Fishing

Donna and David are visiting us this week. This morning, we went fishing for several hours, and all of us caught crappie. Donna caught the largest one, a very nice 11".

There was also a twofer at one point, when Donna and David each pulled in a fish at exactly the same time.

The big surprise for me was having a channel catfish strike my crappie jig. I had never seen one here before, and although I knew they were around, it was a surprise to have one actually hit my bait (a pink jig with a pink plastic nymph on it). We'll be having a nice fish dinner one of these evenings.

New Greeting

A couple days ago, a crew arrived to clean up all the fallen and damaged trees from that windstorm we had here about three weeks ago. Perhaps you can't really tell from this picture that things are a lot neater now, but here is what our driveway looks like at present. They must have hauled six truckloads of tree trunks and debris away. Most of it will end up at a paper mill.

You will also note that we have a new sign to replace the role that Gus the Bear used to play at the entrance to our property.

Kathie thought "Decker Haus" would be a cute way to describe our place. I like the lazy bear, which is often the way I feel these days. No, I didn't make the sign. It was made by a craftsman in Georgia who we located online.