It's that time of year in Texas, when the high is 48 on a Tuesday, but 78 by Friday. Every year we ride this same rollercoaster of temperature peaks and valleys. The poor plants never seem to know what to do. The paperwhites along our driveway start bursting through the soil on warmer days, thinking about blooming. Then we get a cold front and it stalls them out. Honest to betsy, I saw lots of folks in shorts a couple days this week when I was out running errands. Upside is that my electricity bill should be nice and low since I'm not having to run the heat or AC much these days with us bouncing around on the thermometer so that it stays 67-70 in our house most of the time. Our dogs sure have been enjoying the moderate temps and sunshine out on the back patio.
The husband and I spent part of last weekend at the lake since we needed to go check on the boat and jet skis. Plus do some laundry and make sure the pool is looking good. We really enjoy toodling our deck boat around the lake in winter when it's typically still as a pond. To the point that we spied a cluster of waterbirds just chilling with their floating right outside the entrance to our cove.
The husband figured our jet skis might have died since we weren't keeping the batteries juiced. So he launches one and sure enough, it won't crank. He calls me on his cell and I come hustling out of the house for a rescue mission. Too bad nobody was filming us because it would have resembled a Laurel & Hardy skit. Maybe two of the three stooges? He was floating down into the mouth of our cove/canal, and so at least the wind was blowing him in a better direction than towards open water. I dashed into the storage closet on the dock and grabbed the tow rope. On the fourth try, I finally tossed it far enough for him to grab. In the meantime, he had knelt down atop the wobbling jet ski to try and paddle himself back in the direction of our house. Thankfully, our neighbors have an unlocked gate leading from our side yard into theirs, so I dragged the husband, sitting atop the jet ski, down to our backyard with the help of our boat hook to avoid obstacles like the neighbor's hydraulic jet ski lifts. We wrestled it back atop its floating dock, removed the battery and re-covered it. You're never too old to learn new tricks when you're first time lake homeowners with fun toys to maintain.
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