Another Season Over

{sigh}well another summer season at the lake is over....the boats are pulled and the docks too.

Actually not a bad weekend for closing up...yeah it rained the majority of the time, and we pulled docks in the lightening but it had to get done. I know we are crazy for being in the water during a thunderstorm but my FIL wouldn't take no for an answer.

But it wasn't bitterly cold like it has been in the past...no hail storms, no straight line winds, no strong winds...other than the rain that came down so hard you couldn't see it wasn't too bad. We started at about 8am and had it all done by 10am....actually it was one of the shortest pullings we've ever had, and we actually had less of a crew.

Normally for Opening and Closing weekends we have a full crew--everyone in the family (with the exception of my BIL) are expected to be there, and for all the financial help the folks are giving the other parts of the family they better well had better be there--but this year for some reason, the whole of my SILs family decided to take a powder! A total, absolute, see you maybe if I need money, powder.

So we put in the docks by ourselves and had to pull them out by ourselves...and it went BETTER~!~ I couldn't believe it, but then when you have only a few doing it, and these people are determined to get it done instead of bullshitting or fucking around, you'd be surprised at how fast it goes!!

We also re-arranged the storage sheds and pole-barn that holds the boats, and this year a neighbor's car...boy did we ever have to re-arrange it--we may have to do it again too, depending on whether they can figure out a way of getting the backhoe in.

Picked up some more wood, but it was too wet last night to stack...and I'm kind of hoping it will start raining here soon so it will be too wet to do it tonight too--I don't mind stacking the wood, its just that most of it is pretty funky because its so old...yuk@!