I am not sure if I ever told this story or not. I looked through the stories I have saved and did not find it so I just wrote it again. Some might find it of interest..
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Years ago, when I was still married to the Crazy Horse Woman, I was trying to find a new unhunted area.
We used to do a lot of dancing. Line dancing, country dancing and clogging. We would meet for lessons and dancing at a bar north of Oxford Michigan, where we were living.
The bar was owned by an old couple, Doc and his hag wife, She was ok I guess, at least to me but she was meaner than a dang rat snake to most,
Doc was maybe 80 years old, maybe a little older. He had lived in the area all his life so I decided to ask him where he swam as a kid. He told me of a few places that were still in use and also mentioned a place on Lakeville lake where there used to be a beach, He said that on the forth of July there would be thousands of people out there. I asked what was there now and he said he thought there was a house. I got directions to the place and the next chance I got I took a drive out to look it over,
It was only about five miles from my house so I drove out. I was not sure exactly where it was but the directions were pretty close. It was on a curve and I drove slowly past and I was not sure which house it was. One house was down a very long drive, maybe 500 ft from the road. It was a big house and fairly new. There was a guy working in his yard down there and I thought, what the heck, and drove down the drive. The house was a huge two story house and must have been 3500 sq ft. With a walkout basememt.
I am lucky because I sorta have a gift for gab and if I can get the guy talking for a few minutes I can usually get permission. This guy was a gem! He was a short fat little guy and a ball to talk to. He was one of the first scuba divers in the area but had not dove in many years. He said he and his buddy used to dive before wet suits were common and he quit diving when his buddy drowned. He said he was on the 53 Olympic swimming team too. He now was a realtor.
I stopped and got out. I walked up and stuck out my hand and introduced myself. He smiled and I knew things might go pretty well. I told him that I was a diver and my hobby was under water metal detecting. I told him that an old guy had told me that there used to be an old beach on his lake front and I would like his permission to hunt it.
He said I could hunt it any time I wanted and invited me up to the house for coffee,. We went up to the house and I met his wife and we talked a while. They were very friendly.
I had not brought my diving equiptment along and asked him with it would be convient for me to come dive. He told me that both he and his wife worked in his office but I could come over any time I wished, It was November and pretty cool. He told me that he would leave his house unlocked and I could change in there and go up to the kitchen and make coffee after diving, they would have coffee, donuts and cookies for me up on the cupboard. I just looked at him. I told him,
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Years ago, when I was still married to the Crazy Horse Woman, I was trying to find a new unhunted area.
We used to do a lot of dancing. Line dancing, country dancing and clogging. We would meet for lessons and dancing at a bar north of Oxford Michigan, where we were living.
The bar was owned by an old couple, Doc and his hag wife, She was ok I guess, at least to me but she was meaner than a dang rat snake to most,
Doc was maybe 80 years old, maybe a little older. He had lived in the area all his life so I decided to ask him where he swam as a kid. He told me of a few places that were still in use and also mentioned a place on Lakeville lake where there used to be a beach, He said that on the forth of July there would be thousands of people out there. I asked what was there now and he said he thought there was a house. I got directions to the place and the next chance I got I took a drive out to look it over,
It was only about five miles from my house so I drove out. I was not sure exactly where it was but the directions were pretty close. It was on a curve and I drove slowly past and I was not sure which house it was. One house was down a very long drive, maybe 500 ft from the road. It was a big house and fairly new. There was a guy working in his yard down there and I thought, what the heck, and drove down the drive. The house was a huge two story house and must have been 3500 sq ft. With a walkout basememt.
I am lucky because I sorta have a gift for gab and if I can get the guy talking for a few minutes I can usually get permission. This guy was a gem! He was a short fat little guy and a ball to talk to. He was one of the first scuba divers in the area but had not dove in many years. He said he and his buddy used to dive before wet suits were common and he quit diving when his buddy drowned. He said he was on the 53 Olympic swimming team too. He now was a realtor.
I stopped and got out. I walked up and stuck out my hand and introduced myself. He smiled and I knew things might go pretty well. I told him that I was a diver and my hobby was under water metal detecting. I told him that an old guy had told me that there used to be an old beach on his lake front and I would like his permission to hunt it.
He said I could hunt it any time I wanted and invited me up to the house for coffee,. We went up to the house and I met his wife and we talked a while. They were very friendly.
I had not brought my diving equiptment along and asked him with it would be convient for me to come dive. He told me that both he and his wife worked in his office but I could come over any time I wished, It was November and pretty cool. He told me that he would leave his house unlocked and I could change in there and go up to the kitchen and make coffee after diving, they would have coffee, donuts and cookies for me up on the cupboard. I just looked at him. I told him,
Goes to show that anything can be found anywhere though. A Nova Scotia half !.......that's pretty neat !!