From: wolverine01@charter.net
On 7/8/2025 10:30 AM, Ted Heise wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 15:07:38 -0500,
> sticks wrote:
>> On 7/4/2025 7:58 AM, Ted Heise wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:31:09 -0500,
>>> sticks wrote:
>>
>>>> You'd think you planned this trip with fishing in my
>>>> looking at where you always ended up. ;-)
>>>
>>> LOL no For whatever reason, it just doesn't interest me that
>>> much. Though I do like seeing the water.
>>
>> I used to fish a lot more than I do now. Just always seems
>> like there is something else I should do. Doesn't help that
>> the wife doesn't fish, but she at least used to go sit along
>> the shore and read. We haven't done that in two years for some
>> reason. I also do love to eat fish while camping. Stayed up
>> at Lake Koshkenong in Wisconsin and we'd get lots of catfish,
>> walleye, and largemouth. I really do enjoy fried catfish, some
>> fried potatoes, and beans.
>
> Oh don't get me wrong, I love me some fish--great eating! I just
> don't care to take the trouble to coax them out of the water.
It's always better if you actually catch something, too.
I got a feeling with that until I get the knee worked on I'll be doing a
little more fishing in the future. I don't know how that works out with
the wife wanting to hike, and I'm not keen on her going off in the
wilderness by herself. Probably get a new knee late this fall and try
to be back in the game by next year.
>>> week to move back to Nebraska (we lived there until 1997 when
>>> we moved to Indiana for my career). Now that I'm retired,
>>> we're going home. As a plus, it'll be a shorter drive to the
>>> Rockies and the Southwest. :)
>>
>> Wow, that's big. Congratulations. Indiana is not a bad place
>> to live, but Nebraska is better, and cuts off a whole day
>> getting west. That is one of the big problems with where we
>> live in Illinois. Takes at least two days, usually 3, to get
>> to where we want to be.
>
> Thanks! And for me, it cuts off two days, given my 60 mph upper
> towing limit and slightly greater distance.
>
> We're excited about getting back there. One gripe: until we get
> the cars licensed there we would have to pay out of state fees for
> a state parks pass. So that's one to do item that'll have to
> wait.
I just bought two passes for Wisconsin. One for the pickup and one for
the RV. $38 for the first and $20 for the second. Like fishing
licenses, I don't mind paying for these as the money goes to good
things. If I use them fine, if not, no biggie.
>>>> ...I got throwed out of a bar there one night.
>>>
>>> Okay, that's more we have in common. Though my bad old days
>>> of alcoholic drinking are behind me, thankfully.
>>
>> Mine pretty much are, too. Not by my choice, but my wife just
>> goes crazy. I'm starting to resent that and am probably going
>> to take that power away from her. Not that I want to drink all
>> the time, but if I want one I don't want to fight a war over
>> it.
>
> Yeah, I can see how that would suck. I still think a cold beer on
> a hot day is one of the best things ever. Only problem is that
> for me it would never be just one. The old AA saying has it
> right, "One is too many, and a thousand is never enough."
Out in Utah that feeling of resentment bothered me. After several miles
and the knee starting to swell up and become painful walking, it seemed
all I could think of was how good it would be to finish up, get back and
be able to sit and have about 2 beers and feel the pain lessen. That's
when I decided I was going to take back my rights to choose how I live.
I totally understand I am a person who likes it perhaps more than
"normal" people, but things have certainly changed. I simply have no
desire to party like I used to. I actually prefer to drink by myself,
to be honest. 2-3 beers is just about right. 20 years ago, that was
not the case.
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