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September 06, 2003
River Rat
One of the things I love about reading Jennifer's blog is the way she can make me homesick with just a few sentences....like this:
When I was a kid, my favorite season was summer. I couldn't wait for it to get hot every year so I could spend the next 2 months immersed in the Buffalo River.
I too was a Buffalo River rat....swimming at Big Rock, endless float trips from Maumee to the Hwy. 14 bridge, camping at Step Eddy and Buckin' Shoals, late night jitterbugging at Red Bluff, catfishing at the Blue Hole, cutting school with my friends on warm April afternoons & driving up to the Hwy. 65 bridge to jump from Little Cedar & then clambering out shivering to bask in the sun. The water temp in April is a little brisk, to say the least, but we didn't care. The siren song of the river was too strong to resist....not that we fought it particularly hard.
The float/camping trips were always my favorite. I could swim & fish to my heart's content. Then, late at night, my tummy full of fried 'taters and bass fillets, I would drowse by the campfire, listening to the symphony of bullfrogs, cicadas & crickets, and the occasionally WHOOMP of a big bass hitting something on the top of the water.
Shining times indeed. And Jennifer brings that all back with just a few words.
Thanks, girl.
Posted by Rita at September 6, 2003 07:34 AM