Pile-O-Fish

 We broke away from the near freezing temps of Friday

 to the warming sunshine of Saturday's cloud dappled skies.

 Jackets were an on-again, off-again event as if April 

couldn't make up it's mind.  We are  St. Louis outskirts

so this makes perfectly good sense.  They say if you

don't like the weather, wait about 10 minutes . . . .

This day was an event- chocked full of kid fun

over at our neighbor's place.

Petting goats, playing with dogs, BBQ and fishing

oh, and there's a beach to boot.

 Our granddaughter, Taylor 

(we're not sure if she's Becky Thatcher or Huck Finn),

is showing off her catch, one of many for the day.

 Mr. Goose swam over just to see if there were any

treats that would be thrown his way while

 Mama goose is sitting on her eggs.

Now I want you to notice that there are no leaves on the trees,

not full leaves anyway, it is only mid April which around here

is still iffy for setting out plants, even if they do say

our last freeze is SUPPOSED to be April 15.

They often lie.

The kids; however,  thought they were geese.

Remember,  some of us were wearing jackets.

Kids don't have temperature gauges, they only know FUN.

The little one tripped and fell down, completely soaked.

 After a minute of crying, due mostly to the surprise of falling,

he said Do It Again!  Kids!

Taylor completely denied being cold as dinnertime approached

but we noticed she suddenly disappeared inside the house

only to return wearing our host's sweat shirt and shorts!

Nooo, she wasn't cold at all! LOL

Their lake is overrun with bluegill and sunfish so

the kids were encouraged to catch as many as they could.

They sure had a stringer full, and this isn't even the finale.

There will be a fish fry somewhere today!

I forgot my camera early in the day -

I can't believe I did that.

I wanted to get some shots with Taylor playing

with their boer goats which are guarded by a 

two giant dogs, a mix of Australian Shepherd and Great Pyrenees.

 The male is as tall as I am when he's standing up-

to give me a hug and get a good neck scratch.

Goofy dogs but they love their goats.

Once we returned home, and threw Taylor into a nice hot shower,

it wasn't even an hour and she was asleep on the couch.

Pops, too, was asleep in his recliner.

I think everyone had a pretty good day.