I am tripping more than you are. Battling razzberries

[SadLuckDame]

ha ha, is that a pic of you shaking me?
You crack me up, I likes it.

I'm here, mingo.
Just been in such moods for the week.

Thanks u for the pic.
Love when ya have the characters for me,
then I go, "Mmm, I know that guy." ppp

Summer time is so beautiful.
I can't stop thinking about hiking, camping, and kites.

[SadLuckDame]

mingo, I am so excited by this perfect collection of pictures you're gifting to me for my wall. My house is a wonderland!

[the mingo]

I hear ya on the moods. Gonna go kayaking somewhere local this weekend. Maybe up to the outlet of the Salmon. Want to take the Big Girl out again but this time not on the lake but on waters less open to the wind. I'll get some shots for ya.
And what pictures you talkin' 'bout by the way - the postcards & whatnots?
'Nite, Doll.

[SadLuckDame]

Hope the weather will get beautiful for you out on the water.

Yes, the postcards and paintings here in my diary, especially.
I was flipping back through the pages yesterday and noticed how lovely it looks in here with yours hanging up and makes me happy.

[SadLuckDame]

Do you wanna go on a movie date tonight with me?

[the mingo]

Ahh I'd love to but no can do tonight. Just got back from 10 hours on the water. Took the Big Girl up on the Salmon. Ya know she just surprises me more & more every time I take her out. Tell you 'bout it tomorrow 'cause this guy has had it taken out of him for the day. Whew! Gonna leave ya with a shot taken today on the Salmon River. Post more tomorrow, they are just variations of the one I'm leaving here tonight. Ya know I was gonna sell this kayak but I think not now.
Keep her at least 'til next year anyways. I discovered today in the fast current of the Salmon that she has some warrior in her heart. Now I'm gonna have to name her. catch ya tomorrow morning. 'Nite, Doll.

[the mingo]

Mornin' Doll. What a day yesterday. Went up to the Salmon River and I took the big kayak. We were working around the mouth of the river where it empties into the lake but there was too many other watercraft and heavy chop to be comfortable there so we went upstream. I didn't think we'd get too far once we hit the current up in there but ... got to where the current began to run heavy and Nancy tried but had to pull out of it when she stopped making headway. I was able to keep going. I had to finally pull out too but I got much farther up in there than I thought I would be able to - a LOT farther. Another thing too, the big kayak has a rudder on it. Last year when we bought this I always sat in the back with Nancy up front, and it's the front paddler that controls the rudder. She never did get it down and then we bought the single boats and never used the double again until I began to take it out just recently. The rudder was not workin' right to begin with, always wanted to pull to the right and the rudder never wanted to hang straight when you took your feet off the rudder pedals. I found out what the problem was yesterday before we went out and was able to fix it. It is great to be able to take your paddle out of the water when the rudder is deployed and have the kayak still track straight. When we went upstream I didn't expect much from the big kayak when we hit fast water but she had a wake up call in store for me. When Nancy had to pull out of the current I still was getting forward momentum so I kept going. I was still on it when I decided to pull out so as not to leave Nancy there. If it hadn't of been for that I think I had a good shot at making it around the bend and up river more.

Then last night we went out on the lake. They have a big festival here in Oswego every year called Harborfest. It has become over the years quite a big deal. Usually at least a couple of hundred thousand folks show up and it runs four days. On the third day they have this really really big fireworks display. Trouble with this is all the people. You have to stake out a spot way ahead of time. But there is no way this ol' boy is gonna sit around all day waiting on this thing. my life is going right by at a rapid clip, ya know? So, being a local I got ways and means. A few days ago we talked about watching the fireworks from the kayaks. And that's the way it turned out to be. Talk about a ringside seat. We had the best ones in the house. We took flashlights and laid them down on the deck inside the kayaks and when we turned them on we looked like Japanese lanterns bobbing around out there on the water.

Couldn't have been a better day.
So gonna leave ya with another pic. We might not do anything today. Just hang around, maybe mow the lawn. (NOT!) it's warm, the sun is out, no clouds in the sky, and there are kayaks sitting in the grass under my hemlock tree and just callin' my name. O Mama this boy is gonegonegone !
Catch you later, Doll.

[SadLuckDame]

We took flashlights and laid them down on the deck inside the kayaks and when we turned them on we looked like Japanese lanterns bobbing around out there on the water.

Making me really happy just reading this.
Whenever you tell me these things, then I go try it all out in my imaginings and being like little Japanese lanterns out on the water made me feel lucky.
I'm very lucky, yes.

[SadLuckDame]

Are you an INFP, mingo?

[the mingo]

INFP ? Good God I hope not ! Is it contagious ? Is it something you can do in a kayak ? I mean is it small enough to even fit inside a kayak ? Is it something you inherit or do you have to buy it ? Is it something you can get wholesale and cut it up into smaller portions and then retail it for a profit ?

Yesterday I took a pair of pants and slaughtered the legs off of them. Then I put them on. First pair of shorts I've had since I was a kid I think. Folks tell me I got chicken legs. I think they must be right.

Just had a stray thought about plumbing. I mean about what we have to do to get water to run through our houses. Wonder how and who decided it was to be called "plumbing".

I saw something in the water yesterday that I was gonna try to get a shot of for ya. I've seen it before but couldn't tell what it might be. It looks almost like an art thing because water does things to things ya know. It looks skeletal. Finally figured out what it was yesterday, it's a handle off a lawnmower gone to rust and plants are growing on it. Couldn't get a shot of it for ya because the current where it is is moving at a clip and I can't stay over it long enough to get you a shot. I even tried to make a pass over it and get it as I went by but that didn't work out.
Can't get a kayak to stay still. Even in the quiet water of a pond a kayak will not stay in one spot by itself. It is responsive to the least amount of motion by anything. The smallest breath of wind the kayak will feel and water has the Spirit of God in it so that even "still" water is not still and the kayak knows it.
Sometimes I stop paddling and let the kayak lose momentum just to see what the water around me is doing. The kayak will let you know, open your perception up and put it touch with the things you can't see about the water right around you.

Got to get goin' Annie B. See ya up ahead.

PS - speaking of what a kayak is responsive to... I believe a kayak to be responsive to the spin and twirl of the planet itself and believe it will show it to you if you get yourself quiet enough to listen.

[SadLuckDame]

What do you mean, is it a very bad catchy thing to be stuck with?
I am doomed then, ya know mingo.

I think water is a very close environment to the spiritual world. A lot of water talk in the Bible. There is something precious happening on it, in it and when we drink a fresh water and spring water. This is all for the soul, for I think that is where the love of it is being formed.

[the mingo]

Woke up this morning with something from the Word in my mind. "The cheerful heart has a continual feast" - it's from Proverbs I think. Yesterday I went and looked up this INFP thing you're talkin' 'bout. So sounds to me like you should start at home and work your way out from there. Look close, Annie B, look close and you will be rewarded for it. So I'm outta here, began to rehabilitate one of my gardens yesterday. Everything gets sorely neglected around here during kayak season. I'm so bad. Sorry I didn't get a post in for ya this morning but I got to reading about the INFP last night and was too tired after to rattatattat. Started another painting couple of days ago. Takes me a little bit to find my way with a new work but I think I'm on to something now with this one. Gonna call it "Rider at Red River". To name something is to know it, don't ya think ?

[SadLuckDame]

So sounds to me like you should start at home and work your way out from there.

I don't know what you mean, am I not looking in the right places?
I am very happy to hear you've got a painting started up and dancing under your fingertips.

[the mingo]

Wait! Wait ! I meant for the INFP thing. Nevermind! I hate crossed wires! Forget about it! Because I thought I understood the INFPers were healers. Rats! So I meant to start at home and then work outwards. Something like that. OMG.

[the mingo]

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