You know the gift I never think to ask for, but that I would love? An annual subscription to Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines.
I’m just saying.
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Archive for August, 2007
Both our kids are now back in school. This is the first year for our daughter. She started on Wednesday and has our son’s old kindergarten teacher, so she’s been “too excited to go to sleep” all week.
Ethan will be a 2nd grader this year and is enjoying being an older brother in school. Something I never experienced.
Here’s the bassmaster and his prey. Not too bad for a 7-yr old who hasn’t done much fishing at all in his life.
In a recent post I stated that I wasn’t the bassmaster even though there was a guy named Jason Bean that just placed 2nd in a tournament in Kentucky.
It turns out, my son is the bassmaster in the family now.
Last night after football practice he went finishing with one of his friends from his team and his mom (the friend’s mom, Kim wouldn’t be caught dead fishing). Anyway, he ends up catching a little baby blue-gill, and the mom tells him to not throw it back but put it on the hook and use it for bait.
That seemed to be the trick, because he did that and when he’s reeling it back in a bass attacked it like a killer whale with a baby harbor seal.
The bass was about 4lbs and 22″ long. It’s in our refrigerator right now on ice until we decide what we’re going to do with it. Kim said filet it, I want to get it mounted, but yikes that’s expensive.
The reason I want to get it mounted is because when I was 5-years old, I caught a big bass like that and we put it in our freezer to mount it. We went on vacation and the freezer went on the fritz and the fish was ruined. Also stunk up the house quite a bit.
I don’t want to lose this one.
I’ll get a picture of Ethan’s fish and post it soon.
In case anyone was wondering, this isn’t me.
Police say 23-year-old Jason Bean shot and killed his friend, 24-year-old Chad Lumbra, while the two men were hunting together in Peacham in 2005. It was late in the day and Bean told police he thought he was shooting at a coyote.
The article goes on to state he thought he was shooting at a coyote and it would be plead no contest to a manslaughter charge in exchange for only serving 52 weekends in jail.
Granted, it’s not even close to taking someone’s life, but how would it feel to be asked, “What are your plans for the weekend?” and have to be this Jason and answer honestly.
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