Overdue update
Things have been very busy around the household as evidenced by my lack of posts lately.
We went to Padre Island National Seashore again with my Land Rover club. Always a good time. The weather was beautiful. About as perfect as I’ve ever seen.
We got the boat fixed finally. Just in time for summer. Also apparently just in time for thunderstorm season. We keep getting rained out of going to the lake. Luckily the only problem with the boat was a baseball hat sucked into the impeller. A quick 5 minute fix in the driveway and it was good as new. It was a one-in-a-million shot to get that thing wedged in there like that so that’s why we assumed it was something more costly.
Last week my wife cut open her leg very badly and had to get 8 stitches. She was running through the garage and my son had left open a tool box. She caught her leg on it and laid it open really good. That earned us 4.5 hours in the ER while waiting to get it stitched up. If you’re going to get injured don’t do it on a Monday afternoon/evening. It’s the busiest time at the ER.
Last weekend we worked a Ducks Unlimited shoot with my son’s Young Marine platoon. Lots of fun. The Young Marines run the traps for the shooters then clean up afterwards. It’s part of their community service requirments of being in the organization.
For Father’s Day I took my father and son fishing on Lake Travis. We knew that the fishing would suck as it’s summer and some storms rolled through overnight but we really just wanted to go out and BS while drowning earthworms. We all managed to catch something though so it wasn’t a total loss. Getting up before dawn to go out though is always tough for me. 4:45AM is a bedtime not a time to wake up.