Long Weekend: Northwaters
Tuesday, July 12, 2005I decided a little minivacation was in order, and OCD-Anxiety invited me up to a resort her and the entire family on her Dad's side go to every year.
Considering this was OCD-A, I was very apprehensive about going up there and hanging out for a couple days. In the end I decided I couldn't turn down a change to go relax by the lake in the middle of nowhere and go fishing for a weekend. After some thought I decided some relaxation by the lake was in good slacking interest. For good measure, I took Monday off a well.
Saturday was fun, The drive up there got broken up with a couple stops to pick up stuff and buy bait. We got there, did some unpacking chilled out for a little bit, and then did a little fishing. We didn't catch much worth keeping, but it was fun anyway. We had a nice campfire and hung out chatting with everyone else there till way to late.
We call it a night and I want to go to sleep, but OCD-A wants to talk about Kickball Girl. All she knows is that I gave her a ride after the game and after postgame, and she was already tweaking out about how much I might like the girl. We had to have the "We're just friends" talk yet again. After threatening to elope I got her to go to sleep so I could and made a deal that I would stay till Monday only if she didn't drink, because she always gets more emotional when she drinks. I found out the next morning that she had also forgotten to take her medication.
Sunday went great, well most of it anyway. Got to relax a lot. We attempted to go fishing earlier, but we forgot a basket to keep the fish in. Unfortunately when we attempted to start up and go back to the dock, the motor decided it didn't feel like working even after trying to start it about 45 times. Her dad was supposed to have a radio just in case, but by the time he got it out of his truck, we had drifted back past the cabins and were beached. After we got back to the dock it started on about the 4th pull. After dinner we all went out in the other boat, and hammered the Sunnies. We ended up keeping 45 fish (44 Sunnies and 1 Crappie) but easily could have had more if we tried harder. The bait rarely lasted more than 2 minutes before a fish took it. If we got em in faster and were less worried about enjoying a beer while we fished we could easily have taken home the limit of 60.
So yeah, I was given 20 nicely cleaned fish to bring home to eat. Only problem is I have NO idea how to cook them. Please give me suggestions.
After that we just chilled and played some cribbage.
Monday, the wind was too wicked to go out on the lake, so we walked around a little bit and checked things out after a few more rounds of Cribbage.
When I got ready to go OCD-A did a little more tweaking out, but in all it was a pretty nice time. A good couple of relaxing days!
The best part of the trip was going home and finally getting back to an area where I had cell phone reception to find out that Kickball Girl had text messaged me to ask how the weekend was :O)
posted by Chief Slacker @ 3:36 PM,
6 Comments:
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At Tue Jul 12, 06:28:00 PM,
Tamanna said...
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Grilled Fish - stick on some wholegrain mustard, lemon and salt and shove under a grill. Tastes fab.
There's a sauce that goes with it, but my dad makes it and he never told me how to do it...something with whole yoghurt... -
At Tue Jul 12, 06:57:00 PM,
Marie said...
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Good lord, man! You really did have a very eventful weekend. As far as cooking fish goes, the only thing I know how to do is oven bake my filet o'fish. I usually add a lemon, salt, and whatever herbs float my boat. ;)
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At Tue Jul 12, 08:43:00 PM,
Becki said...
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I say beer batter and fry 'em. Why waste the opportunity to use alcohol to cook?
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At Wed Jul 13, 09:02:00 AM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Fudge - I'll skip the mustard, but Llemon and salt seems to be a trend.
Marie - Yeah, I still haven't gotten the whole "weekends are for relaxing" thing yet.
Aurora - Damn skippy sister. -
At Wed Jul 13, 01:58:00 PM,
Tamanna said...
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Noo, noo. The mustard makes it taste great.
Normally I can't stand mustard, but for some reason, wholegrain mustard seems to go really well. -
At Wed Jul 13, 02:35:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Ok, I might try it on ONE of the 20 fish I have to cook up... I can't say it tastes like crap till I try it right? ;O)