Dad’s Workbench: A Dad Blog

A while back I posted on my ice fishing trip and posted a few pictures. Most of the photos were of the trip since accidentally over exposed the photos of the fish.

The other day at my dad’s birthday party we were talking about the trip. It inspired me to revisit those photos. So I touched them up again and also added some photos of the cleaned and gutted fish. What is amazing about these fish is the nice red meat they have. Fresh is best plus the next day they make good fish sandwiches. So here are just a few more fresh fish photos from ice fishing at Red Lake.

Other fishing photos can be found at:

1. ice fishing trip (Dad’s Workbench)
2. ice fishing (www.orlund.com)
3. Red Lake (www.orlund.com)

It has been a month since I broke my leg and I have one more month with my cast on. The worst part of it all is that it is so hard to do anything or go anywhere.

Before I just wanted to sit around the house on my days off. After a full week of work it was nice to just sit and not go anywhere. And now that I am almost glued to my couch I now want to get out. My plan is to go for a hike somewhere and take about 100 photos once the cast is off. Any photo from a view point other than my couch would be nice.

I have to say the one thing I miss most is being able to chase after my daughter and play with her. Chasing her with the crutches is not exactly fun to her.

From the couch, however, I did manage to get a good shot of my daughter. She loves crayons. She doesn’t color with them. She just takes them out then puts them back in…. or walks around with them…. or dumps them out then puts them back in again. She is obsessed with picking things up and putting them a way. I hope it stays that way.

I love my daughter and even a little thing like breaking your leg makes you much more thankful for the fact that it is only a temporary discomfort. There are people I know who will never walk yet have learned to enjoy life.

I want to be more thank for everything. I want my daughter to see  an example of an attitude of thankfulness, excitement  and just enjoying life no matter what circumstances may come. Life is more that these little things that appear to set us back or slow us down. I want to be the cheerful bright red crayon.

iPad? What kind of sick joke is that?

If I upgrade to the best iPad do I get a Max iPad? Since I could care less about nice little white computers that make you feel warm an fuzzy. I haven’t been following the whole Mac thing. To me it is just a fad that will one day fade out but apparently there is a large chuck of our population that thinks cosmetics help them perform better.

So I had to do a little research on this thing they call an iPad. One of the results on a Google search nearly made me fall over laughing in pain, it was a court case over the name (Apple Tries to Wrangle iPad Trademark). Are you serious? Your going to pay lawyers to fight over a crappy name like that? So now you’ve just added a few more dollars to your pretty little white toy?

Give it up Apple. No one really cares if you have a lower case “i” in front of your name. On top of that “iPad” makes me think of something that belongs in the woman section of a department store.