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Back in the swing of things, I took a pile of photos this week and here are some to share.  Man I love my little camera.

The walk to school.  Once I turn this corner and can see the students mulling about the front of the building, things get pretty real for the day.

The only pre-season football game of the season.  We played our closest equivalent of a cross-town rival (2 hours away) and won 12-7.  Beautiful weather for a game.

Went fishing 3 times this weekend.  I caught 1 fish.

Here is the fish I caught.  A sauger, maybe 10 inches long.  Barely twice the length of the spoon I was throwing.  Just one of those days.

The water calmed down and the sunset was beautiful on Friday.

It was a full moon on Friday. After consulting an online full moon calendar, I found out that New Years Eve is a full moon and blue moon (the second full moon of a month.) Watch out!

Visited my friends undeveloped shorefront property on Saturday.  Beautiful place.

Fished the shore, had to avoid many overhead tree obstacles to get my casts out.

Campfire was great, along with a bottle of Peller Estates French Cross merlot.  Out of a plastic beer cup.

Flat rock on Sunday night.  The lake was active and I could hear Jetskis and boats enjoying their last kick at summer.

Once again, didn’t catch anything but still had a good hour on the shore.

You’ll notice that this is the second post on here.  I’ve decided to un-publish pretty much everything I have written up until this point.  I don’t know if the writing will take a different direction or if it will improve, but I just figured it was worth a shot to change things up a bit.  Luckily I haven’t deleted anything and it took only around 10 minutes of fidgeting with the dashboard of wordpress to be able to display the stubs of 100 posts per page and perform the bulk action of Edit –>Status–>Draft.  It was as easy as organizing a hotmail inbox (all in to one folder, that is.)

I know about 10 people who definitely read what I post on here, and I’m sure there are 10 more that I don’t know.  I felt that the 300 posts I had on here were just getting bulky.  It’s coming up on 3 years that I’ve been writing on here and a lot of ground has been covered in those 3 years.  No one needs to know about past girlfriends or personal triumphs and defeats, at least I don’t want anyone stumbling upon that information by accident.  If you have bothered to keep up with this site, you already know.  I’ve already had 2 instances of people close to me who were upset by things written here and that’s enough.  Gone.  It’s all tucked away on my web host here and maybe some day I’ll parse it down to use in my memoirs but until then it’s out of sight and out of mind.

I’d like to start writing about more than just every minutia of my daily life.  I was thinking that doing wine reviews would be a good start. I’ve most recently tried a bottle of Fish Hook Shiraz, a south african wine. I normally try to stick to VQA selections but that could get a little repetitive with the selection available at the local LCBO.  Fish hook was good.  I know, not much of a review but this isn’t under my wine review tab and I’m not attempting to write a review right now.

I’d also like to start reviewing the lakes that I visit.  There are over 70,000 lakes in sunset country, according to a radio advertisement I’ve heard a few times, and I would like to start photographing them, fishing them, and writing about the overall experiences I have.  And my last idea is to start making decent pages for each species of fish I catch.  I had posted a photo of a brown bullhead that I had caught at my cottage.  I gave that photograph the name “Ameiurus nebulosus” and sure enough, someone stumbled upon the site using by googling the binomial name of the fish.  Neato.  I guess theres part of me that feels so much of the internet is commercialized and lame that I would like to organize what I’m doing here to help people out in their searches.  It’s doable, and it just makes sense for me to do it with a fairly clean slate.

In order to preserve some of the old material, I do plan to re-publish the photos I had up in a few photo-only pages but that will take a bit more time than I’m willing to spend at this instant.

Tried Rugby Lake on Saturday.  Saturday was one of the nicest days of the summer since I’ve been back to Dryden.  This summer has been so terrible though, it’s not hard to throw around the term “nicest day,” as there’s only been about 10 of them.

To get to Rugby Lake, take the 605 north off of the 17 and go all the way to the end, past the sign where it says “605 ends.”  You have to cross this bridge over Rugby Creek and still travel for around 10 minutes after this.  Quite the bridge, it is.  You can see the road surface is wood and not in 100% good shape.

I guess one of my good qualities is that I know when to laugh at myself.  I was so excited about trying to fish Rugby creek off of that wooden bridge, that I hauled my first cast right into a telephone line.  Big D’Oh moment.  I had to cut the line and start over again.  I’m sure the people driving by look at this and shake their heads.  Hopefully it doesn’t interrupt their phone service.  Maybe I shouldn’t be admitting to doing this.