First off, I would like like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope they are doing well. Secondly, I’d like to give an update on what is going on and why we have been absent.
My wife and I started the process to have a house built back in August. We are finally in our new house. We had to clear some of our land which entailed removing around 70 trees. That part we did ourselves and I can tell you…I’m getting too old to do stuff like that. We bought a shipping container and converted that into living quarters. We had our old house demolished and used the existing slab to build the new house on. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we live on a hilltop. It was cost prohibitive to level a new sight. The estimate for that came in at around $47,000 so we opted for Plan B. Fast forward to Christmas Eve and we now have the keys and are almost moved in.
I say all that to explain why we haven’t been posting. We haven’t had much time. In fact, we have not had a day off since August. We did make a trip to wade fish in Florida back in May. A belated post on that trip is incoming in 2026. But other than that, the fishing has been pretty slim. Factor in the tariffs, and we have not purchased much of anything from Japan. I did pick up a Daiwa Certate and I also picked up a Penn Authority reel in St. Petersburg Florida while we were there. Interesting reel and I will do a post on that in 2026 also.
On a lighter note, we welcomed our third Grandson into the world. It reminds us how fast time goes by and how old we are getting. But we have many things to be thankful for and are truly grateful. Hopefully things return to normal in 2026 and we get to go fishing a lot more. Stay tuned…and Thank You all!
Velox Seeker 