Hasn’t let up once today, might have thinned out some,  but never stopped, and now, is really coming down.   (Not whiteout, been in those)

Looks like we have a reprieve followed by another smack down a day later,

Then things drop through the basement floor Satyrday night

Blech.

February is gonna suck,,,   I can already tell.   

And that will make the Spring oh so much sweeter when it hits.

March 20th, Spring Equinox,,, usually followed with 3-4 weeks of near winter ICK, cycling up and down.  Different ‘Springs’ that take place as the locals call them:  Redbud, Dogwood, and Blackberry.   About one week before redbud Spring, I see the lilies; sometimes even poking out of clumps of snow.   THEN, I know spring is coming on fast. 

Eight more weeks of my least favorite season,,,12 more weeks before the waters start to warm back up (winter run offs are COLD,,,)   Not that ‘that’ will stop me,,, But it does make for ‘more gear’ and that dampers my enthusiasm some.

I’m in full winter mode now. Woodstove going, propane backup at night or when I am off working. Have the storm lantern lit, turned down low, as lighting for moving around sprawled furries. Takes a lot less ‘tricity: juice that isn’t being replenished very well right now (no wind, no direct sun, panel voltage was at 13.4 at high noon today. .1 amp flow rate from that. Thats not even maitenance charge rate.)

Yup,,, more time on my hands with little to do,,, reading/writing/thinkin’ takes much of it, and I do have the Erg and isometrics for when I start to get ‘twitchy’ with boredom. I have to keep a sign in the fridge too: “you aren’t hungry, YOU’RE BORED” or I will eat myself out of house and home and get round like Voodoo in short order.

So when those warm(er) days arrive, I have things I CAN do on the porch, but as I found today, epoxy ain’t likin’ that cold. Its curing, but its soft still. No removing clamps YET,,,

And the annual cat box cleaning will start again. Kittehs don’t like the box, but its there for times like these, when they will hold and hold and hold because they don’t wanna go out in ‘that white stuff’ to do the bizniss,,, I can go all summer and fall and not need to clean that box, but when the snows start to blow,,, poor babies, finding need of that evil box,,,,

Shuffled Buffalo around in her stall. She’s now facing outwards, 4×4 already engaged and ready for the morning. Only one ‘hicle been up this way, or out for that matter, and that was a Cuz visiting with Unk. At least the snow has been broken once before i have to leave out in the mornin’.

ANDdddddd,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I just recieved a text from Son of Bossman,,, No work tomorrow either,,,,

ok,,, I’ll figure somethin’ out,,,, Hope y’all like reading my drivel,,,,

Keep on livin’

Hard nod to Tori Amos in the title there.

Reading back over my morning post, I realized that, yes, I have enough going on in my head/soul/quantum reality, that I could write one of these myriad ‘self-help’ books that are so all over the place. And a new one every month,,, And next year, there will be a new grand name that sells a million books in one month and everyone thinks ‘this time, I got this,,,,”

Yeah,,, Got enough guilt, to start my own religion,,,,

One reason I have been enjoying Jordan Petersons work is in his use of the bible, the oldest ‘self-help’ book (still in circulation so to speak) I like his interpretations of things, versus the evanglical “ONE WAY< THIS WAY<NO OTHER or you’ll burn in hell” take on things. Sorry,,, words have meanings, and can be interpretted many ways, and sometimes a deliberate omission is more damning than a mistranslation. Of which there are many in the KJV,,(the goto version on these shores )

Now, my ‘religious’ side is quite odd, but then, I am quite odd,,, I don’t go into it much here, though more here than elsewhere as this is my catharsis site. And I don’t expect anyone else to take it to heart when I do discuss it. It’s just my formulation that doesn’t create dichotomies, or conflicts inside me. It’s been borrowed and quite literally stolen from every danged ‘religion’ I have studied: some from Christianity(ethics) some from Buhdism (afterlife) even quantum mechanics (afterlife/overlife) and more. I then toss it all into a blender and see what comes out the other side. And there are always new ingredients being added as I learn more and more.

The deeper you look, the more you will find me.

Thats a bible passage though I don’t know if its verbatim or paraphrased, but it IS the one passage that comes to mind when you start looking into Quantum mechanics and how most EVERY Scientist that jumps on that bandwagon, becomes ‘Born again’. (don’t believe me, look into it, you’re in for a shock,,,) It’s a lot of why I started believing that we are only,,,, stop, let me explain the “we” part first. we= what we percieve as us on THIS plane of existence,,,, It’s a lot of why I started believing that we are only AVATARS of ourselves, and the REAL us exists in the Quantum cloud. This avatar is only capable of so much retention and processing so our true memories are locked away from it. Those that have acheived ‘messiah’ status in history were able to access more, MUCH more of that cloud and that brought them to their ascension points, be it peaceful or violent.

BUT,

WE are all a part of that Cloud, be it a quantum cloud, or what some call GOD, (we were all created in his image,,, right? )

This is a simulation, for entertainment, for education, for self-fulfillment, whatever you need it to be. Re-read that. WHATEVER YOU NEED IT TO BE. The rules are simple, Improve yourself,

And know, that no matter what your self-image, the rest of the world sees it differently. EVERY. TIME. and there are as many translations of you as there are people that observe you. Reality is internal, make it what you want, the rest of the world will interpret it however they see fit and you have no say in that.

I like Elon Musk. Here I get another chancce to ‘prove a point’ using his personna. So many people see him as ‘the wealthiest man in the world” or some such. Some see him as a greedy capitalist. Some see him as a scammer of Tax revenues in government kickbacks.

Some people have good views of him, some negative, but everyone that knows his name has an “impression’ of him. And they are all ‘right’ and completely ‘wrong’ at the same time. Oh, there may be a bit of truth in each view, but its only a grain of sand that makes up the whole pile.

What I see is a man so intensely focused INWARD on his dreams, that his visions percolate outward and effect the rest of the world. I see a man that spent 2(3?) years sleeping on a cot on the production floor of his factory, to make sure HIS vision was pushed out correctly. I see a man that looks to the skies as ONE solution to the many things that ail this planet (IE US,,) and while he may not get there himself, IS trying to create something that will propel us outwards. (DD Harriman-esque for the Heinleinians among my readers)

When I saw Elon tell the world “go fuck yourself. if you think you can blackmail with money, GO! FUCK! YOURSELF! I hope thats clear enough,,,” I loved it. The man can’t be bought now,,, his DREAMS are too real, they have become self-sustaining.

And his enemies can’t see that because they are focused on what they want reality to be, not realizing that reality isn’t. They can’t see that each of us IS a reality unto itself and we only borrow from others as needed to ease the passage along. You can NOT, SHOULD NOT, attempt to push YOUR perceived reality on others as thiers: its wasteful of your time and energy, its never acccepted well, and its just down right fuckin’ rude as well. Polity is the grease that keeps things civil in a cloud of chaos. Present your vision and let others adopt or reject as they see fit. If your vision only gets rejection, maybe you need to reassess it,,,,

Perfect is the enemy of GOOD

Don’t try for perfection. just be the best you can be, and strive for a little better, everyday. Doesn’t matter if you are a burn-out meth-head starting over, or Elon Musk at his peak. A little better than yesterday, every day. Kindness carries further than anger (though anger can carry you quite a ways,,,with a high price) One day at a time. Its what we have: the future is an illusion we write on, but there are other authors writing it too.

One day at a time,

keep on livin’

Go kayaking, get wet

write your world with all greenlights

Don’t worry about happiness, find joy where you are and work to grow THAT. Learn to not Give a fuck.

see, all those self help books,,, they percolate the same damned message.

BE YOU AS GOOD AS YOU CAN BE

Hi, my name is Dio and I am a kayaholic!

Hi Dio,,,, welcome to LIFE.

(tip jar is on the right, help yourself,,,, I’m here all week.)

And my friend The Boring Old Man posts his views on it

Funny that. We all make choices, sometimes so spur of the moment, long term thinks can’t come into play. And No One knows the future,,, Prognosticate all you want, you will most likely be wrong.

Too many variables.

I own a home. No mortgage, heck, no utility bills,

but I have regrets of taking this road. Hindsight is 20/20, its part of that Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge curse we took on back in the garden. We found Self-Awareness, We could see how we hurt, why we hurt, and KNOW how we apply that to others.

And we can see the past.

Unlike our pets who live RIGHT HERE< RIGHT NOW, and only enough memory to form loyalties and to do tricks. Pain is felt, but not in the same ways as we feel them. Hurt your dogs feelings and 10 minutes later, Still your bestest friend, no grudge, no resentment. (unless you make it the norm,,,)

Not so much with peoples,,,

We can’t go back and fix our stoopids, we can only use those as lessons learned and try to not repeat them. But we will, in some way, or come up with completely new ones. We are merely human afterall. Across the windows of time, you can see that the Human Race doesn’t really learn ‘The Hard Lessons” all that well. Societies rise, Societies falter, Societies fall. and the cycle continues apace. Life goes on.

And when you are living in the moment, its the absolute worst that you can imagine: until it gets even worse.

or comes to its conclusion and the cycle starts upwards. Sometimes that moment can seem to be the downturn since we, as humans, resist change with bullheaded determination. I am sure the horse breeder of 1900 felt that the automobiles were the worstest thing ever,,, And was absolutely correct for his particular ‘Reality’.

Reality

Time

WE are both

and neither.

we wander this world doing what we were put here to do, not knowing what that was, nor given and instruction manual, and most will make a return to ‘try again’. and again, (Apologies, my take on things, yours may not mesh too well with it. ) One theory that I read say’s that we are souls being ‘trained’ to be harvested for some nefarious purpose. And when I look around at the froo-froo kray kray of the world, I wonder if that isn’t just the point and that we are nearer that harvest point. BUT, I don’t particularly like that idea, just keep it as a ” what if I’m wrong ” point in case new data comes to hand. I personally think we are here for one of two purposes. Educational, or entertainment. Some of us come here to learn something in particular in such a way that we don’t blow up the universe. (our quantim selves have that ability, so they contain us in this compressed energy form to keep the universe safe: like teaching chemistry in a controlled classroom. Might blow up the lab, but the world is still alright.)

But in some cases, its as entertainment,, like a mini-vaca from the ‘reality’.

But we never KNOW,,, no instructions, no users manual, NO MEMORIES from former times (this may be a false statement, but for the most part and most cases, I stand by it.) We are here, now, and moving forward into a quite fuzzy blurry future that we manipulate in some way, and don’t always know HOW. Or even WHY.

As BOM states, getting older, you get to see the ‘regrets’ a little clearer and you begin to understand that, no matter how many they are, they are what brought you to this point, right here, right now, and there is no changing that. What CAN be changed is how those points will carry you forward. Do you let them weigh you down and hinder your progress, or do you learn from them and improve. (hopefully that last) And you never know if ‘that one’ that makes an huge impact on the world will have been inspired by something YOU said or did, in passing through thier small sphere of reality. I would imagine there is some primary school teacher that takes great pride in having been the one that taught Elon Musk how to add numbers. He is ‘just a man’ as they say, but his life has intersected countless others, directly and indirectly, and somewhere in there, someone had some ‘sway’ in how that man moved forward. No one knows AT THE TIME, when they are making an impact of that magnitude: its the butterfly wings creating hurricanes half a globe away.

You never know. So how do you ‘fix’ your self to reduce the bad influences and increase the good?

Attitude and carriage. Fix the bad attitude that everything is “shit” (working on this myself, everyday, and its a fight) because your mindset, SETS the stage for how you deal with others: if everything is shit, you will treat others accordingly. Start by being kind, smiling, and holding eye-contact when speaking to others. (fake it till you make it,,,, it does work) And stand tall, shoulders back, confident that you are a child of the Universe/God/insert your chosen higher power here, and that your time here has PURPOSE. It will find you,

and remember this one thing, stated best by Mark Twain. “The two most important times of your life: the day you were born, and the day you figure out WHY.”

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Ok, enough ‘introspection’ on my part, on with the frivolity of living,,,,

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Snow day. No work. That injun that was creeping up on me with a knife in his teeth yesterday ended up being a blow up dummy with a rubber knife,,,, Still up before the sun, And the world outside is blue and white right now. Pretty decent sized snowfall for this region,,, Might take Rio sledding today, certainly won’t be kayaking on water. (they don’t clean the boat ramps and those bastaches is steep. No wanna know if Buffalo can swim, yaunnastand?)(THOUGH, if I had a Drysuit, that would make a seal launch a flippin’ blast,,,,whoooosh down the ramp and BA-Whoosh!!! into the water,,, ROFLMAO,,,)

Wanna print that’n up and post it at my driveway,,,,  For those less than ethical types that think ROL isn’t on the rocks and protects them.

IT’S KOLD (like No Shit, Sherlock,,, What clued ya?)  out Workin’ on the Nordkapp today,,, cleaning up that hole, removing the Chimp Pump (aka bilge pump) All the stuff from her for sale is now boxed, ready to ship, IF it needs shipped.   Makes it easier to keep track of on my shelf, and less likely to get tossed into a corner to be forgotten forever,,,  Flippin’ KOld out,,,, Have one small section under clamps and thick plastic as the basis of shape, holding a small section of matte and epoxy in place.   FIgure leave it there this week and maybe was the sun hits it, it will cure some.  

Or I scrape it all off next weekend and figure something else out.   Sort of a trial by Ice experiment here.    I did have the epoxy parts sitting near 90F when I mixed them, so they should have started catalyzing before the cold air got to them,,, once they start, the process continues, cold only slows it down.(updated 9pm: epoxy is currently ‘tacky’, sticky to the touch but not coming away on fingers.   GOOD! will cure just fine, just takes longer.)

NOW, about that confuzzed thing.   Gotta tell ya, there is a lot going on of late that I keep looking at, reading about, and the more I look and read, the more confused I get.  This whole Israel/Palestine dust up, that has kicked off Massive Anti-semitism and so much more world wide,,,,   I don’t get it,,, I can see arguments in all directions but,,,,

It seems more like a Cancre that has been festering for a LOOooooonnnnnngggggg time that has reached Boil stage and is now getting lanced, and all that poison that has been building up inside is pouring out in some rather unexected places.  

And then you have the Pro-Palestine protests,,,  Gays for Palestine,,, Feminists for Palestine,,,   Do these people not understand that Palestine is MUSLIM????    Ie, Anti-Gay,,, Anti-Feminist,, Hell females are usually considered PROPERTY in most Muslim countries,,,,  

Don’t get it.   Just do NOT get it…   Either I’m an ignorant innocent simpleton,, Or the world is bugnutz insane, or some combination that just,,, I dunno,,,,,

I keep saying it.  WE (America) have enough problems and the Current KlownKar Shaminstration just keeps pouring more kerosene on the fire.   Kudos goes out to Guv Abbot for actually growing a pair and sending in Texas National Guard and taking back part of his state from Federal Traitors.    Wanna see a LOT more of that,,,,   Maybe if the Guv’s start showing true mettle in thier spines, the Illusion of legitimacy the FedGov clings to will vaporize. (I don’t see it as anything remotely legit these days, but I am one person, and there are many that still are in ‘awe’ of the blob.)

Hat tip to Orvan Taurus for this Link.   Yup, the TRUTH always comes back, it may take time, but it doesn’t need ‘support’ like a pack of lies does.  It WILL COME out,,,    Bastard needs to swing: preferably at the end of piano wire around his testicles for starters.

Not gonna rub it into anyones faces, DIRECTLY,,, you know who you are that fell for the sham,   I don’t forget, can forgive to some extent, but don’t EVER try to shame me like that again,,,, I won’t be so nice next time around,,,

but its Sunday, the workweek is creeping up on me with a knife in its teeth, stealthy like, Gonna jump me at first light,,,  

And it’s gonna be KOLD week,,, Maybe two,,,   That may mean low hours because I won’t weasle around to get hours in when I am freezing my arse off.

Weeks like this, I wanna hibernate in someplace like this

FAR far away from all the muss and fuss of the world.  Don’t need much, and what I see there looks just dandy,,,,  Toss in a small garden, a black powder rifle, and 50 miles from nowhere thats 100 miles from somewhere,,,,,   yah,,,,

Keep on livin’

and the Brainium is working like an over-clocked AMD processor right now,,,,

Looking at that ‘hole’ in the Kapp (gonna revert to that short form of her model type as a name for now, mostly for clarity to you and focus for me,,,)

Gotta do it right, NO MATTER WHAT. No shortcuts and half assin’ it.

And looking at the weather liars pages, looks like the high for the next two weeks will freeze water in its tracks.

Not good for resin/epoxy work,,,, Fine for clamping on foam boards to shape into the temporary mold I intend. (gonna do this ‘backwards’, lay the glass first, gelcoat last,,,)

is what it is,,, don’t like the weather, stick around a bit; it’ll change

NOT

FAST

ENOUGH

in my opinion.

LOL…. As if it will hold me back,,, If need be, I figure out a way to enclose the porch temporarily,,, or something. No takin’ it to Da’s,,, he can’t stand the smell of resins and epoxies. The only reason he allowed me to use his garage for coating Serena was I proved to him that the two part Polyurethane I used was completely odorless.

Can’t say that with these chems,,,,

Besides, if the weather was warmer, I’d rather be OUT playin’. (but, I am playing, aren’t I? just a different form of play,,,)

What can I say,,, Doesn’t matter what time of year I do this, its gonna be off a little bit: too hot, too cold, too damp, too dry, something. I really need an enclosed, climate controlled space to be playing with these things the way I do. At least with Skin on Frames, they aren’t nearly as picky about temperature or humidity (though,,,, Frames do shrink over time if left ‘high and dry’,,, that makes the skin saggy and slows them down on water until the frame swells back up.)

yeah, enclosed climate controlled space. Shit in one hand, wish in the other,,,,

That’s what makes me sorta unique in this world. I don’t ‘need‘ all the bells and whistles to ‘get-r-dun’,,, As one of my vicarious mentors once wrote “I figure out how to do a $50 job for fifty cents, and the rest of the time scraping up that fifty cents.”

Honestly, the most creative points in my life were when i was borderline flat broke, eyeball deep in debt and struggling between jobs. Needing to accomplish things when you are not able to ‘Zon purchase at whim,,,, Ya get real creative when things are that close to the bone. (in more ways than one)

And never resort to theft or chicanery to do so. Thats the BIG difference between me and many in my locale,,, I’ll ‘make do’ with what I have, make or can re-purpose, where many around me will start looking at ways to ‘get what they are owed’, whatever the fuck that means and however they come to that justification,,,, World doesn’t owe ME shit,,,, if anything, I OWE THE WORLD for all of its resources and the fact that I am even upright and breathing. Doesn’t mean I owe ‘people’ perse, ( I do, not just financially, but in ‘Paying it forward’ to the human race,,,) And yet so many are so self-centered (they don’t see it that way of course) and ‘scarcity minded’ that they will never EVER find that break in the rut they have self created. Nope, they don’t see that the rut is of their making: they see it as the fault of birth, skincolor, or some other obscure whim of fate,,, I pity them, but that means nothing and is a chink that could be exploited by some of the smarter ones,,,

And sadly, I have one living right next door to me. Sad bastard was out yesterday cutting ‘dry wood’ from felled trees (felled in late spring, but not cut or split or stacked) because he was out of wood for his woodburner, AND!!!! has been cut off by everyone in the ‘hood, because he is a leech “that is owed something”.

God helps those that help themselves. Something that didn’t seem to stick in that 66YO boys teaching,,,, So now he is freezing, trying to get enough wood together to get through the night and no one is offering any help: he’s already burned those bridges by manipulation and outright theft in a case or two.

And his anger at the rest of us “have’s” grows because he can’t see his own failures,,,,

Him? I don’t pity in the least. He’s been a POS since I was kid or longer, and his reputation precedes him.

And there are far more such as him than I wanna think about.

AH, but Dio, be positive,,,,

Oh, I am, especially when I see things like this on the feeds,,,, Young girl, 22YO, born and bred Far Lefty, and she had an epiphany not that long ago and is now Center/Right and ‘spreading the word!!!!

That’s just one sample of her work.

She isn’t the only one either. Seeing more and more of the Millenial Gen stepping back and going “Wait just a stinkin’ moment, this is wrong!!!!”

And I think its gonna ‘go viral’ as we get closer and closer to November and the Stoopid goes full tilt boogie,,,,

I can only hope those young’uns will start to look for those of us GenX types that have been ‘Red Pilled’ for a long time and not lump us in the same catagory as the Stoopid, or The Fraud,,,, We may not see the world through the same filters (age does that to you), but we DO see the Stoopid and the Fraud, and the PharmaCon,

Gonna be hard slog through History, but it always is,,,, Maybe we have had it too good for too long and now need that crucible to melt out the dross and create a new alloy, one thats tougher and yet more resilient over time.

Character over ALL, thats what I look for. The Characters that are in my immediate vicinity need not apply IMO. You can be rock stoopid, but if your character is solid, and not self absorbed, You’ll probably get my up-thumb

(note, some will read this and say I live my life by my whims, and fancies. Playing all the time: that I am being a hypocrit by saying the above. Yes, and resoundingly NO. I do try to teach those I can, some of the things I know. MOST, don’t want to learn. I write this blog, hoping that someone will see something of value in it, and don’t ask for much, if anything in most cases,,, Yes, there is a tip jar, and yes, I have had two instances where I was in dire straits and asked for financial help. Going on 16 years now and the funds I have recieved are less than what I bring in for two months at my Day J.O.B.. This isn’t a bleg either,,, just pointing out, that no, I am not doing this as some self centerd bastard looking for glory,,, Hell, If this blog started seeing daily hits in the 10s of thousands,,, I’d probably panic and fold, total introvert breakdown,,, Just like when I tried to be on stage as a bassplayer,,, NOPE!, but put me on a console behind the scenes and I was golden,,,)(and why I won’t ever do a vlog like those on Utoob,, Camera shy in more than one sense,,,, Audio, I can do, but not Vids . If you knew how much mental angst I have just posting a pic of myself here, you’d ‘get it’,,,, don’t like cameras, don’t like the spotlights,,, Just the way I am,,,)

Thats one BIG hole in Lizzy-yak,,, who is now no longer Lizzy-yak: kinda sorta in limbo at this stage as she is not a viable kayak yet and will get a new name (thinking “Patches”, maybe,,,,  something else may come to me between now and then) (at this point, she is more related to Canoe, than Kayak,,,)

And I can now see a possible reason I have had one hell of a time getting to know this boat.   That deck is THICK with Resin and Glass,,, with a thick coating of Gelcoat on top of that.   The hull bottom is thinner by quite a bit and not glass but the Brit equivalent Kevlar, so its lighter, and no where near as much Gelcoat (and white gelcoat so even lighter)(yes, the colors have different densities.)

The Girl is TOP HEAVY. 

And the amount of Resin that was put around the coaming,,,  Shit was half inch thick in places,,,  Just the coaming wieghs around five pounds. 

There is a reason she scaled out at near 70#,,,,    I can imagine that there are a couple pounds of resin in each tip, bow and stern.  The place that is near impossible to ‘glue together’ when bonding deck to hull, so they do a pour of straight resin in those ends and let it cure (with the boat standing  on it head or tail as appropo)

Well, I have cut a lot of that away now, and what I am putting back in IS kevlar and I will be using a mold, one built in place so the only resin build up will be the “Lapped weld” where the old and new meet.    And I plan to use epoxy instead of polystyrene resins.  Lighter, easier to control cure with longer working times, and a whole lot less prone to moisture contamination.   A little pricier but I am not building the whole boat with it.  Just that cockpit coaming.  

As for the seat,,,   I could reuse the seat I just cut out,,, OR,,, Spend a wee bit and get one of those injection molded foam seats from Duckworks.  ( I used one in Serena and re-used it in Selkie.  They are quite comfortable and much easier to ‘fit’ in a boat than form-fitting one in place.

and nothing is happening fast at this point.   Epoxy ain’t gonna cure on that porch right now (it will, but the working time would be MONTH, not hours)   ‘Sides, I have a lot of prep work to do yet.    And I’m considering how to lighten that deck a bit,,, Its flippin’ heavy,,,,   Probably gonna have to live with it though.   Short of grinding off all that gelcoat and ‘painting’ a new layer, not as thick, I have no idea.   As a comparison, the new Nordkapps are 1-20# lighter with same materials.  Processes have evolved and they are no longer doing FULL hand layups, but vacuum bagging the hulls and decks.  TONS less resin wasted, which only adds weight, not strength.   (thick resin is actually more prone to crackiing as it has less ‘give’. Same with thick Gelcoat.)

Yeah,   Thinking a New white jacket with matching room with really soft walls may be in my future,,,, (good thing the Demoncraps put all those to the curb back in the nineties, eh?  )

kinda sorta,,,

I did GO to the lake, more out of curiousity than to paddle (Fact: I didn’t even take any gear other than Lyssa; whom is ALWAYS strapped to Buffalo, unless some other kayak is in her place) No PFD, no Paddle, No Skirt, No nuthin’s,,,, Just me, boat and Buff.

Water tables are rising,,, Thank the small gods for that. Winds were hellish out of the west and that made for some fine chop and swells, but I saw no ‘order’ to such, no timing to speak of, but I was only there for a few minutes (wind chill drove me back into Buffalo with a quickness: definitely was not dressed for exposure,,, ) But it looked like it would be fun times if not for those 10+mph breezes and occasional gust to 25,,, Force 6 winds,,, lots of chop, some whitecaps, no foam, but some spray. Easier to see that on oceans, not fresh water.

Really wish this drysuit would get here so I CAN get out and play more. I still could, but I have to bundle up far more; wetsuits don’t help as much as dry fleece liners under a drysuit do.

Knew I wasn’t even going to make the attempt, hence why no gear. Tis witches teat cold out there and the wind is making things down right uncomfortable to ANY exposed skin. (like EYEBALLS!!! Gotta be able to see!!!) Naw,,, I can be patient, sort kinda like, maybe,,,

Ok, maybe not, but I ain’t suicidal either, nor stoopid,,, A leetle krazee, yes, but not the others.

Sigh,,,, Come on Mama Spring and the lilies,,,, Come on warm weather (even rainy fer criminy’s sake,) When I see the lilies raising their heads while I am out walkin’ Voo, I know the last gasp of winter is right around the corner and we get to warm up again. impatiently waiting for those little signs of green and yellow,,,,

more laters as I get bored and cabin fever kicks in,,,

Keep on livin’