Happy Summer!

Today is the longest day of the year. Thankfully I missed the sunrise, but we did watch the sunset. In an attempt to avoid mowing the yard, Ron decided we should go fishing after dinner. We just went up the road a bit to a nearby park and stayed until the sunset.

This is typically how Danielle spends our fishing trips. She's perfectly content to look for critters along the banks. Tonight she caught a little fish and 2 cricket frogs. She decided to fish for about 15 minutes before we left and managed to catch a turtle! It is an Eastern spiny softshell turtle (kind of scary that I knew that without looking it up!), and apparently it likes nightcrawlers. They are supposed to be rather difficult to find, so we felt kind of lucky to be able to see one up close. When Danielle lowered her pole enough that the turtle could touch the ground, it let go of the worm and scurried back down to the water. No damage done. (Check out that nose!)

Tyler caught a fish tonight, but even more importantly, we finally convinced him to bait his own hook! (He hates to get his hands messy!) Ron and I didn't catch anything other than mosquito bites, but we had a nice time anyway. I love summer!