Batteries

With gasoline at almost $4/gallon, driving up to the lake to go fishing is getting a little pricey. So yesterday I load up and drive up there and the parking lot is pretty full, everybody else had the same idea I guess. I get the boat unloaded and park my truck and walk back down to my boat. When I turn the key to start my motor I hear a sound that I didn't want to hear... the battery doesn't have enough juice to even engage the starter drive. Bummer!

Now I have to decide what to do. I did have a couple of workable options. One, fish close to the ramp for a while before leaving early. Two, use one battery and switch them back and forth, then come back and leave early before I completely discharge the one battery I still have. Both options include cutting my day short.

I tried fishing in close to the ramp for a while, all the time thinking about what to do, and finally decided that I needed to just load up and come back down the hill and get another battery and find something else to do for the rest of the day. So I didn't catch any fish, had a nice drive and a little more practice backing my boat into my driveway. That little trip probably cost me $10-15 in gas, but the biggest bummer was not being able to catch any fish. Oh well, I had a fine time anyway and now I'm ready for fishing again in the next few days with a new battery. Any way you look at it ya gotta love it!

Finally warmed up some

OK, so global warming seemed to be in the news a lot last year when we had above average temps in the spring. This year, with the temps mostly below average, nobody is talking about global cooling. I just wonder where they take these temps that are supposed to show that the atmosphere is warming. If you ask me, I'd say we are starting another ice age and that would be much more devastating to the human race than global warming. In either case the fact that the atmosphere is dynamic and in a constant state of change is apparent. How short sighted are we to assume that we have any idea what the "normal" temps are for any given piece of planet earth. With our limited collection of environmental data it's hard to draw any concrete conclusions.


Now the earthquakes over by Reno are a new thing I never heard of before. Oh my god, California is getting ready to slip into the ocean! Or is that being caused by global warming too?


No matter what is happening with this world we live on, ya gotta love getting out and riding a bike when the weather is nice, as it was yesterday. Today it's a fishing day up at Antelope Lake, tomorrow up to Hat Creek to visit with my grandkids, and then Sunday more fishing.. Life is good!