My plan for last Thursday was to run down to Rocky Ford Creek to fish for big trout with my fly rod. The weather was going to be warm enough that my line wouldn’t freeze to my guides, and I hadn’t done any fishing for way too long. Then disaster struck. My wife went into our garage, which is actually a storage area, and found water on the floor. I went out and started mopping up, and we soon figured out that we had a major problem. The radiant heating system had frozen and cracked the concrete surface. No amount of mopping was going to keep up with the water coming up through the floor. So, we spent much of the night moving things that could be damaged, including all my fishing rods, which are still stacked in our living room. Plumbers came to our rescue and did the needed repairs, and I was able to go fishing on Friday. When I arrived, I was the only rig in the upper parking lot, but two other anglers arrived shortly after. Meeting these two was the highlight of my day. Let’s just say the catching wasn’t good, but the fishing was great.