Dave Kruger wrote: > > The future daughter-in-law seemed out of sorts, and that made *everybody* > uncomfortable, so we compensated by over-consuming food on Thanksgiving day ... > and the next day ... and the day after that. It did not help that the > much-vaunted paddle with son and intended was squashed by the first Pineapple > Express of the season, courtesy of La Nina. In lieu, we wandered around a muddy > bare lot, site of a house in six months (we hope), though the intended pouted in > the truck by herself. > You either write pretty good, or I've been here before(both). > Time to fade out into the marshes and channels out Brownsmead way. Email the > Portland crew ... nope, nobody home. Oh, well, I know how to do this stuff -- > who needs companions, anyway? Packa packa packa, fill water jugs, find clothes, > buy more food, beg a homemade turkey sandwich off the sweetie, stuff the yak on > top of the canopy and lasherdown! Trundling up the highway, rain stomping the > tin ceiling, turkey gurgling inside. Hallooo! That slide they "fixed" last > summer has re-annointed the RR tracks at the put-in. Ma Nature bats last, > dudes. > > State game cop in his warm PU, checking hunters returning from the wet. Now he > has "hid" his PU behind some other rigs -- some of the boats returning to the > ramp had been doing touch and goes ... heh! heh! Officer Klepp on the hunt! He > eyes me top to bottom when I tell him, "Yeah, I'm goin' camping in the islands > ... I have a tarp!" And shrugs and makes a face as the rain dribbles down his > chin. > > There is a slight diminishment of the wet stuff as I unload and repacka repacka > repacka everything in hatches and slide off the beach. Pelt pelt pelt on the > hat and deck ... splash splash splash on the water. We're having fun, >no? Same here... Only differance is, I hate to "start" a trip in rain/snow now days. Something tells me the weather kinda fit the mood. > Dippy the deck duck is -- always smiling. Don't leave us hanging.... Introduce DDD(teacher, are you watching?"private joke")to us. I have a small rubber duck(with sunglasses) that I have mated(with its permission) to the nut that holds the combing nose cap on, of my kodiak. No name tho. (snip) > Drifting back along the highway, seems like that grouchy future > daughter-in-law's image is very faint ... think I'll keep the yak. Maybe my son > should consider investing and divesting. Polyester resin and true love may have > equal lifetimes. > > -- > Dave Kruger Good one Dave, thanks! Amazing what a trip, even a short one can do. James > Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 11:23:58 PST
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