First World Problem Epitomized
 

Please read with a upper crust accent in mind, "Locust Valley Lockjaw" if you will.

My wife and I head out Saturday to go kayak on the Potomac. All is well, Jeeves has settled the morning dishes and the day proceeds apace. All looks well, verdant on our stroll to the awaiting shells. There was a bit of a storm last eve, but all is right...

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But, what is this. Dammit all, the ramp has gone missing! Jeeves!!!

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My word.

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Back to our regularly scheduled accent.

We get in the kayaks and it takes us about 15 minutes to find the missing parts of the ramp. We towed the remains ashore an tie it up on the beach. The next steps are to safely get it over the seawall. The white chair has been thee all summer, sunk, reminding me of the "Planet of the Apes".

First world problem but I thought I'd share. Best to all. Nice diversion on a slow Tuesday.

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You just need the huge manatee to complete this...

It looks like ya done went and had a big ol blowing storm on that there pond.

Your boat ramp was tatty anyway.

I'm sure FEMA will take care of that.

You should see the dock more often...

Was it always that angled down to the water?

Obama's fault.

Every few years the floating dock at my Vermont house get loose and wanders away....

I just take the dinghy and head to the end of the lake at the beaver dam and grab it and tow it back to its home....

Can't do that on the Potomac I suppose..

I had nothing to do with it, honest

"Apox upon me my lady, this is a conundrum that has vexed men of greater intellectual station than your humble reporter. The ghastly power of river has once again laid waste to the most stout of my marine constructions." -George Templeton Strong.

Hey, some people pay good money for boat launches.

Have the help tend to it.:cool:

Al-umini-um... have it redone in al-umini-um... doesn't rust or rot. Or concrete. :D

We will concrete on the lower half, tapered to the top. I'll need to wait until Spring.

I got ten years out of this one, about the same as the last, which is actually really good given the fact that nearly all wind and wave action (which can be intense) is onshore.

We actually use it a lot, so do my friends: small sailboats, John boats, kayaks Sea-Do's, etc. Direct access to the Potomac is pretty rare and it saves the sailors from having to spent an hour getting to open water.

I even let the help use it:cool:

Aren't you concerned that the river will just wash out underneath the concrete leaving the ramp to drop?

According to my neighbor, who does this for a living, concrete is better...I asked exactly the same question you did.

He said, and I quote: "Concrete is better". :D

Great neighbor. Folks across the creek from me had a few barges installing a few tons of stone and a pier the past week or so. Got me thinking until I got a quote. Ouch. Good luck.

BAHAHAHAHA SmileWavy

It is funny you mentioned cost. If you look again at the picture below you can see all the stone work around the trees, which is extensive. He also put many tons of large rock strategically in front of the wooden seawall which runs the length of my property.

He didn't want money, he wanted a 10x200 foot piece of property on the right side of my farm, adjacent to his. That gave him 10 feet of beach and room for other stuff.

Done deal!

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Freaking beautiful. So that's how the other half lives!

Pretty decent design feature.

Thank you, Sir. I will tell you, twenty years ago when we bought the place it was a complete dump. I learned a lot about a lot of things I was clueless about. While we got a great price on the place due to a long running divorce and the condition of the farm, I was so far over my head I was looking up at the well diggers a$$.

But you press forward.

All the fields were long term fallow, all the ditch line you see were filled with vines and trees and trash.

Lots of stories. I spent the first three years here clearing and burning...that's why I had my tongue firmed planted in my cheek concerning my "problems" now.

The only easy day was yesterday!

Yep, that's a fantastic place you've got there, Paul. SmileWavy

I'd be willing to sell you this dock.
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... on second thought ... psyche! ;)

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to qualify as a real first world problem you need to ***** about not being able to sync your dock to iTunes.

Must have been some storm. The boat house and servant's quarters were utterly destroyed.

How long does it take for the servants to hitch the carriage for you to get from the main house to the dock?

Nice place. I'm not a bit envious!

That's a rocking place Paul!

Have you been living my life in an alternate universe all this time?

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Pauls place is a real slice of heaven. Beth and I spent the weekend with Paul last summer and having a cup of coffee out at the seawall before the dawn was up was a calm that you could feel. I saw my first Bald Eagle in the wild there.