2025/09 Ship's Log

Graham is loving school. So much he can’t sleep at night because he’s so excited to be at school again the next day. He’s making new friends, is over-the-moon about his new writing journal, and has begun violin lessons.

Royal’s confidence at school has been growing. Like Graham before him, his 5 1/2 year old year switched something in his brain. Whereas last year he didn’t care to do lessons, now he’s excited about progressing through the red boxes so he can start on the yellow. He’s also making new friends and getting into less trouble.

Graham caught an enormous rainbow trout fishing off the bridge at Paktola reservoir yesterday morning. It was beyond his fishing pole’s ability to reel in, but we drew the fish over to the bank and I was able to get it into our bucket from there. Graham and Royal are both definitively catch-and-release, so we returned it right after the photo.