A New Lake

On vacay at a secret lakeside location. I’ve never seen such clean, pure water. Even when it’s 6′ deep, I can see the sand. The water is often so calm that it looks flat. It is perfect for swimming. Nothing on the lake bottom but sand, rocks, some random green lake plants. Lakeweed? It is READ MORE

Unicorn Floaty

Before I arrived, I thought my friends kids would love the unicorn and think it was cool. But they didn’t. Or, they didn’t let it show for days. Fine with me. I spent a good part of every afternoon pulling the little ones around on the unicorn and on my donut float (a round inner-tube READ MORE

Sometimes I Fall on my Butt

Today, I swam in my lake. It’s a huge lake. I look south and see Mt. Rainier. I look north and see other mountains in the Cascade Range, and I see hot air balloons. I am blissfully happy as I breast stroke through the lake (bum shoulder=can’t do crawl), my orange float bag trailing behind READ MORE

Cape Cod

Close the beaches! Great white sighting. And here we are just a few days from 4th of July. Ripped from the Headlines: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/26/us/race-point-beach-white-shark-no-swimming-order/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2USRDnh4rMu11DsyIadx0qdgbvOkKVnWl1uU_ZBDYicBv-M_21WJ-hBtU