[Diana in Wisconsin]

You didn’t have to help clean the fish? LUCKY! We never escaped that chore with Grandpa. ‘You catch ‘em, you clean em!’

Of course, he’d soon take over because we weren’t ‘doing it right!’ LOL!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Is it just me, or does morning coffee taste even BETTER when it starts to get cold outside? 44 degrees this morning! Refreshing! Bracing! Warmer weather (70's) starting on Tuesday. Yesterday's high was only 57!

Plans for the day are to tackle the greenhouse and/or mow - not sure which will win until it warms up some and the light frost is off the kitchen storm door. Mom's 88th Birthday is this month, so I am ordering flowers. I love that her birthday is in the Fall because the Fall arrangements are so pretty and are the style and colors we both like.

Have a Good and Productive Day, FRiends!

[Qiviut]

In his later years, dad & mom would go to a stocked trout pond. The fish were bigger & you paid by the pound. Mom got carried away when the fish were biting on one trip & cost dad $75 LOL!

Dad’s hands were really bothering him & he wanted to go fishing SO bad, but said he couldn’t clean them. My brother & I told him to go fishing & we’d clean them for him, which is what happened. After cleaning, if you put the fish in a freezer ziploc & fill it with water (leave enough bag to close it) & then freeze, the fish keep really well. You have to keep the bags upright until the water freezes. We did 2 fish per bag so mom & dad each had one when she made fish.

I think that trip was the last one dad could make. He couldn’t walk up the hill to the pond any more & even if the ground was smooth enough for his transport chair, he was too heavy for mom to push.