Activities for the week included fishing for Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass and Northern Pike. Here’s the Old Geezer with a nice wild Smallmouth …
Here’s another photo of my oldest Granddaughter with a Rock Bass she caught all by herself off the dock …
… and a photo of my oldest son showing his Northern Pike to one of his daughters, another granddaughter of mine.
They couldn’t find a ‘6’ candle, so got a ‘9’ candle instead, but the wick was such that they couldn’t turn it upside down for the cake, so I wound up with a ‘90’ on top of my birthday cake. I felt I needed to do something to make up for being mistaken for 90 years old, so I figured I’d show the young lads that I still had other guns besides Winchesters and encouraged them to aim to still have something when they hit my age. They ain’t the biggest guns around, but I can still lift the fork to my mouth …
Then there was an evening canoe with the Queen of Hearts (otherwise known as my wife). Like all Elven Queens, she never ages, at least it seems so to me, but she just laughs and says I got something wrong with my eyes …
For my 60th birthday, she told me that she figured I needed an old John Deere tractor so I’d have something to get out and do a bit of plowing with. Well I will tell you … any woman that will get her man a vintage Johnny Popper for his birthday is something else. There are more ways to a man’s heart besides just food, and a classic John Deere tractor is one of them. Today, I drove it home and here it is, a Model 620 made in 1958 …
