On Sep 24, 7:58 pm, "Scotty" wrote:
What, no motorcycles?

Scotty"Frogwatch" wrote in message

ps.com...

At some point, you exceed the optimum number of "toys" so
that your
ability to maintain them begins to exceed your time to use
them. I
believe this has happed to me. With two small homebuilt
sailboats and
a 28' S2 sailboat, a homebuilt dinghy, a 20' Tolman Skiff
(homeebuilt)
and a canoe, a 100 yr old log cabin in Wyoming that needs
rebuilding,
an old Nissan truck with 309,000 miles on it that I love
and a need to
maintain camping and caving equipment (did I mention a 20
yr old Dodge
Ram I inherited), I have no time to use any of it.
Yesterday, we wanted to go sailing but after I had
de-fouled the prop
by going overboard in the canal, the engine overheated.
Dang, I knew
I shoulda had the bottom painted thsi year (its been 4
years, a long
time in N. FL.). Engine intake was clogged with fouling
and I couldnt
find a piece of stiff wire long enough to run through the
intake from
inside (I wasnt going back in that nasty water again).
So, sometime
this week, I gotta take time offa work and go to the coast
and do
this, oughta replace the impeller at same time, scrape
barnacles too.
My prop is just about shot from corrosion and dings so
I'll haveta
sail her about 40 miles sometime in early Oct to have her
hauled, prop
replaced, I will paint the bottom, and replace cutless
bearing.
Somehow this week, I gotta set up caving gear for 5 people
cuz my 20
yr old daughter has decided she wants to take her new BF
on a caving
trip (gotta take the younger kids too).
Somehow, I think that I can do all of this if I optimally
use each
evening and weekend to do stuff but something has to give.
Money has
not been an issue because I do all the work myself cuz I
dont like the
work anybody esle does and I have built 4 of my boats and
my truck was
paid off 16 yrs ago. What should I give up to make room
for doing
stuff?
OH, I have this notion of building a kayak for my 11 yr
old daughter
cuz she likes kayaks............

Down on the plains, Wy is hot and boring. Up in the Mts, its cool
with aspens, lodgepole pines, streams, etc. They do have some big man
made lakes. Jackson lake really might be nice but is about 250 miles
from our place near Casper.