Eye on the Kuhns: November 2010

The girls are part of 4H and took pigs to the county fair for their project. They raised them all summer from babies, feeding and cleaning their pen. We kept them in the basement family room, but the girls kept a close eye on them. I kid. I kid. They stayed at the grandparents farm.

Unfortunately I was already at training camp but Grandpa Dennis was kind enough to transport the pigs to the fair as well as be there for general support. The girls were pretty proud of themselves and their pigs. Rightfully so. Well I will let the pictures do the talking. Especially since I wasn't there.

They also did art projects.

Jamie painted herself with Mz. Bella the Pig

Kyila painted an old fashioned car

Better late then never ....

Well this summer I took up one of my Father's loves, fly fishing. He was kind enough to give me a fly rod to practice with as we planned to go fishing together this summer. He sent me an instructional video by Joan Wulff as well. I spent about every night practicing my aerial casting in the backyard. Why I didn't go to a nearby lake and practice roll casting is beyond me, since that is what we were going to do.

Anyway I really enjoyed my time practicing and both the girls would come out and give it a shot as well. Both were naturals...much better than the old man at least.

Dad and I didn't catch many fish but sure enjoyed the time together and learning more about casting. I caught one bluegill. Dad caught a few including a nice catfish.

Well after that I was hooked. I spent the rest of the summer fly fishing. Luckily I have two nice lakes within about 5 minutes of the house. Mostly caught sunfish-green, pumkinseed, blue gill, crappie but did pull out a small mouth bass too.

The girls went with me quite a bit. They got their own rods but were bait casting. They didn't have a lot of luck but each caught one.

Enough with words. Lets get to the photos.