Fishin on the Farm

A few Saturdays ago, Marty was gone to a convention for work and the kids and I were bored and looking for something to do. WE called our good friends, the Garcia's, who live on a farm and have a beautiful pond...{large pond or little lake, I'm not sure which:)} ...and asked them if we could come out and fish! As always, they said, "Of Coarse!", so we ran to the store and bought some Night Crawlers and a few other things that you buy when you want to catch fish, and then we headed out to their house! Now I'd like to say that we had such a great time, and we did, until we tried to actually start fishing! Only then, did I realized that I needed one of those "Bobber-thingies" and maybe larger hooks would have been good too! It was a scorching 107 degrees that afternoon! So you can only imagine how 'fun' it was, throwing the bait out and watching it sink to the deeps of the big pond/little lake!! As we reeled it in, Jacob felt sure several times he must have caught a HUGE fish....only to learn he was dragging in every piece of algae plant that happened to be in the path of the mighty hook! Once we started fishing down near the reeds and other tall plant life, I 'reel'-lized that if I could throw the bait over a couple of the plants, or a floating stick or something, it would hold the bait and hook up so it wouldn't sink into the algae depths...it gave Jacob some hope, but still didn't work. aw-here are a few pictures---

oh, and here's one of our little 'pocket fishing rods' that we brought. Cute, but ridiculous! Don't waste your money on one!


Jacob gave up on fishing and started collecting snail shells!

As we all loaded up in the car, Rissa said, "I'm so hot!", Jacob said, "Mom, I think you need to take a Fishing Class...you don't know how to fish! I thought you did, but you don't!" , and Brant follows that reply with, "Mom, I think you owe us a Sonic Slush:)"! They were all right and we headed off to Sonic and then went home and jumped in the pool.

Thanks again Garcia's for sharing your big pond/little lake with us!!! :)

The other night, we all went out as a family to dinner and then to a few other places before heading home. On the way home, Kenny Rogers song, came on. With grand excitement, I hurried and told the family, "HUSH!hush! OOOOoohh Mommy loves this song!!!".. and then I cranked up the volume and began singing this beautiful song of his! As I sang (with my eyes closed:) I couldn't help but reminisce on the days long ago, as a child. It seemed just like yesterday! I remember riding side-by-side with my mom in the car listening to this song. My mom would put her Kenny Rogers 8-TRACK in the player, crank up the volume and cry and sing and cry and sing and cry and sing-along with good ol Kenny! Man are those some good memories! I didn't cry though...I just sang! Sang, sang sang! Even if I had forgotten a word here or there, I sang...until I heard a noise in the very back of the car. Was someone crying? Yes. Who? Why? Do I really have to turn the song down to let the inner compassionate mother in me shine? yes. I must. Even though it's the end..the best part of the whole song! The climax, if you will! so I turn the song down to hear that one someone is crying. I turn Kenny off so that I can hear better. "Is someone crying back there?" 'Yes", I hear through the sobs! "It's Jacob crying, mom", Brant tells me. "Jacob, why are you crying? What's wrong?", I ask. After a moment of trying to gather himself he answers, "It's this song, mom. It's so beautiful...and I miss my baby Chick! How can I live without him?!"
I should've known my little tenderhearted Jacob would find the beauty in the song! Thanks Kenny, you've touched all of our hearts...all of them:)

Jacob's Sweet Dance Moves

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These are clips from Jacob's jam session at my cousins house a while back! I didn't have the camcorder with me, so I just started snapping shots!! You Go Jacob!!