Now been raining pretty much all of the last five days. I only room with one cat and one dog my names not Noah and I'm definitely not a holy man so if is going to last another 35 days I'm in trouble.
Unlike a lot of people I hate walking in the rain. Even with an umbrella. Dodging puddles and in some cases tiny steams at curbs. Even the dog doesn't like it. I think he has different reasons. Some I think have to do with his being blind much of knowing exactly where he is comes from his sense of smell and smells have been washed away by now. He also isn't a lover getting wet, does the dog shake when he gets home. Lucky for me that's still in the hall. He also doesn't like puddles and really jumps over those little streams. I put off non urgent errands so he doesn't get out on those either. Plus fewer folks out means he gets less attention. Right now he's napping and dreaming. I probably would be to were 101
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rain after the snow....soon, sunshine, hurray!!
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Both me and Stitch hate walking in the rain too. We have had sunshine all weekend, naturally it won't last...xxx
ReplyDeleteOdette: Warm sunny weather is still 3 months away.
ReplyDeleteTracey: Canada is known for having 10 1/2 months of winter and 6 weeks of poor snowmobiling. ( My Brother's version of the weather ). We also go ice fishing. To imagine ice fishing picture 4 guys sitting in a bathroom for a weekend with the tub full of beer and fishing lines down the toilet ( vivid description thanks to another brother )
Sid,
ReplyDeleteThat's about how much fun I always figured ice fishing would be. Knowing my crappy luck with fish, all I'd catch is somebody else's worm. Small fish like blue gills seem to love messing with me and eat the worms off my hook while I'm waiting for a bass. I've only caught a few fish in my life and it was always blue gills.
I was fishing on a dock once and had a bass lurking in shallow water right in front of me. At one point he must've only been about 10 feet from me. If I wanted, I could've jumped in and reached out for him. The water was so shallow I donno how he didn't end up stuck in the mud.
A blue gill had just eaten another one of my worms so I stuggled to hook a new one for the bass. I was so excited all I ended up doing was rip the worm to pieces. You can imagine the colorful words I was using to express my appreciation to the worm for delaying my big catch (this is why pollocks would rather go bowling than fish).
While I did this, I swear to god on a stack of bibles, that rotten SOB bass was LAUGHING AT ME! I kept an eye on him just sitting there watching me tear up a worm without getting one piece hooked, while he giggled at me. I grabbed a new worm, looked up and the little bastard had waded so far out in the murky water I couldn't find him.
I was so pissed at that point, if I had had a gun, I would've emptied every last shell into that lake in every direction in front of me hoping just to draw blood. Luckily for the other little fishies I don't own a gun. 8)=
AA: The quotation from my Brother about ice fishing is part of a longer story. He had made the quote about a year earlier. I was about to head of for a WEEK of ice fishing with mutual friends. ( where we were going there was one very rowdy bar. It has been open about 30 years. In that time only 4 people have been banned for life. Locals brag it's impossible. All four have the same last name. You would think one of my brother's or myself would have had the brains to give another's last name. Possible for another blog )
ReplyDeleteAnyway it was shortly before the internet caught on publicly. I was on fidonet and in a chat room on fishing. It was February which is by far our coldest month. Ice Fishing is not cold. Ours had a home made ( one of the builders was a Welder ) so we were normally in shirt sleve T-shirts. I had been chatting with two guys getting ready to go fishing in Corpus Christie Texas the warmest spot in the US and they would be in the Ocean. So lots of questions back and forth. Then one of them asked me to describe ice fishing and I Quoted Rod ( may as well give credit where due ) suddenly my Monitor lit up. I had over 40 messages. Each of them came from a newspaper reporter who had been lurking praying for a story to pop up. Each wanted permission to quote. On behalf of Rod I gave it.
Fishing is not about catching fish.That I could teach you to do easy ( ton's of technical information needed to make sure but you sacrifice the real reason ). You can fish as well with something that has the hooks removed. For fishing is sort of like a form of meditation with a possible goal in mind. With few exceptions when I fish I catch and release. I have to weight and measure each fish first and write it down. If I don't I have a friend who will have the fish keep growing. He has caught fish would have spit out the one ate Jonah.
PS: Easy way to win a bet (money) bible says Jonah was swallowed by a big fish not a whale. Save for killer whales who are dolphins whales have tiny tiny mouths.
Ray: If I ever manage to get to meet you in person in your home city I could help you set up your own buiness. You happen to live in a city a short drive from one which has 3 of the five companies in the US that sell components for making custom fishing tackle. I used to make it for out group of about 12. It is cheap ( fishing gear prices are normally a fortune ). Easy, I can give you the tools ( most ) and show you how to use them plus show you some I invented you could patent as I only made a limited number ( 100 ) for friends at the Legion to do an experiment with.
ReplyDeleteCould explain more in a long email.
Sid,
ReplyDeleteNow that I think of it, I've always spent more time taking in all the wildlife around me (including dragon flies so big they could almost swallow yellow jackets whole) than I did fishing. It's cool seeing plants and animals you'll never find in your back yard. Then I look at my fishing poll and realize, if I had to fish to survive in the wild, I'd starve to death.
No matter how far out I cast my line the blue gills always snitch my worms but they're mouths are too small to hook. They're very skilled at nibbling. Fish ain't as dumb as we think. lol
Hey Sid, just stopping by to say hello.
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