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The Fishing Pond

It never ceases to amazes me what kids do in their spare time. I was watching my grand kids one day this summer and saw them stuck to the TV tube. It didn’t matter what anyone did, the kids wouldn’t leave.

In the other room they where at the computer it was like a magnet so strong that it would pull others to it.

I decided to try something it wasn’t big and I told my wife what I was going to do. The dish where done the living room was clean. No one thought to bring an I pod with them to grandma’s and grandpa’s house.

Just then we lost power the TV was off, the computer was off. The kids where looking, and checking the plugs but everything was in order.

It was 11:00 in the morning so it was warm out side but there weren’t any kids outside.

Well the first thing the kids did was to tell me to fix the problem so they could go back to what they where doing. I know they wanted me to do my magic and fix it.

I just told them that my magic wouldn’t work this time I needed to get something at the store to help me.

The kids looked like they where lost couldn’t think for themselves. I went into my garage to look around and asked the kids to come and help. Up in the rafters I had made some storage places for like camping gear and things like that. I told the kids that what I needed was way in back of all the stuff. So I went up the ladder and started handing things down to the kids. First a tire came down and then a couple of sleeping bags and a tackle box and then some fishes polls.

Then one of the grand kids said “I’ve been fishing before” as though it was a big thing. So I asked would you like to go again. Of course he said yes but he said we went far, far away and it took them all day to get there.

I smiled at him and said well I know one that is closer and will only take about an hour to get to. Then the rest popped up and said can we come. Sure I said I have to check with grandma first.

My wife had made sandwiches and put them in a box along with some other things. But she said I’m coming along as well or you can make your own sandwiches.

So off we went. I had turned the radio off and they didn’t even notice. Grandma asked do any of you know a song we all can sing. So we sang songs the whole way. When se got there some wanted to fish others wanted to go for a hike.

We caught several fish and I showed the kids how to clean them.

We spent about 5 hours there and not one of them complained and on the way back I taught them some songs from when I was a kid.

When we got back home and their parents came that’s all they could talk about. The showed the parents the fish and other things they had found and the songs they learned.

As they where about to leave I asked would you like to do it again some time.

Their answer was yes “tomorrow”

After the accident the kids thought that was the end of the trips. But grandma told them she had plans for going on a trip before Christmas.

We shall see how it turns out.

Dee