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| LLBean leather water shoes... adopted by #2, very comfy! |
Well, the big guy thought they were his. Nice leather. Way better than his rubber Merrills. Ahh.... but....hey, you have to be quick around here....When the LLbean box came into the house, out came #2 and on came the shoes. Ouch !! The plus of being the same size as your growing son = you can have his hand-me-downs. The down side = #2 lives life with so much gusto that everything he wears is falling apart by the time he can hand anything down. So maybe Santa will bring the big guy a new pair of shoes for Christmas that will be all his, and maybe #2 will be a size 14 next year and leave the big guys shoes alone!
Anyways, off to our super secret spot on Irondequoit Creek to try out the new shoes. Armed with a zippy bag of oatmeal raisin cookies (just out of the oven, thank you) and a couple of bead head pheasant tailed nymph (size 16), the boys got into the water to try their luck. I wasn't there when the "fish of the night" was caught, so no camera documentation from an independent source. (but see photo below by the big guy) When I came later with the cookies and my camera, the fish were being more elusive. Probably all the cookie crumbs dropping into the water, looking like foreign flies.
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| Brown caught with pheasant tail on the Echo 3# |
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| Under the bridge off Fishers Rd. |
After a bit they moved to the other side of the bridge to check it out there. Yikes ; they scored ! Oops, only a monster crayfish. And actually, #2 found it in the water while the big guy was casting.... oh well.
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| Monster crayfish!! |
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| Check out those cool magnifying glasses, the big guy looking just like the pros on the TV fishing shows! |
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| What a great cast by the big guy... #2 is in TOTAL AWE ! |
So lets wrap this up...while they were unsuccessful for the remainder of the evening, the shoes were a go, the cookies really hit the spot, the hubby was looking hot with his magnifying glasses on, and my new lens that the big guy got me for my birthday was tried out. Who needs fish with a night like this?
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| Black-eye Susans on the bank of the stream |
