I went to a women-only fly fishing class on Saturday. A few weeks ago, I was thinking this was sunk-cost event, meaning that I had paid for it (past-Doris) and then felt too busy to go (present-Doris) and I wouldn’t go – I really just wanted to stay at home and just do NOTHING as it is my favorite thing to do, but really, I’m trying to relax by doing things and this was going to be fun.
I’m interested in going on women only fly fishing trips which seem pretty affordable and I think I would like more than other type of self-care retreats and it would be a good way to be outside. I’m also interested in fly fishing because it matches well with Jeremy’s biking hobby. Family vacations can be a little problematic for us because Jeremy wants to go to famous mountains and climb up them on his bicycle. And he doesn’t want to leave me and Edda behind – but he also doesn’t want us to just sit in the hotel while he’s biking up a big mountain day after day. (I mostly would prefer for him to go by himself, and I also don’t really mind sitting in the hotel with Edda, but we go around in circles because…what else is a marriage besides getting into the same discussion 10,000x?). Turns out that the good places to go hill climbing on a bike is also the good places to go fly fishing. So he could bike one day and the next day, I’d go fly fishing – and we would both be entertained.
So….will I love fly fishing? It is unclear to me. I think it’s better than my kayaking hobby because the risk of drowning seems much, much less (but not zero). But there is a lot of equipment. So it seems…..expensive. Each of these flies? Maybe 5 dollars? And how many do you need? Technically only one. But no – it seems like one likes to have many, many, many. I tend to not like hobbies with a lot of equipment.
I like it because there are women-focused groups in a male dominated sport, so that is appealing to me. The river was too fast for us to fish in, so we practiced casting a fishing in a pond. And while some people did catch bass and trout (stocked pond) – I caught nothing. The instructor was like – there are 500 fish in this stocked pond (we were on private property where the owner owns a fish hatchery to raise trout/bass for stocking local streams). I’m like, OK, it’s like a New York city block – instead of people, there are fish? She was like – yeah pretty much. HAHAHA. I’m bad a fishing apparently.
The baking continues – I made a tiramisu which got raves at service yesterday. I used the wrong cookies – not lady fingers, something else which didn’t turn cake-like. But no worries, it still tasted delicious. We learned how to pasteurize eggs at home – Jeremy helped me sous vide them for a little while so no one would get sick from eating raw egg. I need to try again.
