The Mighty Roar of the Ever-Polite Evinrude

Some weeks back my pal Kristy Athens toodled through the Wallowas on her book tour for Get Your Pitchfork On! The Real Dirt on Country Living which, let it be known, is more than the real dirt, it's the peat moss and the Miracle Gro and quite simply an indispensable guidebook that you should not venture out of a city limit without.

I promised her a fun-filled boating excursion on the healing waters of Wallowa Lake and instead the blankety motor wouldn't run so we bobbed around and ate cherries. It looked like this –

Have you checked the viscosity?

Not all bad, eating cherries. But there was a noticeable lack of the wind whipping through our hair as we sported across the picturesque lake.

Well, no more.

Here is proof positive that the S.S. Rombach is back on it's sea legs.