End of Summer

Well I was shocked at how much progress I got done this weekend at the cabin considering what had to be done.

We had to pull the dock and close up the cabin for the season - that means everything had to get pulled from the water .... normally we would have a full crew of 15 but for some reason lately its been harder and harder to get people to show up.

The more people we have the easier it is. the quicker it is too. the more guys the better it is too because they seem to have an easier time man handling the boat lifts into place.

Everyone seems to want to be there for the fun, but no one makes sure they are there for the clean up. I guess its that sense of responsibility that has only gotten into one branch of the family trees.

Oh well -- don't I wish everyone was as perfect as me? That's what my parents would always say when they caught one of us kids getting into that 'my poop don't stink' moods.

So it was the six of us this weekend -- everyone, even the it-bits, had to pitch in. It didn't help when the oldest girl started feeling faint again -- although I have my suspicions that she was using it as a way to get out of work, but I wasn't taking any chances ... we made her sit for a while and then she was put on go-fer duty.

which the it-bits enjoyed because that had been their jobs so they got a break too.

Any how, some how we got in all the boat lifts, the water-surfer lift, and the pontoon lifts out by ourselves. Then there were both docks -- one is fairly easy, its just pull and push it into place - but the other one is older and so the planks have to be taken off in sections (there are 14 of them) and they are each about 4 1/2 ft square so they are very gangly to carry (it just about kills my shoulders) ... then the dockbrace sections are made out of a thinner material than the main dock so we can't hook up any machinery to pull it out.

so you have to have two people in the water trying to lift the dock up about 3 ft onto the shore so that everyone else can pull it the rest of the way (without twisting it) and then lift & walk it to where it needs to go. now do that with 2 more sections and then deal with the landing section of the dock.

not fun ... but still ....

somehow we were able to get it all done by 2pm on saturday. Maybe it was because they pulled out the boats the week before - although we've done that before too - maybe it was just the thought that it was us or no one was going to get it done. Of course a good bit of it was that we didn't have to put the boats & equipement into storage -- that was already done this year since my father-in-law seems to have worked out exactly where everything goes.

Its kind of like one of those puzzles, the storage area, where all the pieces fit no matter how you put them together, but only one way will make the proper picture. I guess he got the picture right this year.

But I got to knit saturday night and part of sunday. yeah. I got to start on the toe sections .... very nice but didn't get as far as I wanted. but that is a seperate post.