Within an hour, the wind had picked up and it was blowing about 10-15 mph out of the north. The temperature had also gone up to near 60 degrees. I did some work around the yard and while I was outside Tom Malay pulled his truck into the driveway.
Tom wanted to know if today would be a good day to help him and Ron Newstrand take down one of the dead elm trees on my property. Both Tom and Ron use wood to heat their houses during the winter and I was happy to contribute some wood to their stockpile.
We spent several hours using chain saws to cut the large tree into smaller sections, splitting the wood into even smaller, fireplace-sized pieces and the cleaning up all the smaller limbs and branches; many of which littered the road in front of the cabin. But at last we had the operation at a point where we could call it a day.
Tom went back to his place to stack a full trailer load of firewood, while I decided to go fishing and cool off. I only fished for an hour, and only caught a few perch, but it was nice to be on the water where the 10-mph north wind cooled me off. The water temperature had risen to 67.7 as a result of the air temperature being near 70 all day.
The FLW Walleye Tournament ended today with the winner bringing in more than 41 pounds of walleye over the three-day event and winning $63,000. Not a bad weekend's pay.
I came ashore at about 4:45 p.m. to get cleaned up, and accidentially ran my Motorola Droid smartphone through the wash. No amount of air drying could get it to even turn on again, so I'm going to have to go into Bemidji tomorrow to the Verizon Wireless store to get a replacement. Most of the calls I get are on my mobile phone and I can't afford to be without it.
I listened to A Prairire Home Companion, had some dinner, but did not go fishing in the evening. Instead, I stayed in, listened to music and read.
Posts
