Our neighbor stopped in front of our house as we were
attaching our boat to the trailer hitch on our car. He yelled, “That is quite
the contraption!” And that’s how our Sea Cycle got its nickname.
Five years ago this month, the contraption was an impulse
buy. Tim was riding his bike through our neighborhood and stopped to admire two
boats that were parked in a driveway. Instead of being drawn to the speedboat,
he liked the boat with two 16-foot-long yellow pontoons with bucket seats
mounted above them. It had pedals attached to a mechanism with a propeller on
the bottom. It also had a trolling motor connected to a battery, much like the
one in a car.
As he was admiring the handiwork of the motor mount and the
rudder design, the owner walked out of her house onto the front porch. Tim
said, “Nice boat!” She said, “Do you want to buy it?” She went on to explain
that her husband had just accepted a job in Texas and they could only take one
boat. She offered the boat and trailer for $500.
Today was our first time this season to travel to a nearby mountain
lake—Lake of the Woods. We pedaled around admiring snow-covered Mt. McLoughlin in the distance. Then we
noticed something shiny floating in the water.
Today’s gift was to pick up the can that was floating in the
water. We also picked up the cans that were lying on the dock and brought them
home to recycle. Anyone watching may have wondered if we were collecting cans for
cash to upgrade our contraption.
In Giving,
Robin
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