Fixin’ Things

Yesterday, Charlie and I, made a whirl-wind trip to Okeechobee….
Renting a car…..getting an upgrade because of lack of ‘mid-size’….
at 9:00 a.m. we left for our 2 ½ hr. trip to Okeechobee…
The rental car had the ‘Satellite Radio’ which was fun….
The Milagro’s out drive was damaged in one of the two storms that hit hard
in the Okeechobee area…..Charley or Jeanne.
My husband, Charlie, had pulled the Milagro out of the water last week and ’she’ was sitting on a trailer….looking so ….forlorn.
Our little Florida style fishing Marina was really hit hard….damage not being repaired….yet. See pictures below.
Within one hour of our arrival, Charlie and I had the out drive removed and was back on the road to deliver it to his out drive expert, Steve in St. Pete. all accomplished by 3:00 p.m.
Steve has been in the business for many a year and he said that he had never seen an out drive broken in quite the way of this one.
The severe winds lurching the boat up and down created an ’unnatural’ force which broke the arms holding it in place plus some internal damage….expensive damage.
Could have been worse as it was in many, many cases here in Florida.
Picking up the pieces of life and moving on is part of ‘normalcy’ anymore.
Thank God that our ‘damage’ is about ‘things’….and not people.
Course I know some people who need to be ‘fixed’ too….beginning with ME!