A Fantastic Outing
March 20th (Friday) At 09:00 Ken came by to pick us up. We headed up to Link Lake to see what we could do about clearing out the boat launch area. It was blocked by logs, and we set about throwing, carrying, and pushing them out of the way. It did not take us long, and we had the ramp all cleared except for one log that was too far out into the water for us to get a good push on. It was floating except for the root end, which was stuck in the mud. We decided that we would have an easier time moving it once we had the boat backed part way into the water so that we could stand in the boat and be closer to the log to give it a good push. We headed back to Ken’s place in Martin Valley to get the boat, and then back up to the lake we went. It turned out that the boat trailer had an easy time of moving the last log out of the way as Ken backed the boat into the water. Soon we were off, planing across the lake. The wind from planing was quite nippy, but it was a b...