Don’t get me wrong now, I’ve nothing against technology in general you understand. It’s led to a few innovations I might say around here; we even have plastic pipes, would you believe, to replace the god-given copper ones in the cabins. And then there’s the computers. Those I’ve yet to fully get to grips with, but I must say I learned a lot last season about the googling and so on.
I will say, I looked up our Mr. Newman, since he was a bit of a mystery and it’s not my place to quiz the new man face to face. I could’ve waited and asked Doris I suppose. But anyway, it turns out he’s not been involved in the tourist business before. He’s retired from some big company that does genetics, another thing I had to put into the google. Apparently Mr. Newman is some sort of expert in inheritance, and not the sort where you end up with your grandfather’s pocket watch. No — that computer was very surprising — up popped Mr. Newman speaking about fish, and food, and the future. However it all comes together, I gather there’s a lot of money involved and if you’re to believe our man, then we’ll all be better off. And very well fed.
Fish though. He must have some sort of affinity if you will for fish after all his years at that company. Empathy perhaps. He’s like the pied piper I’d say, drawing all those fish out of the depths of the lake and into the sunshine as he has. Succeeded where many an angler has failed, though I’ll give you there haven’t been many anglers here for a good while now.
I did a google on the fish, too of course. Not a lot there. I kept ending up in the weeds so to speak, lots of stuff on salmon farming and the like. No mention of anything that looks like our fish, anywhere, until all the advertising stuff Mr. Newman’s started doing for us. There’s a lot of that for sure, and people seem to be liking it.
I can’t remember being busier. Not a bad thing, either; people are happier, my boats are doing well, and we can afford the new plastic plumbing. Dave is beside himself, and his lectures are interesting. Well, less dull, anyway — even the kids seem to quieten down when he pulls out his stuffed fish.
So yes I like Mr. Newman, and I like what he’s brought to the lake here. And I have a feeling after all my googles he’s kept a few more tricks up his sleeve for this season.
