Oh Man, Even The Earth Worms Want Me To Go Fishing Today

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 at 6:04 am

Image by smikulen via Flickr

We have had extremely windy days for the past week or so and it’s been really cold, even though the temps were a bit higher than freezing. So, it was nice to get up this morning to see how still it is outside, not the slightest breeze. Would have been a great day for a bit of fly fishing but I should tease myself by even thinking about it.

I was up at 5am as usual, can’t seem to sleep past that any more. I grabbed a nice hot fresh cup of coffee and headed to my office to check the email. The sun is coming up earlier every day and by 6am it’s already bright out. It’s nice to sit here in my office and gaze out into my backyard. You can hear all the birds but as it gets brighter you can start to see them moving around throug the shrubs and bushes in our yard. So relaxing.

I took my son’s pitbull, Honey, out to do her business a few minutes ago and even though the sun wasn’t above the horizon yet it was quite bright out. I opened the back door and looked out. The driveway was a big matt of little wiggling worms migrating from one side to the other, not sure why they do that. Most don’t finish the journey and end up being swept into the compost pile.

Honey is strange, she will chase a leaf around the yard when the wind blows it but she just totally ignored the worms, like they weren’t even there. Normally she is sticking her nose into everything but she just went about her business, then found an empty spot in the drive and sat there watching the birds flying around her yard.

My mind was raising trying to figure out how I could get out of yard work and slip away with a bunch of those worms for a day of brook trout fishing, but the truth is I would have to come home to a very cold house if I did something like that. I will have to get out during the week while she is at work.

Well I am off to grab another coffee before Jenny wakes up and puts me to work.