September, 2017

For the summer of 2017 the girls were gone, as usual, to Europe for 6 weeks. However, before they left the girls enjoyed brief trips on Lake Tahoe in our neighbor Sonya’s boat (to include watching the fireworks on July 4). After each time on the boat the girls (the twins especially) were begging that we get a boat.

Papa’s live to make their girls happy, spoil them with anything they ask.

So while the girls were gone I went to work, researching boats (ski/wake boats in particular). This was the heart, the hare, in action.

I found about 20, and decided to wait until after Labor Day weekend, when I assumed the prices would drop, possibly dramatically. This was the head, the tortoise, slowly catching up.

Labor Day comes and goes, and a few of the boats are no longer for sale (sold?), very few (as in 1) has dropped its price, and the rest are unchanged.

Then the head notices that Fall seems to have started earlier this year, with cooler temps…and Annika, now in High School, starts school at 7:30 instead of 8:30…and while the Tahoe boating season is realistically only 5 months long, it’s really shorter than that (minus 6 weeks for Europe, minus those school days when Annika has to be there so early)…and, really, Mama would be the one to most be in a position to take advantage of the boat…

[The tortoise takes the lead; the hare is off dallying somewhere]

Sigh. Consumption should be easier than this.