Work'n & Playin

 20 Jul 2009 03:50:15 am

Had to work in the rain this week, it poured on us for close to 3 hours. Thanks goodness it stopped in the evening and gave us enough time to set up camp. Anyone who has camped before knows that lots of rain and tents don’t do well together. Turned out that was the only wet weather we had to deal with, so I guess we got pretty lucky there. Here are some pictures of the rain, in case you have never seen rain before.
Me and Mark trying to make the best of it.

A very rained on crew….


Waiting to pitch our tents, drying our clothes out, will the rain ever stop??? I have never felt more like a hippy in my life. It was a good time though, one of those situations where your attitude can either keep you sane or drive you crazy.


The Rig is getting a free wash!!!


All done…


We were doing some more lake shore restoration, same old same old…planting plants and pulling weeds. Here is the crew and the people we spent the week working with.

Ok as promised in the title to this post its time to talk about playing. I got to do a couple of fun things this weekend. We took a float trip on the crow wing river on Saturday that would have been fun if the air temperature would have been higher then 65, and the sun would have been out. It actually was still pretty fun…it may have taken a few beers to keep ourselves warm… I didn’t take any pictures there sorry, just imagine that the ice cubes in your water are me and my friends floating down the river .

I did get a nice day on the water in though. Today was really a gorgeous day, one of those perfect days that the Minnesota summer so often gives you. Caught some fish, remembered my sun screen, and got to watch the sunset from a boat…all and all great day! Here is how my great day came together…
You take a little bit of this…


And add in this guy right here….


This, which just happens to be the answer, presents itself…


How’s that for an equation??? It beats the hell out of derivatives I think…OK I’m a dork, but whatever.
Pictures continued

Purdy Flower…


Purdy fish…


Nother purdy fish…


That’s my boat…





I miss everyone a bunch, and hope that you all are doing well!!!!!! Last full week of July, holy crap!!! I am beginning to feel this weight on my shoulders saying “You need to figure out what you are going to do after your term is up.?.?.?.?” It is not a good feeling to have stuck in the back of your mind, but I’ve got some time to think. Take care everyone have a good week

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