Did you know that we have a boat? Probably not because we rarely use it. A fulboat, kind of a wooden kayak. Fun to take out on a lake. Many lakes around here!
How did we come to have it? Definitely shady provenance. Dennis has a friend from college days. Friend had girlfriend. Girlfriend had boat. Girlfriend left friend and ran away with drug dealer. Left boat. Friend kept boat for many years. And then a long time ago, the boat ended up in our garage.
So, somewhere, there is a middle aged woman who used to have a boat. She lost it and has no idea where it is.
Aside: Isn't that the way to drug use? You lose things. Never to find them again.
Ilana went camping this last weekend with the engineering graduate students at Baker Lake. Used her girl scout honed camping skills. She brought the boat and a whole bunch of other things. Some engineering students' eyes lit up when they say the boat on top of the minivan. "Hey" they called out "we'll help with the boat!" and took it off the car.
Ilana had gone to some trouble to make sure she had two PFDs. That girl scout training. You NEVER go out on the boat without a flotation device. Ever. The engineering students, being a compliant bunch, complied. "It's your boat so you get to make the rules" was the feeling.
Picture of boat on the shore of Baker Lake.
They had a great time, though some left a day early. Ilana couldn't understand. Why would you leave camp a day early? Um, it was raining most of the time....
That's something that still seems SO strange to me even after living here 30 years. I grew up in the Sacramento Valley. It stopped raining in March and it didn't rain until the fall. It NEVER NEVER rained in the summer. What a crazy idea. But here it does.
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