my home watershed

my home watershed
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Midwinter Madness

As the snows lie deep over my misty valley and the cold seeps into your very bones a madness comes over you. Some call it cabin fever, others spring fever.  All I know for sure is you come up with the craziest ideas in the depths of this fever.  My fever crept over me during a recent blizzard.  I was looking at watershed maps and it occurred to me that the stream that runs 100 yards from my back yard connects to the Ohio river.  The madness came upon me then and there.  I thought I could take my kayak from my back yard all the way to the Ohio river.  Then I thought, I can do this over the course of one boating season.  So this is my proposal;  I am going to put my kayak into Tommy Run (the stream near my house) and by the end of the season I will pull out on the banks of the Ohio river.  I don't plan on doing this all in one shot, I still have to earn a living, but I will do it is stages.  Putting in for the next stage where I pulled out from the last.  I plan on keeping a log and sharing it here with you so you can see what I saw and hopefully feel a little bit of the awe that I feel.

So till the spring thaw......

1 comment:

  1. I have never seen you happier than when you are in that kayak. I'm just not to thrilled at the thought of driving you everywhere. I love you, Babe!

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