A Fishing Saturday

         I know I have't wrote in a long time and I am sorry about that. I just had a busy week this past week with long working hours and then coming home and sleeping it off. My body hasn't been its normal self either and I'm trying to figure that out so altogether it has been a pretty busy week. I have also been writing in another journal for my health instead of this one because that is important and that takes time too. This entry is going to be about the Saturday I needed after a long work week.
         I had a prefect Saturday yesterday and a memorable one too.  I met my family at Roaring River and went fishing for about 3 hours. It was an outing for my dad's birthday, which is today. Everyone one was almost there expect 1 sister and her family, my sister in law, and some of the nieces couldn't make it either. That place has been in the family for years and everyone in the family as learned to fish there one way or another. It is one of my dad's favorite spots to go fishing, if not his favorite.
         I got to see my nephews catch two each. I also got to see one of my nieces and her friend, that has never been fishing, catch 1 each and hear them scream when they caught it. My dad also caught his limit (4 fish) within the a hour that they were there. They got there earlier then I did. I caught my limit and that was a first in 28 years that I have been going there so that is another memorable moment for me. I think it took me about 2 hours to get me limit but there was 3 hours in between those two hours that I didn't catch anything. Then of course I had to go back and see the Springs like always no matter if it looked the same or not but it didn't this time. It had a floodgate on it because of the flood that happened there a few months ago.
          It kind of messed up the feeling of it just a little for me, at least but you still got the main beauty of it and great pictures of the springs too if you took the picture up and down. We, of course, went to clean the 15 fish that we caught after we were done fishing. Then we went to have lunch and dessert at the eating place on the hill. It was a beautiful log cabin like inn and the eating place was inside it. I got a roast beef sandwich with French Dip to dip it in and with French fries as my side. Then my oldest sister carefully brought in my dad's favorite dessert of all time (aka the family's favorite dessert of all time), which was Marshmallow Dessert and we each had a piece of it there.
          I learned something yesterday and with everything that has happened in my life recently it was a great feeling all around. I haven't been able or was scared to go to and drive to that place (Roaring River) on my own because you know how I am with directions. I would never what to meet my parents there in the 3 or 4 years they were going almost every weekend and while I've been here in AR. I found out yesterday that it isn't that hard to get too on my own. That whether it is fishing or some other outdoor activity that a family does together, it really does bring back the memories and as you continue to get older, you continue to love it more and more.
          You realize that you want to make all the memories you can with who you have with you because we never know when life is really going to end, only God knows that. There's times I wouldn't think I was an outdoors girl/women but as I get older, I like to spend time outdoors especially with my family and parents because that is how they raised us even though we might have not liked it back when we were young. I even spend outdoor times with my friends if they would let me. I'm either the coffee shop or the outdoors type of friend. I would not go shopping at a mall or watch a movie when hanging out all the time. It does calm the soul when you spend time out in God's Creation. It just has that spiritual connection especially when you are getting things from it like fish, turkeys, or even deer.
           God's Creation can and does make your soul well. It is the medince above all medince. :)