Bass Boats Awaketh

6:10

First Swim of  2012

Gambling at the Rod and Gun Club

Happy Winnings

Well, summer is here, as bass boats awakened me at 6:00,  tearing off from the Long Point Marina, anxious to get to that sweet spot, hoping to bag the biggest bass or walleye or whatever is in season.  It's another clear morning, sun bright in the eastern sky, lake calm, birds chirping, about 52 degrees, a perfect spring morning, for walking or working in the yard or just relaxing on the dock.  I think we'll do all three.

Yesterday morning,  I got ready for yoga but my neighbor, Joe Deault called saying he was free to help me launch my boat.  So, we went up to where I store it, trailered it to Prendergast Point, launched it and found out the impeller wasn't working.  It keeps the engine cool.  So we pulled it out, drove the boat and trailer to Snugs, left it there and hope  to get it back by Wednesday, inshallah!

After that disaster, the afternoon was ours to waste; Evie cut our yard, worked in the garden, and sunbathed, and I cut Leonard's lawn, read some, sun bathed but it got to be too hot for me.  And, for the first time this spring, probably the earliest time ever, Evie jumped in the like for a swim.  Later in the afternoon, after working in the yard, she jumped in again.  It looked so good that I decided to swim as well.  It was cold  but refreshing, not bad once you got used to it.  We both shampooed our hair, so the 'real summer' has begun for us.

Ron and Linda came over around 6:00.  We sat out on the dock, the first time this summer, for a beer and some pupus.  It was a lovely evening, warm enough so all you needed was a tee shirt, with lots of traffic on the lake, like mid summer actually.  Everyone had the same idea; come to the lake, launch your boat, and enjoy the water.  A few skiers and tubers, lots of jet skis.

We went to the Rod and Gun Club, stopping at Wegman's first to pick up a few things for today's dinner. The club was packed, as usual, so we had to sit at tables in the bar, overlooking the lake, for a about a half an hour before we were seated in the dining room.  Evie and Linda could not wait to gamble, so off they went to the bar, Linda winning a fifty dollar ticket, which she split with Evie, their deal.  We all had prime rib for dinner, a deal at 10.95 and great, reminding us of Bud's.  At 9:00, the lights dimmed and the band rocked out, making it hard to hear if you were still enjoying your dinner.  The Rod and Gun is a very popular place, no doubt, and the number of people that eat there on weekends has to be in the two or three hundreds.  It's definitely a place popular with an older crowd, lots of people our age or older, with their families or other couples.  It seems like a throwback to 60's and 70's, a place my parents would have enjoyed, just not the rock music.  I wonder if they ever have big band music?  We are beginning to feel like locals eating there, even knew a few people.