It has been ridiculously hot around here this past month! Along with the heat - it has been incredibly dry. Our rain totals are a couple of feet shy of our normal rainfall. So the way we have found to try to keep cool is by going to the river. It is so shallow that it doesn't get much deeper than chest-high around most of the area we go to. The sandbar (which is maybe kneedeep at the most) goes out close to 3/4 of the way across and then there is a small "drop-off" (chest high). Don't let it fool you though. The current is still pretty strong.
A woman that was there yesterday was swimming up-river from us and got caught in the current. Luckily my hubby was able to catch her and bring her back to the sandbar. She said it was her first time there and she didn't know how the river would be. You can never underestimate the power of nature! Even though it looks calm - looks can be very deceiving!
That is just a little off tangent of where this story was going, but I guess that's alright!
We have been enjoying our time at the river cooling off. It's relaxing to sit there in the water and sun watching the kids play! It definitely beats parking our butts in front of the TV sitting in the A/C. There is still plenty of river time left, too, even though school has started back up. We still have weekends!
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| IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY - FOLLOW THE FAR BANK & ABOUT 2/3 OF THE WAY - YOU CAN SEE THE BIG BOYS HEADS POKING OUT OF THE WATER. THE GROWN-UP KID IS LAYING DOWN IN SHIN DEEP WATER |
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| DIGGIN'! |
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| WATER!! |
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