| There are many added expenses to living on a lake. | | | | new neighbors tried to convince us to put a canopy |
| Many of the expenses may be considered luxury | | | | over the top of the boat lift rather than invest in the |
| items to many people, but they are needed if you | | | | boat covers. This seemed like a good idea at first, |
| are going to enjoy your lake property. My husband | | | | until we noticed all the bird droppings on the canopies |
| and I have always enjoyed spending time at | | | | of the surrounding neighbors. The birds liked to perch |
| different lakes. We love to fish and take day or | | | | on the canopies as well as build nests underneath |
| weekend trips around the area. We planned to retire | | | | them. We decided that we would buy boat covers. |
| by a lake, but we decided to make the move earlier | | | | We took the measurements of the two boats to a |
| because we found a house and lake shore at a very | | | | marine dealer. The boat covers that they had in |
| good price. | | | | stock were not very good quality and they were |
| We moved at the end of July five years ago. The | | | | generic so they would not fit very tight on the boats. |
| former owners of our home did not have a dock on | | | | The marine dealer told us that there were names of |
| the lake. We have a steep bank that leads to the | | | | several people that made custom boat covers on the |
| water so we also needed to design some type of | | | | bulletin board. We wrote down several of the names |
| step system. We had a carpenter look at the bank | | | | and telephone numbers. |
| and come up with a design that he could do the | | | | We called several of the custom canvas businesses. |
| following spring. My husband also told me that we | | | | Most of them were booked with orders ahead of us. |
| needed a bigger boat in order to safely fish the lake | | | | The quotes we were give for the boat covers were |
| we were living on. The lake is sixty miles around and | | | | very high. My sister-in-law is a wonderful seamstress |
| twenty seven miles across so the waves can | | | | and I have done some sewing in the past. We |
| become quite large. Along with a bigger boat we also | | | | decided that we would attempt to make the boat |
| needed to invest in boat covers for the new boat as | | | | covers. It took us several hours to design a pattern |
| well as the small paddle boat that we bought. We | | | | and several more hours to sew the canvas, but we |
| also needed a boat lift to keep the boat out of | | | | completed very nice, sturdy boat covers. |
| water when it was down by the dock. One of our | | | | |