A sight that warmed my heart on this crappy news day...

[MontanaMama]

I was driving to the neighborhood hardware store and I see my kiddo (14years old) flying by traffic on his bike with his fly rod strapped to his back...headed toward the Clark Fork River. I got home and he had done all his chores, recycling, emptied the dishwasher and fed the dogs...AND left me a note telling he he’d “gone fishing”. Love that kid.

[lunatica]

1. Awe c'mon!

You’d love him even when he’s too lazy to put a dirty dish in the sink, or when he drinks the last of the milk and still puts the carton back in the fridge.

I know what you mean though!

[MontanaMama]

2. I would love him...you're right...

but I would kick his behind if he left his chores undone and went fishing! I’m just so glad he’s outside and off the screen.

Update...he caught a rainbow and a brown trout.

[lunatica]

3. Dinner!

Give him a big hug for approving mother’s everywhere.

[MontanaMama]

4. Done!

Took the little dickens out for sushi...since we catch and release up here.

[onethatcares]

5. best thing in the world for him

along with mornings doing the same thing to stand next to or in a mountain stream with mist rising off it.

Hell, i'm pushing 70 and remember doing that when I was 8.

[MontanaMama]

6. It is the best thing.

He loves it more than anything but sometimes the screen/computer etc distracts him. The weather has broken and the roads are clear of snow and he’s on his bike to the river which I’m grateful for.

[MerryBlooms]

7. Beaut!

[Mendocino]

8. Glad it's warm enough to wet a line,

also sad. It should be like 22 out instead of 32+.

[MontanaMama]

9. I know.

I’m torn between loving the winter respite and fretting about wildfires this summer. Btw...it was 60 degrees this past Saturday.