The Little Ol' Wagon

Our friends Ann and Tom were moving from their family home to an appartment so they needed to downsize.  One of the items they kindly gave us was a children's wagon. We have had it sitting in our backyard and I used it for gardening supplies and it held plants in pots for one year. The wagon was showing its age plus wear from being outsdie and then last year the bottom rotted out.

Bob decided we should take it to the lake and maybe he could use it for hauling supplies from the boat to the cottage. His first step was to make the little wagon sound again and then to try it out.

 It is too late to paint it this year but that will be part of our "We will have to do that next year" List.

You dont have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

                                              Mark McCormack

The Pontoon Boat

It is summer at the cottage once again. We got here late this year because  warm weather was really slow arriving and there was a late thaw in our lake country.

Also adding to our slow start was all the concerns we had with our boat last year. Bob ordered parts to do the necessary repairs and we waited a long time for everything to arrive.

The second day we went out to work on the boat I sat in the parking lot near our dock with Bob working on the engine. We still hadn't been over to the island this year. We were approached by the guy that owns the campground where we rent our mainland dock space. He told us he heard we were interested in getting a pontoon boat and might need a bigger dock space. We wanted a pontoon boat but we were imagining it in the distant future.  

Trying to power wash it clean.

The camp ground owner told us he had an older boat for sale that he bought from someone who needed to give up their trailer space last year. He offered us a good deal on boat, trailer and motor and would arrange for us to switch to one of those rare bigger dock spots.

We took a look.. and it was not in bad shape really. It has a lot of mildew and the carpet has several major tears but it works fine!

SOLD!

We now have our very own pontoon boat and a new rental dock that we will need to fix. A pontoon will handle rough water better than our smaller boat and it will be easier to haul larger material and more people. As one friend commented we didn’t purchase a party boat -- we got a barge!

 

 

 

 

The Propeller

Our boat propeller has taken a beating over the summer. 

We have a brand new one on order.