Yippee! We're getting our daily rain first thing this morning. It's only 67 degrees but I'm sure this storm will pass allowing us to view the sun and that will bring out all of those sons of un-wed mothers in their pleasure boats seeking pleasure as they wreak havoc on the docks, shoreline and the hearing systems of anyone within a mile or two as they tear through the pee stained water. With nary a thought to anyone else, most of them have their exhausts open leaving a loud sound all around them that affects a lot more folks than the destructive wakes they leave behind.
Gasoline is high and with this so called depressed economy, we can't figure out how they can afford it. I doubt that there are any jobless running the boats so it must be they'll go back to work Monday and quickly replace the money spent.
You wouldn't believe the size of some of the boats that come along at the most destructive speed of about a third throttle as they pull a tube along behind with an eight or nine year old kid on it. Some of those boats have got to cost over eighty thousand dollars. To operate it has got to cost a fortune and pulling a tube even more. Like they say tho, if you can afford that kind of boat you can surely afford the gas.
Why, you might ask, do we live at the lake. Just a minute, I'll ask Glenda. Just kidding. No sane person would want to live within a hundred feet of a railroad, especially if the train runs past day and night. I'm thinking the boats might be a tad louder than a train and they run day and night but usually not in the rain. Here there are hills which create the need for many steps to be built to enable you to use the area. Up and down all day long. Tick and chigger bites, wasp stings and the constant need to tear down spider webs, usually as you walk through them, are a few other negatives.
Housing built so near the water requires quite a bit of abnormal repairs. That increases the cost of living here, another huge negative.
We've had the boat out only one time this year and fishing has been nothing but a waste of time. Those factors thrown in with all the negatives, why do we live here? I repeat, no sane person would. We. along with another bunch of people are nuts! Glenda and I have spent eleven years here but we've finally smartened up. Just as soon as we find the person or people that would like to learn what I'm talking about for themselves and be willing to fork over three hundred thousand dollars for the lesson, we're out of here!
If time is money, fishing and typing these notes have so far this year, cost us more than everything we spent during the five months in Boulder City.
I'm going to save us all some money and quit now.
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." - Mitch Ratliffe
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