Friday, July 24, 2010

Today was a great day. We got up and did our Bible study around 7am. After that we began to work on the retaining wall down by the beach so that the hill would not keep "falling" into the lake. Scott and Dad dug and placed them while Mom, Janet, and I carried all of the bricks down. Then they also extended the steps down to the beach because it is so muddy right now. When we finished the wall we had lunch and took our daily nap. Then we decided to take the SS Esteem out. We started to grab everything and we would get down to the dock and then someone would remember something we forgot. Then we loaded two kayaks and were ready to go when we realized we didn't have a fish stringer. Mom went up to find one and she couldn't so then dad went up. Then they didn't come down for awhile, then mom came back and said dad was calling Grandma. Then he didn't come and didn't come and so finally Janet went up. Then Scott realized he didn't have his Tilley so he went up while Dad and Janet were coming down. Some time after five pm we got off but we had to go to Deer Trail to get gas and minnows. Sad for us there were other guys there so we had to wait while Dad talked. Eventually we headed out. Our first stop was at Tivo (Eagle) Island. We saw a few eagles and lots of vultures. Then we went to our walleye hole from last year. It was quite successful. We used our jigs from last year while Janet navigated for us. God graced us out. We had a lot of fun and caught 5 keepers for dinner. Scott caught 2-3 northern. Dad caught the most and the two biggest. Scott, Dad, and I all caught a tiny perch. I caught a small northern and about 3 walleye - only one keeper. Mom and Janet used Dad's new propane grill to cook burgers. They tasted really good. The wind picked up and it looked like it was raining over at camp so we left sometime around 7pm. When we got back Dad filleyed the fish but dropped the knife off the dock in the water. I was trying to find it but couldn't see it and didn't want to cut myself. Then Scott came around and saved the day finding it under the dock. Then Scott and I made a special delivery out to Paradise Island in our kayaks. By this time it was 9pm and we were pretty tired. We played Spite and Malice for about an hour and crashed out.