In the odd event that I was missed, I’m back from a long nice quiet lake weekend. Lots of partying up there, lots of stuff going on. Too much to even remember to be honest, except that it’s a great part of the world to be in when our nation celebrates her birthday. We had the obligatory pontoon parade. This year we participated with our beauty. A 1973 Kennedy Pontoon boat with no furniture and stinkly smokey two stroke motor of the same vintage.
This years parade was a bit different, more a giant floating water fight. Many of the boats were armed to the teeth with waterballons, launchers, water cannons, squirt guns… and the folks on shore.. same deal. I missed the memo that we’re supposed go for shore bombardment and anti ship defense. The kids were most impressed with the whole thing. Personally, I was quaffing gin and tonics whilest piloting the boat. The kids have been making plans for next year already on how to approch this thing. I predict we get wet.
Of course that assumes the SS Barginista starts next year. This year it took some fiddling to get her going. Lots of fiddling.
Firesworks on the lake were as impressive as always. Larry (don’t know who Larry is really, except he does THE show) had the barge out there again. Mortar shells as big as what the City of Apple Valley throws up there.. awesome stuff.
Sunday morning the big excitement was the shitter alarm going off. Holding tank was approaching full. That means we start water conservation. Not using less water per se.. more like just don’t use the drains or flush. Too much. The dude was two days in getting over to pump out the tank which meant I was about to take the kids to the local market for Bio-Trips.. but thank goodness, just before Mount Crapmore erupted sending dookie-lava out of the tank, he came. In the mean time the back yard now has dog and kid spots all over it. Speaking of the dog, he was so glad to see the sucker dude even he climbed up on his to enails and laid some pipe. Wade left a trail of foul smelling liquid in the drive way as he pulled away. YUK.
Other lake excitement? Fishing sucked. Thanks to the hundreds of waterskiers going up and down, up and down, up and down.. Round and round, and apparently not a singe one has read a Wisconsin boating handbook where the law that says you must stay 100’ from any boats with their engines off, fishermen and the shore when your boat is on plane… yeah we haven’t read that rule apparently. I could hardly stand up from the wakes coming at me from every direction. Matter of fact… when I got off the boat I was still swaying. Hate that.
4 hours of exploding ordinance didn’t help either I’m sure.
So, that’s what I got for now. I’ve gotta go get a shower, I haven’t had one since the alarm went off. 
