July 21

You can't believe all the boats still out there running around sucking that $4.59 fuel from the tank. Well, not so much this morning but was over the weekend and a lot during the week too. I guess this is the place to vacation this year.

Some really large boats with the exhaust open roaring up and down the cove for sure creating a hearing problem later in life for the poor kid hanging on to the tiny little tube the boat is pulling. Some at about a third throttle causing the bow to be too high for the driver to see over. This way the boat pushes the water out of the way instead of cutting thru it. Wow, what waves! You don't even need a boat to pull you around for excitement. Just sit in a tube in the water and rider'er out.

There is something back there in my memory about some days when we were up to getting out there too. Wonder what in the world we must have been thinking lolling around in the sun killing our skin cells and burning up the money as we kept pumping the fuel thru the motor of the boat. Lots of work to make yourself believe that you're having a great time. Gone are those days and I'm not a bit unhappy about that!

Again, nothing could I find in the mix of my mind to create enough desire for me to set here and beat out with three of my most knowledgeable fingers, any B. S.xxxx I mean much B. S.

I did take typing in high school but I waited way too long to begin using the learned skills so they gradually disappeared. I suppose they're laying out there somewhere with a good part of my hearing, eyesight and quite a few other things that have come up missing over the years. No, I'm not really sure that I could still ride a bicycle or roller-skate either.

It's not such a funny thing but both my feet went missing yesterday for several hours. You know what they say, "out of sight out of mind". Well, in a standing position I can't see my feet so they were lost most of the morning as I worked around in the garage. When I came in and sat down in the old lounge chair, leaned way back and pulled the footrest up, WALLA! There they were. I've temporally lost track of several things below my belly during the past year, however all things can be found if they want to be found.

Even though I grumble and bemoan my fate from day to day and wish my circumstances were not so modest. Thank the Lord, for life and the few things he has enabled me to hold on to despite my destructive way of living during my earlier years.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling. — Claude Pepper