Skiing

With this year's Fun Run about to happen, my thoughts have drifted to water skiing. I really cannot think of any one activity, well, recreational activity, that has brought more pleasure to me than water skiing.

I bought a run-about in 1977, and a whole new world opened up for me. Smooth water was now what I was in search of. Often, across the river was the only place to find slick water, so that is where we would head. Sometimes, the last hour of daylight, things would quieten down and the lake would get really still. Those were the moments that my buddies and I were in search of.

That little Mark Twain, with me at the helm, pulled an incredible feat one day. We pulled seven slalom skiers up and around the lake! Talk about exciting...other boats stopped and watched. When the guys and gals got back in the boat, everyone was talking nonstop. No one had ever been involved in anything like that, so we were all excited.

I have not owned a boat in over twenty-five years, but I have good memories of the times I had on Kentucky Lake. I bet the Chamber of Commerce's Fun Run will be a blast. I wish I was going to be in town next weekend.