{"id":598,"date":"2010-04-05T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2010-04-05T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:33:28","slug":"take-me-out-to-the-ball-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/take-me-out-to-the-ball-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Me Out To The Ball Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well now there’s<\/em> a good start to the week;\u00a0 I got absolutely drenched on the way in this morning.\u00a0 In retrospect, maybe I could have looked out the window before deciding to ride my scooter in.\u00a0 Or, perhaps as I walked the 50 feet from the front door to the garage, decided “Well it’s starting to rain pretty hard, guess I better walk on up to the bus stop.”\u00a0 But no, with my trained meteorological eye, I looked north towards the office and decided the really hard stuff wouldn’t be coming down for several hours.\u00a0 Made it about three blocks.\u00a0 The only way it could have been worse was if my rain gear was, say, still packed up with my float trip stuff instead of under the seat where it usually is.\u00a0 Mmmm hmmmm.\u00a0 Oh well, I should dry out by lunch time or so.<\/p>\n

Well, another Easter gone by, two more DOR’s (Days On River) under my belt.\u00a0 And a fine float it was.\u00a0 Aside from a prolonged bout of rain on Friday night, we enjoyed rather sublime weather conditions.\u00a0 Given the last five years of, shall we say, “less than ideal” weather, nobody was complaining about a few sprinkles.\u00a0 (OK, six hours of blinding rain, but still.)<\/p>\n

I traveled down there Wednesday night after work with Martin & Munkirs.\u00a0 We took Chris’ truck and made pretty good time;\u00a0 I think we showed up at camp at 10:00 or so.\u00a0 Parked the truck next to Zim & Chad, as per our usual agenda, and commenced to campin’.\u00a0 We actually went well into the wee hours that night;\u00a0 Guess we were ready to get out of KC or something.\u00a0 Munkirs eventually set up his tent and called it a night;\u00a0 I weaseled in on Zim’s camper myself.\u00a0 I think James got caught up in “new tent” euphoria;\u00a0 I couldn’t see banging around in the dark trying to figure a tent out when there was a warm, dry couch a few steps away.\u00a0 And as for Martin;\u00a0 Well, he’s from Kearney, he ain’t quite cut out for the “sleeping outside” thing…\u00a0 He always sleeps in a camper.<\/p>\n

Thursday morning we got up and enjoyed some tasty egg sandwiches from Zim’s Cantina, then headed for the river.\u00a0 Since it was shaping up into a fine day, we opted for the “long float<\/a>,” where they take you up river and you float back down to camp.\u00a0 It’s advertised on their site as a five hour trip.\u00a0 That’s a bit…\u00a0 “Optimistic” I would say, at least where our group is concerned.\u00a0 We did make pretty good time though.\u00a0 It was just two canoes in our group that day;\u00a0 Munkirs & I in one, and Martin & Chad in the other.\u00a0 There was a much larger group from our campground also, but we didn’t know them that well and Munkirs wasn’t feeling particularly social, so we kept to our own little barge.\u00a0 (Or, “age group,” as the case may have been.)\u00a0 It was a pleasant, uneventful float, which is to say we didn’t dump and got back to camp while it was still light out.\u00a0 By the time we arrived back in camp, several more “elderly gentlemen” had arrived, and dinner preparations were well under way.\u00a0 We had a fine BBQ dinner prepared by team TFB<\/a>, and then re-commenced to campin’.<\/p>\n

Friday shaped up quite similarly, if on a larger scale.\u00a0 We went on the lower-half float that day, which despite being billed as an hour shorter in duration actually took about the same time, if not a bit longer.\u00a0 Hmmm, strange.\u00a0 (Not really.)\u00a0 Once again, it was a sunny, warm, dry day, something we haven’t enjoyed in recent years.\u00a0 We all got through it in remarkably good condition.\u00a0 I really cannot recall going on two floats in as many days and not losing even one canoe.\u00a0 Absolutely unheard of.\u00a0 The only thing different I could think of was that Scotten wasn’t there, de-stabilizing the barge with his stupid lawn chair.\u00a0 Carl quite inexplicably chose feeding his family over floating this year, breaking a long attendance streak.\u00a0 (With the exception of one quite controversial incident a few years back.)\u00a0 That couldn’t<\/em> have been the difference though…\u00a0 Could it?<\/p>\n

Saturday morning we got up, swam out of our tents, and started breaking camp.\u00a0 We enjoyed our standard breakfast in beautiful Mountain Grove, MO, and headed back home.\u00a0 First order of business upon our arrival in KC was a little lunch at the Brooksider, naturally, to enjoy the weather and re-hash the weekend.\u00a0 After that, I went home and chiseled three nights of camping off me, then went to bed for 15 hours.<\/p>\n

Sunday I woke up well rested, if a bit sore.\u00a0 Little “worse for wear” as the saying goes.\u00a0 I managed to get around and get out to Mom’s for a delicious Easter lunch though.\u00a0 As an added bonus, I rode the motorcycle so I got to enjoy the warm, if rather windy, weather for one more day.\u00a0 We stayed at Mom’s a few hours, then took the “long way” home.\u00a0 There was still plenty of daylight left when we got home, so I fired up the lawn mower and knocked out the first mowing of the season.\u00a0 (Booo.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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