Weekly Recap; 7/28/25-8/3/25

Jordan DiVirgilio
Aug 4
3 min read

A much needed slower week. Spent some time in Nature and time on projects. Also, focusing on time to relax.

More flowers this week than anything else. It blows my mind how many varieties of flowers there are. The shapes, colors, smells. Even the shapes of all the different leaves and petals, as well as how they unfold and unfurl.

A note about plants; they enrich your environment heavily. Bringing the outside in. Easing the transition from indoors to outdoors.

Another note about coffee; no matter what form it may take, the end product of steeping coffee beans, is a slice of heaven. Easy to see why so many look forward to it every single morning.

Often I get my morning cup at Miller’s Thumb Cafe and Bakery. Each time one of the wonderful baristas brings me the macchiato latte, a huge smile grows on my face and I eager await the design in the cup as well as the smell and finally the amazing first sip. After this, then some art can unfold.

Fortunate to have a day out on the water with my Dad! Here is the recap…

8/2/25

Lake Erie

Fun fishing with Dad

Air temp: 63°-77°

Water temp: 77°

Wind: W 2MPH-> NW 6MPH

Conditions: Sunny

Depth fished: 25’-45’

Time fished: 8:45am-2pm

Water clarity: 2’ +

Pattern: Summer

Best Zone: ?

Total caught: 1 Bass, 1 Sheepshead

No real good info. Lost a bass somewhere throughout the day too. We fished around a bunch of different spots. The Sheep was the first fish of the day and it ate the Ned rig! Then my Dad caught the smallmouth on the drop shot! The sunshine was the best catch for us both.

Hinds sight, we would have left that plan and gone to fish walleye. It felt risky due to us never having attempted before, but also, what did we really have to loose? We weren’t catching fish anyway, but that little hope that the bite was gonna light up like it had weeks prior, still lingered. It is the classic dilemma of going based on history or going with something new. Also, check out the JDO shirt my Dad is wearing! There will be many colors on the website soon.

One of the very last things I did this week was make a wooden spoon. But not just any wooden spoon, a small one, for honey, that looks like a mushroom, made out of Black Walnut. My Uncle Fred and I went through some cutoffs for some spoon making materials. As soon as he found the Black Walnut, I knew that was the first project. This spoon was made with a coping saw, rasp, sand papers of different grits, and finished with a beeswax oil.

Other random observations…

There is an appropriate time for everything. As much as I often want to make art all the time, often I will produce a lot of work and then drop off for a few days perhaps. I always do some creative work, it is essential to me like oxygen. This article, or my journals are a creative work, or it may be a photo, drawing, or a full painting. So, the moral being, the hills and valleys are natural and necessary, the path forward is not always easy, but like our natural instincts know, there will be feast and famine, we need to take advantage of the windows of opportunity we receive. Much like the hand Mother Nature deals us with the weather, we gotta go with the flow, wherever it goes.

Coming up…

Next Tuesday, August 12th, I am hosting my third guided meditation session at Aura Juicery! Contact (716-863-3733) if you are interested in attending. There will be a cold pressed juice included! The classes are $25 per person and that covers the juice and the meditation class! Hope to see you there!

Episode 117 of the Two Angles on Angling podcast is available on YouTube!

Song of the week;

Yes, another Tragically Hip song!

Hailstone Hands Of God- The Tragically Hip

Thank you for reading! Not much to talk about this week.

Tight lines! Catch ya soon! Get outside!

Jordan H. DiVirgilio