More about my place 07/18/11

I have been working on my “place” paper this afternoon and I feel like I have writer’s block.  I can’t decide what to write about.  I know that my place is the lake and I have written some about that but I have been so many times and have so many memories, I am not sure which one to focus on.  There is the time we were there with some friends and we had our boats together.  Our friend Matt was getting some bait out of our boat to put in his and had one foot on his boat and one on ours and they started drifting apart.  I so wish we had a video camera for that!  We laughed so hard at him.  He nearly did the splits before he gave it up and allowed himself to fall in the water.  I think that was the same weekend that he saw a snake by our camper and screamed like a girl!  That was definitely his weekend to get picked on.  There was also the time that we were there and my husband caught about a 40 pound catfish on a rod and reel.  My youngest son was probably about 5 or 6 and that fish was as big as he was.  He just kept saying, “Dad, that’s a monster!”  We have had many instances where we have had to fight the raccoons.  They almost always get at least some food of ours.  One time they actually got into one of our coolers, opened a package of bacon and ate the whole thing, raw of course.  Another time they got a whole cantaloupe and took the top of it off just like they had used a knife.  They ate the whole inside and just left the shell.  The last time we were there we had some of the puppy’s food in a storage container outside and they figured out how to get the latches undone and the lid off.  They ate every bit of her food and I had to go to town to buy more. The raccoons are not one of my favorite things at the lake but they are amusing.  Some of the best times we have are sitting around the camp fire with friends and family just talking and relaxing.