Another Dream

 About a week ago I went out for a walk around a local lake. As I walked around it I began to reminiscence over long ago times when I would go out for long hikes. I would hike in the Berkeley/Oakland hills. I hiked to the peak of Mt. Diablo and Mt. Tamalpais (both east and west peaks) many years ago.

It has been many years since I have gone for a hike like that.

Last week I went out for a good walk around a local lake. I walked half-an-hour in one direction and then walked back. Total time was around one hour and ten minutes.

It's a great fishing lake. So I decided to return and go fishing for trout, bass, or cat fish.

When I returned home I pulled out of storage my inflatable dinghy. I inflated it up and let it sit for a while so I would know if it would deflate. It did.

It has a leak, I thought to myself. I decided to trash it and get another boat.

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At night I had another dream. In it I was testing my inflatable dinghy. It deflated just as it did in real life.

In my dream I checked a valve. Something was wrong with it. I patched it up. My dinghy then inflated.

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In real life I was about ready to throw out that dinghy. But I remembered my dream. I remembered that I somehow fixed the valve.

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The following morning I went out to the back yard where I had inflated the dinghy and left it sitting to see its deflation. Sure enough, one side had deflated

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I checked the valve and discovered that it could be opened or closed. It just had to be twisted.

 

There's nothing wrong with my dinghy. It inflates and stays inflated. I simply had to twist a valve.