Category: Life as I Know It

My everyday life as a woman, wife and mother.

My Corona Life: Bewitched by Betty & Haunted by Homer

My Corona Life: Bewitched by Betty & Haunted by Homer

How are your stay-at-home days going? I can’t lie, y’all. A month into this thing and I’m seriously starting to feel like I’m under house arrest more days than not. Our restrictions here were extended into May, which I thought would and should happen, but without a specific end date in sight I feel afloat in some surreal limbo life. I don’t do limbo well! That being said, I’m learning to control what I can, accept some things that I can’t and take out the rest on my refrigerator. Good thing we aren’t closing in on bathing suit season. Ugh!

Adjusting to the Corona Life

Adjusting to the Corona Life

I woke up early Sunday morning to make a quick trip to the grocery store ahead of the throngs of hoarders, panickers and just plain I don’t carers, and somehow it felt a bit like suiting up for battle. In these days of the Corona Virus, careful thought and planning goes into executing the safest route, armoring up for the campaign, planning an escape route and hitting the extraction point for all clothing, shoes and masks used in the simplest of activities. 

Urban Trout Fishing with the Family

Urban Trout Fishing with the Family

The weather progressively warmed up as we rushed into the weekend and the southern wind held off just long enough for a Saturday morning trout fishing trip with my family. Luckily, our local trout waters are just a few minutes away from home this time of year thanks to the Missouri Department of Conservation’s urban fishing initiative that stocks small city lakes in Kansas City and St. Louis with trout in the winter and bass and hybrid sunfish in the spring and summer.

urban trout fishing

Our nine-year-old son reeled in the first fish of the day and I hooked a nice one right after. Before we wrapped up our scant two hours of fishing, our son caught his limit, I pulled in two (including a brown) and my husband had one on his line. To be fair, hubs stayed pretty busy putting on bait and taking off fish that his actual fishing time was a bit limited.

urban trout fishing

urban trout fishing

We love the opportunity to catch these typically cool-water trout close to home, and at Chaumiere Lake in the Kansas City Northland it’s easy to spend a few hours fishing with the family and (as was the case this weekend) jump in the car, make a quick wardrobe change and still make it to D.A.R. by lunch. While Chaumiere may not be the most peaceful location for trout fishing (as the semis and cars roll by on the nearby interstate), I’m thinking any day fishing with my family is a pretty good day by most measures and I appreciate the conservation efforts that make it possible.

urban trout fishing

 

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