Happy times!

I haven't posted in a while because we've been so busy! Our daughter and son-in-law and the two grand kids are still here. They came in from Chicago on Saturday, the 20th. They spent the week, mostly in the pool and then went up to Disney World for three days this past weekend. They came back on Monday and are still here. While they were up at Disney we had a great visit with couple of really good friends, Mike and Lori, from Chicago. We went to Bert's in Matlacha for some great grouper and a really nice evening. Unfortunately, the Yard Dogs weren't playing that evening. I would have liked for them to have seen the Yard Dogs. Maybe next time.

Have gone out on the Paddleski a few times and took the kids out on a power pontoon boat yesterday, Tuesday. They loved it, but, unfortunately, no jumping dolphins, only a few fin sitings.

Have been fishing, I mean casting, off the dock most days. The other day I almost got my first fish. Had one on the hook and he was jumping real good. But as I got him near the dock, he managed to free himself. I think maybe he was just snagged. It looked to be about 6-8 inches and lighter in color. Not sure what kind of fish it was, but it didn't count because I never got it onto the dock. Meantime, I bought a new fishing pole and reel. A 7ft Ugly stick, medium, with 8 line guides. The reel is a nice Cardinal with lots of bearings! I noticed they rated reels by the number of bearings they have, so I bought one with, I think, 7 bearings. All I know, it's real smooth, and the anti-reverse is immediate. Only problem was, I used a small floating lure, without any weight, and it was hard to get a good cast, and then I ended up getting knots in the line. Need to add weight or put a different lure on. After I cut the knot off.

The grand kids have been spending their whole days in the pool. I think they'd rather do that than anything else. The good thing is, they've both learned how to swim now. Not great but no more fear of the water. I'm afraid when their parents get them back home in cold Chicago, they're going to be begging to come back to Nana's house.

Now this is the way to travel! Suck a beer while the son-in-law does all the paddling!

Grand kids had a great day at Fort Myers beach.

Had to let them drive the boat!
She was a better driver than I was!

They loved going fast.

But it was the pool they loved! It took a while before they started jumping in.

But pretty soon all fear was gone! This is one fearless 3 year old!
Then it's crash time!

I know this was supposed to be about fishing and boating and it will be. Especially when I start catching living breathing fish!