It's been a hard summer for me. Ginger and I moved into our new house in July and just as we were feeling settled, we had a break-in and lost some stuff. Also recently, I've been spending my days off doing repairs around the place. This includes painting, landscaping, refinishing the 106 year floors and a whole lot of other little things that add up to me not taking advantage of the beautiful Seattle summer. I've gotten over the break-in, for the most part, and the repairs were necessary, but I need to rest a bit. For a while, I've been trying to get up to the mountains and go fishing. There are some great spots about 20 minutes from my work. I'll get up there in the afternoon after work one day, I thought, and I'll be back for dinner. This idea has been keeping me going for the past few weeks. And then today, I read this in the local paper:

State's freshwater fish tainted, study says

Oh well.

Disclaimer - Lisa Stiffler is the author of the linked article