When does the Gander Mnt Store open up in Evansville?

Thanx for the info Skeet. I'll hafta remember that nest time I am up that way.
NFC

Holland, IN brings back many childhood memories. My dads parents lived and worked there before coming to Evansville area. I use to drive up there with mom and dad to visit my grandparents when I was a little kid.

I was falling asleep on time and mom didn't want me to sleep as I would stay up all night and she didn't want that. So as soon as I nodded of they would Shout "DID YOU SEE THAT TIGER" or something along those lines. Of course it would wake me up and I would pop my head up to look out the windows to find that deer or lion or tiger out in the fields. Of course I was too slow (according to them) to actually ever see the animal in question. But it kept me awake for a few more minutes until sleep again grabbed at me. This was repeated a few more times until we got home. I will never forgive them for lying to me like that! LOL

When I was really little (under 5 years old) they gave me a duck for Easter and that duck followed me around everywhere. I ended up taking the duck up to Holland where my Grandfather took him in and gave him a new home. They probably had it for diner after I left. LOL My Grandmother was a good cook and she was a lot of fun. I wish we had lived closer to them. I didn't get to visit with them as often as my maternal grandparents as we lived right next door to my mom's parents and they practically raise me. Even later in life I lived right down the road from them until my grandfather passed away from cancer. I use to ride the school bus home to their farm house and farm when both my parents were working. They have two or three acres of property surrounded by open fields and woods. I'd love to be back there at that time right now and be able to roam those woods and god hunting there. Today that's all been developed into new homes and subdivisions. This entire county has way too many new house now. LOL There is not room left to go shooting out the back yard like we could back in the 1960. 47 years sure has changed the lay of the land around here.

I miss those good old days when you could find good hunting grounds all around us.

Thanks for the heads up on those two lakes at Holland. I have not been up there in years. I know that I could talk my elderly mother into a trip up there to have a look around. She needs to get out of the house more often. She is living by herself and doing OK but she's getting older and it's harder for her to get around these days. I had to talk her into taking some Aleve for arthritis pain. She was starting to get pain in her hip. But she still gets out and cuts the lawn on the riding lawn more. But she is having trouble getting the engine started. I'll have to drive 40 miles out there and back just to get the mower started for her. So I think I'll just get her a electric starter mower. I bought her a snapper electric start self propelled lawn more last year from Scotties up in Warren,IN. But that thing is heavy and hard to turn around. It's easy to start if you prime it up right. I don't look forward to the day that she can't get around anymore. I will have to take care of her myself or put her home up for sale and stick her in a nursing home and I don't want that for her. She deserves to live out her life (golden years) with someone that cares for her. Those nursing homes are not the place to put an loved one. I had my dad in a nursing home for three months and if not for our family being there with him everyday he would not have survived that place. The same nursing home just dodged a criminal charges when the judge let them off the hook. If it had been a jury trial they would have all gone to jail for neglect. But this judge decided on his own to dismiss the charges that the prosecutors filed against this nursing home. I saw the neglect other patients when my dad was in this same home for three months. The guy that was in my dads room was never turned and he was bed ridden and blind. His only visitors was his only daughter who came to town to see him only one time in those 3 months. She left him there to die. I felt so sorry for him but didn't know what to do. I guess when we get old that's what some people do to the elderly. I only hope that I go quickly when it's my time. I don't want to spend time in any nursing homes l like that one. But at least he had a nice warm bed and they did feed him three meals a day. I guess there is no easy way to grow old and die. We all may not live long enough to grow old be we will all have to face death someday.

I enjoy ice fishing Holland lakes but have never fished it when the ice is off. Nice gills and crappies.

I am guessing that they are fairly shallow????

If they are safe enough to ice fish on they would have to be freezing good by now. It's getting down to about 5 above zero Farenheight tonight.

Are any lakes frozen over 4 " thick yet?


[quote=raporter;313601]I enjoy ice fishing Holland lakes but have never fished it when the ice is off. Nice gills and crappies.[/quote]