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[whitepe]

Tom,

Affirmative on the drain plug inside the boat.
The wife and I asked her father the same thing
and he had no explanation. Must have been one
of his senior moments  

That wasn't as bad as what one of his yooper neighbors
did last year.  They (the neighbors) were taking their sail boat
out of the water for the season at the public boat launch
in Cedarville,  Michigan.  They put the boat onto the
trailer and decided to pull out across the road into the parking lot to  tie everything up.  Unfortunately they hadn't
taken the mast down and forgot about the utility company's
power lines overhead.  Dumped the sail boat clean
of the trailer and left it sit in the middle of the road.
Fortunately no one got hurt.  

[Tom]

 :D That's a classic  :D

Boats !  They are the center of a lot of crazy stunts.

My Chief Photographer took some pictures of one of these in 1968 or 69.   A car pulling a boat that had not been tied down to the trailer did an emergency stop from about 50 mph at a stoplight.  The boat came loose, went over the top of the car, creasing its top.  Went over the top of two or three other cars in front, creasing their tops, and ended up in the back of a big dumptruck.  Luckily nobody was hurt here either, but, the funny part was that there was minimal traffic tie up. Everybody just pulled off of the side of the road into a big grocery store parking lot. :D

[whitepe]

Noble,

Vonachen's Junction is still there and they have great food.
We like the wood fired pizza.  Schmalzried and I can
come down and pick you up and we can give you
the nickle tour. We can have lunch and then
take you back down to the log and take your picture
in front of the log.  Oh I almost forgot, be sure to bring your



because I'll have to pick you up on my rice burner
A rain suit wouldn't hurt either.    ;D ;D ;D

[Bro. Noble]

Whitepe,

OK, but I don't have a rainsuit-----I'll bring an umbrella, I'm scared to go very fast on those things anyway.

Used to have a Suzuki street bike when I worked in town.  Wish I still had it but hardly ever go anywhere.  Still have a little dirt bike that I used to chase cows till I hurt my sholder.

Boss says it will be Thanksgiving,  so if you guys don't leave town for the holidays and have time, lets do it.

Noble

[Gordon]

On the subject of boats if you want to get a good laugh just go and watch the people pulling their boats out on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. You will see some very silly things at the local boat ramp. Always good for a laugh or three.

Gordon

[whitepe]

Noble,
I checked with my boss and it looks like we will
be at home for this thanksgiving. If my in-laws
come over you can meet my father-in-law. He was
a dairy farmer for 17 years and he has a state forester
certified tree farm in Indiana.  Be careful about getting
in boats with him though.  re: drain plugs.

By thanksgiving, the rice burner (kawasaki) will probably be
in winter storage so I guess a car will have to do.

whitepe

[Bro. Noble]

Whitepe,

You're just storing that thing so you don't have to cruise through N. Pekin and up S. Adams St. at 5 mph with someone on the back holding a parasol.

Noble

[whitepe]

Noble,
Well the wife won't let me borrow her Harley.
She takes better care of it than me,  well
we better not go there.  She used to have an 84 BMW.
The summer of 1988 B.K. we rode out west through South Dakota and Wyoming.  In Yellowstone, my buddy and I
kept telling her that BMW meant Buffalo Move Way.
By the by, B.K.  means Before Kids.
When our son was younger, he didn't like being
bungee corded to the back.   :D :D :D
Just kidding.

Whenever my late uncle saw someone riding down the
road on a bike he would say, Look there goes someone riding a chain saw.

By the by, what color's the parasol? Can you send
a picture of you and it together?

Whitepe