What a beautiful day it has been on Cobbossee Lake. The heat broke last night and the air was fresh and not so warm this morning. As the day went on the sun warmed up the air but it was nothing like the past week.
There has been a delightful breeze from the lake all day and tonight it was cool when I went down to fish off the dock.
No boat trip for me today. I have to figure out how to talk to the motor so he cooperates with my handling of motors.
It is the same old story. Lawn mower motors always give me a hard time before they decide to cooperate and so have boat motors. This is a different motor and others seem able to operate it. But I have had little success. It starts right off but then when I get ready to move it shuts off and that’s it for the day. I nearly throw out my shoulder trying to start it again, but no success.
I usually end up rowing and the big oars in the boat are a challenge in themselves. Especially when the oar locks have been removed. But I will correct that before I go out again.
The camp is quiet and Lowell and I are rattling around wondering what happened. Katie and Tim, Casey, Kyle and PJ left early Thursday and JoAnna and Gracie and Jared left mid-morning Saturday. We had a wonderful time while they were here and we hope they feel the same. The weather was amazing and the evenings were filled with fishing and campfires and s'mores. Some nights we played games and there was the baseball on the TV for Lowell and PJ.
We have much to do now that we have the kitchen back in shape and most everything recovered from the various hiding places when the work was being done. We have had no success finding one cell phone which disappeared during the visits so we are still searching.
The chipmunks were back in force today after checking to be sure no dogs are around. Granddog Scooter didn’t bother with them outside but his barking bothered them. Neighbor’s little dog was over here quite a bit which unnerved them.
The floats are slowly being deflated now that it’s Lowell and I here and Lowell hasn’t been in the lake in more than 20 years or more.
Tom Voyer’s son-in-law from Florida made another good bass catch tonight off their dock. Didn’t go out to get a picture this time because there were so many people taking photos, I suspect the fish died before being tossed back into the lake. Anyhow, we know there are big bass around. Just have to keep fishing.
I took JoAnna, Jared and Gracie out in the cove to fish twice Friday. We planned to go to Beetle Bog in evening but like the morning trip, I couldn’t get motor to cooperate so we went into the cove. Jared caught six perch and Gracie had two fish on her line nearly to the boat before they got loose. She was so disappointed she didn’t catch anything of size this trip. Two years ago when she and Adam went fishing one evening, she caught a good size bass. We have a tracing of the fish in a frame on the porch along with tracings of fish caught by so many during the past two decades. They were on ceiling in loft but not seen by many people so I collected them and have framed as many as we have space for now.
Still a good pile which I will place in album so people can see them and the fisherman can take them if they wish.
-Joan
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