Bethe Gettle of Pennsylvania is one of the most diehard outdoors-persons I have ever met. She has got the shed addiction BAD! I got a chance to shed hunt with her for a few days last spring and she is a shed machine. It was tough to convince her that we should take a lunch break or quit for the day! She’s a great person and a true outdoorswoman. Last week she spent a day with a local reporter for a story on shed hunting. She was very nervous, but I think she did an excellent job. She is a true ambassador for the outdoors and has taught classes to women to help them enjoy the outdoors. You can check out her story and a video of her at the link below. I think SHE needs to produce a shed DVD!
What a GREAT article about Bethe — interesting, informative, charming. Congrats, Bethe, for the coverage. I think a lot of us share your passion to the point of being “not normal,” as you candidly admit. (I just hope not to many locals around me in the nation’s capital see the article. I don’t need any competition; it’s hard enough to find the treasures as it is.) And, thanks, Joe, for giving us the link. Really super.
Comment by Roger — January 26, 2010 @ 5:29 pm
[Please make that "not TOO many...." As an editor by trade, I can't let my typo go, especially in front of fellow shed-hunters--including Joe, whose writing skills we all recognize.]
Comment by Roger — January 26, 2010 @ 5:32 pm
Nice article!
Ha! That’s funny Roger!!! I feel your pain. I am an editor as well (associate editor for a professional journal, I am a fisheries research biologist by trade) and can’t stand to let a mistake go like that. Maybe that is why I hate text messaging … it takes me too long to capitalize and punctuate properly!
For the record … a fresh shed has been found in the Texas hill country. I picked up the first one of the year this afternoon during my lunch break. A 1.5-year old 4 pt., but a shed nonetheless.
Comment by Dan — February 1, 2010 @ 3:54 pm
Dan, nice going on the shed! Glad to hear Texas is on the board! I, too, went to school for journalism and suffered greatly with the whole texting thing. My e-mails are genearlly pretty sound, grammar-wise, although when I’m typing quickly, I tend to forget the “y” on “they” quite a bit. But recently, being a slow texter, I have cheated, trying to use phrases that are shorter than what I really want to say and using just a single consonet in words such as “really.” I have to admit 1. I am a geek and 2. It really is quite liberating!
Comment by joe — February 1, 2010 @ 5:10 pm
And there I go, misspelling “generally!” I’m just going to let it go!
Comment by joe — February 1, 2010 @ 5:11 pm
Joe, I`m speechless. Thanks, for the blog spot. You are much too wonderful for words! I`m setting up a shed hunting booth at the Donegal Fish and Conservation Association sportsman show March 6th. I can hardly wait. Ha, I could never make a DVD, it took all I had to walk and talk while being videoed without falling all over the place. Thanks everyone.
Comment by Bethe — February 1, 2010 @ 11:41 pm
p.s. However, I will video anytime!
Comment by Bethe — February 1, 2010 @ 11:45 pm
Bethe, You deserve the praise. Lovely recognition for your passion (and ours).
And, Dan and Joe, thanks for identifying with the editing thing. Funny how those trained to catch errors make errors so easily themselves, when we’d never let them go in other people’s writing. Guess it’s human nature.
Great that sheds are showing up in Texas. Nothing in the mid-Atlantic, yet. But I’m still trying!
Comment by Roger — February 2, 2010 @ 6:24 am