Thursday, August 14, 2008
My thoughts and prayers are with you in this time of great sorrow. I also wanted to share with you one of my favorite memories of Uncle John. I was invited to go to the Bonny Reservoir with you all (I was 9) Uncle John said he would teach me to water ski, I was excited waiting for him to come pick me and Debbie up so we could go Debbie tells me about a big catfish that lives in the bottom of the lake that is bigger than a house. John picks us up, I get up on the skis like a pro, (so that catfish can't get me) We are in the middle of the lake and the boat runs out of gas, John yells stay with the skis, of course the boat is going in the opposite direction. By this time I am wondering where that catfish is, a boat comes by and says John said to pick me up and it is the biggest mountain man I have ever seen in that boat. I'm thinking Catfish? or Mountain Man? When he leans over and hauls me in the boat. At the time I thought I was going to have a heart attack but now I laugh about it. The same weekend I learned what frogging was and that people really do eat frog legs. Needless to say I have never eaten them but it is one of my favorite memories of growing up around Uncle John.
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