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“Well, the old knees are
starting to yo on me,” he
excused himself with a mis-
chievous smile on his face. |
guess TE have to accept that,
even though the other day
when he had me and my little
brather help him litt a home-
made anchor into his little
rowboat he phrased his
request for help thus:

“Shannon, you get your 170
pounds down bere and litt
too.” Kor the record, | don’t
weigh anywhere near 170
pounds, Yet.

Fanny thing though, about
my Dad's ofd knees. They
seem to work just fine when
he’s carrying a big fish. Which
brings me to the point of this
column, and that is, that my
Dad caught a 40 pound spnng
salmon last Saturday. For those

of vou who don't know, that’s
one big-ass fish. In fact, there
hasn't been a spring saimon
thar big caught around here
for more than a year.

You should have seen him
when he showed up bere, that
very night, to drop off the
pieces of plywood that go
under the seat cushions of the
old beige chestertield where
the coils have virtually caved in
from him napping on it. He

if Shaolin monks
designed a car,
this would be it.

and my Mom were on their
way out for dinner. See, my
dad had, in catching the big
fish, won along standing bet
he had with his fishing pal
Hans and they were on their
way to Fly's Encore to collvet.

Before he was out of the
car he hollered out the win-
dow, “E caught 4 preat big fish
today!”

There's no having a normal
conversation with your mother
when vour dad’s caught a big
fish. “Maureen,” he said to her

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excitedly as he was coming in
the door, “Show Shannon the
pictures.”

“Tleft them in the car®, she
answered, rolling her eves at
me. Can you imagine my Dad
showing around pictures of
sweaters my mother has knit-
ted? Apparently CKNW had
been announcing the big catch
all day, although my Dad said
he wasn’t completely comtort-
able with all the press.

“Just phoned everyone he
knows today,” my mother told

nee doctor away

me while my Dad sprinted
back out to the car to get the
pictures. After a quick visit,
during which we got all the
details of the catch, they were
off for dinner.

“You can put the picture
on your fridge,” my Dad
ordered, fairly skipping out the
door.

Like T said, it’s amazing
how well his old knees work
when he’s caught a great big
fish.

—shannonn@telus.net

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