We enjoyed a great ward breakfast at Geist Park this morning, complete with patriotic music, and a devotional by Brian Percival. Our ward always does a great job!
We went boating and took the kids tubing. I was driving the boat and pulling Spenc & Kaden, when suddenly the boat just died!! It would turn over but would not start! We prayed for help to fix the boat. Then prayed for someone to help us (we both forgot our phones! Ugh. Never again). A boat stopped and offered to tow us. Their boat was too big to go under the bridge to our yard, so we had them drop us off before the bridge. I ran up to the house of the people who own the dock we were next to. His name was George and he let us tie up the boat on his dock until we could get a tow back home. He even came out and let us use some bumpers and a rope while the kids played in his yard. We walked home barefoot amd still wearing our life jackets. We looked curious. And so of course, we saw our neighbors the Lambertus'. Ha!
When we got home spenc called Jeremy Dodge who luckily was already on his boat and towed ours back to our dock. Spenc then came inside and researched what could possibly be wrong. Fuel & oil were full. Prop was clear of debris. Battery worked. Buy Why wouldn't it stay on?
He read one suggestion online and went down to see if that would solve it. He was smiling when he came back to the house and asked me "What position were you sitting in when the boat died?" I didn't understand why that mattered until he explained that I knocked out the kill-switch! Ha ha! Oops. Did I mention that we are amateur boat owners?? Hee hee
We went boating and took the kids tubing. I was driving the boat and pulling Spenc & Kaden, when suddenly the boat just died!! It would turn over but would not start! We prayed for help to fix the boat. Then prayed for someone to help us (we both forgot our phones! Ugh. Never again). A boat stopped and offered to tow us. Their boat was too big to go under the bridge to our yard, so we had them drop us off before the bridge. I ran up to the house of the people who own the dock we were next to. His name was George and he let us tie up the boat on his dock until we could get a tow back home. He even came out and let us use some bumpers and a rope while the kids played in his yard. We walked home barefoot amd still wearing our life jackets. We looked curious. And so of course, we saw our neighbors the Lambertus'. Ha!
When we got home spenc called Jeremy Dodge who luckily was already on his boat and towed ours back to our dock. Spenc then came inside and researched what could possibly be wrong. Fuel & oil were full. Prop was clear of debris. Battery worked. Buy Why wouldn't it stay on?
He read one suggestion online and went down to see if that would solve it. He was smiling when he came back to the house and asked me "What position were you sitting in when the boat died?" I didn't understand why that mattered until he explained that I knocked out the kill-switch! Ha ha! Oops. Did I mention that we are amateur boat owners?? Hee hee
The rest of the afternoon was chill. We ate sweet pork salad for dinner and the kids played in the rain while it dumped a burst of rain on us. When the rain passed we had our first fire in the new pit. Roasted some mallow then got ready to walk down to the bridge firework show.
The Lindseys walked down with us and the kids had lots of fun dancing & being with friends. The fireworks were awesome! It was Charlie & Josie's first late late night and big firework display. I was nervous they'd meltdown but they both did amazing! We were sure to give them late afternoon naps, so that helped. :) We had a nice time.
I love this country more every year!
1 comment:
hey- you know more about boats than i do for sure! Your kids are beautiful. Glad you had a fun celebration.
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