Life has been a whirlwind to say the least. The mother-in-law has been in and out of the hospital and physical rehab since September, our workloads have increased at our jobs as well as getting the usual stuff done around here. The holiday season kept us busy as well. We are both ready to relax a bit and catch our breath.
Our youngest son goes back to college this weekend and today is our youngest grandsons first birthday. And of course, Old Man Winter roared onto the scene. We were at 61F on Thursday and now it’s 14F out there and we will be below zero soon. I can’t complain, my father, who lives in Saskatchewan, is sitting at -34F right now. That’s brutally cold and I feel for him.
We will definitely be pulling the maps out soon and see what we can come up with for 2024. Things changed at my company so they are doing vacations differently. It is almost impossible to get two weeks in a row off, which is very disappointing. If nothing else, perhaps we can squeeze in some long weekends and get some fishing in.
Not that it really matters, but we did reach our goal of 50 outings for 2023. I managed 56 and she ended with 51 outings. My journal shows we caught 516 fish and we released every single one of them. I’m sure some would call that a “fools hobby.” We didn’t even bother taking pictures for a lot of the outings because we knew we wouldn’t have time to edit them. Run and gun was the name of the game.
With each and every year, we are getting our gear dialed in more and more. There are a couple of rods that have caught our interest as well as a reel or two. We have learned a lot and will continue to research and test out our theories as we chase that ever elusive goal of perfection.
More importantly…we are still having fun!
Stay tuned for more content in the near future and thanks for reading.
P.S.- to top it all off…we have experienced a surge in earthquakes in the last 24 hours with the USGS registering 9 of them. We felt a 4.2 at around 945pm last night and just had a 4.7 a few minutes ago.
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