TURNING THE PAGE

  Our time on the lake has come to and end.  We leave with such mixed feelings -- It's been a wondrous, fabulous AWESOME summer, on one hand, on the other we know that by the time we get home the Fall colors will be beginning to show and that is a spectacular thing too so, it's "all good," as they say.

We spend Wednesday out on Proud Mary just enjoying the weather and scenery.  The wind was barely noticable so we decided not to bother hoisting her sail, especially since we'd had such an exciting time sailing the day before and I wanted to remember my "sailing Summer" that way !  

By late afternoon we returned to the dock and began tearing down the boom and the mast and getting the boat ready for road travel.  The tear down actually went far better than it had when we practiced it at home , so maybe it was a good thing we did that 'dry run' before we got out here. :-)

  I left Norm to finish repacking the car and boat and went off with my new lake friend, Jean for one last paddle around the bay in Little Turtle. In the morning I fed the ducks and geese one last time and we loaded Proud Mary onto the trailer and headed down the road. 

Our time on the lake is over, but we'll not forget it soon !   We already know that we'll be back -- not next year, but the year after. We've met many new friends and enjoyed a perfect summer on the lake. We'll not only return to the same marina -- JD's Scenic Marina in Bayview, Idaho, we'll also request the same dock because B DOCK ROCKS ! ...And the beat goes on.

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. ~ Helen Keller