This weekend has started out to be the perfect weekend - relaxing with good friends, time spent outside in the sunshine, and later tonight, the finale of the "Ultimate Fighter"!!! Last night, I drove out to Clayton to Bob's house and spent the evening there, chatting and having a wee dram of scotch. Then off to bed fairly early, only to be woken up at 4:30am to go FISHING!!! I haven't been fishing since I was a teenager. Well, I've been deepsea fishing in the last years, once in PEI and once in Norway, but not fishing in a normal boat on a lake. So a few of us from work decided to go out for the opening of lg mouth bass season. I bought a new rod and reel yesterday, complete with a few lures, and was very much looking forward to using it today. Noel and I were partnered in the canoe together and had a great time, regardless of the 5am start time and too little coffee!!! We did alot of casting in the sunshine, fighting the current, and just had a great time being outside. I managed to catch one tiny lg mouth around 7am, threw it back. Noel caught a couple in that time frame. We finally managed to get to the lee side of one small island. I cast, and WHAM!! Got a hit and reeled in a 2 lb large mouth. Yeah!!! I was so happy - big enough for eating!!!
In total, we wound up with 2 lg mouth and one pike for breakfast. Joke put on a huge spread of food, we had champagne and orange juice, and settled in for a saturday brunch, complete with fresh-caught, pan-fried fish. It was soooooooo good. I love bass. The pike was good too. I must say, I had a great morning/afternoon.
The puppy is exhausted too - he spent the day meeting all sorts of new friends, eating the bones from the filleted bass, and wandering around the house catching all sorts of new smells. Mid afternoon, he just flopped on the porch and sunbathed. He was so good - stayed around us, listened to me when I asked him to come back to the porch, etc. He's flaked out on the couch right now. :)Now I think I might go flake as well. I need a nap before UFC tonight!! I also need to do laundry in a big way. All my gym clothes are filthy. And there is fish guts and coffee all over my favorite sweatshirt...
I had Kali/Silat last night. Man, it's been a while since I've done Kali, and I haven't been practicing. I also hadn't practiced the Silat series of moves that Kru showed us 2 weeks ago. And he asked if we had, so I had to admit no. Ulp. I felt like shit!! I've got 2 of the series down, but the other two, I need help with. I think I'll have to get him to go through the moves again. I just don't catch on that quickly. Partially it's cuz I'm trying to learn CSW and Kali-Silat all at the same time as learning Muay Thai!! All my effort is going into Muay Thai. Kru told me on Tuesday that I have to jump in the ring and spar every chance I get. Yessir!!! Practice, practice, practice, to get comfortable, stay cool, be strategic.
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