The Grey Float Saga

After waffles for breakfast on their boat and some welcome advice for an upcoming trip of ours to Utah where they have family, our friends left, H and I  went for a row and then messed about with boats and the grey rowing float.  It’s a bit early to put it away (many of you do know the ritual…sigh) but H didn’t want to wait til the last weekend of labor day and there was a good high tide, no boats at the moment on our bay and it was dead calm with high winds predicted tomorrow.  So we thought we’d sneak it down to the beach by ourselves at the mid afternoon high tide and deal with hauling it up tomorrow.     Hard to get away with sneaking anything here!  Our neighbors who are much too nice, saw what we were doing and there they were!    Only it was 3 chiefs, all with a plan, not the tried and true.   Long story short, it took more than twice as long to try to use the wench with generator,( a different way...until it started smoking...) and we ended up asking those kayakers who were just coming to the beach for muscle help.    It was supposed to be short and sweet and I didn’t bring the “real” camera” I’m trying to use these 2 weeks.  (the Sony is not up to anything..I can’t even access the menu :-( )   so this is from the phone.    Not what I planned for my afternoon, but hey, now it’s done!

So I added the heron from my row earlier just for fun.     ( ha..not unlike the 3 guys who were squawking at each other...). You can tell the smoke is back… got darker and darker.    Big bad air alerts.