Was able to get in a trip to one of my local reservoirs, it was a grind for me.

7 hrs on the water and got 7 largemouths, 2 smallmouths, 2 perch and a crappie.

Only picture I was going to take was one of the smallies that was a good one, lipped it and dropped it as it shook.

After an hr drive back home due to traffic just looking forward to unpacking and having dinner.

Come in and wife announces kitchen sink is backed up.

Oh well, got to fix it now as the next day I'm babysitting my 3 yr old grandaughter.

Go in the basement and open up the clean out, nothing coming out of it, so it's backed up somewhere between the sink and clean out.

Empty out the cabinet beneath the sink, disassemble all the plumbing and start with the manual snake.

It's happened before but I was able to use the clean out in the basement, it's messy and takes time but at least I"m standing upright.

Now I'm laying on my back, head in the cabinet. I'm making about 3" progress turning the snake with a small vise grip attached to it, then take it off and do another 3" , repeat this about 100 times.

Good thing I did this before my granddaughter was here, because she'd be telling her mom all the new words and phrases she just leaned from pop-pop.

After at least a hr of this got everything back together and thankfully the drain was cleared and nothing was leaking.

Then I got to take a shower using Dawn to get all the funk off of me.

I told my wife I just saved us a 1,000 $, I should get a new fishing rod, she asked do you really need another, I just laughed.

It’s always something, the day it ends is the day they put you in the ground. It is a little more tolerable when you are able to take care of the problem yourself.

You ground it out on the water and then at home! You need to change your username from herder to grinder!