Lots happenin'....

Hey, here I sit at an internet cafe for the very first time and blogging, no less!  I'm beginning to get somewhat adventuresome in my retiring years:)

Yesterday we took the new Tracker out for it's maiden voyage.  She purred like a kitten.  I had doubts since every other boat we have ever had was, shall we say, difficult in getting in and out of the water.  Jim Chad at Exclusive Marine and Auto in P.A. sold us this boat and when he did the selling job on us, well, I was somewhat of a skeptic, to say the least.  He said it would be the perfect fishing boat for us because it was easy to load and unload from it's trailer.....this I had to see to believe.

So, away we went yesterday, me with my skepticism and husband with all the confidence in the world.

Backed that baby into the water and she slid off so gracefully, I figured it was some kind of angelic being come down to earth.  I held her fast to the dock while husband pulled the trailer away to park.  Ken hopped into the boat, turned the key....purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......I threw in the rope and hopped in myself.  Backed her out of the area and off we went around the whole lake, up to the farthest end of the Narrows, back into Waskesiu proper and around the other side, all the while going at various speeds to break in that 115 Merc.  We stopped and started like a cracker jack.  No stalling.  I couldn't get used to this!!!!  Normally, there would be some sputtering and floundering and snapping....not with this gal.  She knew what being a boat was all about. 

I figured this was a bit of luck.  Getting her back out of the water would prove to be an event from hell, I was supposing....remember I didn't leave my skepticism at the trailer!  Ken backed up the trailer full into the water....just like Jim said we should....and then forward so the bunkers were half way out.  He got in the boat and headed that little gal right up and onto the trailer.....no fuss, no muss....just like Jim said we should.  Hitched her up onto the trailer and off we went. 

There has never before in all of the Kent history with boats been a more satisfactory boat launch.  I'm hooked and we haven't even got fishing yet!!!  If it continues on like this, I may have to bake Jim a cake or something, just to thank him for his excelling selling technique and his more than excellent sales and service.  It is good to support our local fellows.

So, if you want a good fishing boat, and you wish to spend your children's inheritance, go see Jim Chad.  He'll set you up in fine style and perhaps even give you a new Tracker hat!!!  Mine's red!

Now it's graduation....so Brittney came to the lake today and I took pictures of her in her grad dress. We went to the Narrows. She dressed into her fancy duds right there on the grass...no folks around. I snapped and snapped like there was no tomorrow so between her and Shannon, I should have some pretty fine pictures with the Narrows as a backdrop. She went into the forest too for some of them but that didn't last too long as the bugs continued to fly up into the many fluffy layers of her gorgeous dress. When I get them downloaded...after grad....I'll put some pics up here to show you. But first she has St. Mary's grad to be escort at on Tuesday, then it will be her grad on Thursday.

I think we will have to stop all this and just relax a bit...next week.

So, happy summer from E5 at Waskesiu.  The poplar fluff is fluffing, the endless bugs are bugging and we are having a glorious, tiring time!