Steve, enjoy your time with him. My dad would be 86 now, he's been gone 9 years this January. Went in for a "routine" heart procedure and never came home. He made it 6 weeks in the hospital before passing so I got to spend some quality one on one time with him, someone sat with him the entire 6 weeks and I usually would take several overnight shifts a week. For the most part his long term memory remained sharp we spent hours talking about the "old days".

I fished with him once when I was very young, maybe 7, and thought he was the greatest fisherman ever because he caught a "black" bass. I'm sure it was a lake record, state record and world record all wrapped into one but it was probably just average sized. Heck, compared to the 6" bluegills I was catching, it looked HUGE.

I did talk him into going to Lake Missaukee with me one other time in the early 2000's. Even though we were catching fish, we didn't stay long. He said he couldn't stop thinking about all the chores he could be doing. Funny thing is we were camping at Higgins Lake and the only chores would have been puttering around the camp site.