We have a 3-year-old (and a newborn) visiting next month. Do we have life jackets? At least for the 3-year-old? Not sure. We found this child-size life jacket in the shed, which turns out to be quite a bit bigger than a 3-year-old and maybe not the right form factor. It doesn’t exactly fit the GG either.

We will all figger this out by the time our cousin-guests get here.

When we were kids we wore fugly old orange life jackets, old and faded. We wore those in my uncle’s speed boat and our family’s canoe. One of my memories is when we took the canoe out into the lake to watch an eclipse of the moon. We were halfway out into the bay when something came paddling up to meet us. It was my beautiful dog Tigger, swimming out from the shore where it was WAAAAY over her head because she in no way shape or form was gonna be left behind. I wish I had a pic of that but no iPhone in those days.

Then there was the time my dad and his buddy Pete Sherman took me and a bunch of the Sherman kids out in the canoe over to the sand islands in Mosquito Bay. Dad and Pete were paddling and there were like six of us little kids sitting between them. I was wearing one of those fugly old orange life jackets and a seagull shat on me. Lovely.

We won’t talk about the time the GG and my cousin’s husband put Lizard and my cousin’s son into the canoe WITHOUT life jackets and paddled them away. All of the women on the beach that day were LIVID. All turned out well but us beach women are a rather extreme force of nature.

Alas that we haven’t been able to eradicate f*cking MAGA but we are working on it, that is those of us who are still alive are working on it for those who have left us. The Commander and Radical Betty among others. They worked to help women gain equality and respect and thanks in part to them, I have always had that and I will work as best I can to pass it on to other women. We are just as intelligent and capable as men are and we deserve respect.

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