Thursday, August 13, 2009
Seymour!
We adopted a dog from the Idaho Humane Society yesterday! Seymour is a 7 month old Shar-pei/Lab mix and is the cutest thing ever! Actually, his name was Niko at the IHS and we have decided to rename him....Seymour is much more fun and fitting. Anyway, he's house trained and walks really well on a leash (we went for a pretty long walk last night). He can sit and lay down and one of the papers says he can "drop it" too. When we were walking through the kennels yesterday afternoon, he was one of the only dogs not barking like crazy. I still haven't heard him bark at all, but Josh says he let out two barks while I was at the gym yesterday; our neighbors dogs were barking at Seymour and I guess he decided to try it out too and got bored or something. He still kind of smells like the kennels at the IHS and needs a bath, but we didn't put him through that last night. Anyway, less talk, more pictures!
Monday, August 03, 2009
Stupidity on the Main Payette
Woman saved by a cat boater on the Main Payette
A woman nearly drowned on the Main Payette on Sunday (8/2/09) due to complete stupidity. The unidentified woman, approximately 55 years of age and 220 pounds, was paddling in a tandem inflatable kayak with a male, approximately 25 years of age. The woman, appropriately nicknamed “Triple D” by other boaters, was wearing a helmet but no life jacket for the majority of the float. Upon entering the rapid known as “AMF” the couple was dumped from their IK, which sent both of them into the river. The woman was submerged, while her partner stayed afloat in his rented life jacket. The woman struggled to stay afloat and was saved by what bystanders can only assume to be her bosoms. A nearby cat boater ferried upstream to aid the woman in staying afloat and ferried both swimmers to more shallow water. Upon her arrival to more shallow water, the woman claimed to have forgotten her life jacket on shore after pumping up the IK with more air. The rescuer sternly responded to the woman’s forgetfulness of leaving her lifejacket on the shore by stating it is an easy hike to the road and informed her that she should never be on the river without a lifejacket ever again.
With a note of seriousness, it is stupidity such as this that keeps the river from being far from safe. Though considered a great river to learn to run rapids, the Main is not a fool proof river, and no one is invincible. I have a particularly difficult time asking folks to put on life jackets or encourage them to wear an extra that’s sitting in my car, mostly because I’m not sure they will listen (and because they haven’t listened in the past). The fact of the matter is that in the end I am responsible for their stupidity. I wish I had talked to the aforementioned woman prior to seeing her run Mixmaster or AMF and told her to get the hell out of the river and walk to the road. I certainly wasn’t happy about picking her out of the water and lecturing her AFTER she swam. Part of problem was that some of the boats on the river with us were not wearing their vests during the calm stretches. I suppose I should have asked them to put their jackets on as well for the sheer fact that most people on the river probably never saw the few in our group put their jackets on when the rapids came. The last thing we need is law enforcement on the river enforcing life jackets, proper gear, or appropriate whitewater vehicles. As safe boaters, we need to attempt to instill our safety precautions to anyone who may or may not listen.
A woman nearly drowned on the Main Payette on Sunday (8/2/09) due to complete stupidity. The unidentified woman, approximately 55 years of age and 220 pounds, was paddling in a tandem inflatable kayak with a male, approximately 25 years of age. The woman, appropriately nicknamed “Triple D” by other boaters, was wearing a helmet but no life jacket for the majority of the float. Upon entering the rapid known as “AMF” the couple was dumped from their IK, which sent both of them into the river. The woman was submerged, while her partner stayed afloat in his rented life jacket. The woman struggled to stay afloat and was saved by what bystanders can only assume to be her bosoms. A nearby cat boater ferried upstream to aid the woman in staying afloat and ferried both swimmers to more shallow water. Upon her arrival to more shallow water, the woman claimed to have forgotten her life jacket on shore after pumping up the IK with more air. The rescuer sternly responded to the woman’s forgetfulness of leaving her lifejacket on the shore by stating it is an easy hike to the road and informed her that she should never be on the river without a lifejacket ever again.
With a note of seriousness, it is stupidity such as this that keeps the river from being far from safe. Though considered a great river to learn to run rapids, the Main is not a fool proof river, and no one is invincible. I have a particularly difficult time asking folks to put on life jackets or encourage them to wear an extra that’s sitting in my car, mostly because I’m not sure they will listen (and because they haven’t listened in the past). The fact of the matter is that in the end I am responsible for their stupidity. I wish I had talked to the aforementioned woman prior to seeing her run Mixmaster or AMF and told her to get the hell out of the river and walk to the road. I certainly wasn’t happy about picking her out of the water and lecturing her AFTER she swam. Part of problem was that some of the boats on the river with us were not wearing their vests during the calm stretches. I suppose I should have asked them to put their jackets on as well for the sheer fact that most people on the river probably never saw the few in our group put their jackets on when the rapids came. The last thing we need is law enforcement on the river enforcing life jackets, proper gear, or appropriate whitewater vehicles. As safe boaters, we need to attempt to instill our safety precautions to anyone who may or may not listen.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
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