My husband finally got the parts we needed for our pontoon boat and he spent several mornings working on it. He finished about noon today so we put the boat in the water. We have over a hundred lakes in our —— and there is what is called “The chain of lakes” that many people spend their weekends boating. We went through the chain today it was about 6 lakes and stopped at a restaraunt that has docks for the boaters for early supper. The food was ok, but the restaraunt itself was beautiful. The day was a little windy, but gorgeous blue skies and puffy clouds made it a fine boating day. We have not used our boat since July 4th of last year. If I had a spare afternoon, I wanted to go to the casino. Gambling ruled my free time! Then it became impossible to boat because we had no money for the gasoline or snacks, then winter came and finally it sat so long that it required new spark plugs and parts totalling over $200. So now that we haven’t been gambling our boat is finally in action again and today was very nice. It was just my husband, our son (who is now 17) and I. Our daughter had to work and I am afraid she was quite put out that we went without her.
Tomorrow evening is baccalaureate for my twin nephews and my niece. My son is singing in the chorus as he is a junior and not yet graduating. Another positive of not gambling is I will be able to give them each some graduation money! I bought identical cards for the boys, they are identical
twins and I think they will laugh bcause the card reads, “Nephew, you are one of a kind!” My sister thought it was hysterical too!
I hope everyone is having a gamble free day and learning to enjoy sometning that helps bring good things into our lives instead of chaos. I am sad to say that while my husband was working on the boat this morning that I was having urges to go down south to the far away casino. I instead pulled out my tablet read my entire thread, looking at the pain I have caused my family and myself. I then paid several bills that are not quite due. Then the morning was gone and we boated instead. I am excited that we can do this again. Now I have to renew our fishing licenses so next time maybe we can catch our supper too!
