Sometimes I refer to it as the twilight zone. It’s easy to get stuck in the zone. Days and weeks go by quickly, yet every single day at the lake is different, different weather, different people, different boats, different events, accidents, conflicts, joy, & memories.
I have had a lot of fun down here over the past 10 years, but I don’t know how much more fun I can take. As I run from fire to fire, emergency to emergency, conflict to conflict, I find myself having less and less fun, combined with more and more stress.
With Bonnie now 15 years old and Sarah 10, they have schedules and agendas of their own, with less time to spend with Dad at the lake. Most of my time is spent solving someone else’s problems rather than spending quality time with my family. The price of gasoline makes boating like we used to, unaffordable. I spend a lot more time cleaning the boats then driving them and they get dirty even faster because they are not being driven.
The lake will always hold a special place in my heart, but I feel a change is on the horizon. I’m not sure what kind of change, or how much, but somethings got to give.
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