Thins that make me happy: Installment 2

I woke up in a pool of sunshine at eight this morning; the sky was tensely waiting for the heat. All I could think about was being outside; my body is running on a serious vitamin D deficiency. The boat came out of storage last week with a decent amount of money put into it. With the current economy scare spending 2,000 dollars on a wakeboarding tower seemed exorbitant, so the boys installed a wake fin and bought a pole held on by a tension suspension system for a couple hundred instead. I had yet to see the extra lift in action and lucky for me my boys didn’t disappoint. We even headed out to the wake for life event put on by SOU in support of breast cancer research. We didn’t stay to watch our buddy compete, but we did give him a warm up round! I had a hard time capturing the real action shots; a camera is hard to hold still on a joggling boat, but I still took some neat shots. The first one I like because I feel like the fore ground, middle ground and background are defined. The pole divides the center of the photo, but my buddy’s watch also lens itself to the frame. This picture almost feels like a wakeboard ad to me; something about time being irrelevant. The second one is a photo of the sumo tube…every time some poor sucker puts the thing on and waddles to the edge of the boat I come close to losing bladder control. Then the wakes come and they swallow their first face full of water and I really lose it. I chose this one because as funny as the sumo tube is to watch in action, the photographs don’t really do the thing justice. I did however, like the weird trick with my boyfriend’s face through the windshield of the boat; it’s a two headed water monster that just ate a whole boat! Oh no, it’s just Nolan. I do seem to love to divide my scenes in half; the third photograph as the rope from the pole running right through the middle. This picture cracks me up because J-Will looks like he is chewing his nails…the wake is that scary! This is yet another thing that makes me happy; spending time on the boat with friends. (I also brought my well loved copy of Valley of the Horses and drank a couple beers.) I think just being outside refreshes my soul.