We headed to the woods this evening to celebrate Fathers Day. My brother and his wife have a cozy cabin in the woods behind mom and dads place. We had a cookout tonight with brats and burgers. Yes, my brother is back in the fire setting business. This time in the safe confines of a fire pit.
In the meantime, Thomas is suddenly into fishing....BIG TIME! He went to work with his dad on Thursday and ended up fishing. The contractor on the job was nice enough to lend Thomas his fishing pole and even bought some bait for him. He was in heaven and thankfully the fish were in the mood to be caught and he let out a holler every time he got one on the line. He was SO excited about fishing, he sacrificed some of his allowance money previously earmarked for the toy tent at Ag Expo in July to purchase his very own fishing pole. He has been messing around with it ever since.
He took it with him tonight to show Uncle Terry and got a lesson in how to cast it. He was getting pretty good at it. So good in fact that he managed to cast it right in to a tree. After all, we were in the woods. Uncle Terry is a great uncle. He shimmed up the tree the line was caught in and managed to bend it over far enough that Thomas could get the line out of it. He then neatly lowered himself to the ground. It was quite a sight. Why is it I never have my camera with me at moments like that!!??
I am so thankful that I can celebrate Fathers Day with my Dad. He is a cancer survivor and five years ago, our family was facing his upcoming bone marrow transplant. It was a success!!! Yes, he still has health issues and some of them have been scary, but he is alive, able to work and especially able to enjoy time with his wife, kids and grandkids. God is very good and we are ever grateful for the huge answer to prayer we have in our family.
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