Cabin Visit Leads to Happy Memories, Sad Trout
A few weeks back Liz and Luke won our admiration, respect and thumbs up when they were cool enough to drive us up to the cabin to visit Gramma and Grampa. We did the usual- ate food, chatted it up, threw rocks, pulled stuff out of the river, made boats and went for walks.
Luke’s got mad angling skills. The dude fishes with a spinner like Dad fishes with a fly. He’s a trout Rainmaker. He also showed supremem “championsmanship” when he hooked a little trout out of the river in front of the cabin and promptly let Joshua reel it in and hold the line. As you can see, Joshua was pretty stoked. About an hour later, Luke pulled a fatty 12″ + out from the river just behind rope swing 2.0. While I don’t have pics of that (sadly), I do have one of (surprise!) Joshua on the rope swing before the big smile turned to panic and distress (“Yaaaaaah!! I can’t hold on anymoooooore!”).
I’ll get all nostalgic and stuff, but it was pretty cool to let the little guy enjoy the cabin and some of the things we loved so much about it. While the frogs are scarce, he did catch a little snake. While the big cottonwood that held the original rope swing is gone, Joshua did get some time on the rope swing he’ll come to know.
Thumbs up to Gramma and Grampa for letting us visit and having such a cool place to get everyone together and build memories over generations.
Ok, enough of the sappy stuff. Next!
Love this entry, Dan. Makes us happy to know you have good memories and family ties at the cabin. May the goodness keep paying forward, thanks to the vision of your Great Grandpa Slater.