Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas
WOW it has been an eventful day.
The first thing that was special was finding a picture of
the sleeping bag clipped over the door on cold nights. That sucker was buried deep in the never
never land of old pictures. Now we have a picture to explain last night’s verbiage.
About 0200 last night the OFM was up and about. He
decided to take a look outside to see how things were behaving. The moon was
very bright so he got the dim idea of taking a picture by moonlight. It came
out amazingly well after all.
We got laundry done early this morning as in before
0900. Then the Teams tackled the
bathroom. It was totally scrubbed down and disinfected with bleach
afterward. It was surprising that a cold
chisel and hammer did the job instead of needing a pneumatic jack hammer. By now it was noon and time for lunch.
When lunch was finished it seemed to be just right for
some fishing. After all this is a winter day and the temperature is only 81.
While out fishing this picture presented itself. It is
now the header picture for a bit.
That is one nice looking winter day isn’t it.
After all that work and excitement things got really going. Plans for golf on Monday with Billy Bob were
made. That will be fun again.
Then some emails with Horst of http://texasreflectionsphotography.blogspot.com/ resulted in plans to meet him out north of
Del Rio on Wednesday. That will be fun for two bloggers to meet up and tell
tales. But we are not finished yet.
Lots of folks love to add to the amount of stuff they
have around them. The OFM loves to get rid of stuff to have less holding him
back. The OFM Teams will soon be one less in number. After several months of
not using the yak, it demanded to be sold to someone that would use it.
Since the
happiness of the Team members is very important, the yak was advertised for
sale. As of today it has a new owner that will make great use of the kayaks
massive abilities. And it is several fewer things the OFM has to worry about
remembering where they are located. No
more paddle, rod holder, seat, anchor or red flag to worry about tracking. Best
of all is no more strained back muscles trying to handle the heavy yak all by
himself.
Clint Eastwood said it well when he said “A man has got
to know his limitations.”
Getting lighter and lighter is another good move toward
trying to have tooooo much fun. TheOFM.
I bet there will be a time when you will miss the yak.
ReplyDeleteSure will be. Every time the rig moves on down the road and my back doesn't hurt from loading the kayak onto the roof of the Truck camper shell.
DeleteThere is a lot of truth in " Things just hold you back". Little is better
ReplyDeleteI just went through a couple of cabinets and storage compartments dumping stuff related to the boat that is no longer owning me.
DeleteCongratulations in being able to let go of things that you can no longer use.
ReplyDeleteI got to hand it to some men, they do not seem to have the emotional attachments some of us women have with our stuff. Hope to correct this soon in my own life.
Since I do have a boat owning me anymore, another 60# of stuff went into the dumpster this morning.
DeleteI bet that you could get rid of the stuff if that means you get to move to Terlingua.
First I have to be able to move my stuff to Del Rio so I can get rid of my house in Houston.
DeleteI always remember your infamous quote "back when a house owned me"...need to rectify that soon.
I think about my sewing room each time you post about getting rid of things. One of these days I will get in there and throw some thread and fabric away, I guess. I really like the picture by moon light. It gave me a good laugh.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was going to suggest a Fol-Boat as a viable alternative in aid of having too much fun on the water...
ReplyDeleteWell let me see, I have had 2 Kodiaks, 1 Kiawah, I Edisto and 1 other Fol-bot in my life. They were interesting.
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