Exciting Times on Nordic Drive

Saturday afternoon there were fireworks flying ferociously from Wally's driveway ~ well, it just sounded like that to those of us in the house!

I had taken a walk down to see if I could fix their printer. Mom was outside working on the rocks when I arrived; she's reclaiming the yard little by little! Dad was nowhere in sight at that point.

 

 On the way out the door we heard fireworks. I felt like investigating.  

All looked fine ~ the source of the commotion was John and Wally. Little did we know what caused it!

 Just before I rounded the corner and took this shot, the Whaler was careening down the driveway headed for John's shiny new Toyota Tacoma. The guys raced to stop it; as you see here, John is muscling the boat and Wally is trying to get blocks behind the wheels to stop further progress.

Whew... that was close!

After all the excitement we pushed that Whaler back up the driveway and into the garage where Wally will work on fixing the loose rail. Thanks to Vicki McIntosh for helping push that monster in (she witnessed the incident while walking to town).

John getting ready to lower the outboard ~ there must be a battery switch up at the steering console. 

After all the excitement we had to take a look at the new rig and test drive it... John drove Colleen and I up to the post office; I drove it back. Drives smooth, has a huge woofer in the back, rear-view mirror has a video while reversing and it's still clean!!