Best Holiday Week
Now I'm Going Fishing
December 29, 2012
It's been such a lovely week, and only week one of my Christmas holidays vacation. There are still eight more days of vacation before work calls again. I do hope everyone had a happy Christmas or Hanukkah.
With all the little pleasures of meals and casual evenings with friends and family, I have thoroughly enjoyed this week. For the past two days I have just enjoyed feeding the birds and squirrels, watching nature from my picture window, and relaxing.
One of my little pleasures was making winter bird feeders to hang in the branches of shrubs near my bird feeder. Here are the directions, so don't laugh:
Take a toilet tissue roll, coat with creamy peanut butter, roll in birdseed, thread a string or ribbon through the roll, tie a knot, and hang outside for the birds. You can also just put it through a bare branch like the photo above. Squirrels and birds love these and I am going to continue to make these all winter.
My relaxing involved watching hours and hours of the original version of "Upstairs, Downstairs" on my computer. Click here to watch one of the episodes.
While I really only listened to the episodes, I spent hours on pinterest.com, read news stories, and played lots of computer card games. This must be what retirement will be like. Nice.
Now it's time to go fishing in the park at the riverbank I wrote about weeks ago. Today, although it is lightly raining, I shall put my fishing tackle in some kind of container, complete with that knife for protection from alligators.
But first I have to attach a hook and weight to the brand new fishing rod I bought. I've got to find a way to attach that rubber lure to the hook, because I'm really a salt-water fishing person.
I'm borrowing my neighbor's canvas camping chair, complete with drink holder. I'm packing a light lunch and a few bottles of water, probably 4 bottles, in case the fish don't bite and I have nothing to do.
Since I want to absorb all the nature in the park, I'll be bringing my camera this time out, and will keep binoculars close at hand.
But wait, there's more:
Yesterday, while driving through my neighborhood, I saw a turkey vulture (with the red face) feasting on a rather gruesome meal in someone's driveway. It appeared to be a squirrel, but I'm afraid it was a cat. Yum-yum.
Here is a turkey vulture. Click here to learn more about turkey vultures. Ewwww.
So, off I go to commune with nature and torture the fish. Happy New Year 2013 to everyone.
