SJRR 2013

I was soooooo tired after I dropped HW off at the airport sunday afternoon, I had all I could do just to get the boat put to bed by the time I got home. I went right to bad after that and slept for 10 hrs. Got up for work yesterday and I had all I could do to keep from falling asleep all day. Got home last night, got a bite to eat and went down at 7 o'clock for another 11 hrs. last night.
I'm feeling a lot better today. Hanging wih the youngin's about done this old fart in but what an amazing experience. It was truly an honor to get some real face-to-face time with Joe, Tim, HW, Chris, Pat and the ladies (Sara, Lauren and Zoe). Chris and Zoe getting engaged was also a special treat that I got to experience. Congrats guys!!!!
Adam, I have to say that I was glad that you didn't ride in my boat with your track record of broke iron in your wake but it was awesome meeting you too. PM me to get my contact info to pass on to your sister if she wants to get together to do some skiing.
The Lee St. retreat was certainly a lot of fun and one I'll remember for a long time. Thanks for the memories

I do have some pics that I need to try and get downloaded. I think I need a couple more days to recover yet but it'll happen.

For everybody else, it was a pleasure meeting the newbies as well as the returning veterans. The meal on saturday night was amazing as usual although the "French Fry Eddie" moniker from the Smith Family needs some tweeking. Not that manly sounding but then again, probably appropriate by the time I finally got home.
Roger, as always a pleasure talking to you and meeting Aiddie (sorry for the spelling or lack there of). I hope that she enjoyed the experience as much as we did.

More to come. Hang in there.

Its a good thing we had some pro photographers at this event because I successfully managed to not take a single picture all weekend (again).

Courtesy of Rob:



Parramore's guardian:

Jmurphs Promo is looking FRESH!

Meanwhile in Indiana....

Adam was doing work on that keg haha.

We thought our camera quit at one point, so most are on our phones. Here's a few though...

And what a good time. Thanks out to everyone who made this happen. Billy and Karen look to have a system since I was down last; great job guys!

Oddly, I drove into snow flurries and had to winterize. That just didn't seem right after running the river a day before.

Another great SJRR in the books... sitting here at work on a Tues morning and Im exhausted, sunburned, and my neck is killing me from the barefoot fall I took on Sat. Wouldnt have it any other way!

Many, MANY thanks to everyone who carted us around, gave us pulls and fed us this weekend, Sara and I had a blast!

KEEP THE Faith, release the Mojo, you are good. Nice meeting you!

Does anyone want to buy my boat? It will have a brand new interior in about 6 weeks? Clearly, I cannot be trusted around a boat, and that one's been good to me, it deserves a safer home environment.

Here were my destructive behaviors this week:

Wednesday- 20 minutes after Joe put a brand new (and I mean it was beautiful) acme on his boat (1490?), he asked me to drive it from the river house to the campground. By the time Greg and Billy towed Lauren and I in, that was a 500hp parts boat. She and I were actually very lucky, breaking a prop shaft is genetic in my family, when my dad did it at white lake 2 years ago he was at 4000rpm and got ejected. She and I were around 800, so the boat very impotently drifted to a stop.

Thursday- Bret Hectus asked me to back his trailer down the ramp. By the end of the week it didn't run. (I never actually got in that one, so there was more of a time release effect on it)

Thursday again- We tried to put JMurph's promo in. I decided to hop in while they were taking it off the trailer. Guess what, it had to go back on the trailer. In the process the trailer tires hit the only rough spot in the pristine campsite ramp, bounced the trailer, snapped the bow chain, and came within a few degrees of bow hop from depositing the boat naked on the ramp. That was actually terrifying to watch.

Also Thursday- my dad showed up with his 75...we put it in the water, he pulled 3 of us on trick skis and it sputtered a little (I was connected to a rope.) By the time I drove it back to the campground it wouldn't come out of idle.

I refused to sit anywhere but the back seat of Chris's boat when I was in it because its just too new and beautiful. Joe and I looked cute with him chaufferring me up and down the channel.

Miss Scarlett might be the Chuck Norris of CorrectCraftFan because I rode on her and she fought back. As soon as I tried to step off, she swept the leg and promptly deposited me @ss first onto the dock, as if to say, listen here white boy, don't bring your small game my way.

So today I got on a plane, and as we were backing away from the jetway there was a clang and it felt like we backed into a brick wall. I happened to be listening in on the cockpit radio and the pilot said he hit a baggage cart that was left on the runway. I was not impressed. It was a rocky landing, but I am safely on the ground.

To all the faces from this weekend, old and new, good times. It was great to see/meet all of you again/for the first time. And for the big winners of the weekend, the future Marses...congratulations again.

Lets do this again, shall we? maybe in about a month?

ps...the airline made a TREMENDOUS mistake upgrading me to first class...at one point the stewardess said, sir, you drank all of that, can I offer you something else? Well I reckon you better...

Great pics and nice boat! Hopefully we will see you again before next years river run.

Another great SJRR guys...good to see you all... at the gate now ready to go back to cold weather.

That worked John, Thanks. Emailed. And that would be HollywooD, not Hollywoon!!

Smithfamily wrote: How do I make a pic smaller to upload? Taking a long time, and then it says it is too big to load? I have a couple of Hollywood skiing on Ping pong Paddles??

Email them to yourself. Works great and then just stash them in a folder on your desk top so they are easy to get to.

Smithfamily wrote: How do I make a pic smaller to upload? Taking a long time, and then it says it is too big to load? I have a couple of Hollywood skiing on Ping pong Paddles??

If you load them to photobucket the site will size them for you

How do I make a pic smaller to upload? Taking a long time, and then it says it is too big to load? I have a couple of Hollywood skiing on Ping pong Paddles??

I knew there were some Correct Crafts around somewhere, just didn't know where!