{"id":18164,"date":"2022-04-08T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=18164"},"modified":"2024-08-29T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:51:13","slug":"dancing-on-the-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/dancing-on-the-dock\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing on The Dock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dancing on The Dock\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Dancing On The Dock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our vacation property is water access only and is situated on a picturesque area of White Lake, near Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the &#8220;experience&#8221; is arrival and departure by boat. We have a pontoon boat with a 115 HP Mercury outboard motor. This is capable of transferring many people to and fro, as well as pulling kids on water skis and tubes, going out for dinner, getting groceries or sightseeing on the lake. We constructed a large U shaped dock that we attach to a permanent deck just in front of our cottage. The boat &#8220;Dancing Beaver 1&#8221; fits snugly into the centre of the dock, making arrival and departure quite simple. As the cold weather approaches the dock has to be moved to a safer area in a back bay where it won&#8217;t be damaged by the ice. Whether opening the cottage in the spring, or closing up in the fall, moving the dock is slowly becoming a tradition in our family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Dancing Beaver 1&#8221; has a great sound system ,and our travels are often accompanied by music. At a small town general store nearby, I purchased a CD titled &#8220;Three Thumbs Up\u201d by Del Bassett. He writes the words to well-known songs. These lyrics reflect his memoires of the Ottawa valley. He immigrated to Canada from Wales. This becomes very apparent when listening to him singing. One song includes the lines <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">&#8220;I love this land so fine, it is yours and now it&#8217;s mine\u201d<\/em>. I like that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One song in particular &#8220;Eganville \u2013 Jewel of the Bonnechere&#8221; has become our theme song when repositioning the dock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the kids and grandkids  gather on the dock with their chosen snacks and drinks. We untie the dock and proceed to back out into the lake with me driving at a very slow pace. You should picture a large U-shaped dock with a pontoon boat in the middle, covered with kids, cruising in the lake. Sometimes we stop for a swim, but always we have music that everyone dances to. When my song comes on, one of my grandsons drives, while I get up to dance with each of my daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This always makes me smile and will remain one of my favourite memories. When I have the time and energy,  I plan to rewrite the lyrics again \u2026..to reflect a little piece of heaven!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancing On The Dock Our vacation property is water access only and is situated on a picturesque area of White Lake, near Ottawa. Part of the &#8220;experience&#8221; is arrival and departure by boat. We have a pontoon boat with a 115 HP Mercury outboard motor. This is capable of transferring many people to and fro, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24516,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18164\/revisions\/24516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}