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This Saturday was the opening day of trout season. Joe figured the water was too high to fish, also chilly enough for puddles to have skim ice, he instead made breakfast and gave me a ride to work. Then he got a haircut and changed oil on our Subaru to get ready for our trip.
But Sunday afternoon it warmed up, and Joe went fishing. All things considered, the water was not as high as it had been. He did not see any visible signs of steelheads or salmon..., or any fish for that matter. Just as he was giving up, he had a hit on his crawler and managed to pull this beautiful steelhead (lake run rainbow trout). The color is still bright because it's fresh up from the big lake. Later on it would have turned more silver.
The first freshly caught fish for dinner this season! Kayo was real happy.
We've been slowly planning our anniversary trip out west. Our Subaru is no longer on lease, so we can now put as many miles as we want. This is going to be our very first serious long road trip together... 6 nights in 6 different spots over 3000 miles round trip. To spend our time and miles wisely, we've been doing our homework on the Black Hills and Buffalo history.
We are starting out on our adventure this Thursday. I just finished vacuuming the Subaru, and Joe changed oil and checked other important parts. In the process we pulled out all these treasures from the back of the car.
Also trying to eat what's in the fridge before the trip. The other day I ended up making chili cheese fries, because we had too many potatoes and only a bowl of venison chili left. Kind of fun.
Happy Easter! We didn't color eggs ourselves... but our free-range chicken eggs from Joe's cousin came in pretty multi-colors. And they made a good French toast casserole dish to share with Joe's family.
Yesterday was a gorgeous spring day, reaching 65 degrees. We certainly managed to take in as much sunshine as we could in one day. Also we had to try fishing for the first time this season. I myself lost enough of the new fishing line in tangles... but didn't lose a lure. A good first day fishing. No sign of salmon or steelheads, yet.
Later on we checked out a spot where Joe is planning to go fishing next Saturday, the opening day of trout season. Still enough snow is left in the woods... we shall see if Joe could walk in to the stream in a week.
One morning the lightly snow covered driveway reminded me of the cherry blossom season in Japan, of the white petal covered ground. Our nature has its set-backs, bringing us Spring. Well, we certainly had ours this weekend. We both caught a bad cold, our first one of the season, canceling our small travel plans.
But, strangely enough, Joe found himself a much needed 4x4. Saturday morning we figured we spend another day at home still sick, when Joe saw a Craig's List post of this 04 Chevy Colorado pickup truck. It's within his budget and what he was looking for, and only 2 hours away. Now, Joe had been hunting for a 4x4 since last fall to replace our Honda whose 4WD works only when it wants to and with other issues. Out of boredom being sick and not able to go on our trip this weekend, and like these winter months Joe's truck hunt was lasting way too long, I suggested we act on it.
Before we knew it, we were driving east, opposite of the direction we were supposed to initially, to take a look at the truck. Everything in a short time worked out with this unexpected small adventure. Here are pictures of Joe's new old truck, Rado (shortened from Colorado), to serve his fishing, hunting, and everyday needs.
