Rose lives in this beautiful old house on a lake. Well, actually the lake is across the street, so the kids do have to be careful crossing the road. The drivers are crazy! The best thing about the house is the huge porch over there on the side. She has a 3-person swing out there, and it is just so lovely to sit there.
This is Rose's lakefront. I'm standing on the road right in front of her house. There is quite a bit of grass over here, and past the trampoline she has her own private dock. The speck out in the water is her boat. She gave boat rides all afternoon.
Caleb, Jonathan, Anna, and Grace are all on here, along with Bob, Matt (Rose's ex-brother-in-law), and Wally, Bob's brother in law. I thought maybe Grace wouldn't like the boat, but she did! Caleb and Jonathan both got to drive the boat some, which was quite thrilling for them!
Nathan and Luke couldn't be bothered to go on a boat ride--they were too busy fishing. Here Luke has just caught a fish, and Bob's brother Dennis is demonstrating how you hold them by the bottom of the mouth, which paralyzes the fish so it doesn't wiggle around. I don't think any of the boys actually touched a fish however, LOL. All the boys caught fish. The lake is private and definitely not over-fished, so the kids caught a total of maybe 20 fish, including some bass which we had to throw back because it's not bass season (who knew? and who could tell?!).
Here Dennis is demonstrating to an eager audience how to clean and fillet a fish. Dennis is an avid hunter and fisherman--the type of person you would want to be around if there was ever some sort of catastrophic event, and we all had to scrounge around for food. He'd be eating well, LOL. Nathan was very impressed with his expertise. Dennis was so patient with all the kids the whole afternoon, running between all the kids, casting lines, helping reel fish in, getting out hooks, and finally cleaning all the fish. The boys were very sad that we had to leave before we could cook them all up and eat them. The boys had the best time Saturday, and now they think Rose's place is paradise, LOL. We need to go back sometime when we can spend more time up there. We had to be back Sunday so Bob could teach children's church.
Rose lives in this beautiful old house on a lake. Well, actually the lake is across the street, so the kids do have to be careful crossing the road. The drivers are crazy! The best thing about the house is the huge porch over there on the side. She has a 3-person swing out there, and it is just so lovely to sit there.
This is Rose's lakefront. I'm standing on the road right in front of her house. There is quite a bit of grass over here, and past the trampoline she has her own private dock. The speck out in the water is her boat. She gave boat rides all afternoon.
Caleb, Jonathan, Anna, and Grace are all on here, along with Bob, Matt (Rose's ex-brother-in-law), and Wally, Bob's brother in law. I thought maybe Grace wouldn't like the boat, but she did! Caleb and Jonathan both got to drive the boat some, which was quite thrilling for them!
Nathan and Luke couldn't be bothered to go on a boat ride--they were too busy fishing. Here Luke has just caught a fish, and Bob's brother Dennis is demonstrating how you hold them by the bottom of the mouth, which paralyzes the fish so it doesn't wiggle around. I don't think any of the boys actually touched a fish however, LOL. All the boys caught fish. The lake is private and definitely not over-fished, so the kids caught a total of maybe 20 fish, including some bass which we had to throw back because it's not bass season (who knew? and who could tell?!). 
Here Dennis is demonstrating to an eager audience how to clean and fillet a fish. Dennis is an avid hunter and fisherman--the type of person you would want to be around if there was ever some sort of catastrophic event, and we all had to scrounge around for food. He'd be eating well, LOL. Nathan was very impressed with his expertise. Dennis was so patient with all the kids the whole afternoon, running between all the kids, casting lines, helping reel fish in, getting out hooks, and finally cleaning all the fish. The boys were very sad that we had to leave before we could cook them all up and eat them. The boys had the best time Saturday, and now they think Rose's place is paradise, LOL. We need to go back sometime when we can spend more time up there. We had to be back Sunday so Bob could teach children's church. 
4 comments:
How fun for them! That's a whole lot closer to drive to than waaaayyyy out here! ;)
Sounds like you guys had a really good time -- depite the stressful ride up there.
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Oh, Claire, that looks like such a relaxing place!! Do you think Rose will let us come take a ride in her boat and a swing on her porch? ;0)
xoxo, Veronica in CA
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