The Life Of Stan Heath Explained

There’s another great weekend coming up soon and again I’m really looking forward to it a  lot again.

Yes, I get to go away this weekend. I’m really looking forward to it heaps.

I can’t go with my family because they all have some concert to go to that I don’t like particularly so they can’t come and I get to go with a friend.

We are planning to camp this time. I have a great tent, water proof, big enough to be comfortable and its forecast to rain, again, so I may need all of that. I hope it doesnt rain because rain isnt what you need when you go camping, like I’ve said before.

We leave Friday morning at about 4 am. We’re meeting some other people at 8 and it will take about 4 hours to get to where we’re meeting. I don’t really like getting up early, good thing I don’t have to too often, I’ve talked about getting up early before, grrrr.

But it’s not that much of a drama getting up early if you’ve got a holiday to get up for I suppose, you have to give up something. And I’m looking forward to it so it’s not that much of a problem really, I’m just being grouchy.

But my car is very old, I really hope the car makes it ok. It’s not that it’s breaking down all the time or anything, in fact it goes pretty well. But it is old and I just keep my fingers crossed that it makes it there and back.

Saturday is going to be an easy day. Nothing planned at all, just a hang about day to do what you want, when you want. I plan to take my fishing gear along and do some fishing, in fact I bought a new fishing rod this morning. I broke my old fishing rod a while ago which was pretty sad.

I made that fishing rod when I was about 23. I bought the blank and I bought the whipping and rod varnish and all the other bits and pieces that go into making a good fishing rod. I was pretty pleased with myself that I managed to make my own fishing rod and catch fish with it.

Ive used that fishing rod for a lot of years now, and it was a sad day when I broke it. I dont even know how I managed to break it, I was just walking through the trees and suddenly I noticed the tip of the rod broken off hanging in its own. Boy was I pissed off.

It wasnt worth a lot but it was to me, it was mine. I mean I made that rod myself. And I broke it myself. So today I went back to the fishing shop and bought a rod, but it isn’t mine.

And I couldn’t believe. 40 bucks for a new fishing rod. They certainly aren’t expensive now to buy. But the new one isn’t the one I made. I’d rather my old one than a new one, I did love that rod.
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I really love my weekends away, I treasure them and look forward to them all the time.

But now it’s all done, my weekend I mean. And it was a great weekend? I loved it, though getting up quite so early was a little hard. Way too early for me to enjoy.

I got up at around 6 am, really early for me. It was very dark and it felt like the middle of the night. Wow was it hard to get myself out of that bed, but I got out because I knew that I had a good weekend to look forward to, and I did.

I had to get going on time to meet the other people, so I picked up my friend as faast as I could. But it took quite a while to get all his stuff packed into the car, we were stuffing things into every space we could find in the car.

And by the time we got there it was raining which was quite annoying. And we’ve had such good weather over the last few weeks to have it raining the same weekend that I go away is pretty annoying, but there’s nothing you can do about it is there? What can you do about weather really?

And when you’re camping in a tent the last thing you want to have is rain. Rain is the worst thing because when something gets wet it’s wet for the whole time unless it gets warmer again. Luckily the rain was heavy but when we were putting up our tent it eased off a little. Some good luck at least. And it was a long drive in the rain.

And along the way there were new speed limits and so we had to go slower than we would have liked which was annoying. (more…)