Dale Hollow Visit, Furniture Delivery

Linda fixed us sausage biscuits for breakfast and then we started getting ready to go to Dale Hollow. We unhooked the red trailer with the furniture and hooked up the boat. We packed the coolers and loaded into the truck and then stopped and filled the boat with gas and on to the lake. We pulled the boat off the trailer and I parked the truck and trailer and we were headed out of the State Park Dock by 10:30. Brent was driving the boat and then Stacey took over and we went straight to Ashburn's Cove, where we were supposed to meet the Dial family. The only problem, we were about 3 hours early. We all went for a swim and then got back in the boat and took a ride south towards Sunset Dock. I turned the boat into a long fingerlet called Eagle's Creek. The fingerlet is probaly six miles long and we rode to the 'head' of the creek, well at least till the water was only about ten feet deep. It was the smoothest water we were on all day as the channel was narrow and the wind wasn't causing any ripples. We returned the way we came and ended up back at Ashburn about 15 minutes before Derek, Lana and Frank pulled in the cove where we had anchored. Stacey started giggling as soon as they arrived and kept it up the rest of the day. After swimming for a while, we boated over to Fanny's Creek and Derek and Brent tested out a wakeboard and then went kneeboarding.
 
There is a ski course set up at the very end of the fingerlet and I took Derek through it on the kneeboard.
  
Both Derek and Brent were tired when we finally pulled over next to Frank's boat and anchored, then set and talked a while, before leaving for the dock. We pulled the boat off the lake and covered it up a few minutes before 6 PM, then towed it back to the farm and put it in the shed. We unhooked the boat and hooked the red trailer to the truck and pulled it up to the house. We went inside, changed out of our swim suits, ate sandwiches and loaded the dogs, Pauline, Stacey, Linda and I in the red truck. Brent drove the TR3 and went ahead of us. A little over an hour later, we backed the trailer into P&B's front yard and went inside. Pauline and Linda tore apart P&B's bedroom and Brent and I started carrying in their new bedroom suite. The dresser was the heaviest piece and it was taxing carrying it in through the doorways, but we made it. After all the pieces were inside, Pauline used Pledge and dusted the new furniture and they examined it for damage. Great, NO DAMAGE! I was relieved, as I was the one that had loaded the pieces and put quilts and blankets between them. Then the 'hard part' came, trying to figure out where Pauline wanted to set the dresser, bed and chest??? I had one opinion, Linda had an opinion, Pauline had an opinion. We set the dresser one place, no that didn't look right, ok move it here, no not there either, ok, how about here? I'm not sure it's exactly where Pauline wanted it, but she quit asking us to move it anyway. We put the bed together and Brent was ready to go to bed, but no, the bed wasn't made.
 
We snapped some pictures anyway and the next thing I noticed Brent and Stacey were asleep on the couch while Linda and Pauline were still decorating. It was a long day and we ended up staying the night.