Third year Day 212 - Sunday July 13, 2014

This evening Mark told stories while the kids and I listened.  There are some of those stories from when he was young that the kids know as well as he does, and maybe better now!  Hee hee.  Anyway, one of the stories was about a time that Mark went fishing with uncle Rick.  One of their friends took them someplace they had never been before and then left them.  They were walking along and found the river to fish but didn't know where to stop. There were all of these clumps of dirt with plants in the water and you could jump from clump to clump.  Mark called them lily pads for ease of telling the story, but obviously they weren't really as they weren't floating plants, but dirt with plants.  Anyway, after jumping from clump to clump Rick said the water doesn't look deep, I'm going to try just going through the water.  He stepped in and went clear under and nothing could be seen of him.  Mark waited and waited from him to pop back up for air but he didn't.  Finally a fishing pole end came up and so Mark carefully grabbed it and pulled, hoping that the pole wouldn't come apart.  He pulled and pulled and suddenly Rick's lips came out of the water and he drew in a huge breath of air.  He he pulled farther and got his face out of the water, though the rest of his head was still under.  At this point Rick said I could have drowned!  Then the two of them started laughing and laughing.  I'm sure part of that was after worrying that he would drown, they had that emotional release because he didn't.  Anyway, Bridgett laughed and laughed at that story!  She didn't remember Mark telling it to her before, but it really made a hit with her now!