Reel Repair by Alan Tani

Is important. Just ask her.

HA! Way cute.
It is. But too much reef ruining sunscreen gets used here (Florida too?). I use a Lycra wet suit liner when swimming, add a hat and neck/face protector for kayaking. My hands are lookin kinda old and wrinkly, maybe it's time for some sorta gloves.

It is VERY important.  I now wear long sleeves for most lengthy outdoors activities.  Baseball batting gloves on the hands.  Have a large straw hat that has a brim all the way around for gardening, fishing, etc.  No more shorts for lengthy outdoors; pants all the way.  When I can't wear the hat (i.e., with a bike helmet), then sunscreen on the nose & ears.  Wife had skin cancer on the eyelid last year; you do not want to go thru that.

Frank

What y'all are missing is that cutie is 25 years old! She just knows how to protect herself from the mean old sun! Good job!!!😂😂

Oh, I thought she was 24.

Frank

(months)

Very cute. She is getting tall..will be able to get into everything soon

Nice to have young ones like that.   A fishing rod is missing!
She is setting a good example.    I always wear a hat and buff, but are sometimes lax with the cream, it messes up my sunglasses.   Poor excuse, I know.

I have lived in Alaska since I was five (72 now.)  I've never been one to have much skin exposed to the sun.  I've always worn a hat and almost always long sleeves.  Mosquitos, don't you know.
Nevertheless, in the last five and a half years I've had surgeries to remove all three types of skin cancer.  I'm now five years free of malignant melanoma.  The other two types were more recent, but less dangerous.
Those of you who live and fish in sunnier climates, don't minimize the issue.  If this can happen to me in Alaska, it can happen to anyone.  Please, fellas, do what you have to do to protect yourself.

Quote from: JasonGotaProblem on August 18, 2024, 05:05:31 PMIs important. Just ask her.

Too cute 

It's funny every time I go on a boat I get funny looks because I'm wearing long sleeves, (thin) long pants, gloves, a mask, the hat you see her wearing in the pic, and gloves. I truly despise sunscreen, but I need to protect myself. And even though I'm young (turn 38 this Monday) I already have friends losing chunks of skin (including one who lost a big piece of his nose) to cancer.

If I'm in the pool, at the beach, or mowing the lawn, I'm in a sun shirt. I am coming to realize though that while I always protect my upper body, my legs are often an afterthought, and in the past year or so I'm starting to see new patchy freckle-like discoloration on my legs that I assume are sun spots. which is why I've started wearing pants more. I probably need to get that looked at.

Quote from: JasonGotaProblem on August 22, 2024, 03:28:27 PMIt's funny every time I go on a boat I get funny looks because I'm wearing long sleeves, (thin) long pants, gloves, a mask, the hat you see her wearing in the pic, and gloves. I truly despise sunscreen, but I need to protect myself. And even though I'm young (turn 38 this Monday) I already have friends losing chunks of skin (including one who lost a big piece of his nose) to cancer.

If I'm in the pool, at the beach, or mowing the lawn, I'm in a sun shirt. I am coming to realize though that while I always protect my upper body, my legs are often an afterthought, and in the past year or so I'm starting to see new patchy freckle-like discoloration on my legs that I assume are sun spots. which is why I've started wearing pants more. I probably need to get that looked at.

Sun screen does not do jack or jill,

I had a 2 story colonial in Liberty, MO, after I had my first child, we decided to move to MI. I rented a Genie lift to paint the house as painters wanted $8k to paint my house.

I had a 2xl size long sleeve that I wore on top with to paint.

My neighbor's wife Cindy and I were chatting as I was on a union break, she liked my oversized shirt as sun protection, she said her dad (farmer in MO) used the same.

Be safe out there!

Sun is NO joke.  And while most of the Ohana probably know this already, my last eye exam went "OK".  I have the beginning of cataracts, but the nice young lady doing my exam pointed out that sun/UV exposure is a big part of that.  I didn't know!  So, while you have the floppy hat, buff, sunscreen, and sleeves (I'm the guy next to you that looks like that!) do not cheap out on the eyewear!!!  - john

Stage zero melanoma on arm smaller than a dime. Look at how much tissue they cut to get clear margins

Yeow!!  The melanoma on my back was a bit smaller than a pencil eraser.  The doc put the tissue he cut out in a specimen jar, all neatly coiled up.  It looked like a medium sized herring fillet.  But he got it all. My initial five year survival rate was estimated at 50%, and here I am more than 5 1/2 years later.
Best of luck to you, Seawolf.
Life is good!

My friend lost a big piece of his nose. Thankfully he can afford good reconstructive surgery, you can hardly tell anything has happened.