Taking The Bait

Water slide at Sea Breeze Amusement Park in Rochester, New York
Water slide at Sea Breeze Amusement Park in Rochester, New York

It takes us twenty-five minutes to walk to the lake but on hot days we can hear the cigarette boats on the lake from our house. Those things are loud, even at slow speed. We rode bikes down to the bay outlet this morning and watched the boats go in and out of the channel. I never noticed that boats have the steering wheel on the right side. Were they a British invention?

We’re taking care of two cats on our street. Well, three, counting our own, and they are all in different houses. A couple of neighbors are away while we take our summer vacation here. Rick called me from Maine this morning to say he had bought some bait – worms and crabs – that he was going to bring with him but he left them in his refrigerator. He suggested we dump the crabs in the creek when we take our walk. I put them in my bike basket and we gave them to a couple of fisherman down at the bay. They looked like members of ZZ top and were very appreciative.

We watched the US Women’s soccer team play their first game since the World Cup. Heather O’Reilly scored a fantastic goal in the fourth minute and picked up another later in the game. The coach has to narrow the roster to 18 for the Olympics and we’re pulling for Heather.

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  1. Thank you Frank. Of course the answer depends on on whether you’re looking at the boats was they come toward you, as we were, or as they go away from you. But that is a cheap excuse for a bone-headed mistake. I have changed the sentence above o read, “I never noticed that boats have the steering wheel on the right side.”

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