Good Morning and Happy Summer Happy Campers! While it is not quite summer yet, it is on the brink and tomorrow we will be in full force. I wish we could be saying this from Happy Camp, but that will be farther down the road and the Pandemic continues and most likely for quite some time?
In the last few days, I have had nice chats with a few of you about life. Those chats are usually the most interesting. There seems to always be twists and turns in every conversation. As with most, we usually solve all the worlds problems, seems that they aren’t that difficult to solve if you communicate, listen and are fleixble(haha)! Hopefully we can get up to Happy Camp and get these into action with our fishers and hunters possibly later in 2020?
The outdoor world should still be quiet, the Denny’s report from Manitouwadge the Grouse are starting to flit around, no clutches yet, but soon. They better get their butts in gear, because I hear tell that the bugs are fierce, vicious and hungry. But those nasty bugs are no match for a bunch of Grouse chicks pecking and jabbing all over the place!
Back here in the US, life still goes on with Magoo and I. We have finished our school and now we wait to see what is going to happen with the fall. It will be a short summer here in northern North Dakota. The weather has been crazy, only certain thing seems to be the wind. For example, this week we had frost the day after it reached well into the 90’s. But the wind blows from the east almost every day. So fishing has been interesting, not so much from the boat. We did catch some nice Pike and a few walleye, but the fishing highlight of the week was catching a dandy Rainbow on a Hula Popper! That was incredible, try a top water on your favorite trout lake when they are surface feeding, WOW!
Speaking of WOW, Magoo continues to improve, each day swimming helps her. She is staring to retrieve off the leash and likes to explore at the lakes. Last night she was on guard most of the time as ducks were zooming around while we pecked thru the rushes at Carpenter Lake. She really likes that as when she wants something to nibble on, she sticks her head over the side of the boat and snips off a bullrush and chews on that, kind of her way of chewing Cud!
So with that, we think of our summer plans, which are definitely not what we intended, but we wear our masks when around people, social distance and hope to have the border freedom’s back soon, maybe in time to go and pick some Blueberries, we shall see.
Until then, Strawberries should be ripe soon so we shall find some of those and do the best we can. We hope all are doing the best you can too! Take care and stay safe Happy Campers!