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Birthday Boat Recovery

Bryan planned a perfect birthday trip for me.  It was completely ridiculous and vaguely useful, and it sounded like a ton of fun.

Someone had found a jonboat pinned in a spot halfway through a ten-mile stretch of Cadron Creek, and we were going to go unpin it and get it out.  It was far from simple:  We’d need to put together a group of people to float down to the boat, then get the boat loose from the current that was pushing it up against a large rock in the middle of the creek.  We’d need to take a kit of rope and webbing and pulleys to unpin the boat.  We’d need to take a motor with us so that if the thing would float, we could ‘drive’ it a few more miles downstream to a takeout. Continue reading “Birthday Boat Recovery”

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Mandy’s 14th Birthday

Mandy’s fourteenth birthday’s come and gone.  For breakfast, she got homemade waffles with strawberry syrup and whipped cream.  Her presents were practical this year – some clothes and shoes and a new bag for school.

Fourteen years into this, I have to say she’s a good kid for the most part – a little disorganized, a little lazy, a little thoughtless.  But when we think about the other teenagers I see, with their skin-tight shirts and their sneery attitudes and their noses in their text-phones, we’re glad we have her. She’s smart and funny and wise and cheerful.

Happy birthday, Mandy.  Let’s make this next year a good one, too.