If you ever go swimming in Lake Champlain, wear water shoes, because the zebra mussels don't care if you have to move a large dock the next day.
If you go on a canoe mini-adventure to an island with your friends, partner with someone who won't pull away in the canoe when you go wading in the water near the shore where there are no zebra mussels. If you can't find a canoeing partner who meets this criterion, hopefully they will be the type of partner who will bother to paddle more often than once a minute as you paddle and steer the two of you back to shore so you can clean and bandage your bleeding cut, instead of leaving you to do all the paddling and berating you for slicing open the bottom of your foot. If you make it back and hop over the rocky beach, clean the cut with hydrogen peroxide and make sure there aren't any zebra mussel pieces still in your foot. Then add antiseptic cream and apply a bandage. If I were a less peaceful human I would advise smacking your former canoeing partner with your paddle the next time you see them, but at the very least, you can make a point of laying the Queen of Spades on him during the hearts card game as much as you can. If you don't happen to be in the same hearts game, bide your time. Or steal his gin or something.
Move the dock the next morning. Wish your friends well, until next time.
Enjoy a very peaceful evening relaxing by a fire underneath the stars the next night. If your only friend remaining who could stay the extra day happens to fall asleep every ten minutes and snore louder than a bear, go to the edge of the dock you moved earlier, and appreciate the flow of the water and the infinite sky. Feel free to play music on your phone, preferably something with piano or acoustic guitar. I recommend only a few tunes to drown out the sound of the snoring. If the snoring subsides, the sound of the waves on the shore should suffice.
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If you go on a canoe mini-adventure to an island with your friends, partner with someone who won't pull away in the canoe when you go wading in the water near the shore where there are no zebra mussels. If you can't find a canoeing partner who meets this criterion, hopefully they will be the type of partner who will bother to paddle more often than once a minute as you paddle and steer the two of you back to shore so you can clean and bandage your bleeding cut, instead of leaving you to do all the paddling and berating you for slicing open the bottom of your foot. If you make it back and hop over the rocky beach, clean the cut with hydrogen peroxide and make sure there aren't any zebra mussel pieces still in your foot. Then add antiseptic cream and apply a bandage. If I were a less peaceful human I would advise smacking your former canoeing partner with your paddle the next time you see them, but at the very least, you can make a point of laying the Queen of Spades on him during the hearts card game as much as you can. If you don't happen to be in the same hearts game, bide your time. Or steal his gin or something.
Move the dock the next morning. Wish your friends well, until next time.
Enjoy a very peaceful evening relaxing by a fire underneath the stars the next night. If your only friend remaining who could stay the extra day happens to fall asleep every ten minutes and snore louder than a bear, go to the edge of the dock you moved earlier, and appreciate the flow of the water and the infinite sky. Feel free to play music on your phone, preferably something with piano or acoustic guitar. I recommend only a few tunes to drown out the sound of the snoring. If the snoring subsides, the sound of the waves on the shore should suffice.
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