We're not homesteders as such, but we do live a simple life that is in touch with the cycle of work and rest is evident throughout nature. Our approach to living, based largely on the reduction of wants and a mostly non-monetary return from our organic horticulture, bee keeping and other sorts of labor. Were living the good life along the Mississippi river valley in north eastern Iowa.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Skunked
If you don't go fishing, you can't tell fishing stories, good, bad or otherwise.
With soccer in full swing right now I seem to be burning the candle at both ends. Two weeks of three matches a week is a lot of games and late nights.
So, I took off for school a little earlier this morning just to wet a line and that's about all I did. But, none the less I did get out and gave it a try. With my fathers old fly rod, rigged with a small jig with a twister tail I was able to pitch this little stretch of trout stream. Just two small strikes then back in the car. The early morning drive out Big Mill Valley did provide some good wildlife viewing opportunities: Tom turkeys in strut, various water foul like a pair of trumpeter swans, canadian geese, mallards, wood ducks and mud hens. The fishing is always good but today the catching was a little slow.
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