All that water and . . .

This is what the shore looks like in a lot of areas.  It's no
wonder there are logs in the lake.

Middle Schoolers or Turkeys?

 . . . no boat.  Jeff had a little mishap yesterday when he was out fishing in the morning.  It had rained like crazy the night before and a huge log must of dislodged from the shore and floated out into the middle of this part of the lake.  He was only going about 15 mph but the log was floating just below the surface and he didn't see it.  Split the log right in half.  It doesn't look like it tore up anything but the motor won't go up and down anymore.  He thinks it might be the hydraulic thingymabobs. One of the other guys in the campground gave us the name of a boat fixit place so we went on an adventure yesterday into Missouri. We are only about 5 miles from the border between there and Arkansas.  Since we were out and about we drove over into Branson.  On a better day we'll have to spend some time exploring it. Hopefully, they will be able to fix the boat quickly.  Stinks to be on this much water with no boat.  One consolation is that the weather has not been great.  We are in the path of tropical storm Bill and just got a severe weather alert on my phone for flash flooding in this area.  Hopefully, we won't need a boat to get out of here.  They kayak might be a little squishy with four of us in it!

Thems turkeys in them there barns.

On a lighter note, we keep teasing the girls that we are going to buy this turkey farm.  It's right across from the entrance to the RV resort.  I wonder how much a turkey farm costs?  The girls would keep really busy feeding turkeys, scooping turkey poop.  It's a Butterball turkey farm!  Jeff said that turkeys are apparently really stupid animals.  Okay, I can work with middle schoolers or turkeys.  Hmmm?!?!  Not seeing a lot of difference there.  They probably smell about the same.  Jeff keeps reminding me that he is retired so I guess it would just be me and the girls scooping poop.  But heck, we could come back to this spot every night.  Gonna have to think on this!

We'll have to wait and see what the verdict on the boat is in terms of how long it takes to get it fixed.  If it's going to be awhile, we might change our plans and head north early and do that part of our trip and then come back here to spend time when we have a boat.  We'll keep our fingers crossed that it's a quick fix (and not expensive - thank goodness for insurance.)  It's all good.  We are on vacation after all.