Just thought I'd share a nice photo.

Mc Tool

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The neighbor adopted me as her dad a couple years ago so that came with 'grandkids'....
Ha ha , yeah me too...@ 63 I got a 32 year old and her 4 kids (3 boys 9,14 and 16 and a 12 yo girl ,the kids Father and Grandfather perished in a boating accident ) and as we never had kids it sure was (is) an eye opener.😁
 

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That bucks on the accident. For me her dad does not approve of her lifestyle and politics. They haven't spoken since just after her youngest was born so about ten years.

And I'm 59, she's about 33 kids 9 and 12 (the third kid was a add on friend for the day)
 

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For me her dad does not approve of her lifestyle and politics.
🤣🤣 yeah , livin next door to redneck joe ha ha ha just joking , them kids looked pretty blimmin happy .
I well remember the "extra" adults that were good to me as a kid , I kinda feel I have something to pay back.:)
 

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Yeah, lots of extra adults as well for me, mostly moms. My mom moved overseas when I was 10 years old so several of my friends over the years had moms that to this day i still call mom.

The universe is way smarter than me and has given us strays kids over the years, many who have lived with us for a period of time and all had or since have had kids with the oldest joining the marines this fall. My plan was that based on family history i should be dead right about now but all the test and doctors tell me i'm gonna live for a bit so i think all these strays that have given us 'fake' grandkids over the years was the universe training me for the real granddaughter i will have in December. Never wanted grandkids, now I can wait.

So to keep on topic of a picture thread not a lot of words thread here is me after trolling for my first salmon, circa 1976 on the Columbia River, Oregon.


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Anniversary date on a very quiet Friday. My fav thing to do is run up one of the main arms to very shallow, sit and listen and have my snak and watch and chill. In general. I've only seen one other person up this far over the years and they were land based kayaking from even farther upstream.

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Downstream. At the very back of the pic is a small bluff and the channel hooks left. At winter water level that is about a 10 foot waterfall.


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Upstream. The 'channel' is on the left, about 2 ft deep then a bit farther up a shoal that if I want to go farther I have to walk the boat about 50 feet then I can motor another half mile or so. I usually stop here because if the little gravel bar and up ahead the otters live there so I try not to bother them.


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