Chuck’s Notes

Welcome to the digital garden tended by Chuck Grimmett. Not sure what this is? Check out my post, What are digital gardens?

This space is meant to evolve and change over time. Right now it is very much in its infancy. I’m customizing the WordPress theme to display the content like the vision in my head, and I’m slowly loading content in.

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On Variant dry fly patterns

2026-06-27

50 Essential Fly Fishing Books

2026-06-24

Wooden fly reels

2026-06-22

Click and Pawl Reels

2026-06-18

Micro fishing

2026-04-28

Brook Trout Conservation Tabling Resources

2026-04-20

Adirondack Guideboat links

2026-04-02

Books on Indigenous land stewardship and natural foods

2026-03-25

Fly tying bookmarks

2026-03-07

CDC Midges

2026-03-07

Little Black Stonefly dry patterns

2026-03-03

Getting started with carving

2026-01-25

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On Variant dry fly patterns

Updated 2026-06-27

50 Essential Fly Fishing Books

Updated 2026-06-24

Natural Deodorant reviews

Updated 2026-06-22

Wooden fly reels

Updated 2026-06-22

Seasonal fruit desserts

Updated 2026-06-22

Click and Pawl Reels

Updated 2026-06-22

Protected: Brook Trout

Updated 2026-05-20

Protected: Fishing reports

Updated 2026-05-07

Micro fishing

Updated 2026-04-28

Brook Trout Conservation Tabling Resources

Updated 2026-04-23

Chuck’s Notes

Updated 2026-04-03

Garden Meta Overview

Updated 2026-04-03

Bookmarks

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2026-06-29 10:17pm

Bookmarked https://thelemonbowl.com/lebanese-cabbage-salad/.

Lebanese cabbage salad

2026-06-29 10:16pm

Bookmarked Toum Recipe: Fluffy Lebanese Garlic Sauce (Tips and Fixes).

Toum

2026-06-29 10:16pm

Bookmarked Lebanese man’oushe, za’atar flatbread – Maureen Abood by Maureen Abood.

manoushe, za’atar flatbread

2026-06-29 10:15pm

Bookmarked Homemade Caesar Dressing by Jeanine Donofrio.

Easy Caesar dressing

2026-06-27 9:08pm

Bookmarked Hewitt on the Neversink.

Hewitt on the Neversink video

2026-06-27 9:02pm

Bookmarked Skaters for Tenkara by Anthony Naples.

Skaters on tenkara + linked tying videos

2026-06-26 11:26pm

Bookmarked Verifying….

On variants

2026-06-25 2:56pm

Bookmarked https://onepfoot.com/parts.

Pflueger Medalist parts

2026-06-25 2:48pm

Bookmarked Pflueger ‘Medalist’ Fly Reel – Bill Kiene.

Pflueger Medalist reel sizes

2026-06-25 10:08am

Bookmarked Kaatscast: the Catskills Podcast.

Catskills podcast

2026-06-25 10:08am

Bookmarked Sea-Run Brook Trout Coalition – Bring Back New England's Salter Brook Trout!.

New england salter brook trout

2026-06-24 11:31pm

Bookmarked Verifying connection.

John Burroughs archive

Idea: Query the journals to see where he fished for brook trout and map those locations.

2026-06-24 11:23pm

Bookmarked https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/915.

Lee Wulff papers

2026-06-24 8:15pm

Bookmarked David Ray's Taper Library.

Bamboo rod tapers

2026-06-21 10:09pm

Bookmarked https://classictacklersf.weebly.com/wood-fly-reels.html.

Wood fly reels Rancho Santa Fe

2026-06-21 10:02pm

Bookmarked http://Info%20on%20Giorgio%20Dallari's%20wooden%20fly%20reels.

Fly fishing

2026-06-21 9:27pm

Bookmarked About My Reels.

Wooden fly reels

2026-06-21 9:13pm

Bookmarked Classic Fly Fishing Tackle Anglers | I’ve always wanted to make a….

Wooden fly reel

2026-06-19 10:26pm

Bookmarked Berkley 540 Fly Fishing Reel How to Service and Maintain to keep it fishing.

Berkley 540 repair

2026-06-18 4:59pm

Bookmarked The Hunt for Hardy Clones | Troutrageous! by Michael Agneta.

Mike Agneta on hardy clones

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Public

50 Essential Fly Fishing Books

Adirondack Guideboat links

AI Reading List

Allspice Dram

American Sign Language

Bathroom maintenance notes

Books on Indigenous land stewardship and natural foods

Bowl carving

Brook Trout

Brook Trout Conservation Tabling Resources

Calculating Machines

Carbonation

Chuck’s Notes

Click and Pawl Reels

Colonial Homestead

Connecticut Fly Fishing

Craftsman Scroll Saw Manual

Cutcliffe-style wet flies

Don Horter’s Library

Drawing like Jason Polan

E-Ink/E-Paper displays

Email Security: DKIM, SPF, and DMARC

Entries Sorted by Last Modified Date

Family Quick links

Fishing reports

Flymphs

FreedomBox

Getting started with carving

Google Sheets Cheatsheet

Home & Family

Food & Drink

Amaro

Baby food

Basic Marinades

Butternut Squash Latkes

Coquito

Curing meat

Pastrami

Egg Bites

Food ideas

Homemade Liqueurs

Homemade Falernum

House Pimm’s

Mocktails

Orange Bitters

Pineapple Rum

Pizza making notes

Quick meals

Salsa de Chile Morita

Salsa Verde

Seasonal fruit desserts

Sheet pan meals

Tiki drinks

Amaro-based Tiki Drinks

Grog Log

House Gardenia Mix

House Jungle Bird

House Pearl Diver

Orange Shrubbs

Rum

Mai Tai Rum Mix

Tiki bars

Tiki drinks with Banana liqueur

Whiskey-based Tiki Drinks

Winter Holiday Tiki

Winter Holiday Cocktails

Furniture to buy ideas

House shutters

Hudson Valley Christmas Activities

Kenmore Dryer repair

Physical Garden

Mulch

Resources for new dads

Reviving tool batteries that won’t charge

Shopsmith Chisel Sharpening

Things to do with kids in the Hudson Valley

Hot sauce recipes

Hot Sauce reviews

How to hit “reset” when in a slump

Image swipe file

Indie games

IndieWeb directories

JS snippet to uncheck lots of checkboxes on a page

Lathe

Making a query count block for Gutenberg

Mental models

Meta

Garden Meta Overview

Improvements to make to cagrimmett.com

Personal Library project

Micro fishing

Mom’s Fried Squash

Natural Deodorant reviews

Necklace options

New Jersey Fly Fishing

NYC recommendations

OPML file backups

Orgeat

Outdoors

Fishing small streams in the winter

Fly tying

Balsa Popper

CDC Midges

Fly tying bookmarks

Hooks

Little Black Stonefly dry patterns

On Variant dry fly patterns

Types of pheasant tail flies

Foraging for Morels

Hiking in the Hudson Valley

Hudson Valley Fly Fishing

Map of our favorite places in the Hudson Valley

Paddling the Hudson River Valley

Small Seasons of the Lower Hudson Valley

Pennsylvania Fly Fishing

Places to check out in the Adirondacks

Plugging car tires

Product Management reading list

Projects I want to do

Questions

Raising Children

Reading list: Protocols in Society

Readlists

Removing DRM

School

Self hosted feed readers

Shopsmith resources

Skew chisel

Slide addition ideas

Stain colors

Stream Macroinvertebrate Identification

Systematic approach to tasting wine

TBall

Tech

Bash learnings

Code-based art

Generative art project ideas

ImageMagick CLI snippets

Inspiration

Asemic Writing

Generative tree rings

P5.js resources and tips

P5.js snippets

Resources on Color

Tezos tools

git cherry-pick

Home server

Linux File Permissions

Regex

SQL

WooCommerce scripts

WordPress

Meta Dates Blocks

WooCommerce Cheatsheet

Turning a wooden mallet

Turning scoops on the lathe

Web books

Whiskey reviews

Wooden fly reels

Woodworking

Hand carving bowls and plates

Non-toxic finishes

Notes on building a skin-on-frame Adirondack Guideboat

Shop templates

Skin on Frame St. Lawrence River Skiff

Woodshop Workbook

Woodworking project ideas

Workshop upgrades

Drum Sander

French cleat ideas

Shop dust collection

wp-cli commands

Writing

Place descriptions from other writers

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Yearly Recaps

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To do: Home

Gift ideas for people

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