Today we all
slept in until 8am and did our doctrine around 9am. We listened to the next communion
message. It was really good. Then everyone kind of went their separate
ways. Mom, Scott, Hannah, and I played
Shanghai Rummy. Scott kicked our butts
and I took last. In the middle of the
game we made grilled cheese and tomato soup.
It was way to hot for soup. The
humidity was terrible. After everyone
had eaten and we quit our game. We
headed out to the shop to see how much Dad and Alan had cleaned up. They had shoveled rock and filled in a hole
and then moved the traveling fishing boat closer to the back corner. Then they hung Alan’s canoe up since they are
leaving soon. After that Dad said we
were going to take the float boat out and jump off of it. By the time we took off a storm was moving
in. We thought we had time so Mom, Dad,
and I jumped off and started swimming back while the plan was for Scott to
drive the boat back and swim out to meet us.
But he had to wait for Alan to bring Hannah back on the jet ski. She was getting ready to jump in and lost her
flipper. It doesn’t float so there
wasn’t any hope. She was very sad. We got about half way and it really started
to thunder so Dad thought we should get back in the boat but we couldn’t figure
out what they were doing (found out later they were looking for the
flipper). Mom and I swam hard. Dad caught a ride part of the way holding
onto the jet ski. By the time we reached
the shore, lightening had started and the rain came. I got hit by something hard and we soon
realized it was hail. I have never seen
it hail up here. It was pretty
wild. We got everything together and
secured and ran up to the porch to watch the storm – frantically closing
windows in the house. It was crazy
storm. It was raining and hailing so
hard you couldn’t see the island. The
hail was making splashes all over the water.
There was a couple of golf ball sized hail, too. After the storm, Hannah and I went out and
collected some of the bigger pieces that hadn’t melted off. It doesn’t look like we had much damage to
our vehicles or camper which was completely God’s grace. After the storm, Scott and I went back to the
camper and read/napped. Around 6pm we
had grilled chicken and baked potatoes.
Then I went down to the lake to swim but ended up working on scooping up
nasty green algae near the shoreline. I
got about four leeches from it which I found on my short kayak excursion. Mom, Bridget, and Hannah went back to the
Olympics. Dad, Scott, and Alan went
Muskie fishing and I was left in charge of the fire by the dock. I took my kayak to Paradise Island and back
as quickly as I could. Then I picked up
some of the kindling around the fire and added it. After that I took my kayak back out and
shaved my legs then finished my bath. I
went and said hi to the girls and had Hannah check me for leeches in case I
missed any. She and I went down and she
fixed a s’more by the fire. Then I
rinsed off in the lake and came up to my camper to blog. There are more storms expected. Might be kind of scary in our camper!!
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