Fishing

On Friday morning, Grandpa Tom took Penny fishing for the first time. Though the fish weren’t really biting, we did catch one brown trout. As we were getting ready to leave a mama duck and her ducklings came swimming by, so Penny decided to share her goldfish with them, too cute!

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