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Sea Kayaking Guide Training
on Schoonmaker beach, packing kayaks for angel island - food and clothing for 24 people for 3 nights and 4 days zipping up the wetsuit - on angel island - Tiburon behind us to our left - Sausalito to our right Sausalito > Angel island RT > 3 nights Camp Reynolds ~ Hot Damn! What a weekend - Bunked in Camp Reynolds "Bake House" victorian with 12 people - 1 bathroom! Everyone focussed on mastering safety and rescue techniques - each had a chance to be victims or rescuers - or assist rescues on the water - hopefully - we will never have to rescue participants -
3 months after her Fabulous 100th birthday, my Mom passed on- she had a long life , filled with blessings - on her last day she held her newest great-granddaughter, I am sure she went to sleep happy. A feisty red head with a hot temper who never finished high school she would argue with my dad (an attorney) about his cases - arguments that often ended with dad asking: "where did u go to law school?" She was tough on me and my sister- we still make our beds first thing every morning and cannot leave a dish in the sink, housekeeping habits that we are now thankful for- I was the unruly one and often got the back of her hand across the face -if it was the hand with the rings, it hurt! Ronni and I learned to duck out the way of that hand - when she was driving - she swiped blindly at us fighting in the back of the car - It took her 7 tries to pass her driving test - with me cowering in the back when she practiced for the tests- When she finally got her drivers license, sh...