Well last year was great as we had lots of family fun. We did a lot of fishing. In the Delaware River we did a lot of cat fishing the kids thought it was great and it seamed like we always caught some. The boat was all finished and we took it out to many times to count. The whole family had a great time fixing the boat and now they are enjoying the fruits of their labor. What a joy for a father to see the smiling faces as a fish is caught. We also went and saw the fire works on the 4Th of July. We are not sure if we want to do that again most of the boaters that leave are going fast and not watching where they are going so it was scary for the little ones not to mention me as the drive. It was almost like riding a motor cycle where you need to watch out for everything and not many see you. Not sure why that is but that's the case. Now where we go to launch the boat is the friendliest place and when you see them on the river everyone waves to each other and if someone is would stop and it looks like they are having a problem they stop to check. A few times we would just cruse around just for fun. I remember that there were waves close to shore and we went toward them and water came in the over the bow the kids loved it they all got wet and since it was planed it was OK. What family fun it was just to spend time with the family. We also went to the bays and rivers down the shore. My wife and I both have our boat license and she likes to drive when we were at the river we caught a lot of crabs and it was cool. My sun caught a fish in his net and dropped it cause he was scared. we all laughed. He also caught a crab on top of the net and he ran to mommy in the boat. We are not real good crabbers or fishers but we are committed to the family fun we do have. My wife and I even got a baby sitter and took the boat out ourselves. We took the boat in the ocean oh what a blast. We caught sand sharks and skates. The biggest was 3 1/2 foot long shark and the skate from tips was approx 2 feet. You know if there was no money to use for these trips it would be a bummer. I am glad that I can earn some money online to do these things. I could not replace the times spent with the family and couldn't even put a price on it. I praise God for all he has provided. Stay tuned as we share the next trip or elaborate on one of the other trips. Family fun and making money.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The whole family boating project
Hey you know we bought a boat a few years ago. The whole family boating project. Many say it is a hole in the water where you can just dump you money. Well I say it's a lot of family fun, summer fun. The first year we had the boat it did cost money, but you see I bought it cheap. The actual fun to start was the fix up. We went fishing and when my son caught a fish he would jump up and down almost going threw the deck of the boat. So we had to fix it. The whole family helped. We remove the deck only to find out that the stringers were no good. Than we removed the stringers. What a project. But the family was having fun we were doing it together. Well we scraped all the wood off and washed it all down it was just a big vee with a gas tank. This also took a lot of money so we all chipped in between working and change what ever we could make online. We finally were able to start to rebuild the boat. Went and got marine plywood and cut all down to size. In a boat all has to be coated with fiberglass so we also did that. On a boat you can't just nail things together so we carefully placed the stringers in and fiberglass them in place. Boy who would of thought that this would be so much fun for the whole family. Talking about family fun in the sun. We than put the deck down and we were ready to finish the inside. We made benches for seats so the underneath could be used for storage. It really turned out great. and the rest was summer fun for the family. WE all went fishing and just driving around.