Grandson and Fish

A day late, but the Diary of the Worm is back from fishing. I am not sure how the worms I took with me enjoyed the trip (most of them did not return) but we did. We caught some fish, some a little bigger than this one caught by my grandson and pictured at the side. However, the big ones that where in the lake either did not bite or got away. The person in the neighboring cottage kept telling us about the big ones he caught, bass and northern, but like we did with the little ones, he had released them back to the lake. My grandsons could not believe that he released large northern. He said he did it because northern were hard to clean and fillet and the bass too soft to eat. I believed him but gave him a hard time because all he had to show for all his fishing excursions with his children and father were pan fish. He and his family, like my son and his family, lived nearby and just came during the day to visit his parents and sisters and their children that were staying at the cottage. Besides fishing we played in the water, took some boat rides, had some good food and watched a lot of the Olympics on TV at night. All this made for an enjoyable but tiring week. It is good to go fishing but it is good to come home, even without fish.

Last night and most of today I just rested and watched some more Olympics on TV. But I did check the gardens and worms, which were well cared for by my adult son who lives in our house. In fact today we picked some pole beans to freeze for winter, and had a delicious salad tonight of freshly picked garden greens. Tomorrow I go back to my routine of garden work, writing, working with persons and hopefully more reading. I took some good books along with me but with my grandchild’s and friends’ visits did not do much reading. The unstructured life of the cottage on the lake has some good points, but even and a self-starter, like myself, needs more structure in life more than fishing and watching the Olympics.

The grandparents in the cottage next to ours were real interested in the nonviolent worm sustainable growing web site. Their interest and someone in Church this morning asking about the AIR project to insulate storms to save energy costs this winter motivates me to continue on in the same direction on this site. A fishing treat, a retreat from everyday life, is a real invigorator for everyday life.

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