I have a favorite fishing spot I like to go to for over night fishing excursions. I haven’t been in a while, and the kids have been dying for me to take them, so Sami and I finally decided that July was the month.<\/p>\n
On Friday, July 2, I took half day off work, loaded the fishing gear, sleeping bags and Milo and Niah and headed off. My friend Bryon Dalrymple and his son Joseph joined us.<\/p>\n
It was hot and windy. There where bugs everywhere, our lines were constantly fouled with grass and algae and we didn’t catch a thing. We had so much fun!<\/p>\n
We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for dinner, stayed up way too late, and had sausage and eggs for breakfast. We drank way too much soda, had a burping contest, saw a 4 foot long snake and at night, after it cooled down, there were toads everywhere. Milo and Niah caught 2 each. Joseph had so many, he couldn’t keep hold on them.<\/p>\n
At one point Joseph and Milo came running over, “Niah kissed a toad!”. I asked Niah if it turned into a prince. She replied rather forlornly, “No”.<\/p>\n
Part of the rather large bug population was little white butterflies. At one point I looked over to see Niah sitting in the middle of the weeds surrounded by butterflies. She was jabbering away. I asked her what she was doing. “Oh, just talking to the butterflies”. Too cute for a fishing trip, really.<\/p>\n
Milo practiced casting, and got rather good at it. To the point that I don’t have to worry too much about him tending his own pole. We had an extra pole that he put a hook and grape on. I asked why, he said it was to catch squirrels. I did see him later lowering the hook into a squirrel hole. We didn’t have much luck catching squirrels either, but it kept him busy the better part of an hour.<\/p>\n
We got home on Saturday about noon tired but happy. We stopped on the way home to buy cherries from a road side fruit stand as a thanks to the wives for letting us have the time to fish. Over all, a success, even without catching.<\/p>\n
Next week, Alix and Afton. Should be interesting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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