Stuck At Home
I had big plans for this weekend. We were going to drive 6 hours north and spend the long weekend camping on the ice for two nights. Woohoo! We’d been trying to get away camping the last two weekends and it just didn’t happen. This time we had a three-day weekend and it was on! We spent all week getting ready, packing, checking the list, and checking the weather.
Things were looking good and my mood improved throughout the week. I’ll be honest, my mental health hasn’t been the best lately. My anxiety has been out of control and despite all my coping mechanisms, nothing works as well as a couple days of fishing and camping. I really needed this trip.
Unfortunately, by the time we were packing the truck last night, the wind had picked up, the snow had started falling, and the forecast was looking downright miserable at home. The forecasted winds for today were now supposed to gust to 70-80kph and we were under a blizzard warning. Our destination still looked okay, but when we finished up for the night we had doubts we would be leaving in the morning.
We woke up early this morning to several more inches of snow and the wind whipping it across the yard. Visibility was terrible. Whether or not we thought we could make the drive, there was no way I could put the horses outside in that weather and leave them out. I agonized over my weather app several times before I agreed with Darrell that today was a loss.
Calling it quits on the day proved to be a good decision, as all the roads in our county were eventually closed. The snow kept falling, the wind kept blowing, and I stayed inside as much as possible. To say I was bummed to miss this trip would be an understatement. I was crushed. I so badly wanted to get out. I had spent so much time planning and prepping and was looking forward to visiting a new lake. I told myself that if the forecast improved for tomorrow we could still get out for one night on the ice.
I moped around the house for quite some time today. Finished a book, did some laundry, and checked the weather app a million times. I finally placed my seed order for this year’s vegetable garden. That’s about two months later than I placed my order the last few years. Thinking about gardening seemed to help and I finally dragged my butt to the basement and assembled my grow shelves that had been hastily moved down there last year after the growing season. The good news is that I can finally get some microgreens growing again! Fresh greens make the days better. Once the seed order gets here I can get the peppers and onions going as well.
With the mess of snow we have, a good chunk of tomorrow morning will be spent digging out, so no camping for us. Do you feel majorly let down when a trip doesn’t happen? I clearly do. I don’t mind winter when we can get outside and explore and fish and do all the fun things. But it’s a pain when the weather doesn’t cooperate. It’s so rare for weather to outright cancel a trip for us at any other time of the year.
So that’s the story of the trip that never was. Both of us are feeling desperate for some fishing time, and maybe we’ll hit up a local lake to catch some tiny perch and itty-bitty pike. I’m just hoping for better weather for the next two days so we can actually get outside and do something this weekend. I never feel like I accomplish anything unless I’ve spent time outdoors.
Here’s hoping anyone who reads this has an awesome weekend! Let me know in the comments how you’re weekend turned out, or post a picture on our Facebook page.
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