I took mom to one of her MRI appointments at Summit. I wouldn’t normally post about something like this but while sitting in the waiting room I decided to take a picture to send to some friends and family. I thought the picture of mom turned out really good so here it is.

Mom really likes this butterfly that she ironed on her purple sweater. She wanted me to take a picture of it not really sure why but anyway hehe I did take the pix of it for here so I thought I would share it with all of you.

On our way home mom and I decided to give Mel a call to see if she wanted to meet us uptown for lunch. So we met and took a few more pix. It was a good time and a nice lunch. Taylor was sure full of smiles she was happy she got to sit next to her Grandma. I think we should try to do lunches like this more often.

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.

Brandon was a cow for Halloween. Michelle sent me this picture on Halloween day just before trick or treat. I think he makes a pretty cute cow hehe. I know he had a good time trick or treating. He wanted to be an airplane for trick or treat but its not easy to find a airplane costume so he had to settle for the cow. If he is still into airplanes next year I hope he can dress up as one then.

This picture is of my boat shortly after i finished installing the seats. They make the boat a lot more comfortable especially when spending several hours on the river. Now that i have used the seats several times i don’t think I would ever want to go fishing in a boat with standard benches. The seats make it so much easier for me and 1 passenger.

This pix is of the biggest sucker I have caught this year. The picture really doesn’t show the fishes true size well. But anyway it was a lot of fun to catch and actually one of the few fish I have caught this year that ran my drag out. it isnt exactly the most desirable kind of fish to catch but at least it keeps my fishing energy level up.

Tonight I decided to run into town to get an iced tea from Mobil and i noticed there were no cars at the boat launch. So I decided to try fishing for a short time since there was a full moon.

I tried to capture the full moon in the first picture it was so beatuiful. The seccond picture is one of the sheep heads i caught while i was out there.

My camera is not so good at taking pictures at night as you can probably tell from these pix. I am hoping to get a new one soon. Just need to make a decision to which one.

Jason and I took the boat out again.  We had a lot of fun. I don’t think it would be possible to take the boat out and go fishing and not enjoy ourselves.

I think today was the first time out of all the times that Jason and i have gone fishing that he caught more fish then I did. I really didn’t mind he deserved to finally have a good day of fishing and catching almost all of the fish.

Well that’s all of this trip. I know I should take the time to write more about each picture they all kinda have a story behind them. But part of the fun is keeping a few of the details and secrets, secret.

Picture of me getting the boat ready to head out on the river. Not sure how many more nice warm days left in this year so I have been making every attempt to get as much fishing in as I possibly can when its sunny. I don’t think the cooling weather will keep me totally away from fishing just wont be out for as long of periods of time.

I Never imagined a praying mantis actually being this big. I don’t know if you can really tell its size from the pix i took but i think with the size of the toe of my shoe you can at least guess. I wish I would have taken a picture of it next to a tape measure.

I have found a few of these in the past but never one anywhere near this size. I also think this might be a different kind. I did a little research and I found that there are 20 or so different kinds of Mantis that live in the US. I didn’t take the time to figure out details as it really isn’t that important to me. But if anyone knows please post specifics as a comment.

I was walking in the backyard and noticed this mantis on the bush. I wanted to show Austin and Taylor so i considered catching it with my hands. Then after looking at it for a few seconds. I wasn’t sure if it could maybe hurt me. So I used a plastic container to avoid touching it.

This is a pix of my Grandma at a family gathering preparing to ride a 4 wheeler. Once she started riding it I could tell she had an itch in her to do it again and again. There was a couple of nice short trails setup for people to ride on. Actually a pretty awesome setup. I like this picture because of the look on Grandmas face and the fact that she is wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt.