Rainy day
I caught this 20" stick
Fish in hand.

I caught a nice brown and missed a larger one.
Not too bad! and it's back in the stream.
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.