1/26/12 A NEW HOT ROD, AND A MAN AND HIS DOG

COCOONED

NEW HOT ROD

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...BUCKLE THOSE SEAT BELS

...500 HORSEPOWER CHEVY CORVETTE ENGINE

Thursday, 8:30 AM.  33 degrees, wind SE, light.  The sky is overcast, fog enshrouds the Island, and the barometer predicts precipitation.
        The sailboats at the City Marina are all stored out of the water, parked on stands.  Most of them have been shrink-wrapped in plastic for the winter, and look like so many huge June-bug chrysalises.
        The Coast Guard, not to be outdone by local municipalities such as Ashland and LaPointe  that have ice-rescue air boats, now has its own, and it is a beauty. A 27 ft. long,  welded aluminum hull, enclosed cab, sixty-knot per hour beauty.  It is American made and has a 500 horsepower Chevy Corvette V8 engine. They ought to be able to snatch a floundering ice fisherman from the jaws of an icy death before he even gets wet. And heaven help the terrorist trying to approach our shores across the ice by dog sled or snowmobile!   We will watch for this new piece of technology out on  a training run, and are certain the young Coasties are falling all over each other trying to get licensed to pilot this new hot rod!
        Overheard in the Ode household: Art says, “This place sure gets dirty in the winter!” Joan says, “That’s because a man and his dog live here.” Art says, “But you would miss us if we were gone.”  To which Joan replies, “Yes, but I’d have a clean house.”
A NEW HOT ROD, AND A MAN AND HIS DOG