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Post by Smoke on Sept 7, 2009 16:56:44 GMT -6
Hope everyone had a good weekend. Cleaning up the yard, BBQ ing, getting the kids ready to go back to school.
I spent some time with my Mom today, she seems to like coming to my house and helping me cook. We made Dad beef stew again. Gives him a break for a couple hours.
Spent yesterday with Kens family and Saturday we worked around the house. Getting closer to being ready for winter but I still need a few good weekends of yard work.
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Post by fish on Sept 8, 2009 14:05:02 GMT -6
we had a good weekend.
the island has changed over the 25 or so years i have been invited out.
used to be entirely off the grid. now there are solar panels so there is electricity. and, of course, now there are cell phones and the internet.
even the outhouses are not the same.
i was the first kayaker ever. now the place is littered with the things.
recalls the time we went out in a fog so thick we could hardly see the ends of the boats. had a chart and compass, took a heading, and started paddling. it is a number of miles out over open water to the island, so there was neither sight nor sound to guide us, only that compass. they tell you that you will become disoriented and that you will think the compass is not working, and that you have to rely on the compass despite your sure conviction that you are paddling in a circle
and they're absolutely correct.
you have to do the drill.
N, n.k.a. the mermaid princess, made a foolish mistake and capsized one time when we were pretty far out from the island. the water in maine is always life endangering. i guess it was about 45 degrees or so that time. you'll die in short order. muscles just won't move.
we did the drill. got the flotation on her, secured her to my boat, and paddled her in.
"what about the boat?" asks she.
"f**k the boat!" answers i.
it was pretty frightening, though.
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Post by Smoke on Sept 9, 2009 3:30:20 GMT -6
Sounds pretty scary Fish. Good thing you know all the drills. Glad all came out ok.
I know what ya mean about change. I have a friend of mine that will be 92 this Oct. She has a cabin near me and has been coming here for more years than she cares to say. She has mentioned selling the cabin. Says it just isn't the same here anymore. She has many valid points in wanting to sell but it really is sad that the place that she so loved as a young girl and has spent so much time at has changed so much for her.
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Post by fish on Sept 9, 2009 15:32:11 GMT -6
i see and see again the images evoked by your post,
"she seems to like ... made Dad beef stew again... gives him a break."
we are indeed "getting closer to being ready for winter..."
God bless and keep you and yours, Smoke,
fish
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And so my week begins.