Time well spent

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Back when I was little, Mom, Dad, Mick and I would all pile in the car and head to some lake to go fishing. If it was a close lake, there was no big deal. But if it was to a lake farther away, it just seemed like it took forever. Dad drove really slow, and he wasn't in any hurry. And then when we went to a private lake, Dad had to stop and visit with the owner. What I wanted Dad to do was walk up, ask if we could go fishing and then leave and go fishing. But Dad had to talk about the haying, the cattle, the weather and on and on. It seemed like he would visit away half of the day when we could be fishing. But looking back it wasn't wasted time. It was time well spent.

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