Times Well Spent

Times well Spent are reflections of my time enjoying God's creation, the friendships I have made and the experiences seen and felt in my time there. Many of these are personal and introspective. Others are more informative and helpful.

If you love the out of doors as I do I hope you find these refreshing and different from the normal writings and perusings about the out of doors. Too often today's writers are publishing "how to" articles or "me and Joe" stories and missing the real thrill of being out there. You will find some "how to" and a few "Me and joe" stories, but mostly it is an introspective of how I have viewed things which I am finding is not that different from many who live for the experience.

I love hunting, fly fishing, camping, traveling and experiencing new things. I long to fill my life with more experiences, more exciting things many only dream of but I know are only a decision away. Until the decision is made, I also know that most of life's experiences are found in the more common and simple. Salamanders in mountain streams, bull moose in arctic meadows, mosquitoes, campfires, and friendships are what captivate me. I can spend hours on a stream bed looking at rocks, and stand motionless transfixed watching a spider tie a web. I can sit in a deer stand and marvel at whitetail does teaching their fawns, and listen to bull frogs call for a mate. I have sat in duck blinds for hours watching empty skies and loved every minute of it.

I hope these stories will inspire you to notice the small things and enjoy the simple. I hope they inspire you to live today and not long for tomorrow. I hope these will invoke you to hang onto memories and to live your life knowing it is about loving and building memories.

Some will also involve my family and the times we share together. I love being with my wife and five children, I search for adventure I can have with them. So some sharings will involve our times together. I hope you will join us as together we share Times Well Spent.

Pete