A moment back

It is presently 49°F this morning and I had to wear a jacket.  What is up with the Weather!  You know if I have to revert to weather discussion, I do not have that much to report this morning.

So, here is one from 2009.  We took Christopher down to Big Walnut Creek and let him fish. Love the expression...Enough said...

Kayak Fishing Fun

Last weekend, a friend and I started off early on Saturday heading down "Little Walnut Creek" to do some fishing in our kayaks.  The water was up a couple feet and a little fast but I was prepared for the conditions.  Although it was a bit muddy, my first cast proved that the day was going to be great.  I landed a HUGE minnow... Okay, it was a little smallie that was a perfect specimen of what we were hoping to conquer.

This was the first time I was on this body of water and I was pleasantly surprised.  This creek has several laydowns, sections of the bank that was very rocky, and decently deep water without a lot of "fast" water.  It started out like this was going to be a good day.

Now the rest of the story...

The water was not that cold... No, it wasn't me that dumped his kayak.  I really felt bad but, this was his first kayak and he needed to be baptized in water...  When I got my kayak, I had to know the limits of the craft and now, he knows his limit.  Okay, he was just getting in the boat but still...

We began paddling upstream until we got tired and when floating down this lazy river fishing as we drifted downstream.  We still had the morning on the water and basically, caught nothing outside of what I caught on my first cast.

USGS graph

USGS graph shows the real-time level of one of my fishing spots.  Big Walnut at Reese.

The actual URL: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/oh/nwis/uv?site_no=03229500

Blast from the past...

I just happened to be looking around at lunchtime and found a link to my original WHATIZ site.  I was blown away by how BAD my writing was back in 2006.  I love the fact that I can look back at the crazy stuff that I was going through.  The link will not (unfortunately) show any of the pictures but it was wonderful just reading about the past.

That said, I remember a time when I had an option to copy (at the time) the contents of Whatiz.com into a book form and thought, "Why would I want to do that?"  Well, I wish I would have done that just to capture the pictures.

If you would like to reminisce by means of an old website/blog, go to www.archive.org.

So, let's start this off with what is happening right now...

I am working at Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute as a System Analyst II.  Peggy is still at Grange Insurance as a Business Analyst. 

A couple weeks ago, Peggy, my brother Danny, sis-in-law Jill, niece Brittnii and her boyfriend got back from a week at Unico (Riveria Maya, Mexico) all-inclusive resort.  It was a week of a lot of floating and one day of incredible fishing.  Apparently, we did well.  We caught 48 Mahi Mahi all being 10-15 lbs each but one my brother caught that was like 30 lbs.

I had an incredible time with Peggy and family and really needed the rest.

Hopefully, you can see the pictures (HERE)