Fishin and football

Hi! Mark and I are watching the Chiefs game. We are still ahead, so who knows what will happen. We are skeptical fans, as soon as our hopes get up, the team tanks and we're disappointed--any/all teams, usually MO teams are guilty of treating us this way--all sports, too. We'll be getting our hopes up about the Cardinals soon.

The big event of this weekend was the fishing trip. Mark took the 3 younger girls for a late Sat afternoon fishing trip at a local lake. Emily HAD to go too and then announced before M got all the hooks baited, "This is boring. I'm hungry." Mark called it a "poor man's fishing trip" as they were using bread dough balls for bait. As he was making them, they kept disappearing. He discovered a few minutes later, that Em was hungry and was eating his dough balls. Luckily no stink bait was applied. As they were eating their sandwiches, Abby's bobber went off. Her pole was bent downward and she couldn't hold it so M took it and fought it for about 5 minutes. They reeled in a 6 lb catfish!! Everyone at the lake had to come over and see it, one guy weighed it. It was HUGE!! Abby was so tickled and Mark, too. (If I knew how to add a picture I would.) Of course they named it, Em called it Bobby and Abby called it Wiggler. They watched M clean it last night and cook it today. There was about 3 lbs of fillets. So good. We even made homemade hush puppies. Almost as good as our cousin, Joy, can make. A big day!

Lovely weather, then some rain now it's hot. Plan to start the fall carpet cleaning tomorrow after our jog. No such thing as unnecessary cleaning around here. :) Getting ready for Jess and her friends to come. Nice to have a good reason.

Chiefs are tied now--bummer. Must go pay attention. Take care. K