Wee226: Fishing, Farm, and Hospitality

Last weekend we spent Memorial Day out at Ger’s family’s place in the country, “The Farm.” This gave the kids a chance to run free, play in the lake, and accumulate an impressive collection of ticks. Samantha also tried her hand at fishing. This rapidly bored her, so she decided to apply a Six Sigma Total Quality Management approach to fishing and streamline the process to realize greater efficiency. In other words, she just started digging the worms out of the bait bucket and tossing them directly into the lake for the fish to eat. I’m so proud.

The Farm is nice, in no small part due to the fact that when Geralyn’s family is all out there it’s a very relaxed atmosphere, with a very mi casa es su casa attitude, but Sam seems to know just how far to push things. I was sitting outside with her and some other folks one morning while we all watched the day get a slow start on things, and one of Ger’s cousins gets up and announces that she’s going inside to get more coffee and would anyone like anything?

Samantha thought for a moment, then announced. “Yes. I want some cereal. With milk. And I want to eat it out here on the yellow table.

Well, I guess you’re not family until you start taking advantage of each other’s hospitality.

Mandy had a lot of fun this trip, too, since she’s old enough now to get out and play around. We took her down to the little beach by the lake, and though she was more than a little dubious about the whole sand concept at first, she quickly got on board and tried to let her sense of fun permeate the various layers of sunblock, swimsuits, aquasocks, hats, and life jackets that we had tried to insulate her with. I have pictures of this, but I keep forgetting to get them off Geralyn’s camera. Will do so later so you can all enjoy, or something.

Oh, look. Here they are:

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