One in a million?
This past 4th of July holiday was spent at our cabin with family and friends.
The weather was beautiful and most of our time was spent on the lake, in the lake or sitting by the lake.
Anthony and Deb have two labs who LOVE coming to the lake.
The dogs also spent the whole weekend on the lake, in the lake or sitting by the lake.
This last trip to the lake Juno discovered a little ledge along the pier that she can stand on and just hang out in the water…
waiting for someone to play catch with her.
(She never has to wait long.)
(She never has to wait long.)
Daughter-in-law Deb and her mother were heading out for a peddle boat ride. Abby and I had just finished a ride.
As they were pushing off the pier I remembered I had left my shirt in the boat.
I asked Deb to throw it to me.
She kindly obliged and as she did her ring come off of her finger and dropped into the lake - in chest deep water.
The boat ride was quickly abandoned and Abby and Deb started looking for the ring.
This time of the year the lake is not crystal clear.
They come up with nothing.
Deb declares that she needs a fifth grader.
A fifth grader?
Yes they can hold their breath forever and pick anything up out of the pool.
(I am thinking...but never said it out loud… yes in a crystal clear swimming pool with a smooth cement bottom.)
We had called the neighbor across the lake to bring his underwater camera.
He happened to bring along his son Jacob.
Jacob just finished fifth grade.
The camera battery was dead.
Deb did not want to waste time waiting for the camera to charge so it was decided that the fifth grader would look for the ring while the battery was charging.
3 dives later he came up with the ring.
The odds are probably one in a million...but somebody has to be the one in the one in a million.
It was Deb's day to be the one…
and Jacob's day to be a humble hero.
Hope you are having a "things are going your way" kind of day.
From my heart,
Sandy
