What Mondays are meant to be

OK I know that there is about a million things that we could be doing on a Monday afternoon, but the sun is shining and the weather is warm so guess what we did? We went kayaking. Whooohoooo!!!!

We hurried up this morning and worked really hard on getting a bunch of things done that needed to be finished and then around dinner time we were off.

With all the rain that was happening lately, I must admit I was a little nervous if the water was going to be up, and with the look on Daryl’s face I knew that he also was a little apprehensive also when he saw the river. See Daryl never really grew up around the water. And even though our farm wasn’t close to a river either, we still spent a lot of the summer down in the local swimming hole that wasn’t too far away. This was a ploy from our folks (mostly Ma) to get us to unload the hay after milking chores. She would say something like ‘kids let’s just unload these two loads of hay up in the barn and then we’ll go swimming.’ Well when your’e a kid you definitely hear the ‘unload the two loads of hay’ part first. But then you would hear the ‘then we’ll go swimming part’ and you would do it. It was a pretty good trick if you ask me!

But like I said, we spent a lot of time in the local river swimming on summer nights and weekends as kids so I really enjoy being on the water any time that I can be.

With the weather so nice this afternoon, we loaded up the kayaks and had a fantastic time. We took a less traveled route on the river and we didn’t see another soul. Awesome! The river was up but we didn’t have any trouble so that was good too.  

One of the best parts of the day was that the cotton wood trees that lined the river were all loosing their seeds and it literally looked like it was snowing on us on a couple parts of the river. And the water in those spots was at least 1/3 covered with white fluffy seeds. It was really pretty cool! 

We made it home before the rain came, and boy did it come! There wasn’t too much severe weather in our area, but we did get some pea sized hail. I think we got around 1 1/2 inches of rain all together tonight. Good thing the storm front didn’t come when we were on the river! I don’t think I’d ever get Daryl out again if that happened. 

Now here is our selfie that we took after we got off of the river. For some reason I look like I’ve got a flying nun hat on. Too funny!