Wow what a beautiful morning.....
Got off of work today, due to DST I now get off just as the sun is waking up for the day. I had my fishing pole in my Jimmy, so I decided to stop by Hawthorn Park in Terre Haute and do some fishing. It was just light enough to see when I threw my first cast. I reeled it in and moved on to the next spot I decided to try. Now it was light enough to see across the lake. I tell you what, that was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen other than Kristin of course. There were probably 200 ducks and geese on the water and 4 swans all the way on the other bank. To top that off I had 5 beavers and several muskrats all over the water in front of the ducks and geese. I wished I would of had a camera. I tried with the cam on my phone, but those are worthless. The fishing was good for this time of year, I caught 3 largemouths in the 20 mins. I was there.
Next I went to Craig Park in Brazil. Now I have fished this several times and have maybe caught 10 fish my whole life. I really wasn't expecting to catch any fish, I was just enjoying the sun rising over the trees and reflecting off of the water into my face. While fishing one cove, two ducks had come up on me. These weren't wild ducks. They were across between a white farm duck and what looked like probably a mallard. They would not leave me alone. I swear, I about stepped on one of them two different times. I remembered that I had a doughnut stick I had grabbed for a snack in my pack. I broke the pastry and gave a section to each duck. Once they had there treat they swam out into the water and enjoyed there morsel. Now here is the interesting part..... Do you think ducks can talk? I am not talking mating calls or territorial calls, I am talking give directions or tell stories. After walking away from those ducks, I went to the other lake across the road. While walking to the bank, a bachelor group of mallard drakes was coming in to land. They purposely veered off to stay away from me. All the time fishing, they would stay more than 100 yards away and would always be watching me and jerking at any of my sudden moves. I could tell that these were true wild ducks and not hand fed orphans like the others on the lake. On my way back to the truck my two friends from earlier came flying over me and landed in the middle of the drakes. Almost immediately after a bunch of quaking, the drakes, every single one of them, flew right to me. Of course I gave them a treat also and they left me alone so I could get in my truck. I have been around animals my whole life, wild and domestic, I have never seen such behavior. Maybe it was coincidence, but I believe Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dumb told them I had treats.
Well we have to go back to the doctors again on Monday. Hopefully she is about ready. Last meeting he warned us that the baby may be to big and he would have to do a C-Section. We will have another sonogram next week to find out.....Thanks for coming by