Redneck Computer Geek

I’m headed out on vacation next week. I can’t wait.

The down-side is that the workload at the office is always double the week before AND the week after vacation.  But that’s another topic.

I’m headed to the “Rivah” (Rappahannock River), to a little house on a creek.  I’ll tie my boat to the dock and take my son fishing and crabbing every day.

We’ll walk along the beach picking up shells, we’ll watch the bald eagles play, we’ll pull up crab rings along the pier, and we’ll check the minnow trap for minnows…usually about once every 10 minutes (my son is 5).

We’ll put out crab pots…box-traps with frozen herring for bait.  Crab pots are messy things…you pull them up off the bottom and they sling all kinds of mud into your boat…not to mention how wonderful herring smells after a day of rotting in 76 degree water.  But it’s all good, since at the end of the day we’ll have a couple-dozen crabs to steam up.

We’re also going for my son’s “Junior Angler Award”.  That’s a program here in Virginia where, if you’re under 15 years old, you get a prize if you catch 6 different species by hook and line.  So far he’s caught Croaker, Spot and Flounder, and that was just one trip.  With a week to try, I’m pretty sure we can get White Perch, Bluefish, and either Striper or Oyster Toad (yup…Toadfish is on the list!).  He’ll get a certificate and either a hat or a tackle box.  Ever practical, he says, “You can only wear a hat.  You can do all kinds of stuff with a tacklebox!”

The cool thing about the place we go every year, though, is that it has DSL!  So I get all the benefits of having a day of redneck-pursuits, and then at night I can hook up my laptop and blog, chat with friends, email, and even play video games from the front porch, as I watch the sun set into Carter’s Creek.

Doesn’t that just sound like a little bit of heaven?