Archive for December, 2008
Belated Happy Holidays
I was on vacation over the holidays and wasn’t able to get this post up any earlier but I hope each of you were able to enjoy the Christmas season to its fullest. My family and I were able to spend tons of time together, share gifts and visit other family members. The wife and I didn’t exhange gifts this year as we have some major purchase we need to make this spring. We plan on building a new deck , getting a hot tub and perhaps do some other landscaping around the yard. I just wanted to jump in and wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy new year.
Can’t Wait Until Spring Fishing
Man I hate winter already. It’s just got started and im already getting the winter blues. Worst part of this time of year is that I can’t hit my favorite fishing holes. The bass boat has been put into storage, the rods and reels stored in the garage and now its the waiting game. I know many up north like to go ice fishing but for the life of me I can’t understand sitting on the ice freezing my tail off to catch a few fish like a polar bear. With nothing to do I’ve turned my focus to reparing my old rods, reels and lures to get them ready for spring. Maybe someone will buy me some new fishing gear for Christams, but if not I’m sure I can find some good clearance fishing gear this time of year. I’ll also spend a lot of time going through my tape library and catching up on all the fishing show’s ive missed over the summer. I probably have 80 hours of bass fishing show, tournaments and other fishing related videos to watch in my spare time. Thank god for Tivo and the internet. Maybe I’ll spend some time planning my fly fishing vacation for next year.
What Did I Get Myself Into
I went to our local little league association meeting last night to meet with other coaches and parents to discuss this upcoming little league season. Little did I know that there was going to be an officer’s election taking place. Somehow I ended up getting voted in as the president of our little league association this year. After the meeting I met with the previous officers of the little league and was handed an inventory list for all the equipment that our teams have. It was quite a shock to find out how much of the little league equipment from last year is going to need to be replaced. Knowing how bad the economy was and how strapped for cash most parents are I started looking at ways to find low cost gear for our teams. I was pleasantly suprised to find that ebay has tons of baseball bats, softball bats, catchers equipment and little league training equipment listed for sale. I figured most of it would be used little league bats that parents were selling after kids had out grown them, but there was quite a bit of new items for sale as well. I did some surfing at the local sporting goods stores and compared the clearance little league equipment they had to the prices on ebay and most of the items on ebay were still less expensive than buying from a retail store.