Just a good weekend

Just wanted to share a few highlights from the weekend;

Friday- after work went out to eat with the wife and some friends and then went and saw the new superman movie. I’d recommend it.

Saturday- Amber and I took Penny out in the canoe for a bit. Penny did ok, she was skeptical at first but started to get used to it. We relaxed Saturday night.

Sunday- got up early again and went fishing with a friend in the rain. We caught four fish. Sunday evening me, Amber, and some friends are part of a volley ball league and we got our first win.

It was a good weekend.

But I wasn’t the only one who had a good weekend; Chris, who you have heard about in the past post Chris and Abandoned people, is building a mountain bike trail on some family land and when I asked, “do you have a trail map you are going by?” He responded with one of the best statements I’ve heard in a long time, “working by the feel of the woods.” I knew exactly what he meant. I felt it this weekend myself, even though I wasn’t doing any work. When we were in the canoe gliding along the water and again when I was standing on the bank fishing, just under some trees as the rain was falling. It’s just a feeling you get when you are out there. It’s a sense of enjoyment of being in the woods or on the water.

“Get outside. Leave the securities of your houses and technology behind. Step beyond the yards and roads, creep into the wilderness, and become engulfed by the raw feeling of nature. Grow with the trees and grasses, flow with the waters and the breeze. Breathe deep the aromas of the plants and flowers. Listen to the sounds that Mother Nature speaks. Get outside…”