Mother nature gave us the first good bout rain this fall blowing out all the local rivers this morning. Its always a hard one for me to call when these things happen, the weather forecast has been predicting this for several days now, but I always hope that maybe the Gods will smile on us and somehow WE will we not be effected by the torrential rain that is coming our way. It never happens, crazy as it may sound finally the weather man is right on these things more often than not, but still I hold on to the last hour.
My text to Tom (did not have the courage to call at 4 am) was tough "Tom, I hate to do this at the last minute but every river on the west side of the state is rising and will be blown by the time we get on the water, I say we cancel and reschedule". "Again?" was the reply, Tom has fished with me several times and has been the victim of Mother Nature more than once. Any time I have to cancel a trip I always feel like that police officer showing up at your door with bad news, " are you Mr Smith, I'm sorry Mr smith but there was a horrible accident, you see the sky sprung a leak and all the water ran into the Kalama River, Have a nice day Mr Smith". The bad news seldom ends there, rain storms of this size do not go away overnight, chances are I could be off the water for a week, so this means that the new XBOX 1 that come out this week, the very thing that I've been holding over my sons head for the past month to get him to do things like the dishes, vacuum the floor, is now on hold for another week at least, do you know what living with him is going to be like?!?
On the other hand a week off the water means I'll get all those things done that I've been putting off, like sleep, lay around and eat snacks while watching recorded episodes of "Naked and Afraid" or "Ancient Aliens", I get to get to call my Dad and get caught up on all the family gossip and hear about his winnings and losses from the Casino or who he ran into while in line at the Buffet. The reality is I NEED some time off the water, its been a great year with little time spent on doing things packing wheel bearings on boat trailers, cleaning and oiling a box of reels that have just been fished to near death, or scrubbing the inside of my car that now seems to have the permanent smell of bait.
As I sit here and write this my son is sitting here next to me doing everything he can to be annoying, every sentence he rambles off has XBOX in it, its going to be a long week. If I end up going to jail for shoplifting video games, would some one please send me a copy of NorthWest Sportsman?
