Memorial Day is over!!

These weekends at the lake become such a whirlwind that there is no time to post blog entries...  But Sunday was the nice day where everything happened....

We got the pontoon boat cleaned the rest of the way and the kids got to go swimming in the lake, even though us grown ups knew they would freeze...  But they weren't about to admit that the water was cold....

I went to town and bought a bunch of gas in our jugs to put into the jet ski and the pontoon...  And filled the car.......  Yeow, almost a hundred bucks........   But later that afternoon we were all out on the water in the boat......

And like usual, the big off shore racing boats were speeding up and down the center of the lake channel....  Making it impossible for smaller pontoon boats to travel on the water...  Smaller as in 26 feet..  And the water was splashing up onto us from the wind and the churning waves....  Eww, cold....

It was in the 80s though and after the initial reaction you got over it fairly quickly...

We did hit one especially deep wave where the engine began to nose the front of the pontoon deck down under the water...   These are dangerous, and you have to be quick to get the throttle back...  Pontoons can be dangerous this way..  The water was several inches deep on top of the deck, but kind of just runs off the back end of the boat...  Lake Ozark on these holiday weekends is a tough place to enjoy...  Small fishing boats, like bass boats with shallow sides could be swamped easily...

We spend a lot of time just out on the dock in front of the house...  It doesn't go anywhere, but you aren't out of reach of the kitchen too far either...

On Monday, we had hoped to have more of the same, but the skies were overcast and threatened rain...   I headed out on the scooter for a tank of gas and some shock cords to lash the deck furniture together on the dock...   The winter weather had destroyed the old ones...

Anyway some last minute dock time was in order for the kids, and the jet ski was running various riders up and down the cove...  Since we only have one ski, our sons have the duty of taking the kids on rides...  And with 5 kids to ride........  Well the littlest one is too small so there are 4.  And at one point, the 11 year old was driving his dad around...

But he needs to be 14 to go by himself...  And the ski is 1500 cc engine, so he may be older than that before he get the privilege..  Then the skies opened up!!!!

And the rain came pouring down... Torrential rain almost washed us away...  The older son and his family had already left for the other sides parents home and called back to warn us of the deluge...

 

So tonight we are back here in KC, and the washing machine has run for the entire time since we arrived home..........  We have one at the lake cabin too, and it ran all day there as well....  We just ran out of time...    Every kid has to have a beach towel...  And they get all wet so then we have to get another...  And beds for 11 people need to have their sheets washed, you get the picture....

So Happy belated Memorial Day!!  Hope yours was hectic like ours!!!

Retired Rod