The wife and i were sitting on the deck this morning haveing coffee, and looking around the yard.Grass uncut, weeds in the flowers, fence needing mending, branches on the ground after irene passed through.
"We will have to sell this place in a couple of years, cause we cant keep up with the place" She said.
I thought about that for a few minutes, and then i said."Since the first of may, we have fished every day it hasnt rained. We get home from work, and within 1/2 hour,we are on the water till dark.When we arent fishing, its raining. I checked the GPS, and we have fished for over 230 hours since may."
We looked at each other, and she said"Well, next year we will have to balance our fishing with our other resposibilities like house work, and yard work."
So we decided right there, that next year, fishing will be 1 step lower on the priority list, and that house up keep will be our number 1.
Then we got in gear, cut the grass, mended the fence, and de-weeded the gardens. I feel we caught ourselves just in time.
Cudz's thread really made me stop and think. Even though we fish together, the enjoyment can become an addicdtion, and the addiction can cause the rest of the world to collapse around us.Non fishing friends stopped callling us because we were always on the water.
So, with the fall rapidly approaching and the days getting shorter, we will slowly withdraw from the addiction, and next spring, hopefully we will approach the new soft water season better able to balance fishing with the rest of our lives.
Thats next year. for now, there will still be lots of time to fish