ENOUGH- I am READY

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Woodsong

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Who else is ready for winter to be OVER? Yes, it has been fun. The snow has been neat, novel even, at least for Atlanta. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years were all very nice this year and I really enjoyed them. However, it has been too cold for too long. Having essentially done pretty much nothing on the boat except for working on her since around October, I am ready to be in some WARM WEATHER and go BOATING and SWIMMING!
I am ready to stop running wires and start running the margarita machine. I am ready to be done fixing galleys and ready to start grilling steaks! I am ready to stop pondering how to do stuff best and start watching the sunset while anchored out for the weekend!!

Please boating season- hurry up and get here!!!!
 
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Is it on the river now? Then take it to the Keys!

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Don't say that! Tony will have it there next week. I guess would could all meet in TN and Tony can give the grill and blender a pre-season checkout!
 
George,
yes, she is up in Chattanooga. The keys sound GREAT- it's that darn pesky work thing that is holding me back!
 
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George,
yes, she is up in Chattanooga. The keys sound GREAT- it's that darn pesky work thing that is holding me back!

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You could have just as easily blamed it on the smoking 7 knot max speed. Bar room math tells me by the time you got down there and back, it'd be winter and snow again.

However, your wife will have left you and the kids will have graduated from college and without a father there to guide them...dare I say it....Law School.
 
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George,
yes, she is up in Chattanooga. The keys sound GREAT- it's that darn pesky work thing that is holding me back!

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You could have just as easily blamed it on the smoking 7 knot max speed. Bar room math tells me by the time you got down there and back, it'd be winter and snow again.

However, your wife will have left you and the kids will have graduated from college and without a father there to guide them...dare I say it....Law School.

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hahaha. Tsk tsk. WRONG! We can go a LOT faster than 7 knots!! Please- we can make it up to at LEAST 10.5 knots! That should get us there and back before high school is over, not law school!! ;)
Ok. We are not the fastest boat, this is true. But when fuel hits $6 a gallon and everyone is crying and staying at the dock, we'll still be out on the water burning our happy little 2-2.5 GPH. Mind you, we'll be going slooooowwwww, but that is better than tied to the dock. :)
 
Mind you, we'll be going slooooowwwww, but that is better than tied to the dock. :)

AMEN brother!!!
 
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George,
yes, she is up in Chattanooga. The keys sound GREAT- it's that darn pesky work thing that is holding me back!

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Work is overrated.
 
Woodsong, your boating MO seems the same as mine. Work on it all winter. Don't do a thing in the summer unless it is broken & absolutely must be fixed.

We will be on the hard again this year for our 5th season. This RVing bug has us bad. We are off to Alaska again. Bought our air tickets to Baltimore today. Will pass by TN sometime mid April & be back early August.
 
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Woodsong, your boating MO seems the same as mine. Work on it all winter. Don't do a thing in the summer unless it is broken & absolutely must be fixed.

We will be on the hard again this year for our 5th season. This RVing bug has us bad. We are off to Alaska again. Bought our air tickets to Baltimore today. Will pass by TN sometime mid April & be back early August.

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Stop by and say hello when in TN!
 
I'm ready: 20+ inches of snow today and more falling, my truck busted a brake line trying to plow and I lost my cell phone somewhere out in the snow when I was trying to plow. 79 Days until I float my boat and the Sox play their first game... I AM READY!
 
18 inches of snow today with 3' drifts, I hate winter!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I'm ready to become a snow bird. I live in SW Fl. and we had hard freeze warnings followd by hard freeze before winter. More freeze tonight and it's been nearly eveery week since well before Christmas. It's gotta be thata d### global warming thing.
 
Another view: After blowing the three foot drifts out of my driveway, I hauled out the skis and will head to Vermont on Saturday morning. Long drive to Stowe but worth it. Might as well use this snow for something good.
 
Stowe is a beautiful town. Haven't skied there, but did spend 3 days up their this summer.
Family used to own a condo on Burke Moutain, East Burke, VT... that was a hike, but a nice, non crowded mountain to ski on.
 
We're luvin' winter-81' 2 days ago, now 37 tonight...keep the summer swelter up north this summer...
 
Cross country skiing is one of the few things good about winter here in WI. Boat is shrink wrapped and it would take me hours to shovel the snow away to get inside. Maybe Feb. The little Edgewater is in the cottage garage, but found out that the wood burner is not properly setup and should not use, maybe Feb or March. The way I figure, it is almost hump day. Boat was pulled mid-October, and usually goes in mid-April. Almost 1/2 way there!
 
Might as well give in the the dark side and go outside for snow angels, or skiing in Atlanta. Heck, it's only been winter for about 3 weeks. I just heard on the weather channel FL is the only state with no snow. Heh.

But Spring is right around the big corner- just 66 days and counting down: http://mycountdown.org/Other/Spring/ !
 
Veebyes:

I do not want to Shanghai Woods thread here, so I will keep this short.

"This RVing bug has us bad. We are off to Alaska again. Bought our air tickets to Baltimore today. Will pass by TN sometime mid April & be back early August."

Have you considered RVing out to the West Coast and taking the Alaska Ferry from Seattle to Ketchikan and on to Haines (which is the road connection to the Alaska Highway). You could get a little taste of summer boating on the IP and combine your interests.

OS
 
Spent 28 years in the Army and 11 of those in Germany. Being a Miami raised warm weather wuss I was surprised how much I liked Germany - the beer and the food and (at the time) no speed limits on the Autobahn had a lot to do with it.

I am at work one day in January and my lovely wife calls me and says she has signed us up for a "learn to ski" week in the Alps region in southern Germany. Not thinking I answered "Learn to ski? I already know how to ski, and besides I didn't know there was lake big enough to ski on down there."

True story...
 
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