The sound of rain pounding down woke me up early this morning. I had been planning to sleep past my regular 4:45 AM wake up call, but the sound of the rain brought me out of my slumber at the usual time. We have had some heavy showers this week including the one on Tuesday that brought the strong winds and some hail. The brook by the house is roaring this morning as it drains off all of the overnight rain.
One thing that I have always appreciated in my life is the fact that each day is different. The clients are different, each having unique interests and skill levels, the trips are different and the weather is always a wild card. This week I spent a most enjoyable day bass fishing on one of my favorite ponds. It is always a pleasure to work out of the strip built grand lake canoe. I like to think of it as a piece of fine furniture and it moves very well when I put my paddle in the water. The morning was almost perfectly still with a loon watching us fish along the shore.
Yesterday I had one of those difficult clients that comes around a few times a summer. Hard to work out the arrangements, difficult to please and they assume at every moment that they are being taken. After a huge struggle to work out the details of the trip, “I don’t want to fish on a pond, my wife gets seasick, can you pick me up at the hotel?, no I’ll meet you, no pick me up” at the last minute. Between a cell phone that barely worked and not being listed as a guest at the hotel it was a challenge.
