Have you ever heard of that expression? I got my bell rung? I just returned from an evening at the lake with my folks, some older friends and an MAF couple who is just beginning deputation. What a fun evening we had trying out my dad's summer toy: the wake surfboard. Thankfully I didn't get my bell rung tonight as I did at the lake a couple weeks ago. That time the world didn't stop spinning until the boat was pulling up alongside. It was, however, quite a bit colder and it might have been our last boating trip for the summer as the dam is being lowered a foot a day.

Interesting conversation with the boat next to us when we were pulling out. They said "how was your night?" We responded. They asked the MAFers "why did you move to Idaho" but then didn't give them time to respond and went right into the bad economic opportunities in Idaho and how we'll all be better off when we kick those Republicans out of office. Alrighty then. That was the end of the conversation and we both went our separate ways, but I had to just laugh. Of course they're super entitled to their opinion, but I found it incredibly funny that they so vehemently expressed it, conversationally out of left field, as their third remark to total strangers. Oh well.