There Is Fishing and There Is Catching

The excitement of the day started with a trip to the Tree House. I manufactured another rope ladder and cleaned the Tree House out. M does not have the strength yet to climb the rope ladder, but he did go up the metal ladder and enjoyed the view from above. He climbed the ladder and came down pretty well. He thought he might be afraid of heights but found it is more a manner of getting use to the height. Then we all joined in to find the leak in the pool. Gramma J won the prize there. So we are putting in more water. Of course, we are running it through Papa Coyote's homemade solar heating system. That would be three hundred and fifty feet of dark green (could not find black) garden hose coiled in a discarded black plastic pickup bed liner. Works pretty well. With the pool fixed, Gramma J fixed a delicious dinner of spaghetti squash and spaghetti sauce. Every thing we ate was M safe and very good. Gramma J also made vanilla ice cream from the goat milk. M likes a generous topping of chocolate added on top. Then after loading the kick boats in the trailer and using M's idea of using the pulley system in the garage to raise the boats and lower them onto the trailer in the garage, we were off and running. Of course, the fancy creative way of loading the boats kind of did not work out on the shoreline of the lake when it came time to go home. Ooooofff, lift, boy, lift! M still has trouble finding the strength to row the boats, so this year I towed him. He could still row and help out, but I could tow him pretty well and he got to troll a worm along behind his boat and caught three rainbow trout. We practiced casting and playing the trout when caught in the drive way before we left. He played each of the trout perfectly and will have trout for breakfast. He thought he had a great day. So did Papa Coyote. Now, we will have to work on the putting the worm on the hook and taking the fish off the hook trick. M is not sure that he ever will be ready for that, but, hahaha, does he really know Papa Coyote--the Trickster!!! Heh, Heh.

Good night all,

Papa Coyote