The Sugarmill in Old Homosassa
nature coast
Nature Coast of Florida
When at first you don’t succeed….
Try, try again.
That’s our motto for fishing. Sometimes we go fishing but no catching. Like when the boys went last week. When they went looking for the bait boat, it wasn’t there. So they used lures and Terry was the only one to catch a trout.
But this week, there was the bait boat right where it should be!
I caught a dogfish right away. Which was amazing because I usually just feed the fish. Got no skill at that fishing stuff. Back he went into the water.
Then Cap’n Terry caught a little trout which went back in and was followed by Riley catching a big one. Holy Flip! (One of Riley’s favorite phrases which I intend to use on a regular basis in the future.)
Terry caught another trout that we could keep and then the real catching started.
This shark snapped Riley’s fishing pole in half!
And it was followed up by both Terry and I immediately getting two more sharks on our lines. Cut the lines and we were outta there.
While we only had enough trout for Riley’s dinner, he had a tale to tell. And for this North Dakota boy, that was way better than fishing!
Flamingos
I think Flamingos are really cool. Especially because it is actually correct to spell the plural as Flamingos, Flamingoes, or Flamingo. Really, I looked it up.
I love love love this print from Jan Beckman’s 20×200.
You can click here to check it out: Flamingo No. 4 by Sharon Montrose. If I had a kid’s room to decorate, I would definitely buy this one. She has several other prints that I love with monkeys and donkeys and all kinds of adorable animals. Each and all would look sweet in a child’s room.
It sort of inspired the flamingo “art” I made for our powder room.
Here’s the photograph I started with:
And here’s a whole bunch of flamingos at the Homosassa Wildlife Park looking hoity-toity with their beaks up in the air.
One last picture of flamingos. Saw these one afternoon across the canal. Since I knew that flamingos do not naturally live this far north, I sent out the picture to several friends. One correctly identified the species as “Plasticus Flamingus”. Giggle.
