Shoulda borrowed some flies . . .

I borrowed this picture somewhere on line!

Between all the cold, gray and rainy days Kiddo finally had a good day for outside fun yesterday. Got started a little late but Grampa took us fishing at Porter Pond. We got skunked but wish I had had the video running to catch all of the trout jumping up out of the water to eat the midges and bugs that were swarming everywhere. Kiddo lost a lot of worms but was sure that the fish had eaten them up! He's pretty patient for a kid. He and Grampa thought it was funny when he got his line hooked up on the old cement structure a ways from shore and I had to take off my shoes and socks, roll up my jeans and wade out to help Grampa free the hook. 'Twas mighty cold and I'm glad that all I had to do was wade into not quite knee deep clear clean water. Later as I was sitting on the old wall trying to dry my feet and legs on my jeans a girl who was also fishing there with her Mom brought me a towel. That was pretty nice of them and it did help a lot. They also left with out a single bite. Grampa is now working on making himself a fly fishing pole. He even said he'd never seen fish jumping out of the water like that. We must have seen dozens of jumpers. Pretty darned cool. Kiddo also got a chance to climb the dogwood, swing himself dizzy, go crazy on his scooter, fall down the hill to his heart's delight, practice casting in the driveway under Grampa's watchful eye, play basketball and badminton. Brought him to Groton today in the cold pouring rain then picked up the Prime Rib while Puppy's Pop went to Greg's for the world famous chocolate cake. The house is pretty much all set up for Easter Dinner although I didn't get any special flowers since we'll be gone for a while. The lawn will be a wild green expanse when we return. It's supposed to rain for about a week. Yuck. I'll go to 7:30 Mass tomorrow and then get the bread started. If I'm lucky the meal should be ready for 12:30 and not 11am!

Quote: Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power. ___W. Humboldt