Last night Sam caught a bass that was just shy of 2 pounds. The new family record! We also caught a few catfish but they were smallish and we let them go. Also found a bait shop closer to the house that sells bait cheaper than BP.
Sam is totally hooked on fishing now. Yay!
Oh man what a fishing experience! We fished until 9:30 pm. I neglected to bring flashlights so that was interesting because I could not see a thing!
Sam made the haul tonight. A catfish (caught right as we were leaving) and a bass caught an hour before. He is quite pleased and his sister is miffed that his fish are bigger than hers. 
Thankfully I picked up an inexpensive fillet knife today. I think it helped a little.
They want to go back tomorrow evening too. O_o
Too tired to type more… must. sleep. now.
Here’s the picture of the fish Jessie caught today. Yes, she’s quite proud of herself.
Today’s agenda: dog park, people park, lunch, swimming, dinner, fishing.
Yep. We did all that in one day.
Went to Bass Pro before fishing to pick up minnows. They were out so
the nice gentleman at the counter gave us 4 ginourmous goldfish…
free because they were out of those minnows.
How did he know that Jessie would catch a good sized bass (on a
rickety old pole) with one of them? I think it was a scam.
So now we have to go fishing tomorrow… with goldfish… to catch
more bass ‘coz you can’t have a fish fry with just one fish.
Yep, I’ve been scammed.
PS… would have a picture but I used my phone and can’t seem to get
it to connect to the new puter. :\
Some quickie notes…
Instead of all grey, baby wren is showing lots of brown! He/she is also showing signs of wren-y attitude. LOL!
The 2008-2009 school year is now officially over. We’re all ready to relax… well some of us will get to. Me… I gotta get to planning out the 2009-2010 year!
Yesterday was our 17th wedding anniversary. Celebrated with a 6 mile run and Sparky’s icecream. Perfect! Last year we ran 5 miles. Next year…?
Today I met my goal weight of 150! Tonight I’ll be doing my victory dance (a Guinness) and looking for a 10k to run. 
Am pulling files off the old computer via a thumb drive. Woot! Doing
it as fast as I can in case it suddenly decides to stop recognizing
the USB ports… again.
New computer set up continues. Going to give Open Office a try. Thought I’d share the latest picture of our baby wren. Amazing to watch how fast he/she grows!
The new computer has arrived! Looking forward to getting it set up (I
think). Looking forward more to getting everything off of the old dead
one. :\
b'ware the minibeast!
Picked up a book from the library last week, Snails and Slugs (Keeping Minibeasts), one of many on the subject that Jessie picked out.
This one however goes into a little detail on care and feeding. So now, in addition to the dog, cat and frog… we have 3 small snails. Here is a close up of what one of them looks like. Not sure what kind it is yet.
One of my requirements for these “pets” is that they are FREE or they will BE FREED. So instead of the cuttle bone for calcium, as the book suggests, I’m using bits of well rinsed egg shell.
So far, Jessie has been quite diligent on their care and feeding. And I have to admit that I do enjoy watching them too.
So, how do I take this spur-of-the-moment project to the “next step” for a 5yo? Some kind of snail theme or something? Can’t yet decide but I’d like to do something to carry this further.
But for now, it is time for Latin.
