertain where the balance point is)
8. Attach string to fish and hang 5 chimes from cut stick

 

The link to Ultrarunning is a memory I have of running along the C+O Canal near Dam # 4.  A rewatered section was just full of huge carp, up to say 2' long, just languidly rolling near the surface.  Their day looked a bit more relaxing than my day was going to be.