Noah loves to create, loves to build and loves to invent new ways of doing the mundane! He's amazing! For days he was bugging Rick to help him build a cross-bow...he charged up the saw by himself to show daddy that he wanted to help and to get the project moving... with charged saw, they cut branches and fashioned the cross-bow... it really worked too!! Noah's fascination with said cross-bow lasted about 20 minutes and he was on to something new and better...
A fishing pole!
He ripped apart the weapon and designed a fishing pole... it's not his own design mind you...it was a stick, some parachute cord (ripped open and picked apart!) with a paper-clip hook (which he tied on himself) He spent the rest of the day trying to figure out what to use as bait...with me scampering around behind him telling him that he couldn't keep food in his room/bait bag overnight or animals would come in to get him!
He decided on bread for his first fishing trip... which after two days of non-stop begging Rick took him down to a dock not far from our house. Off he walked, pole in hand... I was not there to witness his first trip.... Rick has that story! But I was at home to hear the triumph of success...
He actually caught a fish with his homemade pole and paperclip hook!!! Of course he threw it back in to live another day... but he CAUGHT A FISH!!!
This brought me back...to what feels like not so long ago of a few fishing trips I took with my best friend...we'd take our gear and head for the Yellow Breeches... our favorite spot was under the covered bridge. We had our rubber worms, and bobbers... we'd climb down under the bridge and cast our line out... I was 8 years old, and wasn't really sure what i'd do with a fish if I did catch it... but that wasn't a problem I'd ever have to worry about. Sometimes we'd fish from the top of the bridge...a few times we fished from the swinging bridge... it was fun...and gave us something to do in the summer...
Today, we trekked back to the dock...this time everyone was there to witness the attempt... bread and now pineapple in hand... Rick helped him put the bait on the hook...and sure enough he was swarmed with a few different types of tropical fish! (I never had that kind of luck in my fishing days!) Keighley, Isaac and Toby quickly got bored and ran off to play on the beach... But Noah stuck with his task.
About 20 minutes later, the others had wondered back to the dock...we were sitting there and suddenly there it was: A FISH ON THE HOOK!!! He had done it!!! He was so excited...we all cheered and were so surprised!!
2 fish in as many days... wow!
I can just hear it now... "where did you learn to fish?"
"In the Caribbean sea with a homemade pole and a paperclip for a hook? Why?"
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