FINALLY !!!!!

                 It was like pulling teeth, but we got me to the lake!

Two years ago, we didn't have much work, and the reverse gear shift cable quit working on our boat, so we parked the boat in the garage.

Last year, we still hadn't caught up to what 2008-2010 did to our finances, so we didn't fix the boat or take it out.

This year, we got estimates to fix our boat, and the old man that does it in his front yard, and back yard, and side yard gave us a better rate than the boat fix-it shops, so we had him order our part.

He said it would take a week or two to get it in. When we called back in a couple of weeks to check on the part, he said he was now super busy with lots of boats ahead of us and gave us another date to bring in our boat 3 more weeks away.

Three + weeks later, we called him to find out why he hadn't called us to tell us when to bring in our boat, he was confused about who we were and thought he had already fixed our boat.

It turns out that the part for the boat came in, and he put it on another boat thinking it was our boat.

So he ordered another part, and we could bring our boat to him in a week and a half!

As he took my boat to his yard he told me that this part might not work right in my boat, cause the company that makes my part had been bought out by another company and it no longer makes parts for our motor....

We finally got our boat back, and tried to register it online so we could take it to the lake that weekend. then we found out that since it hadn't been registered for two years that we had to do it in person. By now it was too late to go to the DMV.

Then, for the next few weeks, we had one or more kids missing at things such as cheer camp, scout camp, girl's camp, job training, car washes, etc. So, one day we decided that we would just go to the lake with who we had at home. Hubby had said that he would register the boat on his way home from work since he was working out by the lake. He forgot to do it and thought that I would take care of it. I thought that he would do it the next day since he spends mostly every day out by the lake doing concrete.

It didn't get registered, so we weren't able to go to the lake while we had all of the cousins in town!
It would have been fun. It just did not work out.

The forecast was for scattered thundershowers for the next 7 days,
but I was gonna go no matter what till the lightning kicked us off!

Well, guess what.

The lightning kicked us off!!!

but, not till 4:30 p.m.