Walter didn't start school until today. A post about that will arrive a little later. Since he had two days more of summer than his brother I decided to take him for a quick fishing trip to the cabin in Wisconsin. It was so hot... How hot was it, that we decided only to stay for one night instead of two. Its funny he's such an easy kid to negotiate with as long as you know how to do it and are willing to let him make some choices. I guess most kids are like that. The difference with Walter is that you (the adult) have to think through the implications of the choices. He's not much of a last minute change the plans, sorry we said we would do this, but now we ran out of time, kind of kid. You said we will do this and we will. Thinking about this made our negotiations work well. For example, he wanted to stop at the donut shop in Lindstrom on the way back. Not possible with his desired departure time of after supper. So we decided to leave after lunch instead.
Anyway here's the good stuff.
I caught this Largy on Walter's rig with a big chunk of night crawler. My photographer was carefully cradling the iPhone.
This wish you were here picture made the little photographer want to go for a swim.
If you look carefully you can see Walter is about eight feet from my bobber. "Hey Walter, Tell some of those fish to jump on my hook!"
It worked!
Can't have enough pictures of the sun setting on the prairie.
The next morning we tried to fish, but our worms had perished in the heat wave. I suggested going to the store for some leeches, but Walter wanted to head home.
He wanted to take one last dip in the lake, but I protested. The wind had blown all of the algae to our side of the lake.
Since we came back early, yesterday I took W to lunch at the mecca of board games and old school video games, Chatterbox Pub. We had tasty lunch, frosty brews, (Walter's was the root variety), and played the heck out of the original NES Super Mario Bros.
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