As usual, the town square here in Granbury is full of vendor tents selling their high-priced items to the tourists that invade our town every darn weekend. Labor Day is just another shopping day and another invasion. I guess they are doing their part, Laboring in the hot sun; it’s a balmy 103 today. There must be 10,000 pontoon, rocket boats, and personal crotch rocket jet skis tearing up the lake. I saw one pontoon boat full of senior folks in wheelchairs and personal scooters; I’m not sure they thought this out. No one had on a life vest, but they all had a frosty beer, so enjoy. The pontoon boat is the new ” let’s get the whole fam damnly on board and see if she sinks” type of vessel. I counted one boat at the marina with twenty-four bodies on board.
Saturday afternoon, while eating at “Stumpy’s,” our local marina and lake food style restaurant, we were treated to the sounds of multiple fancy-assed cigarette boats with their 500 decibels ear-shattering 427 cubic inch stock car motors revving up. All this as we enjoyed our lake burger and a brew. Some of these boats can travel in excess of 200 mph, but if they hit a stump, of which there are plenty in Lake Granbury, it’s curtains. I thought these boats went out of style when Miami Vice ended? Guess not.
I got a haircut this morning and am considering mowing my lawn, but Laboring in the heat may cause my expiration date to go critical.
I think I’ll have a cold Oktoberfest German Beer and put off the Labor until tomorrow. Labor Day is for relaxing, and just pecking away at my laptop has already worn me out. Have a good one.
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Happy Labor Day Phil! It should be anti labor day.
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Oh my gosh those pics lol. I hope it went well, happy Labor Day.
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My husband and I chose not to kayak on Labor Day because of the scenario you’ve just described.
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I wouldn’t go out on that lake. Most of the folks that left the restaurant at the marina were hammered. Boats and booze don’t mix well.
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Allus wondered why when you take a boat, a lake, a human and beer the beer is drunk, the boat becomes a weapon of negligence, the lake becomes a setting for calamity, and the human becomes an absolute idiot.
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Yep, I’ve seen it all on this lake. Back when I took friends and family out into the Gulf on my fishing boat, while they fished and wanted to drink a beer, it was ok by me. I didn’t drink anything but Dr Pepper until I tied up at the marina. Booze and Boating don’t mix in any way.
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I love your stories. Keep on spinning them.
Just curious, did any of those pontoon yachts sink, or toss a wheelchair overboard?
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I read nothing in our local paper, but seeing them on that boat in wheelchairs gave me a fright. I assume that they did their cruise and called it a day. Very dangerous, but then our lake has that reputation. Thanks for the compliment Joe.
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