Well all...today is my birthday. Yes...I was born 21 years ago today...lol JUST KIDDING!!! I am not sure I would even go back to 21 but to be honest, today I am 29. Yes...thats right...30 minus 1!!! Everyone keeps telling me to enjoy the last year of my 20's, and personally, I think that is a crummy way to say happy birthday to a princess!! Besides I think I look ok for being 30 minus 1!!
Anyway...as I sit here mulling over the idea of the end of my 20's, I find myself thinking instead of my 5's and 10's. Believe it or not, my daddy did not fish. It was my mother who took me fishing when I was a little girl and introduced me to digging for worms (which back then I thought was completely icky) and cane poles that we made from the bamboo that grew wild on farms around our town (which I thought was completely cool).
I distinctly remember the first time I saw my mom "catch her bait." I thought I would throw up when she handed me a piece of a tiny fish she just caught and told me that even Barbie Dolls bait their own hooks. I thought she was crazy back then...but I appreciate it now and thank her for introducing me to such a great sport and for letting me wear my tiara while digging for worms.
I miss those cane poles, and every once in a while when I am at Cabela's and I see them sitting sadly in those barrels, I have to admit I want one. I was too young to have a beer while fishing back then...but I think a cane pole, a bobber, some cheese bait, and a beer sounds quite nice now.
I think next year I will celebrate that way. After all, its the end of a decade of one age and the start of something new and exciting. I want to celebrate sitting on a shoreline with a cane pole in one hand and a beer in the other. Anyone wanna come along for LIZZYPALOOZA? We can make a trip of it!!
Hmmmm...you know...I bet I could even paint that damn cane pole PINK...
Off to have a beer with the family...
Happy Birthday To Me!!!
LIZZY aka The Fisherbabe
Happy Birthday Lizzy. Life only gets better.
ReplyDeleteMark (Shoreman)
Life just start at 30. By 40 you start to have an idea of what you want to be when you grow up.
ReplyDeleteHappy B'day
Happy (One day late!) birthday, Lizzy. Hope you got everything you wanted. (30) will come soon enough and then you can plan your next decade on the water. Sometimes an easy chair, a worm, and a cold one is a great way of fishing and kicking back.
ReplyDeleteomg your my dream woman, come fishing with me on the kenai river. i live in Alaska where there is some of the best fishing in the world.
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