Can you solve these Riddles?
You have until Friday.
Mystery Mob!
In lieu of a Whodunit this week, we’re going with two riddles. Let us know with an email reply if you think you cracked them before Friday’s reveal.
I am weightless but put me in a bucket and I will make it lighter. What am I?
A man goes out in heavy rain with nothing to protect him from it. His hair doesn’t get wet. How does he do that?
Answers….Summer Spotlight: Wawasee Yacht Club
SYRACUSE – After a Fourth of July without needed wind, the Wawasee Yacht Club finally got some wind in its sails Sunday morning for the only day of its scheduled Independence Day Regatta.
Sailing for the regatta was scheduled for Thursday and Sunday for the E-Scow and Lightning fleets, but a lack of wind on the 4th disallowed racing. With enough wind blowing across Lake Wawasee on Sunday morning, the fleets set out for two races. Even Sunday’s wind was light enough to cancel a desired third race (as well as heightened boat traffic wake/chop), but the WYC racers would take what Mother Nature allowed for the two races.
In race one for the E-Scows, the larger three-man crewed vessels, Casey Call’s 99 boat sprinted out to a nice lead on the third leg of five and never looked back to take the win. With about nine E-Scows all bunched together for much of the first race, Dave Irmscher’s crew needed to work hard to earned second place while Bob Herdrich’s crew posted a third-place finish.
Race two would have Irmscher jump out to a sizable lead halfway through and hold on to beat Ben Herdrich’s team to the buoy for the win. Dick Tillman’s team would show a respectable third place for needed points in the team standings.
After July 7 racing, Irmscher’s team are currently in first place with Tillman in second and Call in third.
The Lightning races, in the smaller vessels with three to four-man crews, had Jeff Schmahl’s team race out to a huge lead early on and cruise in for the win, with the Reiss/Miller vessel taking second and Bill Allen posting third place.
The Allen crew would learn from its mistakes in race one to emerge from the pack in the final leg of the second race. Without much opposition from the nine-vessel fleet, Allen’s team would grab race two’s top spot to help the team to second place in the points standings. Stuart Webster’s crew would bring its Lightning in second place and Michael Schmahl showed improvement amongst its young team with a third-place finish.
The second-place finish for the Reiss/Miller team keep the team in first place in the team standings after the Sunday races, with Allen second and George Buckingham’s crew in third place.
Racing is scheduled to continue next Sunday morning on through the remainder of the summer. A racing schedule can be found here, and general information on the Wawasee Yacht Club can be found by visiting the club’s Web site.
The video shows E-Scow vessels making the turn around the eastern buoy. Photos and video of the Independence Day Regatta are by Mike Deak.
- Crew members of Ben Herdrich’s E-Scow try to unhook a tangled spinnaker.
- A trio of Lightning vessels work toward the turn.
- Crew members from Chris Herdrich’s E-Scow works the turn.
- A Lightning vessel sails along several E-Scow vessels during Independence Day Regatta racing.
- The Hursh E-Scow tacks upwind during racing.
- A pair of sailing fans wave during Indiependence Day Regatta racing on Lake Wawasee.
- The crew of Michael Schmahl’s Lightning work during the Independence Day Regatta.
- The E-Scows start the first race of the Independence Day Regatta.
- Jeff Schmahl’s Lightning crew smile after winning the first race of the Independence Day Regatta.
- The E-Scows of Hursh, Chris Herdrich and Tillman sail side by side during racing in the Independence Day Regatta.Be better. Do better. Don’t get angry. Don’t be stressed. Do you meditate? There’s an app. It’ll change your life. Here, read this book. I think it can help you. Have you tried eating sardines with bone broth for breakfast? Eat 6 cups of organic kale each day to ward off carcinogens. This supplement costs $50 per day, but it will change your life! Make sure you teach your kids how to tie their shoes before they’re 2 or their little psyches will be forever scarred. Have you read the article, “How to Grill a Better Hot Dog”? It’ll change your life!
I’m out. I need everyone to know that I. Am. Out. I’m taking myself out of the busy-ness and spending more time reading my favorite book and breathing. Loving God and loving others is enough. I am already enough and you are already enough. God loves us right where we are. And I am in a season of transition. I’m trying to be the best mom and wife I can be while dealing with chronic symptoms. Good thing I’m a chronic Christian. I try. I strive. But you know what my fave reading material says? Psalm 46:10 Cease striving and know that I am God. Whaaaaaaaa? I don’t even hafta try to be amazing. God already is and I’m created in His image. Hot diggity dog!
I need quiet for my brain. For my body. For my entire well-being. And I’d be willing to bet that you do too. How do we get there? I believe we can by turning off the noise, whether it’s coming from our TV or cellphone. (Kids don’t come with an off switch. I’ve looked everywhere.) Fasting from noise. God said be still. Jesus went up on a hill. Maybe this way we won’t need a pill. (I was on a roll. We like wordplay in this house.) Are you taking care of yourself?  Images, words, thoughts, and ideas don’t simply fly past our heads. All of these are stored in our memories. It is for this reason, I think that I’ve reached overload. I can and will choose what I allow into my brain and system. I’m making a conscious effort to slow down, both my body and my brain, because quite honestly, it can’t keep up at this pace. For the next 5 minutes, I’m going to sit and focus on the wonder of God-given breath streaming into and flowing out of my very own nostrils. Right after I pee.
I know everyone’s probably still reflecting on the stone that covered the tomb, but I have opened my Bible to “Daniel in the Den of Lions” for the past 2 days. I found myself reading about the stone that was brought to place over the opening of the den after Daniel was thrown in with the lions. My NIV Bible says they placed it there “so that Daniel’s situation might not be changed.” If ever there was a situation I’d like changed, it would be if I were hangin’ out in close proximity to some hungry lions.
Let’s think about it because this is one of those stories I hadn’t paid much attention to since Sunday school days. Anything resembling food catapulted near some large cats would soon be non-existent, right? I’ve seen those kitties chase down some pretty quick creatures on TV. If indeed, that meal was set before them on the proverbial “silver platter,” what would keep them from chowing down? Their instincts would take over. If an animal is hungry, it’s not like my 4 year-old who has to have a certain shape of gluten-free mac and cheese, it’s not going to be picky. Daniel should have been rare, dead meat. It wasn’t a “what” but a “Who” that kept them from dining in. Daniel had a real relationship with the Almighty.
People face “situations” all the time: death, depression, anxiety, sickness, past trauma, stress, the list goes on and on. Why aren’t they instantly rescued? Why do they have to endure so much? I’ve found myself in a place where I get aggravated, to the tune of: “If You can, WHY don’t You?” Many of you, I’m sure, are uncomfy speaking to the Creator of the universe in this manner and I get that, but me and God, we’ve been through some stuff. He’s the One that’s been there no matter what and I can’t say that about too many. Even a close family member physically can’t be there every single time you need them to be. So why isn’t God plucking people out of these precarious tragedies and showing the world how awesome He is?
In my ponderings, I go back to Daniel 6:10 that says once ol’ boy learns that there’s been a new rule made, he goes home to do what he always does 3 times every single day: gets down on his knees and prays and thanks God. Are