:::henry daddy doodie:::

a good day was had by...

:::soaking the hig:::

i went fishing with hig today, and we did well... notice that his clothes are wet. that's right, after he set the hook his pole was jerked from his hands. he hesitated for a bit watching his pole sink, and dove in, phone and all. handed the pole to me, and i held the pole till we got him back in the boat, and he reeled him the rest of the way.

:::a great day on the water:::

a couple of months ago i took the 4 kids fishing... thanks to hig for the pics!

:::georgie in light:::

i took the four over to see a friend weigh in at the bassmaster tournament in kissimmee and georgie got her picture on the espn website.

:::arrietta outings:::

we have been running over to lake arrietta and found some deep brush piles and shell beds with some good fish on them, most of them fattening up to get ready to spawn.

best on the water quote, "wow girls, do you know how much fun this is for your dad!" june responds in a cheery voice, "But not for us!"

:::scrooge:::

:::elves:::

click on the pictures...

:::arietta fishin':::

just may have figured a little something out on lake arietta - uncle david caught an 8lber (sadly no camera), there were a couple 6's and several in the 4 range...

bob and i with a few of the fish...

:::goodbye old friends:::

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"The breath goes now," and some say, "No,"

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

:::my mole:::

"my wife, Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn... will recover..."

word from the dr. is that my mole-anoma has been completely removed...

statements, such as, " you know, i'll likely be dead in 80 days are you sure i should spend my time changing these diapers" have less play than they did before the report...

i have shifted to blame shifting, e.g. "listen, monica, its your own fault. if you hadnt saved my life spotting that cancerous mole, you wouldnt have to deal w/ me."

this proud nose-picking, freaky looking, 1/2 naked bunch will still have a father...

:::malignant whosi whatsi?:::

so, monica spotted an irregular mole and the biopsy concurred... they spotted it early so we expect a good report, and maybe its just me, but im thinking he took a little extra just to be sure...

moles, if you cant live w/ em, cut about 4 inches around them just to be sure...

:::pre-fishing outperform:::

when cannon and i got to toho to pre-fish for the tournament this weekend the water was LOW... all the land on the left that you see was 1 foot under water the last time we were there, only two weeks ago... all of our "spots" were too shallow, so we had to try to find fish somewhere else...

we found some fish, and i really wish i hadn't found this one till the tournament... as it stood the bite was a bit off, and i caught only 11 pounds worth of fish that day... good enough to be in the top 30 or so of 100, but not good enough to win anything...

:::aiden's fishing tournament:::

aiden and i went to a thursday night fishing tournament, her first ever... for awhile she was fishing, but then she found the camera... and that was that...

the photographer laughing at mommy's phone message:

self portrait:

the last fisherman standing (on our boat anyway):

a view from the rod locker (it got "chilly" so aiden found an open compartment):

:::field trippin':::

i went along on aiden's field trip to dinosaur world recently... we had pringles and pizza and asked every guy digging new irrigation lines, "has encontrado huesos del dinosaurio?" well, thats how we would have asked it if we knew spanish... as it was the question "have you found any dinosaur bones?" was never answered...

however, i did issue my first rejection to a boy asking to marry aiden...

:::old dade city road:::

i have started a blog for investors and addicts alike where i will post some of the ongoing projects for team strawbridge...

http://strawbridgyprojects.blogspot.com

:::shy for the camera:::

monica and i dressed up for the ball (or palace restaurant with some gift certificates in hand, oops they close at 9 better head for gosh!), and we needed to wrestle the camera from june... 1 way to do that: get her in a picture...

:::mon's garden, and "help":::

:::popciclin':::

a popcicle day is a happy day...

:::laziness thy name is dad:::

when your faced with a dirty diaper,
and your standin right there in the yard
with a hose in your hand full of water
it makes it so much less hard...

just to spray the boys backside all clean...
and carry him quick to the bath
than to deal with a dirty diaper
and all of that aftermath...

:::big day on the south chain:::

cannon already posted these pictures at his blog, but hey, im proud of these fish too... so here we go again...

i got a 7lber and cannon got a couple of 5lbers, and we sure thought we were big stuff until the next morning turned out to be a cold one (the bass feed before a cold front)...