16C sunny but a coolish breeze is blowing.
Got through the battle of the sexes yesterday - the men won again with only one loss, or the other way the ladies only had one win. Half the local "kids" here for supper and a hot tub.
Will have to do some more readying on the motor home the next couple of days.

when he came across a tree that had undoubtedly been dislodged by the storm and lay at chest height across the path. It wasn’t a large tree so he decided he would try and move it. In his haste he didn’t notice that a larger tree had been blown over as well but was being held back by the branches of a third tree.

At chest level he knew he couldn’t get a decent swing with the axe so he went down along the trunk to where he could climb up onto it. He walked along the trunk until he was over the path then jumped up and down. Inch by inch the tree settled downwards then stalled about two feet off the ground.

Bob jumped down and picking up the axe proceeded to chop the tree. With each swing a shock like wave went down the trunk and started a reaction by the transference of force fifty feet in the air. He was just lifting the axe to swing again when with a swishing noise the suspended tree slid down the branches that had restrained it and plummeted downwards. Too late Bob sensed something at the last moment and with the axe above his head he was crushed to the ground by the falling tree.

The side of the axe was driven against his head and one of the large limbs struck him on top of his head opening a deep gouge in his scalp.

Other branches scraped along his back and one side as he was smashed to the ground. Oblivion was instant.

  

Chapter 12

The sea was still choppy as Alicia crossed the expanse of water. Even when she passed by one of the many islands, the water remained rough with waves reacting to tide and hidden reefs and rocks.

It took slightly over two hours before she slowed to make her approach to the beach. But when she was a couple hundred yards off shore she suddenly turned the outboard’s tiller and swung around and proceeded to go around the island.

She increased her speed slightly and in a few minutes passed the point where her grandmother had beached her boat so long ago and a few moments later and entered into a channel. She could see rocks sticking out of the water and some distance away another island. She slowed and scanned the beach looking for a landing spot that she would feel comfortable about.