Please 60 degrees is below freezing for me. Our temps get up in the 110 range in the summer. Right now, it is a cool 72 or so.
Im still standin better than I ever did looking like a true survivor feeling like a little kid Im still standin after all this time and Im picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind..
Im still standin better than I ever did looking like a true survivor feeling like a little kid Im still standin after all this time and Im picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind..
Yeah .. I'm going out on one of the local lakes. It's only a couple of miles long. The water temp. is around 44-45 degres. If I'm alone I usually wear a mustang pfd with the auto inflate thingamajig. It's light and not bulky. A little pricey but worth every penny if used just once.
One of my favorite stories...cause I have a bunch actually.
Was when my father called me one day to let me know that he had flipped their boat. Now I am in the Coast Guard at the time. The lake they were on is in upper Wisconsin it was in the fall...so it is getting F cold up there....but the muskies...the damned muskies were calling. So my dad and my mom went out.
"Good thing you guys had your life jackets on," says I, knowing that there is no way my proud parents of their upstanding and decorated son would ever do something as stupid as not wear their lifejackets.
Long pause on the phone from my dad.
"We weren't..."
"What? are you crazy? You took mom out on a boat in Wisconsin not wearing lifejackets?"
"They get in the way"
"Oh that's just great, can I quote you next time and use it on the headstone? "Hey lies Paul 3 Beans because lifejackets would get in the way."
Oh let me tell you, getting to parent your parent...priceless.
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK
Hey Jack - My fireman friend had to school his mother after she put hot ashes from her wood stove in paper bags (that caught on fire).
How is the boating around Anchorage this time of year? Clamming must be awesome since the tides are so great (just dont get stuck in the mud or try to take clams from a bear). I remember when my cutter moored in Anchorage - I was on watch later that night at low tide and it was funny watching drunk crew members trying to walk back down the near vertical brow.
Do you surf or kayak? I hear that bore tide surfing is good in the Turnagain Arm.
