This was a pretty fun day. Well even if it wasn’t I can pretend anyway. Well as you can see in the pictures above My mom is wearing camo. Not sure what got into her to make her want to but it created some smiles.

When Grandma offered me the trolling motor she also gave me some of Grandpa’s hunting stuff. When mom saw it all she was pretty excited she liked the light stuff and she put it on. She wanted to send these pictures to some people she wanted to be sure to get her ladybug coffee cup in the picture.

Then we sent the pictures out and waited for replies.

I snapped this pic of mom getting ready to go out. She had some Dr appointments this day. I thought it was kinda unique because of the way i took the picture of the mirror so it also caught my cellphone taking a picture of itself.  might sound goofy to you reading it. but o-well. I can be goofy when I want to.

After her appointments and a little shopping we went out for lunch at Old Chicago. We took these pictures to intentionally tease Doug and Grandma. When mom and I go out for lunch we like to take pix and send them to a few people. Its a lot of fun sometimes to see their replies.

Doug responded to the pix I sent to him with a picture of his lunch an apple. It was pretty silly and gave both mom and I a smile when I received the image from him.

It was a cold sunny day. I figured why not dress warm and see if the motor would run in the cold. Well it did without any trouble. I have been pretty happy lately with how it has been running I hope the motor will last the rest of this year. I have been running it pretty hard.

Lots of fish were biting this day. I am starting to enjoy boating and fishing solo. It can be pretty peaceful but its still nice when I have someone to go with.  I really love it when the water is smooth as glass. There probably isn’t too many more good weather days to fish this year so I am trying to soak it all up as often as possible.

I was casting with one of my favorite lures. I would have liked to pull in the fish that the scale above belonged to. O-well it was fun at least tugging on him for a moment. Maybe i will get it in the boat next time.

I caught several small cats and sheephead as usual. I wish I could figure out how to catch some walleye. Guess i just have to keep trying different spots. The spot I was fishing here is only 4 - 6 feet deep and I know that its not likely for walleye to be in the shallows this time of year.

On Thursdays Austin gets off the school bus here instead of at home. He was so excited to show off his sticker that he got at school that day. I think this picture really captured the energy and bounce in his step. As soon as he was done showing the sticker off he stuck it on his shirt.

I cooked these two rib eye steaks on the grill tonight. They turned out pretty good. I thought they looked pretty good but they tasted even better then they appeared. I could eat steaks like this every day of the week.