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SIKSUKR · 10-13-2004, 07:06 AM

I.G.,Your story sounds just like mine.I would move to a small lake in Southern NH right after school let out and return a couple days before it began.I didn't get to participate in little league baseball or hang with my home friends at the public pool but the fun of being on the water everyday outweighed that by far.I graduated from learning to swim to eventually barefoot skiing two or three at a time.At that time there were no restrictions (or we didn't know about them)on how many people could be towed so we once had 10 people at one time being towed behind the same boat.We had to start skiers from three different boats and hand off ropes till finally 10 were in tow.Day after day on any water toy we could find.Fun memories.And like you I.G., My dad worked on the camp for many summers,tearing it half down,excavating dirt by hand from the cellar to make more space,building endless stonewalls and stairs.It seemed like slave labor at the time but what I learned from those years are priceless to me now. SS

10-13-2004, 07:06 AM	#20
SIKSUKR Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,075 Thanks: 215 Thanked 903 Times in 509 Posts	I.G.,Your story sounds just like mine.I would move to a small lake in Southern NH right after school let out and return a couple days before it began.I didn't get to participate in little league baseball or hang with my home friends at the public pool but the fun of being on the water everyday outweighed that by far.I graduated from learning to swim to eventually barefoot skiing two or three at a time.At that time there were no restrictions (or we didn't know about them)on how many people could be towed so we once had 10 people at one time being towed behind the same boat.We had to start skiers from three different boats and hand off ropes till finally 10 were in tow.Day after day on any water toy we could find.Fun memories.And like you I.G., My dad worked on the camp for many summers,tearing it half down,excavating dirt by hand from the cellar to make more space,building endless stonewalls and stairs.It seemed like slave labor at the time but what I learned from those years are priceless to me now. SS __________________ SIKSUKR