Worst Day Fishing Is Still Better Than Best Day Working...

Last night was another heckuva lightning storm with not as much thunder. Aaron crawled into bed followed shortly thereafter by Danny and then last, but not least, Duchess at the foot of the bed. We didn't get much rain, though.

Today we headed out fishing for the first time after lunch. We went down to the dam behind Northwest Medical Center to throw our lines in first and didn't have any luck, though the guy and his boy standing next to us were reeling them in. We didn't think we were in a good spot there and the water was pretty rough with the dam open so we headed North of the bridge on 8th towards Northland Community College and threw our lines in there. Unfortunately, we were far better at catching the grass along the shore than anything else. One of our lines snapped after getting caught on something a little ways out (log?) and we lost a $3.00 lure and barely escaped with my favorite daredevil lure from childhood. We then headed to the South side of the same bridge just in front of the Indian chief statue and Andrew fished off the dock while Aaron and I fished off the bank about 25 yards South of Andrew. After about a half hour, Andrew's rod stopped casting, so we were down to one functional rod and decided to call it quits at that point. We were situated right across the river from the old swimming buoys Jenny and I used to swim at in town here. I'm thinking it would have been more fun to take a dip over there instead. The weather was sunny with only a few cotton candy clouds in a powder blue sky. The wind was pretty quick today too. It's been a chore keeping the flag unfurled out in front of the house.

We're back home for the evening now and the boys' buddies from the corner house are back from their camping trip so they're playing with them now. We'll see what the holiday brings tomorrow. Probably a little housecleaning downstairs and on the porch in preparation for Mom and Jen's arrival in just over a week.

Oh... I almost forgot. I already told Dad yesterday, but we managed to catch one gopher with our two traps out by the old farm. The trap worked pretty good, though we shoulda made it up there sooner to take it out. That minimum maintenance road back there gets pretty muddy after it rains and Andrew's Honda isn't the best "ATV" when it comes to mud.

I think that's about it for news that's fit to print at the moment. Hope all of you have a wonderfully relaxing 4th of July!