Welp I'M sure boring anymore
Yep..."welp" about sums up what's been going on the past couple weeks. We're going on our fourth month of rain / overcast / gloomy weather. Don't get me wrong, there have been two sunny days in there. One of those sunny days was yesterday and I spent most of the day at a meeting in the basement. Funny though, once I left work I was in the one of the best moods I've been in for months...don't know why, just finally feeling alright. Rather than tell ya'll what I haven't been doing, how about what I HAVE been doing? Trap league is over and I made it to the banquet this year. It was a decent time as I shot better than I have all season. Rod paid my way into an Annie Oakley game and the first thing I did was shoot him out. (I was out three shots later.) BUT, I still had a box of shells so I walked over to where Rod was trying a round by himself. So, just the two of us there shooting, everyone else watching the game going on, and I came out in the 20's! Best round of the year...good way to leave it. (And unfortunately this was the first year I didn't "win" anything. I musta really sucked.)
I went out fishing once so far this year! I finally got Rod to show me how people rig up to fish lakes...as I'm totally clueless when it comes to that. I can use a bobber and I can throw a spinner, beyond that I'm lost. Turns out, all you need is an inline swivel, a weight, and a small treble hook. Weight above the swivel, leader out beyond that to a hook...with a big ball of powerbait covering the hook is all it takes! The powerbait floats, so you can imagine what that looks like in the water. Well, we didn't catch anything, but time sure flew by!
Uhm...wow. Getting down to that being pretty much it. Access into the woods is still lousy but improving daily...there are still morons getting stuck out there, so I'm letting them have it for the time being.
I'm TRYING to get motivated to tie flies and load bullets, but haven't fully succeeded yet. I kinda want it to get just a little warmer out before I go sit in the garage for hours at a time. I know, I could just bring that stuff in the house...but would kinda like to have a setup that's out of the way.
I was also kicking around the idea of building another flyrod. Kinda want a four-piece again...and this is relevant as I just put in for a mountain goat tag! There is ONE tag given out in the unit I want to hunt (on the St. Joe) and another fella and I applied with the idea that if one of gets it...we'll both go and spend a week or so in the woods. Lotsa lakes up there, so the idea would be to get some fishing in as well.
I'm slowly getting the boat ready to take out. And when I say slowly, I mean SLOWLY. A month or so ago I finally did all my registrations online. A week later all the stickers and whatnot came and are still sitting on the counter. Meanwhile, I made it up to Butch's house (where the boat is) and got the gas tank. Several days later (ie..yesterday) I was able to get GAS in the tank. So basically it's ready to go. Just have to go flip the boat over, take the trailer off the jack stands, put some stickers on it...and haul it to some water. I'm secretly appreciating the weather for that first day. It'll be nice because there won't be anyone around. (People around here are definitely solar powered. Once the sun comes out, so do all the people.) I'm thinking that day is going to be Saturday. Looks like the best day of the weekend with only a 30% chance of rain...unlike Sunday, which has a 30% chance of rain/snow. Ah hell, it's all the same at this point.
Oh shoot, I just remembered I want to put a board on the inside of the boat for the motor to mount to. I'm a little worried about just having it hanging on the aluminum. So I guess I have more work to do...get some wood...get some gorilla glue...etc.
And turkey season opens Friday. So hopefully that'll motivate me to get in the woods a little bit more. We'll see. (I already have a standing order to go turkey hunting with Rod's son Dusty. Dusty asked months ago if I would go with him and he will NOT let that go! He's super-stoked so it should be fun if he can shut up for a while. HA!)
So that's about it. Just thought you all might like to see how boring I am this time of year.
I went out fishing once so far this year! I finally got Rod to show me how people rig up to fish lakes...as I'm totally clueless when it comes to that. I can use a bobber and I can throw a spinner, beyond that I'm lost. Turns out, all you need is an inline swivel, a weight, and a small treble hook. Weight above the swivel, leader out beyond that to a hook...with a big ball of powerbait covering the hook is all it takes! The powerbait floats, so you can imagine what that looks like in the water. Well, we didn't catch anything, but time sure flew by!
Uhm...wow. Getting down to that being pretty much it. Access into the woods is still lousy but improving daily...there are still morons getting stuck out there, so I'm letting them have it for the time being.
I'm TRYING to get motivated to tie flies and load bullets, but haven't fully succeeded yet. I kinda want it to get just a little warmer out before I go sit in the garage for hours at a time. I know, I could just bring that stuff in the house...but would kinda like to have a setup that's out of the way.
I was also kicking around the idea of building another flyrod. Kinda want a four-piece again...and this is relevant as I just put in for a mountain goat tag! There is ONE tag given out in the unit I want to hunt (on the St. Joe) and another fella and I applied with the idea that if one of gets it...we'll both go and spend a week or so in the woods. Lotsa lakes up there, so the idea would be to get some fishing in as well.
I'm slowly getting the boat ready to take out. And when I say slowly, I mean SLOWLY. A month or so ago I finally did all my registrations online. A week later all the stickers and whatnot came and are still sitting on the counter. Meanwhile, I made it up to Butch's house (where the boat is) and got the gas tank. Several days later (ie..yesterday) I was able to get GAS in the tank. So basically it's ready to go. Just have to go flip the boat over, take the trailer off the jack stands, put some stickers on it...and haul it to some water. I'm secretly appreciating the weather for that first day. It'll be nice because there won't be anyone around. (People around here are definitely solar powered. Once the sun comes out, so do all the people.) I'm thinking that day is going to be Saturday. Looks like the best day of the weekend with only a 30% chance of rain...unlike Sunday, which has a 30% chance of rain/snow. Ah hell, it's all the same at this point.
Oh shoot, I just remembered I want to put a board on the inside of the boat for the motor to mount to. I'm a little worried about just having it hanging on the aluminum. So I guess I have more work to do...get some wood...get some gorilla glue...etc.
And turkey season opens Friday. So hopefully that'll motivate me to get in the woods a little bit more. We'll see. (I already have a standing order to go turkey hunting with Rod's son Dusty. Dusty asked months ago if I would go with him and he will NOT let that go! He's super-stoked so it should be fun if he can shut up for a while. HA!)
So that's about it. Just thought you all might like to see how boring I am this time of year.
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