For six years and eight months I wrote religiously in this blog every single month. Sometimes I wrote just one entry per month, but more often than not I wrote multiple entries for each month; usually about the various adventures that I’d have every few days and weeks. I last wrote in July, about a family trip Up North and a muskie that I had caught that week. I didn’t upload that particular post until August. I haven’t written anything since then. I needed a break. I needed a sabbatical.
My outings for the last 4 or 5 months have mainly been teaching and running. I’d escape periodically with a hike up a creek here, or a paddle down a river there, but I didn’t write about those intermittent times.
And so I now find myself on the doorstep of the Winter Solstice; at the last day of fall and the first day of winter. Most see this time of the year as drab and depressing; especially on the backside of the holidays. I typically see this upcoming season as the start of the time when I can get out and about in the woods. It’s when the mosquitoes, ticks, and poison ivy are on hiatus and I’m free to roam.
Before I set my sights on those adventures to come, let me reflect on the couple of times I was able to fish or paddle this fall. It seems like a fitting tribute as I bounce back from this seasonal sabbatical.
See you along The Way…
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| A Little Small Mouthed Bass On Turtle Creek (8-15-21) |
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| A Local River Clam - Can You Name The Species? (9-5-21) |
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| Canoeing With Scott - A 29.5" Pike (9-5-21) |
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| An Early Morning And Heading North (Labor Day: 9-6-21) |
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| A Prayer & My Traditional Gift Of Cedar Before I Begin (9-6-21) |
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| A 14" Brown Trout (9-6-21) |
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| A Shallow Little Creek In SW Wisconsin (9-6-21) |
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| A Warm Afternoon For Trout Fishing (9-6-21) |
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| A Sunset On Turtle Creek (9-11-21) |
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| A 16" Smallie That Jumped & Fought Hard Before Being Released (9-11-21) |
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| A 12" Smallie In Clear Water (9-11-21) |
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An Early Morning Smallie (9-19-21)  Walking With Cindy In Beloit, Wisconsin (10-6-21)    CLICK BELOW FOR A VIDEO: To watch the video you may you may need to change the "view version" at the bottom of the page.   For A River Outing (10-24-21)    Waiting For Our Breakfast To Cook (10-24-21)              The Later It Got (11-7-21) CLICK BELOW FOR A VIDEO:     The Mouth Of The Sugar River (11-7-21)    And Ready For Winter Adventures Down By Dry Run Creek (12-19-21) |
