Wannaskan Almanac for Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Content...Never!

I had zero boats.  Then I bought one boat.  It fell apart and was claimed by someone who wanted the trailer.  They say when you have a boat you have two good days...the day you buy it and the day you sell it.  Not too long ago I bought another boat.  It is treating me pretty good.  Which made me think I should get another one.  Dang this consumeristic society we live in!

It gets worse.  I also have two kayaks.  So I guess you could say I have three boats and want four.  What is the deal with boats?  Is it an addiction?  Just foolishness?  Some sort of curse?  I don't really know.  I just want another one...immediately after getting one.  Maybe I need hypnosis...or a hip replacement might suffice.

I have a grill.  It is like my fourth or fifth grill.  Plus I am on my second smoker.  Cooking meat outside seems to be another one of my vices.  But even though I am comfortably set up with outdoor cooking devices I can't seem to shake the habit of checking out every grill in every store that I visit.  Maybe I am secretly hoping to outfit every boat that I have with a grill and smoker.  Then I would never have to go back to land...except to get more meat.

For a while I had a mustard fetish.  I would get every different kind of mustard that I found in a store.  Everytime I went somewhere I would come home with a different kind of mustard.  There was yellow, spicy horseradish, sweet & spicy, brown ginger, hot and spicy, old world gourmet, stone ground...every kind you could imagine.  I would taste each one and then store it in the back of the fridge for years.  Once I even ate some of that expired mustard and got horrible food poisoning.  Not fun!

So many types of mustard!

We all seem to have those things in our lives that we can't stop desiring.  Boats, grills, mustard, guitars, books, matchbox covers, little spoons from places we want to visit...whatever it is.  But they never seem to satisfy us.  It seems like each aquisition only fuels our hunger.  What a tragedy!

If only we could learn the secret of contenment.  What would big box stores and shopping sites like Amazon do then?  I will think about that next time I am on my boat eating smoked meat covered in mustard.