Right now I am supposed to be lauching the boat at the river and heading to the marsh to whack some geese that have been rafting and loafing just off our marsh. Instead, I am sitting here shaking because I'm so pissed off.

Last night, sometime between 12 and 330 am, some bodies (plural) stole the outboard off my War Eagle. Didn't take anything else. Had over $500 worth of goose floaters in the boat, my fathers boat sitting right next to it. Neither boat had the locks on the tounges like they should have. The guys could have made off with the boats. What is even more amazing, is I have three dogs in the house, two of which bark at dang near everything... not a peep. Even more so, I couldn'd sleep worth a hoot last night from being fired up about going hunting this AM, and I had both my windows in the room open, and its right over the drive way... I can almost pee out the window into the boat.

Long story short and point of the post here.... is lock up your stuff. Even the cops were shocked because we live in a pretty up scale neighborhood and high crime around here is somebodies kids toilet papering someones front yard. Home owners insurance will only cover $1000 of it... and a new 25 longshaft Yamaha runs (in my estimate) over $3000.... I was bitching about the boat being a hair underpowered last week.... but I didn't exactly want to HAVE to repower the thing....