Either of my loyal readers will tell ya that I take a vacation at Lake Tschida this time of year, so it’s once again time to tell you about it…

Day 1 – Had to work until noon and it rained, but the rain didn’t really get underway until I got to the Wet Spot Bar in Glen Ullin. I stop there every Friday so they can set their watches on Friday. The rain was pretty intense so while waiting for it to let up I noticed a bulletin on the wall inviting folks to “The Testicle Festival” in Almont on July 31. “Come have a ball,” it said. For a moment I wondered if you can say that in public, but since they did, I figured I could too.

The rain let up so I traveled on, got to the cabin and took a nap. Pretty exciting stuff so far huh?

Maybe if I shared the plans I made for my summer vacation… you see, the first week I’m on my own out here. Then the first weekend we have to head to the Ulmer Family Re-Onion in Park Rapids, Minn. Then the $10,853.27 worth of garage parts I’ve recently purchased is due to be delivered, and my vacation should pretty much be consumed by levitating them into position.

So that’s the plan, and as you know, most plans get put together so one can look back and see where he went wrong.

Anyway, back to Day 1 – the nap was short and then we went fishing. We boarded the pontoon, my son slipped the Allman Brothers into the CD player and we boogied out of the bay to the tune of “Blue Sky”… and it sure was a blue sky evening. 

We tossed some Rapala’s over the side (fishing rigs for you non fisher people) and trolled off into the evening. After an afternoon of rain the lake was flat and the sun had finally come out in full force. I sat back in my seat to quaff my beer, looked around and decided it I was in the midst of another perfect evening on the prairie.

We putt-putted along the banks towards Rattlesnake Point and a huge northern pike decided to make my day. He slammed my line and it took about 20 minutes to pull him in. Before releasing it we took a photo and texted it to all our contacts and then we went back to the cabin, ate supper, and went to bed. Pretty exciting first day, huh?

Oh ya, I forgot to tell you about the rainstorm we ran into on the way home, but since most folks think I’m all wet most of the time anyway, I figured you really didn’t want to know much about how we miscalculated the cloud and drove through a wall of water on the way home… but I got to figuring again, and figured that you’ve probably been soaking wet, so you already knew how that felt too…

So like I was saying, that was day one and I think I’ll close here by letting both my loyal readers know that it only took me three days to get over the dizziness caused by the six wasps bites I got last weekend when I decided to meddle with their hive… but then I figured they figured I musta’ survived ’cause here I am talking to them again.

And on that note I’ll get back to you later, ’cause I got three weeks of vacation to keep notes on.

Here’s hoping that you’re allowed some time to do whatever you wanna do too… later…